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ShelbyDawn57 said:
She’s posting correct set logic equations in a forum on erotica. I think she’s safe for another day or two. Just saying.
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As I alway say, I’m a pretty good mathematician… for a biologist 😬

Proper math kicks my butt, but I still love it

Emily
 
gunhilltrain said:
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? :unsure:
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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.
 
gunhilltrain said:
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? :unsure:
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According to Playboy centrefolds, the late 1990's. Penthouse might have been a year or two earlier.
 
ElectricBlue said:
According to Playboy centrefolds, the late 1990's. Penthouse might have been a year or two earlier.
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Come to think of it....I never really paid attention to that. :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:
It just doesn't really make that big a difference to me on a personal level.
 
gunhilltrain said:
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? :unsure:
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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.
 
ElectricBlue said:
According to Playboy centrefolds, the late 1990's. Penthouse might have been a year or two earlier.
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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.
 
ShelbyDawn57 said:
She’s posting correct set logic equations in a forum on erotica. I think she’s safe for another day or two. Just saying.
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Boolean algebra and set logic was one of the few classes I smoked in college. Might have had something to do with being taught it in 4th grade. No kidding. For some reason our AP math program was participating in an experimental program intended to be a prelude to "New Math". We were taught with college textbooks, and I remember them well.

I ate that stuff for lunch... along with a PB&J, two cookies, and an apple.
 
Devinter said:
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.
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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.
 
gunhilltrain said:
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.
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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.
 
ElectricBlue said:
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.
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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?
 
gunhilltrain said:
Has this thread drifted somewhat?
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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.
 
gunhilltrain said:
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?
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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.

You screw up that much courage to buy something, you are damned well going to make good use of it.

Sure you could subscribe, but that just seemed sleazy, like you were making a deliberate habit out of this, commiting to a year's worth of wanking ahead of time.
 
gunhilltrain said:
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?
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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.
 
I am delighted to inform you that @Portly_Penguin gained his Thread Derailment badge today. He also has a Purple Dildo relating to his service in the Clone AI Wars.

And he’s stayed pretty fucking cheerful given the nightmare he’s been through.

So this is his shout out.

Emily
 
SimonDoom said:
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.
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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.

Men's facial hair, and in fact their hair in general, has gone through various phases for centuries. It has also varied a great deal according to the nature of the culture where these men are living. All aspects of human appearance, including clothes, have gone through many such phases.

Pedestrians and cab drivers at 24th and Broadway around 1900.

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/180_1900c-loc.tif.jpg
 
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