the man.

The mons veneris and the labia majora are, after the age of puberty,
always normally covered by a more or less profuse growth of hair. It is
notable that the apes, notwithstanding their general tendency to
hairiness, show no such special development of hair in this region. We
thus see that all the external and more conspicuous portions of the sexual
sphere in woman--the mons veneris, the labia majora, and the
hair--represent not so much an animal inheritance, such as we commonly
misrepresent them to be, but a higher and genuinely human development. As
none of these structures subserve any clear practical use, it would appear
that they must have developed by sexual selection to satisfy the aesthetic
demands of the eye.[83]

The character and arrangement of the pubic hair, investigated by
Eschricht and Voigt more than half a century ago, have been more
recently studied by Bergh. As these observers have pointed out,
there are various converging hair streams from above and below,
the clitoris seeming to be the center towards which they are
directed. The hair-covering thus formed is usually ample and, as
a rule, is more so in brunettes than in blondes. It is nearly
always bent, curly and more or less spirally twisted.[84] There
are frequently one or two curls at the commencement of the
fissure, rolled outwards, and occasionally a well marked tuft in
the middle line. In abundance the pubic hair corresponds with the
axillary hair; when one region is defective in hair the other is
usually so also. Strong eyebrows also usually indicate a strong
development of pubic hair. But the hair of the head usually
varies independently, and Bergh found that of 154 women with
spare pubic hair 72 had good and often profuse hair on the head.
Complete or almost complete absence of pubic hair is in Bergh's
experience only found in about 3 per cent. of women; these were
all young and blonde.

Rothe, in his investigation of the pubic hair of 1000 Berlin women, found
that no two women were really alike in this respect, but there was a
tendency to two main types of arrangement, with minor subdivisions,
according as the hair tended to grow chiefly in the middle line extending
laterally from that line, or to grow equally over the whole extent of the
pubic region; these two groups included half the cases investigated.

In men the pubic hair normally ascends an