In virgins, Schurig remarks, the pubic hair is said to be long and
not twisted, while in women accustomed to coitus it is crisper. But it
is only after long and repeated coitus, some authors add, that the pubic
hairs become crisp. Some recent observers, it may be remarked, have
noted a connection between sexual excitation and the condition of the
pubic hair in women. (Cf. the present volume, ante p. 127.)

A sign to which the old authors often attached much importance
was furnished by the urinary stream. In the De Secretis Mulierum,
wrongly attributed to Albertus Magnus, it is laid down that "the virgin
urinates higher than the woman.'' Eiolan, in his AnthropograpMa, dis-
cussing the ability of virgins to ejaculate urine to a height, states that
Scaliger had observed women who were virgins emit urine in a high
jet against a wall, but that married women could seldom do this. Bona-
ciolus also stated that the urine of virgins is emitted in a small stream
to a distance with an acute hissing sound. (Parthenologia, p. 281.) A
folk-lore belief in the reality of this influence is evidenced by the Picardy
conte referred to already (ante, p. 53), "La Princesse qui pisse au dessus
les Meules." There is no doubt a tendency for the various stresses of
sexual life to produce an influence in this direction, though they act
far too slowly and uncertainly to be a reliable index to the presence or
the absence of virginity.
