[164] C. Pitre, _Medicina Populare Siciliana_, p. 47. In England, from notes sent to me by one correspondent, it would appear that the proportion of dark and sexually apt women to fair and sexually apt women is as 3 to 1. The experience of others would doubtless give varying results, and in any case the fallacies are numerous. See, in the previous volume of these _Studies_, "Sexual Selection in Man," Section IV. [165] In Japan the same belief would appear to be held. In a nude figure representing the typical voluptuous woman by the Japanese painter Marugama Okio (reproduced in Ploss's _Das Weib_) the pubic and axillary hair is profuse, though usually sparse in Japan. [166] _Centralblatt für Gynäkologie_, No. 9, 1896. [167] It is important to remember that there is little correlation in this matter between the hair of the head and the sexual hair, if not a certain opposition. (See _ante_, p. 127.) According to one of the aphorisms of Hippocrates, repeated by Buffon, eunuchs do not become bald, and Aristotle seems to have believed that sexual intercourse is a cause of baldness in men. (Laycock, _Nervous Diseases of Women_, p. 23.) [168] For some of the evidence on this point, see Havelock Ellis, "The Comparative Abilities of the Fair and the Dark," _Monthly Review_, August, 1901; cf. id., _A Study of British Genius_, Chapter X. THE PSYCHIC STATE IN PREGNANCY. The Relationship of Maternal and Sexual Emotion--Conception and Loss of Virginity--The Anciently Accepted Signs of This Condition--The Pervading Effects of Pregnancy on the Organism--Pigmentation--The Blood and Circulation--The Thyroid--Changes in the Nervous System--The Vomiting of Pregnancy--The Longings of Pregnant Women--Maternal Impressions--Evidence for and Against Their Validity--The Question Still Open--Imperfection of Our Knowledge--The Significance of Pregnancy. In analyzing the sexual impulse I have so far deliberately kept out of view the maternal instinct. This is necessary, for the maternal instinct is specific and distinct; it is directed to an aim which, however intimately associated it may be with that of the sexual impulse proper, can by no means be confounded with it. Yet the emotion of love, as it has finally developed in the world, is not purely of sexual origin; it is partly sexual, but it is also partly parental.[169]