female parts--and that consequently there has been developed in the penis
that special kind of vascular mechanism, consisting of veins ADULTOSEX COM AR in connective
tissue with unstriped muscular fibers, termed erectile tissue.[100]
It is not only the man who is supplied with erectile tissue which in the
process of tumescence becomes congested and swollen. ADULTOSEX COM AR the woman also, ADULTOSEX COM AR in
the corresponding external genital region, is likewise supplied with
erectile tissue ADULTOSEX COM AR now also charged with blood, and exhibits the ADULTOSEX COM AR same ADULTOSEX COM AR changes
as ADULTOSEX COM AR have taken place
in her partner, though less conspicuously visible. In
the anthropoid apes, as the gorilla, the large clitoris and the nymphæ
become prominent in ADULTOSEX COM AR sexual excitement, but the less development ADULTOSEX COM AR of the
clitoris in women, together with the specifically human evolution of the
mons veneris and larger ADULTOSEX COM AR lips, ADULTOSEX COM AR renders this sexual turgescence practically
invisible, though it is perceptible to touch in an increased degree of
spongy and elastic tension. The whole feminine
genital canal, including
ADULTOSEX COM AR the ADULTOSEX COM AR uterus, indeed, is ADULTOSEX COM AR richly supplied with blood-vessels, and is capable
during sexual excitement of a very high ADULTOSEX COM AR degree of turgescence, a kind of
erection.
The process of erection in woman is accompanied by the pouring out of
fluid which copiously bathes all parts of the vulva around the ADULTOSEX COM AR entrance to
the vagina. This is a bland, more or less odorless mucus which, under
ordinary circumstances, ADULTOSEX COM AR slowly and imperceptibly suffuses the parts. When,
however, the entrance to the vagina is exposed and extended, as during a
gynæcological examination which occasionally produces sexual excitement,
there may be seen a real ejaculation of ADULTOSEX COM AR the fluid which, as usually
described, comes largely from the glands of Bartholin, situated at the
mouth of the vagina. Under these circumstances it is sometimes described
as being ADULTOSEX COM AR emitted in a jet which is thrown to a distance.[101] This mucous
ejaculation was in former days regarded as analogous to the seminal
ejaculation in man, and hence essential to conception. Although this
belief was erroneous the fluid poured out in this manner whenever a ADULTOSEX COM AR high
degree of tumescence is attained, and before the onset of detumescence,
certainly performs an important function in ADULTOSEX COM AR lubricating the entrance to
the genital canal and ADULTOSEX COM AR so facilitating the intromission of the male
organ.[102] Menstruation ADULTOSEX COM AR has a similar influence in facilitating coitus,
as Schurig long since pointed out.[103]