Sex contains all…

Bodies, souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk

All hopes, benefactions, bestowals

All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth

All the governments, judges, gods, follow’d persons of the earth

These are contain’d in sex, as parts of itself, and justifications of itself.

 

Walt Whitman, “A Woman Waits for Me”