This difference in attitude is manifest on the sexual as well as the spiritual level; the 'feminine' woman, by becoming a passive prey, tries to reduce the male to carnal passivity as well; she works at entrapping him, at imprisoning him, by the desire she arouses, docilely making herself a thing; the 'emancipated' woman, on the contrary, wants to be active and prehensile and refuses the passivity the man attempts to impose on her.