In negresses and other women of
lower race the vulva, however, usually lies further back, being
more conspicuous from behind than in European women; in this
respect lower races resemble the apes. Those women of dark race,
therefore, whose modesty is focused behind rather than in front
thus have sound anatomical considerations on their side.
As Ploss and Bartels remark, a very common variation among
European women consists in an unusually posterior position of the
vulva and vaginal entrance, so that unless a cushion is placed
under the buttocks it is difficult for the man to effect coitus
in the usual position without giving much pain to the woman. They
add that another anomaly, less easy to remedy, consists in an
abnormally anterior position of the vaginal entrance close
beneath the pelvic bone, so that, although intromission is easy,
the spasmodic contraction of the vagina at the culmination of
orgasm presses the penis against the bone and causes intolerable
pain to 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.
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