Paul Shepard

On page 331 of Kheel's essay she quotes Paul Shepard as saying that "whereas the ecstatic consummation of love is killing, the formal consummation is eating". What? I wasn't too clear on the meaning of consummation so I looked it up and found at that it means a kind of fulfillment, or when something becomes complete or finalized. This further added to my confusion. The ecstatic fulfillment of love is killing and the formal fulfillment is eating? I'm not too sure what kind of love this guy is talking about. I thought maybe I missed a secondary meaning of the word 'erotic' but I can't seem to find something different than sexually arousing. So if we substitute these words we have "the sexually arousing fulfillment of love is killing and the formal fulfillment is eating". I understand that this essay is addressing the dominance of men in cultural relationships, but since when does this domination of women lead to their killing? Yes the domination of non-human animals leads to killing, but the domination of women does not.