16 THE SEX-COMPLEX 



Far-reaching Man Woman 



^etTndary Hair on face and trunk. Hair on head, but absent on 



character- face and trunk {apart from 



pubes and axillae). 



Larynx large. Voice deep. Larynx small. Voice high. 



Muscles powerful. Muscles relatively weak. 



Relatively long thorax and Relatively short thorax and 



short abodminal cavity. large abdominal cavity. 



Bones heavy and large. Bones light and small. 



Pelvis deep and funnel- Pelvis shallow and wide. 



shaped. 

 Skin coarse. Skin fine. 

 Stability of calcium meta- Instability of calcium meta- 

 bolism, bolism. 

 Psychical domination and Psychical dependence and 

 certainty. hesitancy. 



These are merely examples of dissimilarities obvious 

 to all. Many other differences — physiological, morpho- 

 logical and psychological — might be emphasized, were 

 it necessary to do so. The whole subject has been fully 

 discussed in recent years by Kammerer 1 , Bucuras, 

 Hofstatter 3 , Havelock Ellis 4 , and others, whose works 

 should be consulted for further information concerning 

 physical and psychical sex- variations. It should, how- 

 ever, never be forgotten that Man is dimorphic, and that 

 the prominence or otherwise of the secondary character- 

 istics depends on the degree of masculinity or femininity 

 present in any given individual. 

 stages of It must be noted in passing that there are two stages 



of e lfc°ondar n y in the development of the secondary characteristics 

 character- j n ]yj an — a f ac t that requires special emphasis. The 



1 Kammerer, P., AbderhalderC s Fortschr, der naturw. Forschung 



1912, vol. v, p. 1. 



2 Bucura, C, J., Geschlechtsundterschiede beim Menschen, Wienund 

 Leipzig, 1913, p. 12. 



3 Hofstatter, R.., Centralb. fur die Grenzgebiete der Med. u. Chir., 



1913, voL xvi, p. 37. (This monograph is preceded by a list of 2324 

 references. ) 



4 Ellis, Havelock H., Man and Woman, 1914, 5th ed. 



