Can someone explain this quote to me? (women, love, sex)

[BayAreaDave]

What is it men in women do require?
The lineaments of gratified Desire.
What is it women do in men require?
The lineaments of gratified Desire.

I don't get it. But apparently it is supposed to be scarily accurate.

[Magnatomicflux]

It means everyone wants their needs/desires gratified. Male, female, there is no difference. We all want the same thing.

Sounds accurate to me.

[Ray_Finkle]

Originally Posted by My Colostomy Bag

Once you're fed and clothed, you wanna boink.

Love the username baaahahahaha.

[jim9251]

That you better get her that huge diamond ring or it's off.

[NilaJones]

It means we want people who look satisfied.

I am not sure if he means 'well-laid' or just generally happy, but I think it's the former.

Here is what some dude with a degree says about it, on Slate:

apparently change much with the centuries. Note that it is not gratification in the other, but the sight or appearance of visible gratification that each requires. This sight may mean bodily expression of what is within or it may signify a mere gesture or a feigning: the lineaments, says Blake, are what is required. Even the cold urgency of "require" is in contrast with the relatively innocent warmth of its rhyme "desire." More monumental than mere cynicism, more wise than mere idealism, Blake's poem shows how much can be done in a little space. --Robert Pinsky

[kat949]

Originally Posted by BayAreaDave

What is it men in women do require?
The lineaments of gratified Desire.
What is it women do in men require?
The lineaments of gratified Desire.

I don't get it. But apparently it is supposed to be scarily accurate.

The quote seems to imply to me that people are entitled to what they want or desire.

"Lineaments of gratified desire" reminds me of how people usually want what they can't have, and what don't want what they can have they don't have to work as hard for it.

Once gratified desire is attained, game over, because desire is only temporary and never enough.

[le roi]

Originally Posted by BayAreaDave

but apparently it is supposed to be scarily accurate.

apparent to whom?

[Raena77]

Great sex and to be desired.

[cpg35223]

Change the word to read "liniment" and you would get an entirely different, equally odd sentiment.

[D. Scott]

Originally Posted by BayAreaDave

What is it men in women do require?
The lineaments of gratified Desire.
What is it women do in men require?
The lineaments of gratified Desire.

I don't get it. But apparently it is supposed to be scarily accurate.

I don't get it either. I am tapping out.