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Haven’t checked out xkcd in ages. It used to be a ritual.As we have some nerdy types here, some nerdy humor. (I'm sure Em always label her axes)
You may get your nerd card revoked!Haven’t checked out xkcd in ages. It used to be a ritual.
She’s posting correct set logic equations in a forum on erotica. I think she’s safe for another day or two. Just saying.You may get your nerd card revoked!
As I alway say, I’m a pretty good mathematician… for a biologistShe’s posting correct set logic equations in a forum on erotica. I think she’s safe for another day or two. Just saying.
Hell, if it was up to me, Math would be a category here.She’s posting correct set logic equations in a forum on erotica.
When I was a lad (1970's), I think few women shaved their pubic hair. Many probably didn't even trim it. So when did that become such a common practice?Confident women are so sexy...
That's the way most marriages go too. However, decades ago, unless one was somebody like Gloria Swanson, you were stuck in it.As we have some nerdy types here, some nerdy humor. (I'm sure Em always label her axes)
With the caveat that reliable numbers in the general population are hard to come by, smooth pudenda started becoming 'trendy' in the 1990s in the US, and may arguably have been the dominant style until pretty recently. I understand they're still quite common, but hair is (ahem) growing more popular once again with the new adult generation(s). Timelines no doubt vary in different areas and countries, and the Western world is not the only 'culture' that practices it.When I was a lad (1970's), I think few women shaved their pubic hair. Many probably didn't even trim it. So when did that become such a common practice?
According to Playboy centrefolds, the late 1990's. Penthouse might have been a year or two earlier.When I was a lad (1970's), I think few women shaved their pubic hair. Many probably didn't even trim it. So when did that become such a common practice?
Come to think of it....I never really paid attention to that.According to Playboy centrefolds, the late 1990's. Penthouse might have been a year or two earlier.
When I was a lad (1970's), I think few women shaved their pubic hair. Many probably didn't even trim it. So when did that become such a common practice?
In my real-life essay, The Past is a Foreign Country, the first time I noticed it was in 1979 with the woman I called Jenny in the last few paragraphs. She posed for photos in a student newspaper. I had graduated by then, and I never met her nor do I know what happened to her since then.According to Playboy centrefolds, the late 1990's. Penthouse might have been a year or two earlier.
She’s posting correct set logic equations in a forum on erotica. I think she’s safe for another day or two. Just saying.
Hair, including facial hair, is a very fashion-oriented item, although few people notice it because it's just "the way things are done." Look at photos of people going back to he invention of photography in the 19th Century and there is constant change. There are 19th Century erotic photos online,, and it appears that women trimmed that hair but didn't shave it. I won't offer links because there are so many such pictures and they are easy to find.Uneducated guess: Things slowly began to shift when the hippie era ended and people started caring about hygiene again. It's a finnicky balance, of course, because a bit of hair can have positive properties as well; but due to the fact that it traps perspiration, it's generally the hairiest of spots on a human being that becomes unhygienic first. If you shower twice a day, it's a non-issue of course - and depending on your diet, what you do for work, and many other factors, once a day is enough for most people as well. Furthermore, shaving can have negative consequences such as irritated skin, and you may have negative reactions to shaving cream, wax, or various hair removing products. It's also quite time consuming. Therefore, many probably feel that the upside isn't worth the trouble and the potential downsides. Though, for many, it is probably also about aesthetics. That's the reason I shave my face, for instance. It just looks better on me.
She would would have been way, way ahead of her peers. 1979 was in the middle of the Penthouse era where Bob Guccione was well ahead of Playboy in terms of graphic centrefold spreads, and trust me, that was the era of lush lush bushes.In my real-life essay, The Past is a Foreign Country, the first time I noticed it was in 1979 with the woman I called Jenny in the last few paragraphs. She posed for photos in a student newspaper. I had graduated by then, and I never met her nor do I know what happened to her since then.
You seem to know a lot about these magazines! Now they seem rather tame compared to what is available online. Maybe that's why those publications were so appealing (and, let's face it, profitable) at the time: they were offering materials that were relatively scarce then. You couldn't just click a keyboard.She would would have been way, way ahead of her peers. 1979 was in the middle of the Penthouse era where Bob Guccione was well ahead of Playboy in terms of graphic centrefold spreads, and trust me, that was the era of lush lush bushes.
I've just checked - Playboy's first completely bare mons was in fact September 2001 (later than I thought), a girl by the name of Dalene Kurtis (Pet of the Year). Very tiny landing strips before then, but she was the first completely bare, no hair.
Penthouse must have been earlier, I reckon, by several years - but I'd stopped buying it well before then.
Has this thread drifted somewhat?
Not just that, but you had to buy them in a store, from a person, face to face. You often had to ask for it by name since they were behind the counter to keep the teenage boys from thumbing through them.Maybe that's why those publications were so appealing (and, let's face it, profitable) at the time: they were offering materials that were relatively scarce then. You couldn't just click a keyboard.
Has this thread drifted somewhat?
I bought Penthouse every month for several years. My girlfriend preferred the off-shoot Forum magazine, that collected letters and short stories from the parent mag. She'd often read that in bed, quietly masturbating as she read. Very domestic.You seem to know a lot about these magazines! Now they seem rather tame compared to what is available online. Maybe that's why those publications were so appealing (and, let's face it, profitable) at the time: they were offering materials that were relatively scarce then. You couldn't just click a keyboard.
Has this thread drifted somewhat?
Wow, I forgot about that. I got that one often. As much as I enjoyed the photos, I always particularly liked the stories.My girlfriend preferred the off-shoot Forum magazine
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Okay, I can see that it might be a positive subject. I'm guessing that the wider use of nudity via porn changed people's perceptions around the turn of this century although it took several decades before that to take effect. I noted that 19th Century erotic photos seemed to show the hair being trimmed but not shaved. However, I don't think those photos were widely distributed.Not if you consider the subject of pubic hair, or lack thereof, a nice, positive subject!
I associate the widespread movement toward the bare look with the turn of the Millennium. I recall seeing a porn movie/video in the mid-1990s that featured actresses with the bare look, and I think that was the first time I'd seen that. It looked odd to me. By the time Internet porn was in full swing by the late 1990s I recall seeing it more often and it seemed to be normal and even expected by the early 2000s. I had no personal acquaintance with it until I re-entered the dating world in the 2010s.
It strikes me as a positive thing to think about.