See:

• Largest human penis
• Largest penis in animal kingdom

See:

• Longest human clitoris
• Longest (animal) clitoris

There is long pubic hair and there is pubic hair that is thick and expansive in the general abdominal area. Walter (of "My Secret Life"), an evident connoisseur in such matters, talks with clear delight of a fine bush of "Scots red" pubic hair - "The bush was long and thick, twisting and curling in masses half-way up to her navel, and it spread about 5 in. up her buttocks, gradually getting shorter there."

It was not realised that sperm were concerned in the process of fertilisation until the nineteenth century. Various names are associated with the discovery - Prevost and Dumas (1824), Peltier (1835), and Dujardin (1837) .

In their book "Nymphomania", Albert Ellis and Edward Sagarin represent the failure in a woman - through physiological rather than psychological reasons - to achieve orgasm as the "most frequent physiological cause of nymphomania" (p. 95). This is a highly contentious subject. Not much work has been done on it, and it is extremely difficult to say what is a physiological, and what a psychological, block to experience of orgasm.

In some women there is little pubic hair growth at any time. Such a circumstance can occur in women sexually normal in every other respect. In yet other women pubic hair may eventually grow in a completely normal way but may commence growth at a surprisingly early or late age. In the Kinsey survey some women did not have any pubic hair until they reached the age of eighteen. It is unlikely that this is a record. We may reasonably speculate that some women in their early twenties have not yet started to grow hair in the genital area.

The first sperm-bank child was born in the U.S. in 1953 - and, in the words of Gerald Leach, was "perfectly normal". Since then the numbers have swelled, with the sperm storage period being gradually lengthened. It seems that little ecological or eugenic thought has gone into this subject.

The medical literature abounds with descriptions of the various types of hermaphroditism.

Sometimes a good nonmedical description is produced. Perhaps the best is that in Henry Spender Ashbee's "Catena Librorum Tacendorum". The "woman,' was fairly attractive. Ashbee said -

We have noted that unusual boys may ejaculate as early as eight years of age. As we may expect, there are surprisingly late upper extremes as well.

There are of course sad cases of life-long ejaculatory impotence. But assuming that most men start ejaculating at some time in their lives what is the latest age for such a commencement? According to Kinsey the latest ages of first ejaculation reliably recorded "are 21 for two apparently healthy males, 24 for a religiously inhibited individual, and 22 and 24 for two males with hormonal deficiencies."

Most women don't mind semen too much, though some unduly fastidious ones complain about its smell or stickiness. Some females, however, have a quite extraordinary reaction to seminal fluid: they are happily rare. In one case reported in 1967 a girl had an acute allergic reaction to human sperm. She came from a family with a long history of various kinds of allergy, including eczema, asthma, and dermatitis. A short time after her first sexual experience she developed a rash and asthma; her lips, eyelids, tongue, and throat became swollen, she had