Women have body hair

I know, what a shocker.

Unibrows, even ones that just have a few stray hairs between the eyebrows are actually pretty common

I am adopted. My ethnic origins involve the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and India. My adoptive parents are “very white” as I’ll put it (a lot of Northern European genes for my father and Middle European genes for my mother). Essentially blindly accepting why “ladies should be without body hair”. My father who is in his mid-70s this year had a full-blown temper tantrum over the idea when we got in an argument about body hair and women.

I was the oddball out. It took me until my late teens and twenties to simply stop caring. Do I get rid of body hair? Yes, but only when it’s noticeable and/or I’m feeling uncomfortable side effects from it (build-up of sweat for example under my arms). I have a love-hate relationship with shaving because while I enjoy smooth skin, because of my own chronic dermatological problems, getting rid of body hair is a royal pain. I am absolutely prone to ingrown hairs and the like (even when I do everything “right” between shaving the right direction, using moisturizers and exfoliants, etc.).

The idea that “ladies shouldn’t have body hair” is essentially mass marketing brainwashing that occurred as the skirts got shorter in America. Marketing and advertising wanted to find a way to advertise the shorter skirts, so they decided to make it “fashionable” that no hair should be on a woman’s legs…