Genre
Essays
Setting and Context
The book is written in the context of sexuality.
Narrator and Point of View
First-person narrative
Tone and Mood
Intrusive, enlightening, undercover
Protagonist and Antagonist
The prostitutes, children and Jean Jacques Rousseau are depicted as the main protagonists.
Major Conflict
The major conflict is when people wrongly use children and animals as objects of sexual satisfaction and experimentation.
Climax
The climax is when children attain psychosexual development and, throughout maturity, know exactly what they want in sexuality.
Foreshadowing
The puberty stage in children foreshadows sexual maturity.
Understatement
The statement that females long for the male sexual organ than their own is an understatement. Sexuality is not all about sexual organs but the brain and emotional attachment.
Allusions
The three essays in the book allude to sexuality.
Imagery
Touching and looking to attain sexual desire among people depict imageries of sight and touch, which captures the readers' attention.
Paradox
The main paradox is the genital envy between males and females. It is satirical that women think that having a male sexual organ 'penis' could make them more authoritative and powerful at a young age.
Parallelism
Infertile sexuality parallels the transformations of puberty.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
The male sexual organ is humanized as powerful and authoritarian by women.
