Human Physiology

Earliest growth of male pubic hair

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.

First sperm bank

Sperm bank.
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The idea of an effective sperm bank has appealed to eugenically-minded individuals for a good few centuries.

Such arrangements have only recently become practically feasible. The first two sperm banks, set up in Iowa City and Tokyo, both began life in 1964.

Most frequent psychological cause of nymphomania

According to Ellis and Sargarin, one outstanding reason why a woman becomes a nymphomaniac in our society is through "an overwhelming need to be loved, a hunger that generally seems to be greater in women, than in men." Thus - in her efforts to seek out affection, security, and acceptance - she comes to have many sexual experiences that she might otherwise not welcome. There is a clear sense in which this is a patriarchal interpretation of female sexuality.

Earliest growth of female pubic hair

An early, unusually normal depiction of pubic hair
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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.

Most famous victims of VD

A great number of famous and talented men have had one sort of venereal illness or another. Here are one or two of them Abraham, David and Job, Caesar, Herod Tiberius, Charlemagne, Charles V and VIII of France, John of Gaunt, Popes Alexander VI, Julius II and Leo X, Henry VIII, Erasmus, Albrecht Durer, Thomas Wolsey, Ivan the Terrible, Benvenuto Cellini, Richelieu John Aubrey, Casanova, Boswell, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Keats, Schubert, Nietzsche, Mussolini, Hitler, Gauguin, Strindberg, Oscar Wilde, etc., etc. (See T. Rosebury, "Microbes

Rarest type of human hermaphrodites

Hermaphrodite genitals (wax) in the Panoptikum House of Wax, Hamburg.
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The rarest cases of human hermaphroditism are the instances of true or gonadal hermaphrodite. In this condition each gonad is an ovotestis - part ovary and part testis - or one is an ovary and the other a testis. Sawyer, writing in 1954, remarks that only forty cases had been recorded in all the medical literature. The condition can be diagnosed only by microscopial examination of parts of the gonads.

Among the outward signs in a "male" are hypospadias, undescended testicles and

Youngest sexually potent male

The earliest ejaculation remembered by any of the "apparently normal males" surveyed by Kinsey was at the age of eight: this age was noted by three males.

Most powerful attributes accorded to semen

Most of us know that semen has the remarkable ability to help start babies. But this is only one of the powers attributed to the mysterious substance.

One idea is that semen has a "magnetic" effect those who retain their semen i.e. refrain from sexual activity, are able to draw both men and women to themselves. It has often been assumed that semen has mystical or religious powers. Thus a subsect of the Gnostics mixed the fluid with the sacramental draught in their religious ceremonies. And in the so-called Black Mass, semen has served as holy water.

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