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Sexual stimulation that results in an erection results in the creation and launch of nitric oxide within the penis. Nitric oxide triggers an enzyme, guanylate cyclase, to generate cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) that is mostly answerable for increasing and decreasing the size of blood vessels carrying blood to and from the penis and leading t