Sexual swelling
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Sexual swellings are enlarged areas of the perineal skin occurring in some female primates that vary in size over the course of the menstrual cycle. In ovariectomized chimpanzees, estrogen stimulation can induce such tumescence and progesterone can inhibit it. Studies of chimpanzees and Barbary macaques suggest that sexual swellings serve as honest advertising of female fertility and thereby encourage males to copulate when the probability of conception is highest.
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