A discourse on Brazil’s most important contribution to the world
Posted on | May 31, 2009 | 6 Comments |
| This is a public service announcement – When your dress is brave, make sure to shave.
Hi all,
Once again apologies for going awol – I was finishing off my course with a spot of shadowing – that means following people around, making a nuisance of myself and stabbing people to suck their blood. All good. Well, results of my exams on tuesday, but still…
So, a few of you might be wondering what exactly Brazil’s most important contribution to the world was. Well, let’s look at some of Brazil’s most important exports
1. Brazil Nuts – Possibly the highest Effort to taste ratio of any food including coconuts
2. Ronaldo – Well, I could give a hoot about football…but I won’t.
3. Beef farmed at the expense of the Amazon rainforest – I’m sure the cows appreciate it…
4. Cachaca – Is obviously awesome – I think we’re getting closer…
5. BRAZILIAN WAXING
Oh yes. This week’s post will be a discourse on hirsutism and the lack thereof, both in and out of hentai animation.
Introduction
For those of you not in the know about waxing techniques, the Brazilian is a waxing technique where all the pubic hair on the pubis, buttocks and perineum is removed, sometimes leaving a small trail on the pubic mound. (Read: front, back and crack). Similar effects can be gained by shaving or epilating pubic hair, but I’m sure you all know that ^^
The place of bodily hair in pornography has waned over the years. There has never been a huge place for women with hairy armpits or legs, for example (thought I’m sure there are fetish videos to that effect somewhere). Pubic hair was generally left to grow wild in the era of classic pornography, with the pornstars of the era generally resembling your friend’s mum, with an unruly bush that could strangle a hippo.
However, with the rise in popularity of smaller and smaller bathing suits and the appearance of the bikini, more radical hair removal techniques were adopted to the present day, where seeing any pubic hair in porn at all is unusual. Even the male pornstars have followed suit, both with their pubic and body hair. It’s pretty safe to say that the tall, muscular and glabrous male is ‘in’, at least in terms of the adult entertainment industry.
In the world of hentai things are pretty much the same – it’s quite rare for girls to have pubic hair drawn on them (though this too was much more frequent in the hentai of old) and even rarer for the men to have any pubes at all. (Interestingly though, Japanese real-life pornography seems the opposite with unkempt being more the norm.[citation needed])
| You know I trawl to find pictures that are even vaguely worksafe for this blog…
Why the change?
So why has this happened? Let’s first start with the Western angle. As I said before, hair was first trimmed to keep with the fashions of wearing ever more abbreviated underwear and swimwear in order to not have the dreaded Visible Bikini Line. However, this doesn’t explain the progression to the complete removal that we see more commonly these days.
I propose that there are two mechanisms at work here.
1. Having less pubic hair (for both the male and female parts) means that close ups of penetration are cleaner and less obscured.
Perhaps in the 70s and 80s it wasn’t considered tasteful (for what taste is worth) to do too many closeups and much of the shots were done from a distance. However, with the mostly male crowds clamouring for more explicit penetration shots, it’s become more important that this picture isn’t ruined by the pornstars’ short and curlies.
2. The idea of youth
Especially with the focus of popularity on younger women in men’s magazines such as FHM and Maxim, it seems that large amounts of pubic hair have become associated with aging (and not being so bothered to keep it neat) therefore making pornstars who keep their pubes long seem older and therefore less desirable.
For the male side of things, there is also the added bonus that less pubic hair makes the male member seem larger (and we all know that size matters…in terms of your paycheck)
And what about Hentai?
Well, it doesn’t take a genius to make the first point that:
Japanese people are less hairy
I would expect that some time in the past, there was a mild sexual selection for lack of body, arm and leg hair, which manifests that many Japanese girls lack the problems of their Western counterparts: namely, horribly expensive Gillette razors. Even the men are generally less hairy with a definite reduction in body hair.
But why the trend in hentai for the Brazilian?
Could it possibly be a mimicking of Western culture – since we see a similar trend of reducing pubic hair as we move from old hentai of the 80s to today’s? Possibly.
Could there also be an element of making closeups of penetration more clean and less obscured as with Western pornography? Very possibly.
Could an additional element be the rise in popularity of moe-loli and the symbolism of youth in hentai as well? Probably (though this doesn’t fully explain the Brazilian waxed older onee-sans and shotacons.)
The truth, probably a combination of all three.
Though the real truth is that I’m probably overanalysing. It’s entirely true that pubic hair, as with swimsuits, shoes and lingerie is a victim of fashion, and the current fashion in both the West and Japan is “less is sexy”, therefore the adult industry follows suit and most of my other advantages are extra-numerary.
I mean, which would you choose if you had the choice – the tousled briars of Sakamoto Mio or the Ritsu’s shaven haven?
Well, obviously Mio’s…though the choice would be different if there was a ball gag and a paper bag handy of course.
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May 31st, 2009 @ 8:27 pm
lol Well, it’s official. You can make any topic interesting.
Waxing and shaving is extremely popular with lesbians in the U.S. It’s easier to navigate the anatomy. No hair stuck in the teeth, and it eliminates having to push hair aside in order to get to certain parts. For lesbians especially, efficiency plays a large role.
Personally, I’m not attracted to a bald mound. I don’t want to fight my way through a giant bush either. Trimmed is nice.
June 1st, 2009 @ 5:55 am
What JoyJoy said lol :)
June 1st, 2009 @ 6:02 pm
Well, the problem with shaving is that it leaves nasty stubble after a day or so. Chafing is a problem, so waxing goes a long way to relieving that.
I wonder what beauticians would say If I came in to get my parts waxed ^^;;
June 1st, 2009 @ 6:43 pm
You mean I’m not Brazil’s most important contribution to the world??? I should have been in the list at least :P
June 2nd, 2009 @ 8:55 pm
Actually, the lack of pubic hair is 100% traceable to a law that forbade showing public hair in any media, that stood on the record for many decades in Japan.
That law was relaxed a few years ago, and you saw implications of public hair in some hentai. Now, when you watch something with adults, not something lolicon, you’ll see pubic hair. It’s nothing to do with clean animation.
June 3rd, 2009 @ 10:49 am
nothing doing – Thanks for the info – but I think you’ll find that though it was popular in the early 90s most recent contributions go with less…
I guess you could say that before they had to show less, and now they choose to show less