For many others, this little piece of flesh hanging between boys' legs is insignificant or even derisory; it is a particularity like that of clothes and hairstyle; often the female child discovers it at a younger brother's birth, and 'when the little girl is very young,' says Helene Deutsch, 'she is not impressed by her younger brother's penis'; she cites the example of an eighteen month old girl who remained absolutely indifferent to the discovery of the penis and did not give it any value until much later, in connection with her personal preoccupations.