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Originally Posted by shirttail

I don't disagree with the rest of your post, but this is ridiculous. Pubic hair removal is not self-mutilation, and neither is going to a barber or trimming your fingernails.

that depends on the cause. if like your body and you shave your bush for pleasure or to try a new style, great; if you shave because you somehow feel that you're filthy and disgusting and you need to remove impurities from your body, then it's pathological and it's a kind of self mutilation-- it happens more often than you think though.

the basic idea is that women's bodies are unacceptable as they are-- i'm quoting here, from this:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/x3v4321143554757/

maybe i'm exaggerating to make a point or maybe i'm carried away by my own rhethoric, but the internet allows for that and i like it.

now, personally, i do have a strong preference for hairless pits & legs (ha), but that maybe has more to do with early imprinting, or something, or maybe i've already been sucked into the system, or who knows what.

anyway, at least it's not foot binding