Crotch#In clothing

Crotch is derived from crutch; it was first used in 1539 to refer to a forked stick used as a farm implement.Hodgson, Charles. 2007. [https://books.google.com/books?id=IAzfurRydecC&dq=crotch+anatomy&pg=PA175 Carnal Knowledge: A Navel Gazer's Dictionary of Anatomy, Etymology, and Trivia], New York: St. Martin's Press. page 175. This region of the body is also described with other terms such as groin or the lower ventral area.{{cite journal|last1=Stavros|first1=A. Thomas|first2=Cindy|last2=Rapp|title=Dynamic ultrasound of hernias of the groin and anterior abdominal wall|journal=Ultrasound Quarterly|volume=26|issue=3|date=September 2010|pages=135–169|doi=10.1097/RUQ.0b013e3181f0b23f|pmid=20823750 |s2cid=31835133 }}

In clothing, the crotch is the area of trousers, shorts, leggings etc. where the legs join. The bottom of the crotch is an end of the inseam. The crotch-region on smaller garments such as underwear are sometimes referred to as the pouch.Davis, Sheena, and Alistair Furnell. Personal Equipment and Clothing Correction Factors for the Australian Army: A Pilot Survey. No. DSTO-TR-3044. Defence Science and Technology Organisation Fishermans Bend (Australia) Land Div., 2014. Loosely-fitted or bagginess in the crotch-region is sometimes associated with a lax, casual and easy-going approach to attires or garbs.{{cite journal|first1=Newcomb|last1=Elizabeth|first2=Cynthia|last2=Istook|title=Confronting stereotypes: apparel fit preferences of Mexican-American women|journal=Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management|volume=15|issue=4|date=September 2011|pages=389–411|doi=10.1108/13612021111169915}}

Clothing that is tight-fitting in the crotch produces an effect that is sometimes referred to by informal terms such as a man-bulge {{cite news|last1=Harris|first1=Michael|title=If Clement isn't fit for caucus, why is he fit to be anyone's MP?|work=IPolitics|url=https://ipolitics.ca/2018/11/08/if-clement-isnt-fit-for-caucus-why-is-he-fit-to-be-anyones-mp/|quote=It took Weiner a full 20 days to realize he had to resign after a photo of “his man bulge in boxer briefs” hit Twitter on May 27, 2011.|access-date=January 19, 2019|archive-date=April 17, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417232635/https://ipolitics.ca/2018/11/08/if-clement-isnt-fit-for-caucus-why-is-he-fit-to-be-anyones-mp/|url-status=live}} or moose-knuckle Schlosser, Bethanee J., and Ginat W. Mirowski. "Approach to the patient with vulvovaginal complaints." Dermatologic therapy 23.5 (2010): 438–448. on men, and a camel toe on women, especially if the woman's labia majora are conspicuous.Alapack, Richard J. "The epiphany of female flesh: A phenomenological hermeneutic of popular fashion." The Journal of Popular Culture 42.6 (2009): 977–1003 Prolonged constrictive pressure of the crotch on the male genitals may increase the likelihood of detumescing.Dunlap, Knight. "The development and function of clothing." The Journal of General Psychology 1.1 (1928): 64–78

The semantic field of the term crotch is sometimes expanded to include objects which have shapes similar to that of the anatomical human crotch.Widdowson, Henry G. "Aspects of the relationship between culture and language." Communication interculturelle et apprentissage des langues. Triangle 7 (1988). This may include botanical structures such as the area where tree branches are joined togetherShigo, Alex L. "How tree branches are attached to trunks." Canadian Journal of Botany 63.8 (1985): 1391–1401. or mechanical structures which fork or branch or where ramification takes place.Zhang, L. "Thermal Deformation Modelling Attempt Of A Storage Ring Vacuum Vessel." Proceedings of EPAC, Vienna, Austria (2000): 2486–2488. The term had also been expanded to include the joining together of asymmetrical surfaces in cue sports equipment or the corners of flat surfaces usually made of quarried slate.Byrne, Robert. Byrne's new standard book of pool and billiards. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998.

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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.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}}

Classical marble statues depict females without pubic hair; in contrast, statues of males "show curly pubic hair".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}}

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."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}}

Art therapists have noted "a triangular or vaginal shaped area in drawings by rape/sexual abuse victims".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}}

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