Childhood Sexuality

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Well, I think the whole "Brazillian" thing is connected with childhood sexuality - if not childhood sex. I mean, it is one of the great "development" of woman hood to have pubic hair. It's controlable, unlike boobage, which has grow to popularity in enormous lengths. What a dichotomy! We like our woment to be girls "down there" but more than woman up top. Doesn't anyone else find that strange? What lengths will we go to for our men?

In Japanese animation, it's considered obscene to draw pubic hair. That is why all the naked animated women are hairless and girl-like.

They'll have rape machines and demons killing women with their sperm, but drawn pubic hair? SCANDALOUS!

I do love, and am baffled by, the great cultural divides.

[mousepod]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

In Japanese animation, it's considered obscene to draw pubic hair. That is why all the naked animated women are hairless and girl-like.

They'll have rape machines and demons killing women with their sperm, but drawn pubic hair? SCANDALOUS!

I do love, and am baffled by, the great cultural divides.

It may be urban legend, but I understand the Japanese banning of pubic hair started with MacArthur and the post-WWII occupation. It just became a part of the culture.

In some cases, it's funny and creative (I have a manga that features several suggestive panels of a fish sticking his head into a conch shell until he spits), in others, it's annoying (why does Jodorowsky's "The Holy Mountain" need genital fogging on an otherwise beautiful DVD?).

How these attitudes of taste become acceptable and part of popular culture is indeed a facscinating question...

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by mousepod

How these attitudes of taste become acceptable and part of popular culture is indeed a facscinating question...

That, is also my fascination. Why are these a fasicnaiton for today's society? It certainly wasn't a practice in my sexual "bloonming".

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

We like our woment to be girls "down there" but more than woman up top. Doesn't anyone else find that strange? What lengths will we go to for our men?

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

That, is also my fascination. Why are these a fasicnaiton for today's society? It certainly wasn't a practice in my sexual "bloonming".

If you're going that way, then why is shaving your legs and armpits and plucking and bleaching in all kinds of other places not even questioned?

In the 70's there was quite a decent sized movement to get rid of female shaving entirely. I snuck out my parents' copy of The Joy of Sex enough to learn that "soon women will cease shaving altogether"....copyright date 1971. The 70's were a blip in American history.

When exactly did leg shaving become the thing to do? Did the aristocratic ladies of the 1700's shave their legs? Did the pioneer women of the 1800's take time to shave their legs? Just how much is that connected with the idea of a woman being a young girl? Or is it about tactile sensations instead?

"What lengths will we go to for our men?" I know it's my programming, but I shave because I feel better shaved - and that goes for all my shaving. I sure as hell don't endure shaving my nether-region for HIM - fvck, there's no way I'd do that. I do it for the better sex that I get out of it.

[Ponine]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

When exactly did leg shaving become the thing to do? Did the aristocratic ladies of the 1700's shave their legs? Did the pioneer women of the 1800's take time to shave their legs? Just how much is that connected with the idea of a woman being a young girl? Or is it about tactile sensations instead?

I would like to know this historical aspect if anyone does know the answer. I say no to the 1700's... but I wonder about pioneers... and that time period.
Do Amer indian women have hair on their legs? So few Amer Indian men have facial hair... I wonder.
very curious...

[mousepod]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

When exactly did leg shaving become the thing to do? Did the aristocratic ladies of the 1700's shave their legs? Did the pioneer women of the 1800's take time to shave their legs? Just how much is that connected with the idea of a woman being a young girl? Or is it about tactile sensations instead?

From the wikipedia. Take it FWIW:

For women, the practice of shaving the legs derives from a relatively recent cultural standard in the West that deems leg hair on women unattractive. This standard emerged during the twentieth century, at a time when women's legs became more visible, and when the safety razor made the practice of leg shaving practical. The reasons for this cultural standard are debated, but this is sometimes seen as an example of a cultural mechanism for increasing sexual dimorphism. Others have suggested that it was promoted as a means of selling razors to a broader segment of the populace.

[alphabassettgrrl]

I thought the leg shaving was to mimic nylons.

And put me in the camp that likes the way bare skin looks and feels; I certainly don't want *any* associations with actual young girls! Though I do like to role-play sometimes. That gets harder as I get older.

[Not Afraid]

I'm just glad I'm not hairy.

But, now, I'm singing "girls wear short shorts".

[CoasterMatt]

If you dare wear short shorts, Nair for short shorts...

[Not Afraid]

Damn you Matt!