in mentions a soldier's wife who plaited her pubic
hair behind her back; while Brantome has several references to
abnormally long hair in ladies of the French court during the
sixteenth century. In 8 cases out of 2200 Bergh found the pubic
hair forming a large curly wig extending to the iliac spines. The
individual hairs have occasionally been found so stiff and
brush-like as to render coitus difficult.

In color the pubic hair, while generally approximating to that of
the head, is sometimes (according to Rothe, in Germany, in
one-third cases) lighter, and sometimes somewhat darker, as is
found to be the case by Coe, especially in brunettes, and also by
Bergh, in Denmark. Bergh remarks that it is generally
intermediate in color between the eyebrows and the axillary hair,
the latter being more or less decolorized by sweat, and that,
owing to the influence of the urine and vaginal discharges, the
labial hair is paler than that on the mons; blondes with dark
eyebrows usually have dark hair on the mons. The hair on this
spot, as Aristotle observed, is usually the last to turn gray.

The key to the genital apparatus in women from the psychic point of view,
and, indeed, to some extent, its anatomical center, is to be found in the
clitoris. Anatomically and developmentally the clitoris is the rudimentary
analogue of the masculine penis. Functionally, however, its scope is very
much smaller. While the penis both receives and imparts specific
voluptuous sensations, and is at the same time both the intromittent organ
for the semen and the conduit for the urine, the sole function of the
clitoris is to enter into erection under the stress of sexual emotion and
receive and transmit the stimulatory voluptuous sensations imparted to it
by friction with the masculine genital apparatus. It is so insignificant
an organ that it is only within recent times that its homology with the
penis has been realized. In 1844 Kobelt wrote in his important book, _Die
Mannlichen und Weiblichen Wollust-Organe_, that in his attempt to show
that the female organs are exactly analogous to the male the reader will
probably be unable to follow him, while even Johannes Mueller, the father
of scientific physiology, declared at about the same period that the
clitoris is essentially different from the penis. It is indeed but three
centuries since the clitoris was so little known that (in 1593) R