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The essentially motor character of detumescence is well shown by
the extreme forms of erotic intoxication which sometimes appear
as the result of sexual excitement. Fere, who has especially
called attention to the various manifestations of this condition,
presents an instructive case of a man of neurotic heredity and
antecedents, in whom it occasionally happened that sexual
excitement, instead of culminating in the normal orgasm, attained
its climax in a fit of uncontrollable muscular excitement. He
would then sing, dance, gesticulate, roughly treat his partner,
break the objects around him, and finally sink down exhausted and
stupefied. (Fere, _L'Instinct Sexuel_, Chapter X.) In such a case
a diffused and general detumescence has taken the place of the
normal detumescence which has its main focus in the sexual
sphere.
The same relationship is shown in a case of impotence accompanied
by cramps in the calves and elsewhere, which has been recorded by
Bruegelmann ("Zur Lehre vom Perversen Sexualismus," _Zeitschrift
fuer Hypnotismus_, 1900, Heft I). These muscular conditions ceased
for several days whenever coitus was effected.
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