You shouldn't culturally generalize the various countries this side of the pond just because they are part of Europe ;) There's no european cuper-culture that I know of that either accepts or rejects armpit hair on women.

I didn't say anything about Europe. Lol.
I was talking about my ex-roommate from China.

Oh right, maybe my comment should be directed to crash instead of you.

Why this?

So they're just very openminded and game for anything?

I need to visit Europe some time. :pimp:

I feel the hairlessness norm for women isn't just a personal preference but a cultural phenomenon. Apparently, women in the U.S. started shaving their underarms around 1915 in response to an ad, and the practice spread to some but not all countries.

The hairlessness norm for underarms and legs jumped to the U.K. around 1920, also, but it didn't get a hold of Continental Europe until after WWII, or so I've read. I observed that German girls in the 1980s often didn't shave their bodies, and no one found it gross there. Any Germans out there who can corroborate this?

If you find yourself disgusted by women's body hair, but not men's, then you are probably just a victim of cultural programming, mediated in large part by advertising companies and peer pressure that have been at work on you for your whole life.

Does that mean you dislike both women's and men's underarm hair? This is interesting, since one hypothesis for why women and men retained underarm hair over evolutionary time is that underarm hair helps spread scents that were arousing to people.

I'd be curious what someone from a country where bathing isn't a common practice feels about the smell of underarms and underarm hair. My guess is they like it or at least don't feel any adversion to the scent.

Well i'm not German but my youth was spent watching German porn movies from the 70s & 80s on TV and I can assure you that it's definitely true.

Don't mind me I'm leaving now :o:

Sasquatch porn eh?

Excellent, Urban! This is the PERFECT corroboration of the fact that the hairless norm for women hadn't spread to Germany in the 70s and 80s, just like I observed. And the evidence is documented as film. A sociologist couldn't hope for better than that.

Thank you thank you thank you for watching all those movies so that you could now provide this useful insight! ;)

By the way, what's wrong with porn? As long as the actors/participants aren't children and aren't coerced into the sex (through force or desperation for money), I have no problem with porn. It's a good learning tool. :)

Why, when I was 21 in college, I marched on in to a video store and rented porn for a significant other and me to watch, since we were curious about it and he wasn't old enough to rent porn yet. I felt very brave.

EDIT: Hmm...sasquatch porn. I'm glad it exists. I think it is a lovely thing when nude pictures of women ensure some memory of the natural female form lingers in the collective human consciousness long after females completely Barbie-cize themselves. If *I* were ever to take nude shots of myself, I'm sure I'd do it for just that very reason. ;)

I don't dig sasquatch porn but I'm glad it's around for guys who dig it.

I mean I know what it's like to have a fetish and you can't really find what you're looking for because the media doesn't deem it favorable. I didn't get the internet until I'm 18 and hey it's not that I don't have an imagination but I need pictures they help a lot. So I used to have to fap to Cosmos because they were the only mags lying around the house that had any kind of fapabillity.

Those were the dark ages when coming into terms with my sexuality because I had no social life either. The internet helped me learn more about myself and what I like because I had access to stuff that I didn't know was around because up until that point I only knew what I saw on TV and read in magazines.

The internet is the greatest invention ever for many reasons but one of those is the easy distribution and tremendous diversity of porn. :laughing:

Internet Rule 34 states that if it exists, there's porn of it, so there's something for everybody. :D

But because there IS something for everybody, surfing the internet without the necessary safety precautions can have terrible consequences. http://forums.nutsie.com/images/smiles/icon_awwwww.gif

I'm pretty sure this is an Urban Legend... I spent a lot of time over there in the last few years and never saw a hairy woman :)

Or wonderful consequences... I found a porn star with the same name as my partner whilst playing around on the internet. It was a good day indeed :D

Ok... so here's one then, seeing as we're on the subject. How do women feel about porn? I'm with Vegangelica tbh, I think it's great. But if it crops up in conversation my female friends look at me like I am some mad sexual deviant for liking porn (be it for myself or for me and my partner). Is it just a bloke thing or is it a lot more acceptable for women these days? Sorry if I'm stepping over old ground here...