What a queer topic, I was expecting to see something more like this
Yesterday we discussed boobies; today the nether region. Tomorrow’s topic should be obvious, le derriere. A woman’s best feature!
Velcro?
I was going to say ‘legs.’
ELAINE: I never knew you were so into breasts. I thought you were a leg man.
JERRY: A leg man? Why would I be a leg man? I don’t need legs. I have legs.
Anyone else ever said “Ok, can ya just grow it out a little?”
Oh, I’m sure it’s a small matter and it won’t take long to handle it.
I thought about that but what would you hook the velcro to plus they didn’t have velcro way back when. I was thinking of something more along the lines of a weave.
I’d figure it would be that, or glue. Maybe the glue was wax, and that’s how that method of hair removal got started.
Dude(s)! You live in an amazing age of digital information! If you want to know how to attach a merkin, there’s a Google for that: how is a merkin attached
(The answer is adhesive, like spirit gum, which has been around practically forever. People have been making glue that’s safe for skin for longer than they’ve been making petro-based glue that’s not safe for skin.)
I should have though that would work to the opposite. These pictures are fantasies. Pretty girls crawling with lice is nobody’s fantasy (I least I hope not). So they should make pictures with girls with lush and overgrowing bushes to show how healthy and free of lice they were.
In one of the censured pictures the photographer appear to have set up the girls in a classical Gracie composition. (Graties) A common theme in the history of technology is that when a new invention is brought along it mimics some existing technology. The first cars looked like horse carriages, without the horses. Perhaps the firsts photographers were inspired by classical art. But that could only have been relevant for the very early (20s) pictures. Not from the 40s, 50s and 60s.
Spirit gum, that’s the stuff. Mind you, not everyone knows about this. Granny told a story about asking the merkin salesman the price of his wares, and when she thought he said “Five dollars including tacks” she ran like a scared rabbit. 
First thing that popped into my head on “why ancient prostitutes would shave” was that it could have been to prevent pubic lice. Not pretty, but there ya go.
Glue?
This is from memory, but pubic hair was not shown in Playboy in the 1960s because they posed the models to hide that area. You couldn’t tell if the models shaved or not.
It was kind of a big deal in the early 1970s (1972 IIRC) when Playboy first had full frontal nudity, showing the pubic hair of the centerfold model.
Sometimes I just don’t google things because it’s more fun to speculate even though the speculation was silly. I always thought it would be some sort of glue but I didn’t know it was spirit gum. So thank you for that.
Also, I thought I might catch cooties if I googled it.
The funny thing is that result #5 on the google search is a Straight Dope article.
Huh. I was sure this was just going to be a thread with a provocative title about feline hairstyles or something.
It does make it tougher to tell if the carpet matches the drapes…
Rivets.
My dad’s step-father was the minor Southern California artist Hector Quinones. When he was in art school (I forget the name of the place, but Chuck Jones was a classmate) the female models in life class were required to shave. The male models were jock-strapped.