In
women this would seem to be more conspicuously a nervous manifestation
than in men. On the subjective side it is very pronounced, with its
feeling of relieved tension and agreeable repose--a moment when, as one
woman expresses it, together with intense pleasure, there is, as it were,
a floating up into a higher sphere, like the beginning of chloroform
narcosis--but on the objective side this culminating moment is less easy
to define.
Various observations and remarks made during the past two or
three centuries by Bond, Valisneri, Dionis, Haller, Guenther, and
Bischoff, tending to show a sucking action of the uterus in both
women and other female animals, have been brought together by
Litzmann in R. Wagner's _Handwoerterbuch der Physiologie_ (1846,
vol. iii, p. 53). Litzmann added an experience of his own: "I had
an opportunity lately, while examining a young and very erethic
woman, to observe how suddenly the uterus assumed a more erect
position, and descended deeper in the pelvis; the lips of the
womb became equal in length, the cervix rounded, softer, and more
easily reached by the finger, and at the same time a high state
of sexual excitement was revealed by the respiration and voice.
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