None of this information changes anything I said. Literally none of it. Like you said, people can preference anything, and it isnt automatically connected to anything sinister.
As I said, not shaving is totally fine and choosing to shave is also totally fine. Other women feeling pressured to shave doesn’t make a difference to the original post, at all. It’s a problem but it’s not connected to this post. I’m so fucking tired of this idea that because something has roots in the dreaded patriarchy or whatever means that NO woman can choose to do this for HERSELF.
The Egyptians may have been the forerunners of many beauty rituals, but they invested the most time into hair removal. Women of ancient Egypt removed all of their body hair, including that on their heads, with tweezers (made from seashells), pumice stones, or early beeswax and sugar based waxes.
During the Roman Empire, the lack of body hair was considered a sign of the classes. Wealthy women and men used razors made from flints, tweezers, creams, and stones to remove excess hair. In fact, even pubic hair was considered uncivilized which is why many famous statues and paintings of Grecian women are depicted hairless.
Just like Cleopatra was a trendsetter in her time, so too was Queen Elizabeth 1 during the Middle Ages. She set the precedence for hair removal amongst women, who followed her lead by removing it from their faces, but not their bodies. The fashion of this era was to remove eyebrows and hair from the forehead (to make it appear larger), which women did by using walnut oil, or bandages soaked in amonia (which they got from their feline pets) and vinegar.
The late 18th century ushered in a more civilized approach to hair removal. While European and American women didn’t take too much consideration into it, Jean Jacques Perret, a French barber, created the first straight razor for men in 1760 which was used by some women.
By 1844, Dr. Gouraud had created one of the first depilatory creams called Poudre Subtile. Soon after, in 1880, King Camp Gillette created the first modern day razor for men and thus a revolution was born. However, it would be another three decades before a razor specifically marketed for women would appear.
It takes one Google search to find this. ONE. Hair removal trends have been around for a… very long time.
Anyway, a shaven woman is not suddenly a child and preferring to not have a mouth full off pubes, or just not preferring the look of it, doesn’t make someone a pedophile.
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