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Letter: Hair today

Published 24 November 2004

From Gudrun Gaudian

I don’t agree with any of the theories put forward to explain the obsession with shaving off body hair (30 October, p 44). It made me laugh to read that I could palm myself off as “younger, innocent and virginal”, particularly as I did so while collecting my children at the school gate. And are those males who go for shaved females showing paedophilic leanings, as those females are pretending to be girlishly hairless?

This drive for hairlessness is surely nothing but pure commercialisation: all those cosmetics companies must be laughing all the way to the bank, having convinced millions of the gullible that “body hair is bad”.

Alne, North Yorkshire, UK

Issue no. 2475 published 27 November 2004

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