One might look at Turkey, where hairlessness is the standard. Sabri might be able to tell us more.
But as for the U.S., it might be a different logic altogether. I've heard porn mentioned a number of times, but it seems to me that it still begs the question. Because why would porn itself tend that way? Yes, of course, it does make things easier to photograph, but if porn watchers thought hair was hot, they'd photograph hair. Could it be that hair is too real? That it's more and more about product than the underlying reality? I had a lover who insisted I shave everything -- actually he did it, and I hated it. 1. it was uncomfortable 2. it reverted me to the status of a non-sexual woman since a thick bush is the body's sign of a sexually mature and robust woman. Never again. As a sometime lover of women myself, I do love the mystery of the bush and the wild and wooly dive into it. To the bush! Joanna ----- Original Message ----- On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:30:43 -0500 Robert Naiman <[email protected]> wrote: > Some would no doubt suggest that the increased availability of > pornography via the internet has contributed to homogenization towards > a hairless standard. No doubt, but why the preference for hairlessness in the first place? Versus the alternative. > There's a dissertation for someone here. And it would make more entertaining reading than most. -- -- Michael J. Smith [email protected] http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org http://www.cars-suck.org http://fakesprogress.blogspot.com Any proposition that seems self-evident is almost certainly false. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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