I wonder to myself if maybe this mandate for women to shave is just another aspect of our ingrained ideas of what is hygienic. Funny though, that's all they are: ideas. The idea that shaving is necessary to maintain cleanliness is just bonkers, same goes for bathing every single day, same goes for washing your hair every single day -- it's not requisite. After all, it wasn't until quite recently (in the scheme of the world's history) that we began shaving, bathing and washing on a regular basis.

The "developed world", as it's called, tends to be thoroughly obsessed with cleanliness. Brush your teeth, wash your hands, shower everyday, clothes are filthy after one wear, yada yada the list goes on. What's astonishing to me is that our culture practices such an extreme routine of external hygiene and yet much of the population will binge daily on the worst food known to man. It's odd that so many of us are perfectly okay with destroying our internal system but can't bear the thought of going a day without showering. Mind-blowing.

I've heard people say that women's motivation for shaving is for sanitary reason. Oh don't make me laugh. If that we're truly the case then men would be shaving their pits, chests, backs and legs bare everyday just like the majority of women. It's not an issue of sanitation if only one gender does it.

Let's face it, ladies. Most of us only shave because it's what we were taught. Most of us probably haven't even seen a westernized woman in public with hairy armpits or legs. We're told it's sexy to be silky smooth, but sexy is only in the eye of the beholder. What we perceive as sexy is heavily influenced by the environment we've grown up in and an environment with only sleek, shiny, smooth women and hairy men is really going to leave an impression.