GIRLS AND PUBERTY: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
March 12th, 2009 | Posted by admin | Category: Men's Health-Erectile DysfunctionNo Comments
Girls’ bodies also change quite a bit as they go through puberty. In some ways puberty in girls is similar to puberty in boys. Both sexes undergo a growth spurt and a change in the general shape of their body. Both boys and girls begin to grow pubic hair.
Boys start to make sperm for the first time and girls produce their first ripe ova. The genital organs of both sexes begin to develop. Both boys and girls begin to perspire more, to take on adult body odours and to get spots at this time in their lives.
But boys and girls are different, so puberty happens a bit differently in girls than in boys. Some of the things that happen to boys don’t happen to girls. For instance, girls don’t experience the same lowering and deepening of the voice that boys do. Also, there are things that happen to girls that don’t happen to boys, such as development of the breasts.
Even though boys and girls don’t go through exactly the same physical changes during puberty, their feelings about their body changes and their emotional reactions to growing up are, as we shall see, very similar. Let’s start with the physical changes.
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