Srimad Bhagavatam 2. 7. 6 - from purport

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If one wants to get freedom from the material bondage of conditional life,

he must get free from the attraction for the form of woman. Woman, or the

fair sex, is the enchanting principle for the living entities, and the male

form, especially in the human being, is meant for self-realization. The

whole world is moving under the spell of womanly attraction, and as soon as

a man becomes united with a woman, he at once becomes a victim of material

bondage under a tight knot. The desires for lording it over the material

world, under the intoxication of a false sense of lordship, specifically

begin just after the man's unification with a woman. The desires for

acquiring a house, possessing land, having children and becoming prominent

in society, the affection for community and the place of birth, and the

hankering for wealth, which are all like phantasmagoria or illusory dreams,

encumber a human being, and he is thus impeded in his progress toward

self-realization, the real aim of life.