No, I don’t think male genital shaving infantilize men at all. But I’m not going to continue this derail which is very much not a GQ issue.
Why not? The OP’s been answered as much as a question like that can be. Also note that my only dog in this fight is that people argue against real positions. Whether genital shaving is truly infantilizing is actually outside the scope of this hijack.
Vagina dentata, to Dr. F.
To puppyilitize it, natch.
Rough!
No, it doesn’t, because your entire argument depends on the fact that the comment about infantalizing women is self-evidently true and thus not a position, so it can’t be argued.
Infantilizing doesn’t seem to mean what you think it means, if you think it applies to people who shave in general. It specifically means making someone look like a baby, and, thus saying that something someone likes is infantilization is accusing them of pedophilia. Hence the replied post.
It is not just a generic term for making people look younger.
If I had to guess, the trend towards shaving pubes has more to do with the fact that people are more likely to see them. The bushes in the past didn’t even look sculpted, like it was just a part of their appearance that people ignored. Even people who like beards don’t want a complete unshaped mess.
Women have been shaving their legs and armpits for a long time. This is just an extension of that. In general, our society thinks that hair not on the head is a kind of messy thing, and we associate that messiness with masculinity. It isn’t just pubic hair that is generally contraindicated for women–you almost never see women with hairy chests or facial hair, either, even though these are not that uncommon.
Again, it’s just about the fact that it’s being shown in general (like in bikinis), outside of seedy places. That’s the only difference. (And if you think fashionable people care at all about what’s bad for them, I point out anorexic models and tanning.)
There’s a reason there’s a towel across her stomach: it’s hiding the space between her real upper torso and the fake lower body. She’s actually in more of a standing/leaning back position, with the artificial legs in front of her. It’s kind of like porn’s version of Dorf.
I once saw something similar where a guy put his head into the woman. It was a video, so it obviously wasn’t photoshopped. However the woman just happened to have a blanked draped across her stomach as well. It may have actually been the same lower body used in this picture. I imagine if you’re going to put in the effort to make it look real, you wouldn’t want to only use it once.
If you think since 1915 is a very long time societally speaking than sure.
Anyway, shave or don’t shave, but implying that natural hair growth is disgusting is ridiculous. Preferences are preferences but that’s all they are.
I know I’m beginning to sound obsessed about this (to anyone who’s Dopestalking me, that is, so meh, get a life) but…old ladies lose their pubic hair naturally. Why don’t I ever hear anyone claim that depilatating the pubes is geriatricizing women? 
That’s not a towel across her midsection; it’s her bra. And while this picture is indubitably faked, I’m inclined to think that the fakery was in Photoshop, not in a prosthetic.
The extensive pubic hair serves much the same purpose that you claim for the “towel”, though, in that it makes it easier to mask the boundary between the cut-and-pasted sections.
If that’s the case you singled my post out without having an understanding what we were talking about.
I don’t care if shaved pussy scares you. I don’t care if it creeps you out. Your problems are things you have to live with, not me. <3
“At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it’s breathtaking. I suggest you try it.” ~ Dr. Evil
I believe the practice of shorn pubic hair of men started earlier (in this century and late 20th) in Europe. A German girl told me about it first a while back (and I was stunned, frankly, about the practice). Purely anecdotal, of course.