Cultural Significance of Pubic Hair Grooming Practices

Episode 96 of American Sex podcast is all about pubic hair. The societal messages we receive about our genital hair cause us a great deal of turmoil. Should we trim? Shave completely? Or let it grow free? What do our grooming preferences say about us and how do the people we’re intimate with feel about that? On this episode, we examine your personal stories, difficulties, and strategies for caring for your garden down below. We also speak with Lyndsey Craig, an anthropology doctoral candidate studying cross-cultural pubic hair grooming practices. They say that our modern preference for genital baldness is primarily influenced by pornography & the media. Will Lyndsey’s pubic detective work throughout history tell us otherwise? You may be surprised at what you’ll learn!  

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Episode 96 Links

• Lyndsey Craig Twitter https://twitter.com/lyndseykcraig
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• What Do Women Want book http://danielbergner.com/what-do-women-want
• Playboy Magazine Study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19916105
• Folklore & hair https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christian_Bromberger/publication/30441655_On_the_symbolism_of_hair_in_Islamic_societies_An_analysis_of_approaches_Anthropology_of_the_Middle_East_vol_1_n_2_winter_2006_pp_72-88/links/57168ff308ae377f0bd617ee/On-the-symbolism-of-hair-in-Islamic-societies-An-analysis-of-approaches-Anthropology-of-the-Middle-East-vol-1-n-2-winter-2006-pp-72-88.pdf
• Pubic hair removal among Saudi women https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12905-018-0661-6
• eHRAF World Cultures https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/ehrafe/
• Sugaring article https://www.byrdie.com/sugaring-hair-removal-101-1717097
• Pubic hair feedback on Twitter https://twitter.com/SunnyMegatron/status/1155193610255495168
• Pubic hair feedback on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SunnyMegatron/posts/2521643911214768?
• Pubic hair feedback on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B0bj4m6hzfW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
• Pubic hair feedback on Instastories highlight https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE4MDA4NjY0MDY0MjI2Mjg3?igshid=1fhl43c9hh18k&story_media_id=2097423461579667355_30660739
• My 2012 blog post about pubic hair http://sunnymegatron.com/pubic-hair-to-shave-or-not-to-shave/
• Sunny Megatron Instagram (please help us get to 10k to unlock more business features! We’re sooooo close!) http://instagram.com/sunnymegatron
• American Sex Podcast subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/americansexpodcast
• p.s. Dear internet/social media police, the hairy background for the cover art is NOT actual pubic hair. It’s actually  a man’s chest hair (heaven forbid it’s a woman's chest hair cuz that would never be allowed :roll eyes: ) from this wiki commons photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chest_hair#/media/File:Brusthaare.JPG

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