I simply cannot believe you wrote that greek and mediterranean women do not shave their hair. Where does this misconception come from? And you perpetuate it without second thought. Okay lets get this straight. Being greek and having grown up in Greece I can safely tell you that every woman shaves. I remember
actually once seeing an older girl with hairy armpits when i was an elementary school little girl and even then it freaked me out. I can go on and on with a tirade about how in greece there are beauty salons everywhere and you can get waxed everywhere there in comparison to other places i have lived in europe. Having defended my own country, I cannot say I have ever been in Italy or Spain but from the hoards of tourists I see in Greece every year I can tell you, I have not seen other mediterranean women going around with hairy pits and legs either.
scoffs It is always a stupid argument americans bring up…Euros dont shave…
You know we live in the same universe, watch the same tv, are affected by the same marketing etc.
The column in question is, I presume, Who decided women should shave their legs and underarms?
Despite the “1992” date that was added recently, this column is very old – not sure exactly when.
yes, that’s the one 
Who decided women should shave their legs and underarms?
I should add at this point that I find pubic and axillary hair sexually attractive on a female, provided it’s not so overgrown that it looks like the woman has Don King in a headlock. Even leg hair doesn’t bother me as long as it’s not prickly stubble, and not so thick as to make the woman resemble a yeti.
I mean, clearly, it’s a secondary sexual characteristic, and indicates that a female is mature and, presumably, prepared to seek a mate.
I know I’m in a minority, and even considered a fetishist by some, but I lament the fact that starting with razor marketing, and ending with modern porno mags and videos, has established standards of beauty that render the average women completely hairless from the eyebrows down and incapable of reconsidering her brainwashing. Even my own wife refuses to consider changing her razor and waxing habits.
So where did this modern fetish for brazilian bikini waxed magazine babes come from? I’m mystified… are we being programmed to sexualize prepubescence? Or is it just one more thing “different” that “those kids today” feel the need to do to distinguish themselves from earlier generations? (If the latter, then I’m waiting for the next generation of tramps to decide to grow little lightning bolt and heart shapes in their pits…)
I applaud Julia Roberts and Madonna for rejecting artificial (and borderline pedophiliac) standards of beauty and appearing in public with visible axillary growth.
I’m also grateful that there are other cultures where a little delicate fur is acceptable, such as in India and Asia.
Is your r/l name Boyd Matson?