If girls go to stylists, who almost always happen to offer a waxing service, I wonder if guys go to barbers to get their pubes shaved? I am joking of course. I doubt that any guy would want to have a straight blade so close to his jewels! Besides, barbering is a dying art and certainly it seems that in this metrosexual world, so too is hair, at least pubic hair.

Recently on the there was a discussion and poll regarding shaving. Now, the results are not conclusive, we’d need more of you to answer the poll for that, but it was intriguing and made me wonder when exactly did all of this clean shaven genital business begin?

Apparently, it has been around a lot longer then I ever guessed, and like any come and go fashion, the current clean and bald look might be a rebellious response by the GenX and Pepsi generations to the hirsute flower power and back to nature ideology of the sixties. I am speculating, of course. However, it does beg the question of why shave and how did one come to discover shaving the genitals?

I always trimmed, thanks to my mother who grew up with flower power, yet was more of a Vidal Sassoon chick, herself. I did not start shaving until three years ago, but then I have the excuse that I had been in a long-term relationship with someone who trimmed as well. However, the moment I became single again, I realized that the whole world had gone bald below the belt and above the groin.

History, or at least art history depicts clean-shaven women as far back as ancient Greece, and yet statues during that time depict unshaven men. Perhaps there has always been the teen aspect of clean-shaven, barely legal girls throughout history, and that is understandable, but how do we explain the hairless male of the 21st century?