Giordano Bruno on the desire for women: "That final insult

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Giordano Bruno on the desire for women:

"That final insult and ill-deed of nature, which under the guise of
beauty tricks us with a surface, a shadow, a ghost , a dream , a Circean incantation directed toward the service of procreation; a beauty which comes and goes, is born and dies, blossoms and festers; and woman is a little beautiful outside, for her true inward self contains permanently a potpourri, a warhouse, a grab bag, a market of all the filth, poisons, and harmful substances our stepmother Nature has been able to produce; which, after having collected that seed which served her comes often to pay with a stench, a repentance, sadness, weariness... and with other ills which can be seen throughout the whole world."

Giordano Bruno thinks it right that women should be loved and honored only:
"As much as is owed to diem for the little they give at that time and on that occasion, unless they have some virtue other than a natural one, namely the virtue of [hat beauty and splendor and service without which they must be deemed to have been born more uselessly into the world than any diseased fungus which occupies the ground to the detriment of better plants."

What's //lit/'s response? Call him a bitter virgin?