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Bidisha article on pubic hair removal

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JessinAvalon · 11/02/2011 12:57

Good Bidisha article on pubic hair removal:

m.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/feb/11/womens-pubic-hair-removal-porn?cat=lifeandstyle&type=article

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Quodlibet · 11/02/2011 14:41

I don't think I want to use what women have been doing in the Middle East for centuries as my reference point for emancipated existence.

coldtits · 11/02/2011 14:41

Or maybe I can accept the fact that pubes between the teeth is unpleasant?

AliceWorld · 11/02/2011 14:41

It may be so but there has to be means of communicating it. Maybe women went on holiday to the Middle East, went in a communal dressing room, saw it there and decided to do it here. En masse. Or maybe not.

RamblingRosa · 11/02/2011 14:38

Has it?

It's a relatively new phenonenon here though, no?

AbsDuCroissant · 11/02/2011 14:36

But naked poonanies is hardly a new invention. It's been pretty common in the Middle East for centuries

RamblingRosa · 11/02/2011 14:35

Very funny article and spot on.

Yes David, I'm intrigued as to what other theories there about why brazillians etc have become fashionable. I think Bidisha has hit the nail on the head.

AliceWorld · 11/02/2011 14:31

And what would you say those other reasons are? From where I'm sitting there a big blinding one and not so many others I can see. Where else does such information get shared?

David51 · 11/02/2011 14:04

But how does she know it's the fault of pornography? In the 60s men's magazines actually pioneered the realistic depiction of pubic hair, which had previously been an artistic taboo:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pubic_Wars

An alternative theory is that pubic shaving has become fashionable for other reasons and modern porn is just reflecting that fashion.

Mumcentreplus · 11/02/2011 13:40

She read my mind!!

'poonani-policing' Grin

Rhadegunde · 11/02/2011 13:24

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sfxmum · 11/02/2011 13:17

I never get the appeal of that, same with wearing thongs totally incomprehensible to me

BeerTricksPotter · 11/02/2011 13:09

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dittany · 11/02/2011 13:04

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