vi, 1888, p. 573.) Burton remarked (Anatomy of Melancholy, Part III, Section II, Mem.  II, Subs.  II) that in all ages most amorous young men have been yellow-haired, adding, “Synesius holds every effeminate fellow or adulterer is fair-haired.”  In folk-lore, it has been noted (Kryptadia, vol. ii, p. 258), red or yellow hair is sometimes regarded as a mark of sexuality.

In harmony with this fairness, sexual offenders would appear to be more dolichocephalic than other criminals.  In Italy Marro found the foreheads of sexual offenders to be narrow, and in California Draehms found that while murderers had an average cephalic index of 83.5, and thieves of 80.5, that of sexual offenders was 79.

On the other hand, high cheek-bones and broad faces—­a condition most usually found associated with brachycephaly—­have sometimes been noted as associated with undue or violent sexuality.  Marro noted the excess of prominent cheek-bones in sexual offenders, and in America it has been found that unchaste girls tend to have broad faces. (Pedagogical Seminary, December, 1896, pp. 231, 235.)

It will be seen that, when we take a comprehensive view of the facts and considerations involved, it is possible to obtain a more definite and coherent picture of the physical signs of a marked aptitude for detumescence than has hitherto been usually supposed possible.  But we also see that while the ensemble of these signs is probably fairly reliable as an index of marked sexuality, the separate signs have no such definite significance, and under some circumstances their significance may even be reversed.

FOOTNOTES: 

[144] See Bierent, La Puberte; Marro, La Puberta (and enlarged French translation, La Puberte), and portions of G.S.  Hall’s Adolescence; also Havelock Ellis, Man and Woman (fourth edition, revised and enlarged).

[145] Adler, Die Mangelhafte Geschlechtsempfindung des Weibes, p. 174; Moll, “Perverse Sexualempfindung, Psychische Impotenz und Ehe” (Section II), in Senator and Kaminer, Krankheiten und Ehe.

[146] Roubaud, Traite de l’Impuissance, p. 524.

[147] Marro, Caratteri del Delinquenti, p. 374.

[148] Kryptadia, vol. ii, p. 258.

[149] Marro, La Puberta, p. 196.  In Italy, the sensuality of the lame is the subject of proverbs.

[150] Archivio di Psichiatria, 1896, p. 515; Kryptadia, vol. vi, p. 212.

[151] Blumenbach, Anthropological Treatises, p. 248.

[152] Bierent, La Puberte, p. 148.

[153] Venturi, Degenerazioni Psico-sessuali, pp. 408-410.

[154] Anatomy of Melancholy, Part III, Section II, Mem.  II, Sub.  II.

[155] British Gynaecological Journal, February, 1887, p. 505.