In the primary place, we have now the bodily processes that happen in the genital organs; these are partially unperceived, but partly they have an effect on consciousness within the form of common sensations, or as abnormal tactile and different comparable sensations. During coitus, in lady, as in man, a means of ejaculation normally happens, taking the type of rhythmical muscular contractions, affecting not only the perineal muscles, but also the muscular funding of the vagina, and sometimes, perhaps, the uterus itself. The contractions of the affected muscles occur rhythmically, the stimulation of the ejaculation centre giving rise to a sequence of contractions alternating with relaxations. Thus, in a man, the sight of a girl exercises such a stimulus, the stimulation proceeding from the mind along the spinal cord to reach the centre. In this way the memory of a pretty lady may be just as effective in causing erection as if she had been really seen in the mean time; reading erotic literature could have the identical consequence. Again, within the youngster, the outer surfaces of the labia majora and that part of the pores and skin of the abdomen just in front of the labia (the mons veneris) are as hairless as the rest of the physique, whereas in the grownup lady these regions are lined with the pubic hair.
Barr, Meghan. “‘Hair hanging’ a rare, painful circus act.” Boston Globe. Notwithstanding the fact that the peripheral processes occur in regular trend, the sense of satisfaction stays in abeyance; as a result of the act is in his case inadequate, the sexual act by which he’s engaged lacks harmonious relationship to his sexual impulse. The acute illness is accompanied with fever, therefore with speedy losing and lowered assimilation of meals; it leaves the whole organism lowered in important power, and there remain behind inflammatory merchandise which require to be removed; the conventional progress of the gradual pathological development has been arrested; the vitality of the half has been weakened; there’s arrange in it a tendency to degeneration or local loss of life. But individual peculiarities play a terrific half in this connexion. Those already insured could decide to maintain their current plan, participate in the identical non-public coverage supplied to Congress, or benefit from public protection similar to Medicare. Electric expertise will take a bit longer, but remains to be very much within the cards. Another erroneous speculation, not differing very extensively from the concept of Stahl, and which could also be named and dismissed before we proceed, is that which supposes the existence, in the nervous system, of some tangible, central level of nerve-matter, from which, as from a seat of government, mandates are issued to regulate the motions and modifications that take place in every quarter of the organism; and which leads us to infer that processes of disease, since, because it would seem, they’re allowed to take place by this governing “central point,” would be moderately protective than-suicidal to the person.
Abrupt modifications of shape, measurement, etc., incident to perform, are, of course, quite common, but these are solely temporary, and fairly distinct from the extra stable organic modifications constituting progress. In any case, allow us to hold quick to the fact that in the grownup, for the occurrence of the voluptuous acme and of the sense of full satisfaction, sure central processes are, usually, indispensable. In such circumstances, the after-sense of complete satisfaction, which happens extra particularly when ejaculation has been associated with an extremity of voluptuous pleasure, is usually additionally missing. But in girl, the processes within the genital organs do not culminate in the ejection of the reproductive cells, that is, of the ovum, however, as we have now seen, within the ejaculation of indifferent secretions. That is true also of girl, in whom the processes within the genital organs are equally separable from those which impel to contact with a member of the opposite intercourse. True Graafian follicles, of which an account has already been given, aren’t usually formed prior to the beginning of the puberal improvement; sometimes nonetheless, they are formed within the ovaries of immature women.