Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Never ending discusses

Are you pro or contra the intimate removal of hair ? For centuries, this subject is in the middle of the storm. We have the pro-hairy, who wants strong values, and the pro-hairless, who want freedom. Nowadays, majority of occidental women think that It is necessary to shave in parts or totally the genitals. A lot of them (45%) think men should do the same. But, only 10 years ago, those practices were considered with such a mistrust that some beautician refused to take care of men and some even refused to take care of women asking to shave the anus. This mistrust regarding hair’s removal still exists. In 2007, reactions were big when some razors to use intimately by men went on the market … when they all almost do. You have to understand that this actions of men, shaving their parts, is seen as a threat to masculinity. Simply because men should be hairy and women hairless. You will lose the anthropological and cultural marks and It is seen as a negative abnormality, sign of a drift of the customs and on the contrary, sometimes positively, sign of an aspiration of a freedom for the body. Opinions about removal of hair are very stereotyped. Pro or contra. Which sounds funny because I don’t quite understand who can tell me something about my personal choice related to my individual taste. First reaction : “there is too much money in our country and we don’t know what to do with it”. Second possible reaction : “I recommend the total removal of hair. You feel good and fresh”. Third reaction, cynical : “we are so bored in our cities that we have nothing else to do than to shave our pubic hairs”. Fourth reaction , with nostalgia (and a bit of homophobic feeling) : “I do not wish this drift to androgyny, our society does not have any marks anymore”. Fifth reaction , a bit like the fourth but less stinky, the one which sees in removal of hair a level to virile aesthetic from the porn movies : “these are the consequences that boys look too much porn since they are children”. So, to make it short a bit brutally : virility, and hairs to straight men – the real, hard ones – and the hairless bodies – to gays. It seems that the debate about hairs focuses on the opposition between feminine-masculine. The worse is that It lasts for centuries. Pline, during Antiquity, said that what perverts the Empire is those feminine removal of hairs and other things. Cesar was pointed many times because he liked to be strictly shaved. The satiric poet Martial wrote a poem about depilation. “When you depilate your chest, when you shave your legs and arms and the hairs around your dick, sure you think of your girlfriend. But who are you thinking of when you depilate your asshole ?” Martial, by any means, seems to forget that a lot of girls like to lick this part of male intimacy as well. So we see, intimate depilation is never well seen through History. It’s repetitive and virulent. And It’s not because you will depilate your pubic hairs that It will make your dick bigger.

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