Of 20 women, between the ages of 18 and 35,
only 8 felt this as a merely mechanical operation, 4 felt a
vaguely erotic element in the proceeding, 3 experienced a desire
for coitus and in 5 there was actual sexual excitement with
emission of mucus. Of 25 men, between the ages of 20 and 30, in
15 all sexual feeling was absent, in 7 erotic ideas were
suggested with congestion of the sexual organs without erection,
and in 3 there was the beginning of erection. It should be added
that both the women and the men in whom this sexual reflex was
more especially marked were of somewhat nervous temperament; in
such persons erotic reactions of all kinds generally occur most
easily. (Gualino, "Il Rifflesso Sessuale nell' eccitamento alle
labbre," _Archivio di Psichiatria_, 1904, p. 341.)
As tumescence, under the influence of sensory stimulation, proceeds toward
the climax when it gives place to detumescence, the physical phenomena
become more and more acutely localized in the sexual organs. The process
which was at first predominantly nervous and psychic now becomes more
prominently vascular. The ancient sexual relationship of the skin asserts
itself; there is marked surface congestion showing itself in various ways.
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