"“The birth of a given baby,” said Schopenhauer, “is the true objective
of all the romance of love, even though the protagonists are not aware of that objective; the way in which this objective is reached is purely secondary.” To be more correct, the objective would be then the procreation of a new being as close as possible to the pure, perfect type of the species, able to survive. Thus the “species” should induce every man to choose the woman best fitted for such biological purposes and make her seem ideal, clothing her in such an aura of beauty and seduction that the possession of her and the pleasure she can give seem the essence of all happiness and the real meaning of life. “The best for the species lies where the individual believes he will find the greatest pleasure.” And so feminine beauty and pleasure are made out to be illusions, mere baits with which the “genius of the species” cheats and makes a fool of the individual. Schopenhauer adds, “This is the reason why every lover feels disappointed after he has finally attained his purpose, sexual satisfaction, for the illusion with which the species has deceived and aroused him has vanished by then.” Essentially, these are mere speculations on the borders of Darwinism, and their one-sided and abstract nature is obvious."