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Never before, I believe, has anything been written enabling us to see so clearly into the soul of a young girl, belonging to our social and cultural stratum, during the years of puberal development.

A Young Girl's Diary 1923

But neither in the boy is the occurrence of the first ejaculation a proof of capacity for reproduction, or a proof that the period of the puberal development is completed; nor in the girl is the occurrence of the first menstruation, which may long precede the establishment of the far more important function of ovulation, characteristic in either of these respects.

The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900

If we estimate that period from its true beginning its duration greatly exceeds two years, for the first indications of the puberal development are manifest in the girl long before the first menstruation, and in the boy long before the first discharge of semen.

The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900

I remember also that I have seen boys in whom during the period of puberal development an enlargement of the mammæ took place, going so far that it was possible by pressure on the glands to expel fluid from the mammillary ducts; at a more advanced age, however, this mammary growth was arrested, and subsequently atrophy ensued.

The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900

The sexual life of the child begins long before, and the puberal development is not completed till many years after, the appearance of these external signs, which by most people are erroneously regarded as typical of pubescence.

The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900

Not until the beginning of the true puberal development did this fondness begin to wane.

The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900

But we must not forget what has previously been pointed out, that the puberal development may begin at a time when nothing of the sort is apparent to the eye of the observer; and we must also bear in mind that the first seminal emission and the first menstruation are by no means so important, as marks of the puberal development, as is commonly believed.

The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900

If, notwithstanding all these facts, anyone desires to associate the beginning or the end of the puberal development, as was formerly done, with the appearance of "the external signs of puberty," no one can prevent this usage.

The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900

During the period of the puberal development, the normal heterosexual characteristics come to predominate.

The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900

According to the data collected by Frisch, the prostate gland, comparatively small in childhood, first begins to grow quickly at the epoch of the puberal development.

The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900