Pubic Hair

[poliphilo]

I understand that no-one under thirty likes pubic hair.

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I grew up in the 60s when pubic hair was the holy grail. Why do you think anyone ever watched anything by Jean-Luc Godard?

No, that's unfair; Godard in his pomp rocked my soul. Weekend was a life-changing experience. But it didn't hurt that he had chicks walking around in the background with their panties off.

And back then chicks with their panties off meant huge, cushiony swatches of pubic hair.

The temple was veiled....

O.K., OK... Now I'm embarrassing myself.

Apparently the fashion for bare pubes is down to porn. Porn stars wax. And we all aspire to be porn stars (Ach, we are such sheep) just as we all once aspired to be the Venus de Milo or the Apollo Belvedere.

Though that was a little before my time.

The first artist to paint pubic hair was- I rather think- Gustave Courbet. Thereafter the bush had a golden age that lasted approximately a hundred years.

I think the human body benefits from that patch of shading. To me it looks unfinished without it.

The pornstar look is an android look- No hair out of place, boneless bits that don't wobble. Immaculate.

I reject it. I like flesh that behaves like flesh. Follicles that work.

The call of the wild.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Our society seems to be scared of real women- women with curves, women with hair.

Porn was "supposed" to be about sexual liberation, but it's turned out to be just another tool of oppression.

The patriarchy always wins.

I don't like this situation one little bit.

[fidget]

Artistic nudity is one thing. I shy away from porn, however. I've never been comfortable with it, and I'm a minority among my peers. It's so hard to meet a guy my age who doesn't bring up porn on a first date.

However, when I bring up the fact that Chris secretly looks at porn then claims to be so disgusted by it (and he pays for it), porn-lover or not, I get asked why he does this. I don't have an answer, other than that I hate being lied to. He also claims to hate the "pre-teen boy" look that so many girls sport, but that's what he likes to look at.

I've been with guys who were embarrassed to be seen with me in public because I was "fat". As in, not being anorexic and having curves. I've been told that I'm sexy, but not cute like the other girls are. I'm okay to ogle in private, as long as nobody else knows about it.

I think, deep down, males my age really do prefer a more curvy woman -- it's hard-wired into instinct -- but they've been trained to believe that the opposite is the only thing that is acceptable. This, of course, is the cause for eating disorders to become such a rampant trend, when thirty or so years ago, it was practically unheard of. I wonder what long-term effect this will have on society, ranging from women who have damaged their bodies so much that they can't have children to what other heights of unrealistic beauty may occur in the future.

I hope this makes sense.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They bring up porn on a first date- Jeez, but things have changed since my day.

I guess it's possible (in fact I know it's possible) to be attracted AND disgusted by the same thing. Especially if you've been brought up in a Puritan society like the USA.

I think you're right. Men are programmed at a very deep level to like full-bodied women. The current fashion for anorexic waifs runs counter to instinct and biology.

Sometimes (indeed most of the time) I think the human race is quite mad.