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Sent: 22 November 2012 13:14 I would also strongly suggest that you look into the phenomenon in Germany. In Germany, pubic hair removal is a society-wide practice - men and women of all ages remove their hair, and many women prefer men also to be hairless. This would provide an interesting challenge to the "convenience" of the porn argument, as Alison Bancroft has pointed out. In Germany, I suspect it has far more to do with a) 20th century notions of hygiene; b) the particular development and manifestation of second wave feminism in the two Germanies; c) specifically German ideas about what a "healthy" body is and how it looks. I have found especially that total hair removal is incredibly widely practiced in the lesbian scene - something which surprised me when I got to Germany 6 years ago. However, experience of cultures of nudity in Germany - in both the former east and west (in saunas etc.) - has shown me that it may even be a majority practice across all gender, sexuality and age groups. One strongly contributing factor amongst youth may also be the popular youth magazine Bravo (aimed predominantly at young teenagers), of which every edition contains a centrefold with full-frontal naked photo of one young woman and one young man, accompanied by text outlining their likes, dislikes, career hopes, and opinions on various health issues. Here is a link to the body and health section on their website: http://www.bravo.de/dr-sommer/koerper-gesundheit Best wishes, Kate Davison Research Assistant Centre for the History of Emotions Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin On 22 November 2012 11:34, Hera Cook <h.cook@bham.ac.uk> wrote: > From: Helen.King [mailto:Helen.King@open.ac.uk] > Sent: 22 November 2012 10:26 > > There is a lot on this for the Greco-Roman world. I suppose the > starting point would be Martin Kilmer, "Genital Phobia and > Depilation," Journal of Hellenic Studies 102 (1982): 104-12, but you > will find a debate over whether complete depilation or only shaping was practised. > > > Helen King > > Professor of Classical Studies| The Open University| Walton Hall| > Milton > Keynes| MK7 6AA Module Chair, A219, 'Exploring the Classical World' ( > http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/a219/index.shtml) > > > Recent podcasts: On Titian's 'Diana and Callisto', National Gallery > Podcast 70, July 2012: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/podcasts/ and > see blog post 'Diana, Callisto and Philip II' on wondersandmarvels.com > > On ancient medicine, and 'Gladiator', April 2012: > > http://www8.open.ac.uk/platform/news-and-features/professor-helen-king > -ancient-medicine-and-the-flashing-midwife(NB full content not > available if accessed on an iPad) > > On Agnodike the 'flashing midwife', March 2012: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMILds1Gg4&feature=youtu.be > > On the Hippocratic Oath, with Peter Pormann and Vivian Nutton, > September > 2011: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b014gdqq/In_Our_Time_The_Hippocra > tic_Oath/ > > Recently published: co-edited with Manfred Horstmanshoff and Claus > Zittel, Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Changing Concepts of Physiology > from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill - Intersections > 25, June 2012), 770 pp. > > 'Midwifery, 1700-1800: The Man-Midwife as Competitor' in Anne Borsay > and Billie Hunter (eds), Nursing and Midwifery in Britain since 1700. > Palgrave Macmillan (May 2012), 107-127 > > 'Galen and the widow. Towards a history of therapeutic masturbation in > ancient gynaecology', EuGeStA: Journal on Gender Studies in Antiquity > 1 (December 2011), 205-235 ( > http://eugesta.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/revue/pdf/2011/King.pdf) >
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