THANK YOU. The idea that this is some new trend drives me nuts. I wanna add on that waxing for body hair is even older than shaving; it’s extremely difficult to get a shaving edge with bronze tools (and shaving with flint sucks), but you can make sugaring paste with honey - and there’s evidence of it being done for beauty at least 30,000 years ago, and there’s plenty of evidence that it was common in ancient egypt, rome, greece, china…
Comment on everyone knows we don’t poop. it’s all flowers and rainbows.
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days agojust want to remind people that humans have been shaving various areas of their bodies for thousands of years. they did it in ancient Rome. we’ve probably been removing body hair for much longer than that even. it’s not a modern thing it’s just the fashion right now. personally idgaf whether other people remove their body hair or not. I like to though, it feels nice and makes me feel sexy.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
lifeinlarkhall@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I don’t think it’s the removal of body hair that is seen as “new”. It’s the way it’s ridiculed like in this post when there’s a tiny bit of stubble lol and it’s worth mentioning.
Though I wouldn’t say that’s new either, it’s just more and more widespread the wider the communication methods have become. But this isn’t “new” even in the modern world for Hollywood, it’s online now with the wider reach but this stuff has existed for as long as we’ve been photographing celebrities lol.
uid0gid0@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You’re right about farther back than ancient Rome. A few months ago I went to a mummy’s tomb exhibit from ancient Egypt. People considered shaving so important they were buried with their razors so they could shave in the afterlife. Not just faces either, body and head hair were not spared.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
When I want to treat myself, I shave, exfoliate and moisturise my legs, and change my bedsheets. It’s divine.
I used to shave my legs because of the nebulous patriarchal pressure that many girls and women experience. But now I do it for good reasons and it’s much more liberating