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The pseudo-Michael Scot among the _Signa mulieris calidae naturae
et quae coit libenter_ stated that her hair, both on the head and
body, is thick and coarse and crisp, and Della Porta, the
greatest of the physiognomists, said that thickness of hair in
women meant wantonness. Venette, in his _Generation de l'Homme_,
remarked that men who have much hair on the body are most
amorous. At a more recent period Roubaud has said that pubic hair
in its quantity, color and curliness is an index of genital
energy. A poor pilous system, on the other hand, Roubaud regarded
as a probable though not an irrefragable proof of sexual
frigidity in women. "In the cold woman the pilous system is
remarkable for the languor of its vitality; the hairs are fair,
delicate, scarce and smooth, while in ardent natures there are
little curly tufts about the temples." (_Traite de
l'Impuissance_, pp. 124, 523.) Martineau declared (_Lecons sur
les Deformations Vulvaires_, p. 40) that "the more developed the
genital organs the more abundant the hair covering them;
abundance of hair appears to be in relation to the perfect
development of the organs.
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