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” When it came to his daughters, suggests Wiesner-Hanks, those anxieties must have been even sharper. Along with his three girls, Petrus and his wife had three sons, two of them also hairy. But it was the girls rather than their brothers that people wanted to touch, paint and own. There was something about the idea of a hairy woman that was especially alluring and repulsive, both sexual and bestial at the same time. All the girls were the subjects of portraits, some done from life, but others from pure fantasy. Really what everyone wanted to know, but was too polite to ask, was just how far down their hair went. It was left to Dr Felix Platter of Basel to be given permission to prod and poke. He reported that the little Gonzales girl whom he examined - it is not clear which - was very hairy right along her spine.” - The Marvelous Hairy Girls