Even in women physiologically normal themselves, it has sometimes been asserted that there is a distinction between 'clitoral' and 'vaginal' women, the former being destined to sapphic love; but it has been seen that all childhood eroticism is clitoral; whether it remains fixed at this stage or is transformed has nothing to do with anatomical facts; nor is it true, as has often been maintained, that infant masturbation explains the ulterior primacy of the clitoral system: a child's masturbation is recognized today by sexologists as an absolutely normal and generally widespread phenomenon.