Dan GrahamコミュのDetumescence

1966 printed matter variable according to publication

First publication of ad│National Tatler,November21,1966
First publication of ad and descriptive text│Selected works,1965-1972
First publication of medical writer's description│For publication,1975


I had in mind a page,describing in clinical language the typical
emotional and physiological aspects of post-climax in the
sexual experience of the human male.
It was noted that no description exists anywhere in the literature,
as it is “amti-romantic.”
It may be culturally suppressed - a structual “hole” in the
psycho-sexual-social conditioning of behavior.
I wanted the “piece” to be, simply, this psycho-sexual-social
“hole”- truncated on the page alone as printed matter.
To create it, I advertised in several places.
In late 1966 I advertised for a qualified medical writer
in the “National Tatler” (a sex tabuloid).
In early 1969 “The New York Review of Sex” gave me an ad.
As both of these ads were somewhat edited, I bought an ad
in “SCREW” in mid-1969.

I HAVE RECEIVED NO RESPONSES.

<Selected Works, 1965-1972, 1972.>


Involuntary body contractions ensue bringing a steep drop in excitation.
The most obvious indication of this is the rapid loss of penile erection
and the return of the scrotum and testes to an unstimulated state.
This action occurs in two stages.
The first leaves the penis enlarged while a continued shrinkage
takes place concurrently at a slower rate.
The body slackens its tension.
There is a loosening of physical tautness, and a simultaneous
sense of release and relaxation.
Sensations of orgasm or desire are extinguished; emotion recede;
and ego is again bounded.
Psychologically, there may be feelings of anxiety, relief,
pleasurable satiation, disappointment, lassitude, leaden exhaustion,
disgust, repulsion, or indifference, and occasionally hatred
depending on the partner and the gratification achieved
in the orgasm state.

<For publication, 1975.>