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On shaving
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On shaving It used to be guys shaved only their face. Women did their legs, underarms and trimmed their bush so nothing stood out when wearing a bikini. There were exceptions, French women who went "au naturel" and did not shave. Of course, that could be a hold over from WW2 when Americans meet French woman after several years of Nazi occupation. Body builders also did not want hair to blemish an otherwise perfect body and shaved it off to not distract judges and have it become a factor in scoring. Then porn became a little more mainstream in the 1970s with movies like "Deep Throat," "The Devil in Miss Jones," and "Behind the Green Door" by bringing X rated movies to your local movie theatre. Pornography made the news as civic organizations and religions tried to ban showings. Actors began to trim and shape pubic hair so that they could still be identified in close up and stand out from other actors in the same scene and help identify when a cut to what was also happening was made. I had not realized how mainstream shaving has become even though I have noticed that nearly every vagina is now completely shaved or has some vestigial amount of neatly trimmed hair left to accentuate or personalize it. I also wonder how many may be turned off instead of excited by how hairy the man is in the photo. Is she pinching his nipple or pulling his hair out? Penises have also become more open to air. I can see both as a way of removing "dental floss" when performing oral. I think I have also noticed that shaving more male body parts is either becoming the norm or fashion forward. I recall one morning show recently that had a man wearing shorts and a comment that disparaged the hair on the men's legs. While this years Super Bowl ads were not as sexually explicit as the previous year, it does seem that chest hair and gym bodies do not go together. Hairless females have always been with us, some even going so far as to only have only eyebrows on their heads as in the Star Trek vision. Males are now becoming fashionably hairless. Why are we adding to our grooming time when most of us feel time is something we do not have enough of? I should visit a gym to see how wide spread it is, but I fear I would stand out like those 1940 women with un-shaved legs with the amount of body hair I have. As<b> cross dressing </font></b>is sometimes a part of male domination and humiliation, shaving has certain other implications for me. At my most recent doctor's visit, I asked about shaving and if there was a medical reason. The reply I got was that it was a fashion fad and that some people are quite adamant about it. Medically, there was no reason for it. Given our evolutionary history, it does seem that hair is losing out to clothing and air conditioning. At some point, I will likely try to create a poll concerning shaving and the male body. I'm pretty sure most people don't like back hair. Facial hair is mixed, baldness can be too much a sign of age, and skin heads are yet another fashion group to no include in the poll. I think that leaves chest, pubic and leg hairs. I also wonder what age groups shave which parts. Since the poll would be from members, I think 18 would be the youngest, and represent high schoolers. College to about 25? 30 to be on your own and making your own decisions? then maybe every 10 years? If you feel strongly about shaving, or merely curious and want to know, give me some feedback so the poll can work for you too. If you have experience in creating them and want to create one first, advertise it here. ***** 4/08/2013 ****** Daily Show Spot on the demise of habitat for pubic lice or "crabs!" According to Bloomburg, up to 80% of college students shave, wax or trim pubic hairs. It also seems by destroying their habitat we are theatening the lice with extinction. Thus, there may be in fact a medical reason to shave.  |
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