| I myself visited a striptease establishment in the early 1970s and found the experience detumescent and soporific rather than conducive to licentious behaviour. |
| So Monk's five takes on the subject, each progressively more wilting and detumescent, seem vaguely ill-natured: a gloaty rubbing of the hands at the art market's collapse, a swipe by one man at another's virility. |
| Together they have created a building for the Fondation Louis Vuitton, a huge white-sailed object, a detumescent Sydney Opera House, for exhibiting the foundation's collections of contemporary art. |
