For starters, this is hardly the first time that a human culture has embraced pubic depilation.
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Eva Kreienkamp writes in Gender-Marketing that a man's depilation is an example of how modern gender roles can be broken.
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A trimmer can be used in between depilation or epilation to keep the hair short without trauma to the skin or hair follicle.
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This is true whether the method is depilation (removing hair at or below the skin surface either with shaving or chemical depilatories) or epilation.
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Shaved crotches are so pervasive that cultural commentators have written tomes on about what they say about porn's attitude towards women or how much their pornographic ubiquity has influenced the rise of pubic depilation in the general public.
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Full body depilation for all guys — not merely the swimmers who shave to eliminate drag in the water — is so widely accepted a cultural practice that an "Access Hollywood" reporter in Rio submitted to a Brazilian waxing on the air.
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To look at that Money Diary as a story of high-end fitness classes and depilation rituals is to miss the larger phenomenon it illustrates – namely a society where it's assumed a 21-year-old's basic life expenses (rent, food, health care, and education) will be met by someone, and those without well-off parents or hedge fund jobs are left behind (or in massive debt).
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Instead of using the acid itself, its salts are used. It is now mainly used for depilation.
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Some individuals depilate the forearms. In recent years, bodily depilation in men has increased in popularity among some subcultures of Western males. As with any cosmetic practice, the particulars of hair removal have changed over the years. Western female depilation has been significantly influenced by the evolution of clothing in the past century.
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In ancient Egypt, depilation was commonly practiced, with pumice and razors used to shave. In both Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, the removal of body and pubic hair may have been practiced among both men and women. It is represented in some artistic depictions of male and female nudity, examples of which may be seen in red figure pottery and sculptures like the Kouros of Ancient Greece in which both men and women were depicted without body or pubic hair. Emperor Augustus was said, by Suetonius, to have applied "hot nutshells" on his legs as a form of depilation.
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Depilation does not destroy the dermal papilla, and the hair grows back. Chemical depilatories are available in gel, cream, lotion, aerosol, roll-on, and powder forms. Common brands include Nair, Magic Shave and Veet. Depilatory ointments, or plasters, were known to Greek and Roman authors as psilothrum.
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Ferguson (1974), p. 87 In his third book, Clement continues along a similar vein, condemning cosmetics on the grounds that it is one's soul, not the body, one should seek to beautify.Ferguson (1974), p. 91 Clement also opposes the dyeing of men's hair and male depilation as being effeminate.
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The mites feed on this exudate. The skin loses its hair at the sites of infestation and large flakes of dried serum and cells accumulate. The mites cause intense pruritus (itching) and the host will groom compulsively and may become severely distressed. Depilation (hair loss) may be substantial.
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The introduction of Polypropylene drums permitted the routine commercial use of a range of highly corrosive chemicals in the tanning industry, for processes such as depilation and bleaching. In spite of the cheapness of the processes, the required chemicals are too aggressive for most practical choices of metal drums.
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Depilation is the removal of hair from the surface of the skin. This can be achieved through methods such as shaving. Epilation is the removal of the entire hair strand, including the part of the hair that has not yet left the follicle. A popular way to epilate hair is through waxing.
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With the exception of hair on her head, hair was considered to be unattractive on a Roman woman. Consequently, women removed hair by either shaving, plucking, stripping using a resin paste, or scraping with a pumice stone. Older women faced ridicule for their depilation because it was viewed primarily as preparation for sex.Martial. 12.32.21-2, 10.90.
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Psoroptes ovis infests the superficial layers of the skin. Irritation of the outer skin by the mite's mouthparts and saliva results in a complex form of cutaneous hypersensitivity and inflammatory exudation of serum and fresh cells. The mites feed on this moist exudate. The skin loses its hair (depilation) at the sites of infestation and this may be extensive.
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Sample distribution of body hair in women and men (excluding underarm and scalp hair). Hair removal, also known as epilation or depilation, is the deliberate removal of body hair. Hair typically grows all over the human body. Hair can become more visible during and after puberty and men tend to have thicker, more visible body hair than women.
