It is similar to the corpus cavernosum penis in the male.

Ischiocavernosus squeezes blood into the corpus cavernosum penis and clitoridis.

According to urban legend, should this piercing penetrate the corpus cavernosum penis, the recipient could bleed to death.

It is attached to the Corpus cavernosum penis and at the tip of the glans is the urethra opening.

To do this, the corpus spongiosum remains pliable during erection while the corpora cavernosum penis becomes engorged with blood.

Erection and protrusion take place gradually, by the increasing tumescence of the erectile vascular tissue in the corpus cavernosum penis.

The proerectile aphrodisiac properties were concluded to likely be due to the release of nitric oxide from the nerve endings innervating the corpus cavernosum penis.

Just before it meets its fellow it presents a slight enlargement, named by Georg Ludwig Kobelt (1804-1857) the bulb of the corpus cavernosum penis.

It acts by inhibiting a specific phosphodiesterase type 5 enzyme which is found in various body tissues, but primarily in the corpus cavernosum penis, as well as the retina.

This is homologous to the corpus cavernosum penis in the male; the body of the clitoris contains erectile tissue in a pair of corpora cavernosa (literally "cave-like bodies"), with a recognisably similar structure.