0 Erectile body tissue is able to become larger and harder than usual by being filled with blood. --
The woman also, in the corresponding external genital region, is likewise supplied with erectile tissue now also charged with blood, and exhibits the same changes as have taken place in her partner, though less conspicuously visible.
The approach of this condition is indicated by increasing loss of erectile power, which is at first only temporary, but afterward becomes permanent.
It is not only the man who is supplied with erectile tissue which in the process of tumescence becomes congested and swollen.
At the same time it must be remembered that the penis is only to small extent a muscular organ, and that the increase of size produced by frequent congestion of erectile tissues cannot be either rapid or pronounced.
A small, elongated, erectile organ situated at the upper part of the vulva.
