55.) The association of hairiness with abnormal
sexuality in the weak-minded has been noted at Bicetre
(_Recherches Cliniques sur l'Epilepsie_, vol. xix, pp. 69, 77.)
Hypertrichosis universalis, a general hairiness of body, has been
described by Cascella in a woman with very strong sexual desires,
who eventually became insane. (_Revista Mensile di Psichiatria_,
1903, p. 408.) Bucknill and Tuke give the case of a religiously
minded girl, with very strong and repressed sexual desires, who
became insane; the only abnormal feature in her physical
development was the marked growth of hair over the body.
Brantome refers to a great lady known to him whose body was very
hairy, and quotes a saying to the effect that hairy people are
either rich or wanton; the lady in question, he adds, was both.
(Brantome, _Vie des Dames Galantes_, Discours II.)
De Sade, whose writings are now regarded as a treasure house of
true observations in the domain of sexual psychology, makes the
Rodin of _Justine_ dark, with much hair and thick eyebrows, while
his very sexual sister is described as dark, thin and very hairy.
(Duehren, _Der Marquis de Sade_, third edition, p.
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