no I don't think you're a dupe, but I'm worried that preteen girls growing up now are going to be pressured into shaving/waxing their pubic area much in the way that I was pressured into shaving my legs starting around the 6th grade.
It wasn't even a question. All the girls on my swim team started doing it, and it was clear from TV and all the silly Nair commercials that in order to be a normal woman I had to remove the hair from my legs.
I've since rethought such things, but I wish I'd never started down the leg-shaving path. It seems that young girls are already being taught that their vaginas are dirty, smelly places that they shouldn't look at or mention. When you add the burden of hair removal to that, well it makes me nervous.
I wish the Cunt Coloring Book was part of sex education programs nationwide, and I agree about the Everyday Vulvas project.
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Date: 2008-07-01 04:06 am (UTC)It wasn't even a question. All the girls on my swim team started doing it, and it was clear from TV and all the silly Nair commercials that in order to be a normal woman I had to remove the hair from my legs.
I've since rethought such things, but I wish I'd never started down the leg-shaving path. It seems that young girls are already being taught that their vaginas are dirty, smelly places that they shouldn't look at or mention. When you add the burden of hair removal to that, well it makes me nervous.
I wish the Cunt Coloring Book was part of sex education programs nationwide, and I agree about the Everyday Vulvas project.