tumescence

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• 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
• a part of tumescence, and not a method of obtaining detumescence. —  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
• It is when such a faint preliminary degree of tumescence has been attained, however it may have been attained, -- for the methods of tumescence, as we know, are innumerable, -- that a sympathetic personal odor is enabled to make its appeal. —  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man

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