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Why do women shave everything nowadays? From cavemen to Charles Darwin to 20th-century advertising, we explore the reasons we're compelled to be hair-free.
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Hair removal is annoying. It’s tedious, painful, and unnecessary—we’d do just fine if we kept our body hair intact. Still, if you’re a woman, there’s a good chance that hair removal is an essential part of your routine, despite the fact that it’s clearly unnatural. Evolution gave us hair, right? Why do we immediately want to get rid of it? And what explains the rising and falling trends of women’s body hair throughout the centuries? Well, there’s no simple answer, but the history of hair removal is pretty fascinating. For starters…
