, _Archives d'Anthropologie Criminelle_, 1895),
and it would be out of place here to attempt to collect the
scattered notices regarding racial and other variations. It may
suffice to note some of the evidence showing that such variations
seem to be numerous and important. The Arab penis (according to
Kocher) is slender and long (a third longer than the average
European penis) and with a club-shaped glans. It undergoes little
change when it enters the erect state. The clothes leaves it
quite free, and the Arab practices manual excitement at an early
age to favor its development.
Among the Fuegians, also, according to Hyades and Deniker (_Cap
Horn_, vol. vii, p. 153), the average length of the penis is 77
millimeters, which is longer than in Europeans.
In men of black race, also, the penis is decidedly large. Thus
Sir H.H. Johnston (_British Central Africa_, p. 399) states this
to be a universal rule. Among the Wankenda of Northern Nyassa,
for instance, he remarks that, while the body is of medium size,
the penis is generally large. He gives the usual length as about
six inches, reaching nine or ten in erection. The prepuce, it is
added, is often very long, and circumcision is practiced by many
tribes.
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