tumescence

• It is tumescence which is the really essential part of the process, and we cannot afford, with Moll, to ignore it altogether Wallace opposed Darwin's theory of sexual selection, but it can scarcely be said that his attitude toward it bears critical examination. —  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women
• Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a more or less necessary condition for sexual intercourse. —  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women
• It is tumescence which is the really essential part of the process, and we cannot afford, with Moll, to ignore it altogether. —  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women
• It leads on to the more serious phenomena of tumescence, and it tends to die out after adolescence, at the period during which sexual relationships normally begin. —  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
• a part of tumescence, and not a method of obtaining detumescence. —  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man

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