Writing of the uterus of the doe after
copulation, he says: "I began to doubt, to ask myself whether the
semen of the male could by any possibility make its way by
attraction or injection to the seat of conception, and repeated
examination led me to the conclusion that none of the semen
reached this seat." (_De-Generatione Animalium_, Exercise lxvii.)
"The woman," he finally concluded, "after contact with the
spermatic fluid _in coitu_, seems to receive an influence and
become fecundated without the co-operation of any sensible
corporeal agent, in the same way as iron touched by the magnet is
endowed with its powers."
Although the specifically sexual muscular process of detumescence in
women--as distinguished from the general muscular phenomena of sexual
excitement which may be fairly obvious--is thus seen to be somewhat
complex and obscure, in women as well as in men detumescence is a
convulsion which discharges a slowly accumulated store of nervous force.
In women also, as in men, the motor discharge is directed to a specific
end--the intromission of the semen in the one sex, its reception in the
other. In both sexes the sexual orgasm and the pleasure and satisfaction
associated with it, involve, as their most essential element, the motor
activity of the sexual sphere.
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