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32 with a man most remote from her in size is called the lowest-union, and is of one kind only.

In other words, the horse and mare, the bull and deer, form the high-union, while the horse and deer form the highest-union. On the female side, the elephant and bull, the mare and hare, form low-unions, while the elephant and the hare make the lowest-unions.

There are then, nine kinds of union according to dimensions. Amongest [sic] all these, equal-unions are the best, those of a superlative degree, i.e., the highest and lowest, are the worst, and the rest are middling, and with them the high are better than the low.

There are also nine kinds of union according to the force of passion or carnal desire, as follows:—

A man is called a man of small passion whose desire at the time of sexual union is not great, whose semen is scanty, and who cannot bear the warm embraces of the female.

Those who differ from this temperament are called men of middling passion, while those of intense passion are full of desire.

In the same way, women are supposed to have the three degrees of feeling as specified above.

Lastly, according to time there are three kinds of men and women, viz., the short-timed, the moderate-timed, and the long-timed, and of these as in the previous statements, there are nine kinds of union.