Women  are  relatively  dolichocephalic  or  long-headed.  This
cranial  characteristic  has  been  found  to  be  indicative  of  a
greater  capacity  for  affection,  and  implies  a  superior  occipital
development.  That  they  are  more  affectionate.  less  intel-
lectual, and  more  emotional  than  men  is  a  matter  of  common
knowledge.
It  is  interesting  to  note  the  similarity  of  Gall's  and  Lom-
broso's  observations.  The  former  claimed  that  women  who
commit  infanticide  have  a  defective  posterior  brain  development.
The  latter  asserts  that  female  criminals  have  no  love  for  their
offspring,  even  where  sexual  passion  is  exaggerated,  and  that
they  have  short  occiputs — brachycephaly.     Benedikt's  observa-


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tions  have  a  similar  trend.  He  found  in  the  brains  of  a  series  of
murderers  defective  occipital  lobes.
The  close  association  of  the  emotions  and  the  sense  of  si^ht,
which  is  located  in  the  occipital  lobes,  is  self-evident.  The  in-
fluence of  sight  upon  sexual  attraction  is  well-known.  Admitting
that  the  occipital  lobes  are  the  seat  of  the  optic  sense,  there  is  an
apparent  contradiction  in  the  fact  that  visual  sexual  attraction  is
much  stronger  in  men  than  in  women.  The  sexual  impressions
made  upon  the  optic  centre,  however,  are  passed  on  to  the  cere-
bellum, and  it  is  the  relative  development  of  this  organ,  not  of
the  posterior  cerebral  lobes,  that  determines  the  degree  of  sex-
uality. Men  have  a  greater  cerebellar  development  than  women,
consequently  more  powerful  sexual  impulses.  It  has  been  noted
that  men  whose  cerebellar  development  is  extreme — a  mark  of
atavism — are  likely  to  be  the  victims  of  inordinate  sexual  desire.
Where  the  cerebellum  is  undeveloped,  sexual  desire  is  relatively
weak.  Women  with  large  cerebellar  development  approximate
the  male  in  sexual  desire.  From  such  defectives  "bom  prosti-
tutes" are  recruited.
