In women every phase of sexual life — puberty, menstruation,
coitus, pregnancy — tends to affect the voice and always by giving
it a deeper character. The deepening of the voice by sexual in-
tercourse was an ancient Greek observation, and Martial refers
to a woman's good or bad singing as an index to her recent



> Marro, La PubertA, p. 196. In Italy, the sensuality of the lame
is the subject of proverbs.
' ArcMvio di PsicMatria, 1896, p. 515 ; KprnriSia, vol. vi, p. 212.
' Blumenbach, Anthropological Treatises, p. 248.
*Bi6rent, La Puberty, p. 148.
