Pubic hair, normally a sign of the onset of puberty, can occur - as can menstruation at a surprisingly early age. H. Jolly mentions a boy of only eighteen months who had both an enlarged penis and pubic hair. Often such conditions are associated with a number of other abnormalities. In the cited case the boy "presented with a right-sided abdominal mass." Autopsy showed the mass to be a primary hepatoblastoma.

In the "normality spread," as shown, for example, in Kinsey (p.123) some girls began growing pubic hair as early as eight years of age.

This is very young to begin such growth yet cannot be considered "abnormal." The real records relate to instances of sexual precocity often, as we have seen, connected with (sometimes fatal) abnormalities. Hugh Jolly noted instances of pubic hair in babies, in one case a girl of only one month old had hair growth around the genitals.

King Chou-hsin of the Shang dynasty (1558-1302 B.C.) has been represented as the first "playboy king" in Chinese history. He was said to be more than eight feet in height, the tallest man in his kingdom; he was described by one historian as a man "with a back as strong as that of a tiger and a waist comparable to that of a bear." He was said to kill tigers and leopards with his bare hands. Night after night, so it is said, he would cope with "ten healthy and strong women in a row" without any sign of contentment. One trick was to order a naked woman

Several accounts of the origin of the dildo have been published in Britain and elsewhere. The earliest thorough-going attempt is taken by one writer to be the "Wonderful and Edifying History of the Origin of the Godemiché or Dildo" printed at the end of an erotic work The Schoolfellows; or Young Ladies Guide to Love (London, 1830).

The account is a translation from L'Histoire merveilleuse et édifiante du Godemiché in the second part of "L'Aretin ou la Débauche de l'Esprit of Abbé Dulaurens" (Rome, 1763 and 1768).

The earliest postcards of bathing beauties came from France around 1900, and soon after that such cards were made available in England. The first bathing scenes were created by artists. Later, when a camera was used the model was usually posed against a hand-drawn beach background. Postcards in the early 1900s featured "French Actresses," "Japanese Beauties" dressed in traditional costume, "Actresses" in colour, and ballet dancers and bathers posing in tights. Some card manufacturers glued silk, oilcloth, or spangles on their pin-up cards.

The earliest pornographic artist in England, with name unknown, functioned halfway through the eighteenth-century. In about 1755 he produced seventeen drawings to illustrate "The Pleasures of Love: Containing a Variety of Entertaining Particulars and Curiosities in the Cabinet of Venus." The frontispiece shows a fat woman, with a basin of cordial in her left hand, the right drawing aside the curtains of a bed on which can be seen four naked legs. On the curtain is inscribed "The pleasures of Love 1755." The book was reprinted

In a seventeenth-century Chinese tale Jou-pu-t'uan, there is an account of a penis transplant, or, perhaps more accurately, a penis graft. A Scholar inquires of the Master of Medicine how a gigantic organ can be acquired. One technique, as carefully explained, is to make use of the erect organ of a dog. It is arranged for the dog and bitch to copulate; in the midst of the act the Master of Medicine cuts off the penis of the dog and, slicing it up, inserts the parts into the incised organ of the man requiring a larger member-"With luck, there will be a perfect

The prehistoric sculptures such as the Venus of Willendorf are among the oldest to show the nude female figure. Such works are generally dated to palaeolithic times.

According to L. Legrain in "Ur Excavations, Vol. III: Archaic Seal Impressions" (1936), the oldest known depiction of human coitus, in the Ur excavations in Mesopotamia, dates to between 3200 and 3000 B.C. But much older than this are the representations of coital activity on the walls of the Grotte des Combarelles in the Dordogne in France. One particular drawing is thought to date from the Aurignacian period of the late Old Stone Age, about 40,000. If there are more ancient depictions than this we do not know of them.

Sacred temple prostitution existed throughout the bulk of the ancient world. It has been described for Egypt, Babylon, Greece, etc. and was generally seen as having deep religious significance. The first recorded instances of such types of prostitution are for the Mesopotamia of 2300 B.C. From this region it spread throughout the Near East.