# Pubic hair in ads--since when? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** commercials-ads\ **Created:** [May 15, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190 "2021-05-15T21:35:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190/81 "2021-05-17T03:18:15Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > It’s very bold of you to stand by the position everyone agrees with and was never in doubt. And it’s very tedious of you to constantly wag your finger at people. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190/82 "2021-05-17T03:24:24Z")
**Modnote** : Both of you knock it off. This is uncalled for as is the reply. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190/83 "2021-05-17T05:56:47Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > It’s very bold of you to stand by the position everyone agrees with and was never in doubt. It’s not the position that **mundane\_super\_hero** agrees with and was the poster **cochrane** was actually responding to, not **dropzone**. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190/84 "2021-05-17T14:26:47Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > “worse”…is that really the right word? > > Is the trimming of pubic hair really so shocking to people? Are ads for sex toys something to be concerned about? > People trim hair, people have sex. Bodily functions that are no more or no less private than defacting or menstruating and **yet we have no concerns about ads relating to products for those.** Oh,oh . . . I have concerns! If men can’t stand to see the pubic hair on a woman they’re having sex with, what makes advertisers think I want to see it being shaved? Ok, that’s (mostly) a joke. But just because bodily functions and the care thereof are universal, doesn’t mean people want to see live demonstrations or hear graphic descriptions. What’s next; we get to see those dickhead bears’ skidmarked underwear? I’m kind of surprised we haven’t yet been treated to the sight of someone checking the contents of their lotion softened tissue after they blow their nose. I’m no prude, and I certainly understand how advertising is meant to work (I worked in the industry for several years). The more graphic the commercials get, the longer my list of “products I refuse to buy because the commercial is so bad” gets. ---
**Author:** ![tricoteuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tricoteuse/32/4334_2.png) [@tricoteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tricoteuse)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190/85 "2021-05-17T14:43:37Z")
I’ve seen the Venus pubic hair one a bunch of times and they don’t show any actual pubes or genitals at all. She’s wearing a bikini bottom and runs the razor around the top of her thigh and along the top of the bikini. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190/86 "2021-05-17T15:07:55Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > If men can’t stand to see the pubic hair on a woman they’re having sex with, what makes advertisers think I want to see it being shaved? The existence of the shaving fetish porn niche? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190/87 "2021-05-17T15:13:37Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > The existence of the shaving fetish porn niche? I can’t tell if you’re joking or not. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190/88 "2021-05-17T15:14:35Z")
47.5 million Google hits are no joke ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190/89 "2021-05-17T15:17:20Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Probably variations on Chicago’s typical classic UHF stations, The U, Me-TV, Fox 32 Not going to be able to “prove you wrong” unless you get a bit more specific as to what channel and/or what product. Even ruling out the few commercials presented so far would be helpful. I am usually up all night, watch a variety of channels and I’ve seen nothing close to what you have described. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190/90 "2021-05-17T15:22:02Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > 47.5 million Google hits are no joke Sorry for my ignorance (and the hijack) but is that people who get turned on by women in _act_ of shaving or just those that like the shaved parts? Either way, that seems an odd strategy for selling razors to _women_. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190/91 "2021-05-17T15:25:05Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > Sorry for my ignorance (and the hijack) but is that people who get turned on by women in _act_ of shaving or just those that like the shaved parts? The act, AIUI. There’s a difference, apparently, between shaving and shaved. It’s not always pubic hair, though - apparently there’s people who get off on women shaving their heads. Or legs. What a world, eh? > [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > Either way, that seems an odd strategy for selling razors to _women_ . You’re assuming only men have the fetish, there. That, and when have products supposedly marketed to women ever _not_ served the male gaze? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190/92 "2021-05-17T15:33:39Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > You’re assuming only men have the fetish, there. > > That, and when have products supposedly marketed to women ever _not_ served the male gaze? Both fair points. I guess I was categorizing razors as . . utilitarian. Like tampons. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190/93 "2021-05-17T15:35:05Z")
[Rule 34](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_34). I’m sure there’s also tampon porn. (Won’t google it though…) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190/94 "2021-05-17T15:45:46Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > Either way, that seems an odd strategy for selling razors to _women_ . Not really. For the longest time(and still to this day) women’s clothes and “health” products were sold on the basis of how others would perceive them. I’m pretty sure underarm shaving, hot pants, miniskirts, stiletto shoes and the like were not designed for the benefit of womankind. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190/95 "2021-05-17T16:08:09Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > 47.5 million Google hits are no joke You totally win the gold medal for Best Non-Snarky Snappy Comeback in Thread. Short, sweet, and … devastating. Well done Good Sir! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190/96 "2021-05-17T16:12:11Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Not really. For the longest time(and still to this day) women’s clothes and “health” products were sold on the basis of how others would perceive them. I’m pretty sure underarm shaving, hot pants, miniskirts, stiletto shoes and the like were not designed for the benefit of womankind. Agreed. I meant it was odd if the _act of shaving itself_ was a turn on for men(or other women). I get that the majority of us shave for other people, even if it’s just that we don’t want to be seen with stray hairs coming out the top of our bikinis. I’m not sure very many people enjoy the act of shaving itself, so appealing to the ones who only enjoy watching it seems weird. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190/97 "2021-05-17T18:06:06Z")
It doesn’t seem odd to me at all that some people find shaving sexy. It’s something often done in private, often during or after bathing, and may involve intimate body parts. People do it to help make themselves attractive, and it’s pretty common for things associated with sex to become sexual themselves. People fetishize all kinds of things. I once read about a kid who got a sexual thrill out of sitting behind an idling car. Compared to that, a shaving fetish isn’t weird at all. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190/98 "2021-05-17T18:42:53Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > It doesn’t seem odd to me at all that some people find shaving sexy. _The Man Who Wasn’t There_ is a Coen Brothers movie in which Billy Bob Thornton’s character, a barber, shaves his wife’s (Frances McDormand) legs. I love the movie, but was surprised to learn that there were people who were really turned on by the shaving scenes. ETA: this is post 98. I remember reading the OP before there were any replies and assuming there wouldn’t be any before it got shut down. I was wrong! ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190/99 "2021-05-17T18:44:57Z")
Bloody disgusting. String em up. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190/100 "2021-05-17T18:47:26Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > In fact, she said that she heard of a movie that was being made about the Sexy 70s (the decade, not the age group – **that’s** another thread) and they couldn’t find any young actresses who had 1970s-style pubic hair, so the girls had to wear genital toupees. In a similar vein, when Ang Lee was slated to direct [_Taking Woodstock_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1127896/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_5) he wanted to recreate some of the iconic photos of the event. One of them was the skinny-dipping scene and in the commentary he mentioned hiring the extras for the scene three months early so they could let their pubes grow in for the shot. He also mentioned how hard it was to find skinny people. It’s not, he said, that there are _no_ skinny people around these days but, “It’s a different kind of skinny.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair-in-ads-since-when/942190.md?page=6)