But a few people seem to be focused on the idea that it is solely to do with men/porn.
What I am saying is that there are a variety of reasons and I think their existence should be acknowledged, if not respected. Sensory usually (but not exclusively) has little to do with one's culture.
My frame of mind was - hey, there's stuff happening to my body. It's not unpleasant, but I'm not sure if I like it yet. Why don't I try changing it and see how it feels? There have been occasions where laziness has prevented me from depilating - in the main, I have not liked the way being hairy felt, so I generally choose not to be. However, there is no arguing that I am not a child anymore and never will be. That is certainly not what I believed I was trying to achieve and I do not think any differently now that I am older. I quite like being hairfree - my real hair has also mainly been and still is closely cropped (think a no.1 shave), but I doubt SnowyGonzalez, that you would say that that was due to wanting to remain in a baby-like/foetal state with little hair. It's just a personal preference. Dare I also say that a thread with a fixed number of MNetters (as influential as we think we are) is not a fully accurate representation of English/British culture as a whole?
People will like what they like and there are always a multitude of reasons to explain how they feel, and they are free to find people who are happy to agree with them. As a non-hair related example, an ex-boyfriend of mine preferred his girlfriends not to use deodorant as he preferred how they smelt naturally. I told him that using deodorant was a part of my personal grooming I was not willing to compromise, so he was free to stay with me on that basis or find someone else who thought the same as he did and/or would be happy to conform. Some might have called him a freak (and I would concede that he probably could be defined as "different", in more ways than one
), but I would never call him a freak because he was entitled to think the way he did, as long as it was not to another person's detriment.
Depilating doesn't hurt anyone other than oneself. It may change the general consensus on what people think is acceptable or the norm, but not everyone follows or has to follow fashion, be that general or alternative. If I were to have a daughter, I would raise her to know that there are several options out there and, like her mother, she may do with her body as she pleases. If she wants to conform to an ideal that she feels she is forced to by society, I will always let her know that she has a choice and that choice is hers alone.
I'm just surprised that hair elicits such a strong reaction from people - it's only hair. Why care to label negatively how someone chooses to keep it and the reasons behind that?