It is with the second stage of the sexual process, when the instinct of detumescence arises, that the analogy of evacuation can alone be called in.
In man the process of tumescence and detumescence is simple.
A state of tumescence is not normally constant, and tumescence must be obtained before detumescence is possible.
Tumescence and detumescence are alike fundamental, primitive, and essential; in resting the sexual impulse on these necessarily connected processes we are basing ourselves on the solid bedrock of nature.
It may easily happen that the whole process of detumescence is completed in the man before it has begun in his partner, who is left either cold or unsatisfied.
Even here, that analogy, though real, is not complete, the nervous element involved in detumescence being out of all proportion to the extent of the evacuation.
The phenomena we have been considering are strictly normal phenomena, having their basis in the conditions of tumescence and detumescence in animal and primitive human courtship.
With the approach of detumescence the respiration becomes shallow, rapid, and to some extent arrested.
Such a phenomenon indicates that the relationship of detumescence to the deepening of the voice is not quite simple.
Before detumescence actually begins there are at intervals involuntary rhythmic contractions of the walls of the vagina, seeming to have the object of at once stimulating and harmonizing with those that are about to begin in the male organ.
In tumescence the organism is slowly wound up and force accumulated; in the act of detumescence the accumulated force is let go and by its liberation the sperm-bearing instrument is driven home.
Yet detumescence is the end and climax of the whole drama; it is an anatomico-physiological process, certainly, but one that inevitably touches psychology at every point.
In such a case a diffused and general detumescence has taken the place of the normal detumescence which has its main focus in the sexual sphere.
But it is always necessary to remember that every repetition of the act of coitus, to be normally and effectively carried out on both sides, demands a similar double process; detumescence must be preceded by an abbreviated courtship.
While the active part played by the womb in detumescence can no longer be questioned, it need not too hastily be assumed that the belief in the active movements of the spermatozoa must therefore be denied.
It is certainly the chief though by no means the only point through which the immediate call to detumescence is conveyed to the female organism.
Resolution of the inflammatory process is usually indicated by the gradual return of moisture on the tongue and progressivedetumescence of the organ, accompanied by subsidence of the redness, heat, and pain.
It is an indisputable fact that many boys, when the contrectation impulse is intermingled with the detumescence impulse, readily take to sexual practices with others.
But although in most individuals the processes of detumescencemake their appearance in consciousness only in a secondary manner, it does not follow that in the actual course of development they are also secondary.
The peripheral processes of the detumescence impulse and the central processes of the contrectation impulse are not at this early age so intimately associated as they are later in life.
In the first place, one may exist when the other is absent, that is to say, the phenomena of detumescence or the phenomena of contrectation may appear in isolation.
This applies equally to both components of the sexual impulse, to the phenomena of detumescence as well as to those of contrectation.
In most cases, the complete association of the processes of detumescence and contrectation, such as occurs in the impulse towards coitus, first takes place at a somewhat later age.
In the third place, the two processes, contrectation and detumescence, may occur simultaneously, without the detumescencebeing associated with the object of the contrectation impulse.
In the woman, also, the detumescence impulse is occasionally met with in isolation--for example, in many female idiots.
But when the association between the processes of detumescence and those of contrectation has not yet occurred, the voluptuous sensation is independent of the contrectation impulse.
The majority of sexual perverts trace back the origin of their perversion to a time at which the detumescence impulse had not yet been awakened.
This appears rather remarkable, inasmuch as we must assume that in the phylogeny of our species the processes of detumescence appeared earlier.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "detumescence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
