A woman, referred to as "Viola M.," is brought to medical schools for study. Dr. Duhring writes that it isn't only her facial hair that startles him, it's that she has a "normal" life with a husband and children.

The dermatological debate over body hair and gender continues to grow and overshadow the study of other diseases like ringworm and syphilis. The medicalization of excess facial hair, or "hypertrichosis," emerges with the rationale that sexual dimorphism, or "what differentiates men and women," is the basis for human evolution.