This wound which is not one

Man, who through his work, has a monopoly on the symbolic, has given no thought to his body or his flesh. And, apart from the fact that man needs to give his thoughts to himself, he might have had some trouble in saying what constitutes the particularity of the female sexual world: a different energy, a different morphology, a special relation to mucus and to the threshold that goes from inside to outside the body, from the inside to the outside of the skin (and the universe?) without leaving a wound.

-Luce Irigaray