Physiology
According to Masters and Johnson’s Sex and Human Loving, during the excitement stage the body (shaft) of the clitoris begins to fill with blood and increase in size. As the female reaches maximum arousal (plateau phase), the body continues to fill with blood causing the clitoris to become erect.
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