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Product Recall: Nair

Forever35

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The Origins of Hairlessness

The normalization of smooth skin in dominant US culture is not even a century old. Rebecca D'Pilatoris traces the real shift in thinking about hairlessness to Darwin's 1871 book, Descent of Man. Hairiness was considered closer to apes than humans and linked to sexual inversion.

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