219. (10) Wives do not experience a state of arousal as their husbands do, but theirs is a state of readiness to receive. It is apparent that men have the power of insemination and because of it experience a state of arousal, and that women do not experience this arousal because they do not have that power. Nevertheless, I can relate from what I have been told that women experience a state of readiness to receive and thus to conceive. I am not permitted, however, to describe what this state in women is like, and it is also something known only to them. Nor have they divulged whether their love feels its delight when they are in that state or whether they find it something distasteful, as some of them say. This only is commonly known, that a husband may not say to his wife that he has the ability but does not want to; for this injures considerably her state of reception, which becomes ready in the measure that her husband is able.