Why women shave private parts? Why shave at all?
The human body contains 5,000,000 hair follicles and while body hair seems pretty useless it actually serves a purpose. Hair helps regulate body temperature, keeping humans warmer in colder climates. It also helps protect the body from outside elements like dirt. Body hair is natural and helpful, why then do women spend so much time removing hair from their own bodies?
All in the name of beauty, of course.
Humans have been shaving since at least 6000 B.C., although razors didn’t really catch on until the Bronze Age (around 3000 B.C.). That’s when humans started using razors made of—wait for it—bronze
Well, in Ancient Greece women shaved their private parts as a sign of their profession. Which was prostitution.
Shaving private parts was not really advised.
But to the Egyptians and Romans this was a different story.
Some of the first razors, made of copper, were used in Egypt and India around 3000 BCE. Egyptian women removed their head hair and considered pubic hair uncivilized. Upper-class Roman women of the sixth century BCE used tweezers, pumice stones and depilatories to achieve the desired degree of hairlessness, while Egyptians of Cleopatra’s time used a sugar mixture in a method similar to waxing.
Funny enough, even though pubic hairs are thought of unnecessary by some women now, it would interest you to know that these hairs attract us to each other sexually and also help prevent us from catching genital related diseases. Pubic hairs are actually healthy for us. If we're being honest.
But. ...let's see what civilisation brought.
The modern era of hair removal may have been encouraged by Charles Darwin’s 1871 book, Descent of Man, through the popularization of his theories of natural selection. That is, homo sapiens have less body hair than his/her antecedents because less hairy mates were more sexually attractive. Body hair became a question of competitive selection. By the early 1900s, upper- and middle class white American women associated smooth skin with a desirable femininity.
Hair removal was encouraged through the efforts of three different industries: the women’s fashion industry, the men’s hair removal industry, and the women’s magazine industry, each of which recognized and sought to profit from women’s new role as consumers. First, hemlines rose, threatening to reveal hairy legs. Then, sleeveless garments bared arms. Exposed limbs in the changing fashions of the early 1900s pressured women to shave armpits and legs.
One of the very first modern shavers women used.
With the introduction of the bikini in 1946, the stage was set for women to start trimming pubic hair as well. In the 1950s, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine introduced clean-shaven, scantily-clad model—sexy, lingerie-draped women who became benchmarks for the ideal look.
Although some feminists did revolt in the 1960s and 1970s turned their backs on the ideal of the hairless body in favor of women au natural. The rejection proved to be short-lived, however. Brazilian wax hit the mainstream. The first salon offering a complete wax hair removal experience came stateside in 1987. News of the practice travelled mostly through word of mouth. Hairless was back in. In a scene in Sex and the City around 2000, even Carrie Bradshaw gets one. Cleopatra would have approved.
Well, at this point , one can't really say. But all I say is, go for what suits you and nevermind the critics. It's your life , your choice! Shaving doesn't mean you're neat or sexy or anything. It's just an Idea a lot of the world has bought into.
Raven , out😉
The human body contains 5,000,000 hair follicles and while body hair seems pretty useless it actually serves a purpose. Hair helps regulate body temperature, keeping humans warmer in colder climates. It also helps protect the body from outside elements like dirt. Body hair is natural and helpful, why then do women spend so much time removing hair from their own bodies?
All in the name of beauty, of course.
Humans have been shaving since at least 6000 B.C., although razors didn’t really catch on until the Bronze Age (around 3000 B.C.). That’s when humans started using razors made of—wait for it—bronze
Well, in Ancient Greece women shaved their private parts as a sign of their profession. Which was prostitution.
Shaving private parts was not really advised.
But to the Egyptians and Romans this was a different story.
Some of the first razors, made of copper, were used in Egypt and India around 3000 BCE. Egyptian women removed their head hair and considered pubic hair uncivilized. Upper-class Roman women of the sixth century BCE used tweezers, pumice stones and depilatories to achieve the desired degree of hairlessness, while Egyptians of Cleopatra’s time used a sugar mixture in a method similar to waxing.
Funny enough, even though pubic hairs are thought of unnecessary by some women now, it would interest you to know that these hairs attract us to each other sexually and also help prevent us from catching genital related diseases. Pubic hairs are actually healthy for us. If we're being honest.
But. ...let's see what civilisation brought.
The modern era of hair removal may have been encouraged by Charles Darwin’s 1871 book, Descent of Man, through the popularization of his theories of natural selection. That is, homo sapiens have less body hair than his/her antecedents because less hairy mates were more sexually attractive. Body hair became a question of competitive selection. By the early 1900s, upper- and middle class white American women associated smooth skin with a desirable femininity.
Hair removal was encouraged through the efforts of three different industries: the women’s fashion industry, the men’s hair removal industry, and the women’s magazine industry, each of which recognized and sought to profit from women’s new role as consumers. First, hemlines rose, threatening to reveal hairy legs. Then, sleeveless garments bared arms. Exposed limbs in the changing fashions of the early 1900s pressured women to shave armpits and legs.
With the introduction of the bikini in 1946, the stage was set for women to start trimming pubic hair as well. In the 1950s, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine introduced clean-shaven, scantily-clad model—sexy, lingerie-draped women who became benchmarks for the ideal look.
Although some feminists did revolt in the 1960s and 1970s turned their backs on the ideal of the hairless body in favor of women au natural. The rejection proved to be short-lived, however. Brazilian wax hit the mainstream. The first salon offering a complete wax hair removal experience came stateside in 1987. News of the practice travelled mostly through word of mouth. Hairless was back in. In a scene in Sex and the City around 2000, even Carrie Bradshaw gets one. Cleopatra would have approved.
Well, at this point , one can't really say. But all I say is, go for what suits you and nevermind the critics. It's your life , your choice! Shaving doesn't mean you're neat or sexy or anything. It's just an Idea a lot of the world has bought into.
Raven , out😉
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