detumescence

The brass section explodes, the drums attack, the strings squeal, then everything falls apart in postcoital detumescence.

Even in childhood, these processes play an important part; indeed, they generally manifest themselves at an earlier age than the processes of detumescence.

For most men, however, it seems probable that this self-control over the processes leading to the involuntary act of detumescence is difficult to acquire, while in weak, nervous, and erethic persons it is impossible.

It is therefore reasonable to suppose that the individuals in whom the special phenomena of puberty develop most markedly are those in whom detumescence is likely to be most vigorous.

This is a normal phenomenon in so far as it is a part of tumescence, and not a method of obtaining detumescence.