Note Y — Chapter XI · DEVELOPMENT OF THE REPRODUCTIVE IMPULSE

It must be quite a shock to the prude, in the knowledge that the much admired flower represents in its ensemble the sex-organs of the plants, or those parts which in men possess for the sensualist a peculiar aesthetic attraction. Most perfumes, so generally used by the sensual, are extracts from flowers, i. e., the sexual parts of the plants; some perfumes are taken even from the sexual organs of the animal, e. g., musk. This fact may account for the exaggerated love of the sensualists for flowers and perfumes.