i, p. III, 1898.) Sometimes hiruties of the
face and abdomen begin to appear during pregnancy, apparently
from disease or degeneration of the ovaries. (A case is noted in
_British Medical Journal_, August 2 and 16, pp. 375 and 436,
1902.) Laycock many years ago referred to the popular belief that
women who have hair on the upper lip seldom bear children, and
regarded this opinion as "questionless founded on fact."
(Laycock, _Nervous Diseases of Women_, p. 22.) When this is so,
we may suppose that the abnormal hairy growth is associated with
degeneration of the ovaries.
There is another factor which enters into this question and renders the
definition of a physical sexual type less precise than it would otherwise
be. The sexual instinct is common to all persons, and while it seems
probable that there is a type of person in whom sexual energies are
predominant, it would also appear that the people who otherwise show a
very high level of energy in life usually exhibit a more than average
degree of energy in matters of love. The predominantly sexual type, as we
have seen, tends to be associated with a high degree of pigmentation; the
person specially apt for detumescence inclines to belong to the dark
rather than to the purely fair group of the population.
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