What troubles you more runner - the values of SBS or the state of play on the mons pubi of women?

Tight corsets, foot binding, neck stretching, high heels, breast implants, botox and snatch grooming - it 's all the same - a mixture of anthropological determinism and socialised vanity - anything for a root - or at least to be pursued for one

I am reminded of Dr Evil in Austin Powers extolling the virtues of a shaved scrotum - it was a joke in the cinema and is a joke in real life on the various nincompoops who pursue these various forms of self mutilation

Never heard of "The Brazilian" before. Glad to admit I have not witnessed it at close quarters.
If the prime reason for it is the suggestion of pre-pubescence, then what sort of partner is the "fashionable woman" chasing? Doesn't say much for either the man or the woman.
It's got nothing to do with improving prospects in health matters. If surgeons in operating theatres are currently recommending not shaving, then partners operating in sexual activities should be abandoning it also. If the fashion-chasers want to bang-on about it being the in-thing, too bad - hopefully it will run its course earlier rather than later.
At least I have seen no evidence of the lads removing their short and curlys. Though hopefully their parents will, from an epidemiological sexual-health perspective, continue to predominantly choose circumcision.
I am resigned, reluctantly, to witness fashion continuing to dictate so much of human activity. For beach wear it has caused briefs to diminish in size to the extent of being impractical - viewing at the expense of function. But, if the fashion gods are kind to me, I might yet see girls with bushes in ribbons; and boys in New Guinea tribal-style penis sheaths of ridiculously intemerate boasting size.

Forgive me for not having first hand knowledge of this, but it appears Middle Eastern women in some parts have been of "Brazilian" persuasion for centuries. My only knowledge comes from a female friend who went to Turkey for a holiday and entered a "womens only" bath house. Women in such baths enter the water naked, which is customary apparently, so my friend followed suite. She was at one end of the baths, while a gaggle of Turkish women huddled together at the other end giggling and pointing rudely to my friend's lower region. In embarrasment, she fled the bath and proceeded to get dressed when a women from the pool entered the change area and asked in broken English just why my friend doesn't bother to wax down "there." My friend quickly discovered that it was the norm in that country to wax off all pubic hair from an early age. I asked just how that would have been performed long before the invention of modern waxing methods and although she wasn't certain, she was later told that it was done in early times using a ball of resin from a certain tree. My point is that the "Brazilian" look isn't only a recent phenomenon. Maybe it's the fashion world that's behind the times for once. Perhaps our good Muslim friends could enlighten us further?

Sheesh, with all the men who wax body hair these daze in an attempt to satisfy the ever morphing expectation that women have about male appearance and identity, one can only conclude that women have latent paedophile desires for pre-pubescent boys. All those teachers in the USA raping 12 yr old boys (and girls) certainly backs up that warped extrapolation.

Good pluck brainiacs.

I am all in favour of ladies adopting the “Brazilian” approach to hair.

I could never get over the French girls who seemed to braid their armpits a couple of decades ago when their pome sisters sported clean shaved underarms.

Armpit curls are as unattractive as bikini side burns.

Overall, I see the end to the muff as a beneficial thing, especially for those of us who floss anyway.

My other observation is, such depilitory rigour gives new meaning to the familiar term “skin diving”

My my... you ALL MISSED IT..... the most important bit in the article was not the actual subject but this:

"But what comes next?"

Now..if I, as unofficial Bible Basher had some along and said "It's partly about triggering pre-pubescent" thoughts in blokes....or..

"This is just part of a trend, and the end is not a good one"....

I'd be ridiculed off the forum facing backwards on a horse and kicked outatown.

SO...it is with some degree of evil 'I told ya so' relish that I post those words from the feminist author. "What comes next" ?

I suggest there are a number of possibilities, some of which we are seeing already.

1/ Context. Celebrity genitalia in public places.
2/ Religious connections... more and more daring use of 'satanic' themes, or.. simply connecting porn to traditional religious symbols
3/ Age related.. yep..expect porn to feaure more and more young chicks
4/ Disgusting related.. I don't even want to think about it..yuk.

BIBLE BASH.. ok.. there is a verse somewhere, I cant for the life of me find it, buttttt...it goes something like this:

"God lets us go our own way so we will eventually see we are no better than the animals and become ashamed" (i.e. when we leave God out of our lives, thats what happens.)

Isaiah 1 is kind of about that God speaking "You have left me oh Israel"
Results: All manner of injustice and corruption.

Well.. I want to underline it again, now that we have had it from 'reliable' source (as opposed to woffling wowsers like me :)
There IS a trend...and its allll downhill. Perhaps we should consider a reversal of direction with National Repentance and Renewed Faith ?

end of sermon.