It is thus clear that in both
sexes there are essential reproductive organs, the ovaries in the one
case, the testicles in the other, providing respectively ova and
sperm-cells, and there are also organs for the purpose of securing the
union of these two elements, namely the vagina in the female and the
penis in the male. These two sets of organs form the primary sex
characteristics or actual sex organs.
_The Sex Act_
The special process which secures this union of the male and female
elements is termed copulation or coitus. It takes place in all
warm-blooded animals, as well as many others, but in man, with his
highly developed mental and psychical qualities, it is a truly complex
experience in which body, mind and soul all take their part.
Physically its central fact is the ejaculation of the seminal fluid by
the male and its reception by the female, and this culmination with its
psychical concomitants is spoken of as the orgasm. Before coitus is
feasible, the organs designed for the purpose have to be brought into
an appropriate state for its consummation.
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