Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Pubic hair
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
=== In history === Evidence of pubic hair removal in ancient India is thought to date back to 4000 to 3000 BC.{{sfn|Masini|2005|p=49}} According to ethnologist F. Fawcett, writing in 1901, he had observed the removal of body hair, including pubic hair about the vulva, as a custom of women from the [[Hindu]] [[Nair]] caste.{{sfn|Fawcett|2004|p=195}} In Western societies, after the spread of Christianity, public exposure of a woman's bare skin between the ankle and waist started to be disapproved of culturally. Upper body exposure due to the use of the popular vest [[bodice]]s used in Western Europe from the 15th century to early 20th century, as the widespread [[dirndl]]s used even in more traditionally conservative mountain areas and the more or less loose shirts under these, enabled a permissive view of the shoulders, [[décolletage]] and arms allowing a free exposure of upper body hair in women of all classes with less rejection or discrimination than body hair on the sex organs, obviously to conceal by implication. Many people came to consider public exposure of pubic hair to be [[Embarrassment|embarrassing]].{{sfn|Tschachler|Devine|Draxlbauer|2003|pp=61–62}} It may be regarded as [[modesty|immodest]] and sometimes as [[obscene]]. However, it never came to have a full hold in Western culture in wide tracts of Central Europe, until the encroaching of [[Protestantism]] during the 16th century on formerly more tolerant customs.{{cn|date=March 2020}} In the 1450s, British prostitutes shaved their pubic hair for purposes of personal hygiene and the combatting of [[Pediculosis pubis|pubic lice]] and would don [[merkin]]s (or pubic wigs) when their line of work required it.<ref>''Oxford Companion to the Body'', [[Oxford University Press]], 2002.</ref>{{sfn|Francis|2003}} Among the British upper classes during the [[Georgian era]], pubic hair from one's lover was frequently collected as a souvenir. The curls were, for instance, worn like [[cockade]]s in men's hats as potency talismans or exchanged among lovers as tokens of affection.{{sfn|Perrottet|2009}} The museum of [[St. Andrews University]] in Scotland has in its collection a [[snuffbox]] full of pubic hair of one of King [[George IV of the United Kingdom|George IV]]'s mistresses (possibly [[Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness Conyngham|Elizabeth Conyngham]]), which the notoriously licentious monarch donated to the [[Fife]] sex club, [[The Beggar's Benison]].{{sfn|Perrottet|2009}}
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Pubic hair
(section)
Add topic