RESULTS OF CASTRATION 7 



or even a slightly concave limit of the hair in the regio 

 pubis {Figs. 5 and 6). The rest of the body, the axillae, 

 and the extremities are deprived of the hair normally 

 present in the male. 



The skin is pale, and often swollen and creased. 



The subcutaneous fat of the prepuberally castrated man is 



Fig. 2. — Section through the middle oj the penis of a normal 

 adult. X 3. Corp. cavernosa pen. above; corp. cav. ur. 

 below. — Adaptation from Toldt. 



more developed than normally. The localisation of the fat is 

 very characteristic, as was stated by Tandler and Gross and 

 Hirschfeld. One finds much fat in the gluteal region, under 

 the breasts, in the trochanters, in the abdominal wall, es- 

 pecially on the mons veneris and on the lateral sides of the upper 

 eyelids (Fig. 3). Hirschfeld speaks of the "characteristic 

 slippery and fatty face of the castrated man."^ But it seems 



^ Gorki gives in his memoirs ("With Strange People ") the following descrip- 

 tion of the Skopec: " At Sarapul (on the Volga) a strange passenger came on 

 board ; a fat man with a flabby womanish face ; the long warm kaftan 

 resembUng a dressing gown and the fox fur cap with ear lapels made him 

 still more womanlike. . Before Jacob (the stoker on board) went 



again to work I asked him what kind of a man that was. But one sees 

 that on the spot, my dear, he answered smiling, he is a Skopec. From far 

 away, from Siberia ! a diligent man, he has a plan of life. . . He has 



