As a long-time sadomasochist, the advent of shaved genitalia as a pop fashion trend is amusing. My ingrained association with it as that it is a submissive thing, done to add the spice of realism to various types of power dynamics (babyfying, humiliating, exposing, etc.) How did it become such a popular social trend? One theory is that porn stars and strippers shave so you can see more and better (or, in the case of male porn stars, bigger), and their vast audiences began subconsciously modeling their own behaviors after theirs and altering their personal definition of what's sexy. Simple and linear: porn stars are sexy; porn stars are shaved; sexy and shaved go together.
For those who sneer and say they never mistake porn for reality, congratulations to you. However, as a sex therapist, I hear frequently from mainstream people who believe that porn is a realistic representation of how people are supposed look, act and feel during sex. I have explained to insecure men numerous times over the years that, for example, porn producers select for big cocks and therefore they should not compare themselves to the culled selection of anatomical rarities that make it to the screen; I've reassured insecure women that they don't have to have screaming multiple orgasms to please a man, much less breast implants. (BTW, this is why I want porn stars to use condoms and dental dams. People who have never had a sane sex education often turn to porn as instructionals and sources of ideas, for better and worse.)
But I digress. Once upon a time, shaving was either a marketing ploy by people who make a living showing off their beautiful bodies, or a BDSM ritual for tops who knew the power of making someone go bare perhaps for the first time since they were children. These days, it's so much a pop trend that some people have been shaving since the first pube popped, and few connect it with sex as much as with not looking gross in a bikini.
Some of us like hair. Some of us, in fact, like it very very much. When I post nudes with bush, you seem to like it very very much too. So tonight, for all lovers of the bush league, a merry little show of people from the days when sexually adventurous adults were wearily resigned to the chance of getting a stray hair in their mouth. No problem. It just meant you'd gotten lucky.
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