obnoxa
03-12-2002, 09:16 AM
While perusing through here for my first time I stumbled (no idea how!) upon a very old posting asking what is a merkin, well here goes:
The ancient Turks customarily removed all thier body hair, when the Romans attacked with the usual pillage & plundering, the soldiers dicovered they liked how the Turkish women were free from body hair. Upon returning home they pushed this idea on their own women. The Romans were very big on public baths so as some of the women did start to remove their pubic hair, they would keep it to make a 'wig' of sorts that they would be able to wear to the bath houses. So the creation of the merkin was in fact for social purposes that befit the time. Although I wasn't actually there, to the best of my knowledge, that is the history of the merkin.
:)
The ancient Turks customarily removed all thier body hair, when the Romans attacked with the usual pillage & plundering, the soldiers dicovered they liked how the Turkish women were free from body hair. Upon returning home they pushed this idea on their own women. The Romans were very big on public baths so as some of the women did start to remove their pubic hair, they would keep it to make a 'wig' of sorts that they would be able to wear to the bath houses. So the creation of the merkin was in fact for social purposes that befit the time. Although I wasn't actually there, to the best of my knowledge, that is the history of the merkin.
:)