Note BW — Chapter XIX · HYGIENE OF CHILDHOOD
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Gibb (N. Y. Med. Record, 1907, p. 643), who examined nine hundred children for the society of prevention of cruelty to children, has found girls of nine or ten years of age and even younger with abnormally developed instincts who often submit willingly.
The author had once under treatment for chancre a child of eleven years of age who submitted to concubitus for money to be able to buy pretty clothes. Her mother, a widow, was well able to support her and did so. There was no question of poverty.
In another case, a girl of twelve, already menstruating, whose mother was in an insane asylum, “tentavit tangere genitalia medici sui,” while being examined for bronchitis.