Editing Crotch (section)

== Depictions in artwork ==
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The human crotch has been depicted in artwork. In Paleolithic art, forms called [[tectiforms]] or [[quadrilaterals]] have sometimes been interpreted to be "quick visual guides, reminders to the imagination" of the female crotch, and typically do not represent the crotch hairs.<ref>Guthrie, R. Dale. 2006. [https://books.google.com/books?id=3u6JNwMyMCEC&dq=crotch+art&pg=PA358 ''The Nature of Paleolithic Art''], University of Chicago Press, pp. 357–358. {{ISBN|9780226311265}}</ref>

Classical marble statues depict females without pubic hair; in contrast, statues of males "show curly pubic hair".<ref>[[Morris, Desmond]]. 2007. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Wa9zntiEKeAC&dq=crotch+art&pg=PA196 ''The Naked Woman: a study of the female body'']. Macmillan. page 196. {{ISBN|9780312338534}}</ref>

For much of the history of European art – "until the late seventeenth century" – references to the female crotch were approached from above: "Art usually expressed the sense of the vulva as a point at the bottom of the belly rather than as the meeting place at the top of the thighs."<ref>Hollander, Anne. 1993. [https://books.google.com/books?id=CSItqzbG9nIC&dq=crotch+art&pg=PA220 ''Seeing Through Clothes''], University of California Press. p. 220. {{ISBN|9780520082311}}</ref>

[[Art therapy|Art therapists]] have noted "a triangular or vaginal shaped area in drawings by rape/sexual abuse victims".<ref>Coleman, Victoria D. and Phoebe M. Farris-Dufrene. 1996. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UKM16MTitEEC&dq=crotch+art+-%22dr.+crotch%22&pg=PA39 ''Art Therapy and Psychotherapy: Blending Two Therapeutic Approaches''], Taylor & Francis. p. 39. {{ISBN|9781560324898}}</ref>