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Funny thing. Heard Stormy Daniels run down how the shaved look happened.
Back in DVD days, a porn star could hit the road and tour a lot of strip clubs. She could sell a lot of merchandise and make herself well known. The problem was that a lot of these clubs were in small towns where the cops loved harassing the dancers. A lot of places had laws that said that visible pubic hair was illegal, so a lot of dancers shaved, and they encouraged the porn stars to do the same.
When the shaven ladies got back to shooting, they kept on shaving. Pretty soon that became the standard look in movies and magazines.
It's insane to me that the hair is what they had a problem with, and putting your genitals on even fuller display is the loophole.
Think about it.
Those laws were written long before VHS was a thing. Back in the day they were policing burlesque shows where the ladies might go down to G-string and pasties. The pubic hair thing was a simple test to see if they'd gone too far.
Also, in the bars the dancers might have to keep their G-strings on [laws vary by state] A lot of dancers travel, so it makes sense to be ready for the strictest enforcement
With full respect to Ms Daniels I think it predates DVDs. My first sight (and many others I suspect) was an actress by the name of Seka who was shaving in the 70s and possibly earlier. As she tells it she was an early innovator in glamming up porn with good hair and makeup. Shaving was part of an exotic look.
There’s been pubic hair removal going back to ancient Egypt, through Greece and Rome and into modern times.
Fair. And it's true that I haven't watched all the porn that out there, but it was my first sight of naked pudendum. I'm confident it wasn't the first ever. But the 60s and 70s were known as big bush era.
I grew up in the '70s and volunteered at the local recycling center, so I had a collection of literally every porn magazine from back then - Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler, Oui etc. etc. Multiple copies of each issue. Even weird high-quality stuff that showed actual penetration and cumshots and whatnot (big no-nos with the major publications at the time). Not a single bare bush in all of that stuff.
But it's kind of like saying Elvis or The Beatles didn't invent their signature hair styles.
What Ms. Daniels said [and I agree with] is that a lot of porn stars started shaving around the same time and that filtered into the mainstream.
Again, fair. I haven't read Ms Daniel's comments directly. I can fully accept that there was something other than aesthetics driving the change.
Whoa that's such a wild story! Where there's a will, there's a way haha
What's even funnier is that the question that prompted the story was something like 'have you seen porn behavior filtering into the mainstream?'
I think the interviewer was expecting something about clothes...