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CHAPTER I.

Kinds of Sexual Union According to

(a) Dimensions.
(b) Force of Desire or Passion.
(c) Time.

Kinds of Union.

Man is divided into three classes, viz., the hare-man, the bull-man man, and the horse-man, according to the size of his lingam.

Woman also, according to the depth of her yoni, is either a female-deer, a mare, or a female-elephant.

There are thus three unions between persons of corresponding dimensions, and there are six unequal unions, when the dimensions do not correspond, or nine in all, as the following table shows:


EQUAL UNEQUAL
Men. Women. Men. Women.
Hare Deer Hare Mare
Bull Mare Hare Elephant
Horse Elephant Bull Deer
    Bull Elephant
    Horse Deer
    Horse Mare

In these unequal unions, when the male exceeds the female in point of size, his union with a woman who is immediately next to him in size is called high-union, and is of two kinds; while his union with the woman most remote from him in size is called the highest-union, and is of one kind only. On the other hand, when the female exceeds the male in point of size, her union with a man immediately next to her in size is called low-union, and is of two kinds; while her union

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