The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair

Overall the book is a bit dense and may cover some obscure angles, but the first essay especially is a wonderful starting point for anyone looking to get a good, academic perspective on visible, female body hair.

I was really disappointed, I thought this book was going to be so much more! The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair by Karen Lesnik-Oberstein (as contributor and editor) and others, was an academic work from a feminist perspective. But, their argument was one-sided and limited to a sociopolitical analysis only. So I was thinking, maybe I should cover what these well-meaning academics (cough......cough), surreptitiously left out.Here's my understanding on the subject; body hair on women, was not really an issue (in the 20th Century anyway), until research on human sexuality by the likes of Alfred Kinsey and Masters and Johnson, gave the global "ruling elite," another incentive and excuse to further manipulate people (especially women). And by dictating what is socially acceptable, as far as "body image" is concerned (brainwashing the masses). I strongly believe, that body hair on men and women---is natural and normal. Pubic hair on men and women, is a secondary sex-characteristic, which in a scientific sense, is very normal. The absence of pubic hair/body hair in male and female human beings, is a sign of sexual immaturity (pre-puberty). So why has the removal of pubic hair and body hair become prevalent and an obsession among women (especially in western cultures)? I'll explain.It really has nothing to do with hygiene or cultural values, but everything to do with suppressing an important aspect in the soul-nature of humankind (free-will). How so, you ask? To illustrate my point, think of Gustave Coubert's painting; L'origine du monde, 1866. Esoterically speaking, hair represented a physical connection (literally), to the natural world (The ancient Hebrew characters for hair and light were basically the same). In the Mystery Schools, hair was considered to have been dried-up, astral-etheric streams of light, that flowed into human beings from the Sun and the environment. The ruling powers of this world (Luciferic and Ahrimanic forces), want to negate spiritual cognition and the female principle of nature (imagination, creativity, etc.), in order to better inhibit individual freedom and human development. Women, much more so than men, have always better represented this aspect of the human soul; Isis, Sofia, Demeter, Venus, Mary, etc. Why do you think some religions (i.e., Orthodox-Judaism, Islam, and even some Christian denominations/cults), force women to shave off all of their body hair, among other depravities? Because, by denying them control over their own bodies, it makes them that much more submissive; just ask any draconian organization if you don't believe me (i.e., the Vatican, CIA, MI5, Mossad, etc., etc.).Now the book does mention the fact, that the cosmetics industry and Hollywood have both played a pivotal role in creating the perception and image that body hair on women is somehow wrong or ugly. But no mention is ever made of how the "porn industry" (which is really the underbelly of Hollywood), beginning in the late 1980's, started featuring more and more women that were completely shaved in their pubic area. In conjunction to the porn industry, we had the brainwashing of the cosmetic firms and the fashion industry. Thus, this completed the transformation in how most women now appear on the beaches and in the swimming pools of America, as compared to the 60's and 70's of the 20th Century. Now, I'm not suggesting women didn't shave then, just not to the point they do today. The Americanization of the European woman has also gone unabated. Here, We have to ask this very important question---why is it that women are made to feel so self-conscious and ashamed of their own body hair and of their body image? Think about it, why are they made to feel extremely embarrassed and uptight, about something so natural, like your own body hair? And where has society in general, developed the idea that body hair is somehow manly? The book of course, is silent on all this. Interestingly enough, the enlightened authors of this book (so much for academic research), never once make mention of how a certain section of the population (elitists and pedophiles), are so infatuated with prepubescent youth. Which has a lot to do with this current trend, whether you're aware of it or not! Hopefully someday, someone will write a serious study dedicated to women and body hair (maybe I should be the one to write the book), that is also free of the taint and malaise of Academia. And not presented as the last taboo either. (BTW: this whole image-obsessed and uptight society is by design. Plastic surgery, body-modification, and many other "disorders," are part of the elitist agenda to stupefy the masses.)Love and Peace,Carlos Romero