The History Of Women Removing Body Hair

So I decided a couple of weeks ago that I was going to quit shaving my body hair for an amount of time at least a month. Initially it was about the planet and plastic pollution, but I also realized that since I was 13, I've been shaving. Most of if not all my body hair below the net aside from a couple of lazy weeks here and there, I've been in the state of bald or stubbly for over 10 years, I've never experienced what it felt like to just be hairy on purpose. Without exclamations of oh, my god, I'm so sorry, I forgot to shave just totally shame free. So I've been on a mission to reclaim my body half or at least to get to know what being hairy as a woman feels like for a little while. I know a lot of people find the idea of body hair on a woman is tasteful gross and sexy or even unclean. I think you'll find you've learnt to see when there's body hair that way. It'S not an original thought. You came up with all by yourself. I was curious to find out why the stigma came from, so I did some research underarm hair in the 1920s, as young people did what young people have always done and rebelled against the Victorian ideals and style of their parents. Fashion began to change, Gertz got higher and Cleese got shorter. King Capulet, founder of the GL app we know today, was one of the first jump on the Strand and start advertising his razors to women. Part of this involve the subtle or not so subtle, shaming of visible underarm hair in the adverts that women were seen, including women as part of his target market, would double his profits. So it was in his best interest to sell the idea that body hair was embarrassing for women and the idea stuck like her, unlike with armpits shaving, your legs didn't immediately catch on. I was really surprised to find out that it appears to be World War. Two that saw the removal of leg hair becoming mainstream for women in the 1920s to 1940s. Headlines were getting higher, but most women will stockings. So no one really cared whether you shaved your legs up until the war started and there was suddenly a nylon shortage. War, hair removal product hit the market as women were forced to go bare-legged under that scare pin-up. Girls also became popular among soldiers with their long smooth legs and what were, at the time quite skimpy bathing suits women were encouraged to keep their legs hair free to boost morale for the soldiers missing higher. I don't personally understand how leg hair correlates to homesickness, but that's the sneakiness of the beauty industry, for you genitals. Some suggest that the trend to remove pubic hair came with the popularity of the bikini in the 50s and 60s. However, well that explains increased trimming in that area. It doesn't really explain the total removal of all pubic hair. Some people blame the fashion industry and some people blame for the explanation that makes the most sense to me is that, because a full Bush was commonplace in 1970s and 1980s photography and porn and high fashion has always liked to shock and be different. It became the nearest thing for models to shave and, as it became more popular in the fashion industry. This trickled down into pornography as men saw more and more women with shaven nether regions in porn and began to associate this with eroticism and sex appeal, and women saw the same in fashion and the media having unshaven pubes went from totally normal to unfashionable to taboo. All in less than 50 years - so that's a very brief history of women's body, hair removal. Ultimately, I think I'll, ditch the leg, hair, it's itchy and just a bit uncomfortable for me, but I have enjoyed having underarm hair. I had this preconception that it would be harder to stay clean and smelling nice, but actually I sweat a lot less and my sweat seems to smell a lot cleaner. I found it in the last month that I felt way less grossed out by my own hair than I expected tooth. I actually feel like letting my hair grow out. It'S kind of increased my confidence. My significant other still finds me attractive and it kind of feels defiantly sexy to just be in my body like this and love it just the way it is. This experiment has definitely made me look at my relationship with my body in a totally new way.