What’s The Deal With Bushy Hatred?
Kate Lister at Whores Of Yore describes the furor every time she posts a vintage photograph of furry bush:
It is inevitable: whenever I post an image of a woman with a full bush an argument ensues. Interestingly, no one has ever commented on the state of a gentleman’s manscape as long as I have been tweeting them; but, a woman’s knicker whiskers will upset someone every time.
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[W]hen did we get to the point when our own body hair is alien to us? When did we get to the point when pubic hair is called ‘disgusting’ or ‘gross’? Because this is always the cause of the arguments; someone recoils in horror at the sight of a woman with pubic hair you could wipe your feet on, and voices this online. Having a ‘type’ is one thing, but this voicing usually goes well beyond expressing a personal preference, and marches straight into outright revulsion at the prospect of a lady garden gone to seed.
When did this happen? When did our body hair, hair we have all got, hair that is supposed to be there, elicit the same levels of disgust as a matted hairball bunging up the plughole?
It gets even stranger when you consider that a mere two-foot north of the offending silent beard is another crop of hair that we collectively devote billions of pounds every year to styling. A cursory glance at any hair style magazine reveals adjectives such as ‘glamorous’, ‘sultry’, ‘flowing’ and ‘luxurious’ being used to describe a mop that top and tails another barnet capable of making adults wince. Again, I am not trying to convince you to allow your squirrel to go feral, but I do want to pause on this issue and ask why have we become so anti-fuzz? To the point its regarded as un natural or ‘gross’? Because, that’s where we currently are; our own bodies revolt us, and we shame people for having hair that we have too! So where did all this start?
Fortunately, Kate’s article offers even more answers than questions.
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I’m not a professional photographer, but it just seems like it’s harder to shoot a ‘nice’ natural bush shot than one that’s been manicured or removed. Considering that it’s probably easier to tell the models/subjects to trim/shave than to spend a lot of time setting up lights and getting the colours right, it might be a time thing.
That goes to why it’s become more prevalent, as to why people complain so much, I’d suggest it’s an expression of lingering prudishness. And the general effect of ‘internet fuckwaddery’ which tends to encourage people to speak more loudly and proudly online.
I think it’s a natural progression. If you study old photos American female armpit hair was extinct by 1930’s.
Perhaps it was reintroduced by conservationists in the 70’s / 80’s from France or Italy where thriving communities were found to exist.
Since I find most women like their entire pudendal region to get a bit of oral attention, I find that not only do I find bare pussies more pleasant on the tongue, but women seem to consider their bare skin more sensitive as well, and the whole usually desired “wet” feeling of the tongue to be preferable.
I personally find a lady’s wet tongue on my bare skin MUCH more pleasurable than TRYING to feel it through a layer of hair. Also, when a short ‘n’ curly gets loose, and finds it’s way to the back of my tongue, that sensation can be very unpleasant and distracting. Pretty much no one likes finding a stray hair in their meal. Licking a looped wool carpet is about as much fun as licking an S.O.S. pad.
Hence, since I prefer licking bare genitals, the sight of them is much more attractive to me.
I realise that this is more on the subjective side of the scale…
Oops! “Realize” not “realise”…