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Its actually quite a recent-ish thing, I think its only really since the 1920s it started at all, and a lot later than that its become almost the only done thing to do. The more it goes, the more we have to shave. The shaving of pubic hair is a REALLY new thing. 10- 15 years ago hardly anyone shaved or even trimmed their pubic hair - now an unmanaged bush is almost the ultimate sin!
People dont think men are gross and unhygenic and liken it to not brushing their teeth because they have armpit and leg hair.
Not shaving and not washing aren't easily comparative; we've been pushed as a society toward thinking unshaved isn't good... I think we've probably always known being an unwashed filth merchant is bad. We've always had a sense of smell, right?
I mean, dont get me wrong - I shave the lot off tbh, but im fully aware its societys influence that makes me want to.
Does it though, or is that just your cultural norm?
Many French and German women don't shave, and aren't any less sexy for it. Julia Roberts wasn't less attractive because she didn't shave her armpits.
It's interesting how cultural norms change too- in the 1960s female nude actresses and models had to shave all their pubic hair off because that was deemed less sexy and corrupting.
Linking not shaving to not washing or grooming is wrong- what you should be comparing it to is not grooming according to the cutting edge of fashion.
And are you sure it's not more hygenic to shave? That's not to say that it's somehow unhygenic if you have body hair and shower all the time, but everywhere I've read (advice sites, not gillete adverts) seem to suggest that more hair = more body odeur = more bacteria.
innit.
We humans do all sorts of thing to our own body to alter the way we look, and we've done it for thousands of years.
I shave my legs when anyone's likely to see them, and although I used to get light mocking from my man if I hadn't for a bit it was only teasing. Although when I'm training and competing I tend to take pretty much all off legs, underarms and anything near bikini line. I feel enough of a plonker in a swim suit without adding anything else to worry about.
The only usefulness I can think of in clothes is warmth. How would you keep warm in winter without them?
Besides this, as far as I can see, clothes are completely useless.
EDIT: Well, bulletproof vests are useful too, if they count as clothes, and plus they wouldn't be as effective without any other clothing on.
As I say, in the 1960s pubic hair was deemed too racy, and had to be removed to protect the public. Now having no pubic hair is where its at, and the only time you see a porno girl with hair (apart from on her head) is when you're on a hair fetish site. No doubt things will change again.
Your shaving preference is just a taste, and just because its the prevailing taste in this country it doesn't mean that its inherently better, or more hygienic, or more healthy. I don't see the Germans, with their lack of make up and their slightly hairy armpits, keeling over with BO and rank ugliness.
I've never ever shaved my legs, as my leg hair is also pretty fine in its natural state, I'm not keen on the idea of razers, and I was worried that the hair growing back without the tapered tip would be more noticable than leaving it. More recently though I have started using silkymits every now and then.
I really dont see how leg hair could be unhygenic though, even if you thought armpit hair was.
Go tell that interesting 'fact' to the thousands of Europeans who don't shave then.
If you wash you'll be clean, if you don't you won't. Hair or no hair, you'll still get dirty if you don't wash.
Does this mean that men are inherently dirtier than women? No wonder nobody wants to sit next to me at work.
Not that it's my opinion, but try to think of it:
Some people mentioned that hair can't be gross, since it's the natural state of the body. Well, in prehistoric times the body hair was much thicker and undoubtly a ward for coolness/chilly temperatures, but today we got more reliable clothing.
Look at wisom tooth or the blind gut. They are - too - available in the natural state of a human, but don't serve any purpose, no, they even CAUSE a lot of problems (ask me about my extraction o.O).
I am opinionless there and it's just food for thought, but isn't body hair just as rudimentary as the tail bone, the blind gut or other organs?
My opinion is just like before stated: I don't care. It's all personal preference before it starts to be debilitating, like BO...what ever. I don't praise it, but I don't say it's "doing something against mother nature" either.
Fair enough if you find it unattractive, I think a well-trimmed bush looks better, but that doesn't mean your taste carries more weight.