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Psorergates bovis causes pruritus, but little clinical harm to cattle. In contrast, Psorergates ovis feeding on sheep induces inflammatory and hypersensitive reactions in the epidermis, resulting in intense pruritus and formation of scabs. Further damage to the skin and fleece of sheep occurs when the sheep groom compulsively. Economic loss is incurred by damage and depilation of the wool fleece.
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The main chemical reaction effected by the thioglycolate is: : Chemical depilatories contain 5–6% calcium thioglycolate in a cream base (to avoid runoff). Calcium hydroxide or strontium hydroxide maintain a pH of about 12. Hair destruction requires about 10 minutes. Depilation is followed by careful rinsing with water, and various conditioners are applied to restore the skin's pH to normal.
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As a result of the movement of the mites into areas of fresh skin, large scabs accumulate on the raw skin left behind. The mites cause intense pruritus (itching). In cases of heavy infestations, the host grooms compulsively, aggravating the depilation, and it may become mentally distressed. Psoroptes ovis infests sheep worldwide and can be a serious welfare and animal- production problem for sheep farmers.
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Woman shaving her legs Leg shaving is the practice of removing leg hair by shaving the hair off using a razor or electric shaver. In addition, some people remove leg hair using waxing, sugaring, depilatories, epilators or other depilation devices, or lasers, but shaving remains the least expensive and one of the least painful methods. It is a very common practice among women in the western world, and is also done by some men, especially bodybuilders, cyclists, swimmers and some runners.
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Punitive depilation of men, especially burning off pubic hair, was intended as a mark of shame in ancient Mediterranean cultures where male body hair was valued. Women who committed adultery have also been forced to wear specific icons or marks, or had their hair shorn, as a badge of shame. Many women who fraternized with the occupiers in German-occupied Europe had their heads shaved by angry mobs of their peers after liberation by the Allies of World War II. During World War II, the Nazis also used head shaving as a mark of shame to punish Germans like the youthful non-conformists known as the Edelweiss Pirates.
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Other comic punishments for adulterers include the removal of pubic hair. Kapparis has argued that both of these punishments were intended to humiliate the adulterer by feminising them, as depilation was a standard part of a female beauty regimen in Classical Athens, and being penetrated was associated with femininity. The historian David Cohen has questioned the idea that these comic forms of abuse were carried out in reality, but Konstantinos Kapparis and Christopher Carey have argued that the reason that these jokes had such longevity in comedy was precisely because they were a reflection of reality. A married woman who was discovered committing adultery would be divorced and prohibited from participating in public religion.
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The term glabrousness also has been applied to human fashions, wherein some participate in culturally motivated hair removal by depilation (surface removal by shaving, dissolving), or epilation (removal of the entire hair, such as waxing or plucking). Although the appearance of secondary hair on parts of the human body commonly occurs during puberty, and therefore, is often seen as a symbol of adulthood, removal of this and other hair may become fashionable in some cultures and subcultures. In many modern Western cultures, men currently are encouraged to shave their beards, and women are encouraged to remove hair growth in various areas. Commonly depilated areas for women are the underarms, legs, and pubic hair.
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Coon served as a mentor to another Harvard- educated OSS agent and anthropologist who embraced anthropometry (measuring features of the human body, such as crania and nose sizes) as a means asserting racial types and categories. This was Lloyd Cabot Briggs, author of Living Races of the Sahara Desert (1958) and later of No More for Ever: A Saharan Jewish Town (1962) about the Jews of the Mzab region of the Algerian Sahara, which he wrote with Norina Lami Guède (née Maria Esterina Giovanni). The historian Sarah Abreyava Stein (who argued that Guede had done most of the research) noted that Briggs and Coon corresponded during the writing of No More for Ever, joking, for example, about the genital depilation customs of Jewish women in Ghardaïa. Coon did photography work for the United States Air Force from 1954-1957\.
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