170 THE GLANDS REGULATING PERSONALITY 



Lv the compound adrenal and gonad endocrines. The female's 

 various emulsions of coyness and display are motivated b\ 

 terior pituitary and gonad hormones in alliance. 



It is a dogma to state that the internal secretions of sex do not 

 begin to function until after puberty. Some children mai 

 exhibitionism with a certain independence of environment. Be- 

 fore adolescence a good many girls act like tom-boys, and are 



imishable externally from boys only by their clothes. But 

 othen display signs of sex differentiation that are to be t: 



to an awakening interstitial gonad action. Some boys have 

 no interest whatever in sex. Others will show an intense cur 

 spontaneously, a curiosity which perhaps may be explain d 



.1 precocity, dependent upon the minimum of sex hormone 

 production by the gonads. Close observation of the correlation 

 of somatic and psychic development in extreme examples of 

 children corroborates this view. Jonathan Hutchinson has de- 

 scribed full-busted children of London already boasting of their 

 affairs. Indeed, as education and environment affect the body 

 (in so far as they influence it as a whole) by exciting or 

 inhibiting the glands of internal secretion, sex-arousing si 

 from without must be considered to evoke their effects as stimu- 

 lants of the latent puberty glands. 



At puberty, when the sex glands bloom, and the complex of 

 the sex instincts is activated, exhibitionism manifests itself in a 

 host of guises and disguises. Femininity in a woman 

 womanly woman, or the eternal feminine, may indeed 1 

 by the degree of somatic and psychic exhibitionism she pn 

 A woman who has a delicate skin, lovely complexion, 

 formed breasts and menstrual' found to bai 



d feminine outlook on life, aspirations and 

 Mimuli, which, in spite of the protests of our feminists, do con- 

 ':<• feminine mind. 1 



- arc the well-epringfl of hex life and personality. On (he 



id, the woman w poorly or not at all ii 



d, fiat-bi ily built, angular in her out- 



lines, will also be often 



and pioneering, m short, masculinoid. She II what she is because 

 QflSOSSOS small, shrivelled, poorly functioning I 



• •se two I P sorts of tl ffding 



as the Other endocrines participate in the const; 



But no better examples could be given, off-hand, of i mm 



