According to this poll
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minxnim
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lizard
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we should have a "Ask The_Preppy" thread where we can bring up our personal foibles and you can give us advice and shit.
it would be fun!
it would be fun!
xfer
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I imagine we can guess.
"Because the 9/11 terrorists shaved off their body hair in a pre-attack ritual, housekeepers at the Peninsula also have been told to report to supervisors if a guest requests a large quantity of shaving cream or razors."
"Because the 9/11 terrorists shaved off their body hair in a pre-attack ritual, housekeepers at the Peninsula also have been told to report to supervisors if a guest requests a large quantity of shaving cream or razors."
lizard
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so were the terrorists gay, or hoping to cut down on wind resistance if in the event they were thrown from the plane...
minxnim
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this week's "Savage Love" advice column:
I need help understanding a recently observed trend. As a physician, I see lots of naked bodies. For several years, I've noticed that, generally speaking, many straight patients (men and women) in their 20s have trimmed and/or coifed pubic hair. A lot of the men tell me that their girlfriends prefer it that way; some have said, "It makes me feel cooler and cleaner." Occasionally, I have to treat folliculitis (an infection/inflammation at the base of the hair follicles) caused by overaggressive shaving. I have noticed that many of my 14- to 16-year-old male patients have completely trimmed off their pubic hair. What gives? When I was that age, I anxiously awaited a full set.
Pursuing Understanding By Inquiring Columnist
Women have long felt it necessary to shave their legs, pits, forearms, wrists, backs, shins, and ankles, PUBIC. Then, about 10 years ago, stylish women began having their pubic hair ripped out at the roots. Surely you've heard of the Brazilian bikini wax, Doc? The pubeless look was popularized, in my opinion, by several cultural trends: the mainstreaming of pornography, teeny-tiny bathing suits, and awful, unflattering low-rise jeans. Naturally bushy women went from trimming to li'l Hitler mustaches to complete deforestation in less than a decade.
At the same time deforestation was becoming the beauty ideal for women, PUBIC, male homosexuals were taking over American cultural life. That our culture is now dominated by gay men is not some paranoid Christian conservative's fantasy, PUBIC, but a fact of life. Queer Eye For The Straight Guy confirmed something everyone already knows: Outside of rap and hip-hop culture, stylish gay mennot all gay men, mind you, just the stylish onesare the only tastemakers. And gay men weren't content to just set tastes in jackets and hair products and cowhide accent chairs. Hardly. We were, however subtly, setting sexual tastes, as well. Out went the virile man (so long, Burt Reynolds!) and in came the vulnerable boy (hello, Ashton Kutcher!). Soon, the kind of guys most gay men want to fuck became the kind of guys most straight women want to fuck, and the male beauty ideal became every bit as hairless as its female counterpart.
The funny thing about declaring smooth, hairless skin sexy, PUBIC, is that once you start stigmatizing some body hair (back hair, chest hair, ass hair), it's only a matter of time before all body hair is deemed unattractive. Women started having their pubes yanked out because body hair on women had long been seen as unattractive and unfeminine; once they were required to wear outfits that basically exposed everything but their vulvas, off came the pubic hair. Men began shaving off their chest hair in response to a gay-dictated male beauty ideal, and gradually bought into the idea that body hairincluding pubic hairwas just as unattractive on males as it was on females. And you're seeing the results of this cultural shift every time one of your 16-year-old male patients drops his drawers.
For the record, I'm not endorsing any of this. While I'm a longtime supporter of the reigning beauty idealI like 'em lean and hairless, always have, so I've got no complaints, thank you very muchI know there are people out there who feel differently. Indeed, a pro-hair backlash is already underway.
Pursuing Understanding By Inquiring Columnist
Women have long felt it necessary to shave their legs, pits, forearms, wrists, backs, shins, and ankles, PUBIC. Then, about 10 years ago, stylish women began having their pubic hair ripped out at the roots. Surely you've heard of the Brazilian bikini wax, Doc? The pubeless look was popularized, in my opinion, by several cultural trends: the mainstreaming of pornography, teeny-tiny bathing suits, and awful, unflattering low-rise jeans. Naturally bushy women went from trimming to li'l Hitler mustaches to complete deforestation in less than a decade.
At the same time deforestation was becoming the beauty ideal for women, PUBIC, male homosexuals were taking over American cultural life. That our culture is now dominated by gay men is not some paranoid Christian conservative's fantasy, PUBIC, but a fact of life. Queer Eye For The Straight Guy confirmed something everyone already knows: Outside of rap and hip-hop culture, stylish gay mennot all gay men, mind you, just the stylish onesare the only tastemakers. And gay men weren't content to just set tastes in jackets and hair products and cowhide accent chairs. Hardly. We were, however subtly, setting sexual tastes, as well. Out went the virile man (so long, Burt Reynolds!) and in came the vulnerable boy (hello, Ashton Kutcher!). Soon, the kind of guys most gay men want to fuck became the kind of guys most straight women want to fuck, and the male beauty ideal became every bit as hairless as its female counterpart.
The funny thing about declaring smooth, hairless skin sexy, PUBIC, is that once you start stigmatizing some body hair (back hair, chest hair, ass hair), it's only a matter of time before all body hair is deemed unattractive. Women started having their pubes yanked out because body hair on women had long been seen as unattractive and unfeminine; once they were required to wear outfits that basically exposed everything but their vulvas, off came the pubic hair. Men began shaving off their chest hair in response to a gay-dictated male beauty ideal, and gradually bought into the idea that body hairincluding pubic hairwas just as unattractive on males as it was on females. And you're seeing the results of this cultural shift every time one of your 16-year-old male patients drops his drawers.
For the record, I'm not endorsing any of this. While I'm a longtime supporter of the reigning beauty idealI like 'em lean and hairless, always have, so I've got no complaints, thank you very muchI know there are people out there who feel differently. Indeed, a pro-hair backlash is already underway.
