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erectile organ

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Noun1.erectile organ - an organ containing erectile tissue
erectile tissue - vascular tissue capable of filling with blood and becoming rigid
organ - a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
clit, clitoris, button - a female sexual organ homologous to the penis
penis, phallus, member - the male organ of copulation (`member' is a euphemism)


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Sokal and Bricmont comment simply, "It is, we confess, distressing to see our erectile organ equated to the (square root of negative one).
Invasion of The Fearmongers by BAILEY, RONALD / Chief Executive (U.S.)
Thus the erectile organ comes to symbolize the place of jouissance [ecstasy], not in itself, or even in the form of an image, but as a part lacking in the desired image: that is why it is equivalent to the [square root of -1] of the signification produced above, of the jouissance that it restores by the coefficient of its statement to the function of lack of signifier [square root of -1].
Farewell to a Fad by Ehrenreich, Barbara / The Progressive
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