A few stray hairs round nipples,
and much dark down on upper lip, as well as light down on arms
and hands. Hips, normal; nates, small; labia minora, large; and
clitoris, deeply hooded. Hymen thick, vagina, probably small.
Considerable pigmentation of parts. Menstruation began at 15, but
not regular till 17; is painless and scanty; the better the state
of health, the less it is. No change of sexual or other feelings
connected with it; it lasts one to three days.
"I believe," she writes, "my first experience of physical sex
sensations was when I was about 16, and in sleep. But I did not
then recognize it, and seldom, indeed, gave the subject of sex a
thought. I was a child far beyond the age of childhood. The
accompanying dreams were disagreeable, but I cannot remember what
they were about. It was not until I was nearly 19 that I knew the
sexual orgasm in my waking state. It surprised me completely,
but I knew that I had known it before in my sleep.
"The knowledge came one summer when I was leading a rather
isolated life, and my mind was far from sex subjects, being deep
in books, Carlyle, Ruskin, Huxley, Darwin, Scott, etc. I noticed
that when I got up in the morning I felt very hot and
uncomfortable. The clitoris and the parts around were swollen and
erect, and often tender and painful. I had no idea what it was,
but found I was unable to pass my water for an hour or two.
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