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 anteriorly in a faint line
up to the navel, with tendency to form a triangle with the apex
above, and posteriorly extends backwards to the anus. In women
these anterior and posterior extensions are comparatively rare,
or at all events are only represented by a few stray hairs. Rothe
found this variation in 4 per cent.
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