Getting older inevitably means there are more and more things I don’t understand. My brain can only fit so much and our culture endlessly creates more and more stuff. I’m at peace with this. What really puzzles me are the things that I’ve known for years and never understood. Like the social pressure for women to remove armpit hair. As this articles highlights, it’s kind of a thing for a lot of people. I get that from an aesthetic perspective a great bushy undergrowth might be best avoided, but what’s wrong with a little scrub? I’ve never understood why totally bare is seen as normal.
I actually feel the same way about pubic hair. I’ve had dommes in the past get slightly annoyed that I’m not completely clean shaven around the genital region, which always tends to provoke a kind of reverse Costanza in me – “Is that wrong? Should I have done something about that? I tell ya, I’ve got to plead ignorance on this thing.”
This is Mistress Youko, a Japanese pro-domme, with a sexy armpit image posted to her twitter feed. Interestingly doing an image search for something like ‘femdom armpit’ produces an endless stream of denuded pits. Hair like this is definitely the exception, not the rule.
Hmm. I always shave my armpits, but my legs (and pubic region) are soooo hairy lol. Granted I also prefer my men with shaved armpits (and meh on everything else).
It just feels like a cleanliness issue to me? I don’t want a face full of deodorant flakes or smell when I’m cuddling
Interesting. I’ve never thought about smell being related to hair. Always assumed that was more to do with sweat glands and activity/stress. But from searching maybe you’re right – there does seem to be a suggestion that reduced hair leads to less odor. Hmmmm. I see an experiment coming on in my future!
-paltego
The smell, the hair (and Dom) are the best for me! 🙂