Other changes, such as the appearance of the pubertal hair, must have made no impression on my mind, as I cannot recollect anything in connection therewith.
Pubertal changes commenced, I presume, about the age of 13½ years.
Pre-pubertal childhood and youth, on the contrary, has its biological contributions to society still before it.
At the pubertal age in girls begins the phenomenon known as menstruation, in which there is a large excretion of calcium salts.
A limited number of mature women, some of them physicians, report having experienced in the pubertal years localized tumescence and other disturbances which made them definitely conscious of sexual instincts.
Now, most scientifically-trained women seem to agree that there are no corresponding phenomena in the early pubertal life of the normal young woman who has good health.
The pubertal seclusion of girls at Torres Straits has been especially studied by Seligmann, Reports Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, vol.
The year of gradual development before the onset of menstruation is by some referred to as the pre-pubertal year; and the first year after the onset of menstruation is the post-pubertal year.
But the changes are not only physical; the changes that take place in the girl's psychic sphere during the pubertal years are also highly important.
That it is the best moment is indicated by the well-recognized fact that the immediately post-pubertal period of adolescence is the period during which, even spontaneously, the most marked religious phenomena tend to occur.
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