Fox News: The "Ins And Outs" Of Shaving Your Pubes

Fair and balanced? Fox News' "sexpert" Yvonne K. Fulbright has a new column up today describing the "ins and outs" of shaving your pubes. Here's a sample:

Are you bare there? With summer just around the corner, you may now be thinking about joining the ranks of the totally shaven.

It's no longer simply a style concern for porn stars; it seems that everyone now - guy or gal - is giving at least some thought to pubic hair care. I certainly get enough e-mails from male readers about going hairless. They want to know: What's the deal? How is it that nether region hair maintenance has evolved into an art form? Should I do it, too?

Hair removal in contemporary Western cultures is actually not a modern day phenomenon. Such practices have been prevalent in cultures worldwide, like Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Uganda, and the Tobriand Islands.

Just a hint of hair or going totally bare has throughout history been equated with the highest of beauty and femininity. Women in the Middle Ages, as seen in Botticelli's late 15th century painting "The Birth of Venus," were known to have kept their wares entirely shaven.

Read the full column here. Of course, this column should hardly come as a surprise. Even as Bill O'Reilly bemoans that "the moral and ethical climate in America is declining," and that the "Internet and an irresponsible media have hit traditional values hard," Fox News has become a premiere purveyor of sexualized news. Or as BraveNewFilms described it, FoxNewsPorn:

Comments

[baldblackman]

Shaving the pibic area is nothing new, western, or a sign of pedophila. The Crusaders brought back the practice of shaving the pubic are during the 10th century I think. As for shaving, why not use a lighter? No razor bumps.

[SusanRen]

Anytime a guy tells me he likes the shaved, waxed bald look I ask him if he likes little girls.

[JeffGannonWsfirstladdie]

I wish the worst kind of pox
On that vile news outlet, Fox.
They should really beware,
When they discuss pubic hair.
They've opened up Pandora's Box.

[nirek]

Is nothing too private to discuss on fox?

[aznurse]

Fox: experts on how to make assholes look good.

[Bushpetshisgoat]

A lad from lower New Haven
Was inclined to be terribly craven
Of ladies, though cute,
With regions hirsute.
So he sought out only the shaven.

[Bodhisattava]

Should you call yourself Bushpetshisgoatee?

[Bushpetshisgoat]

Not necessarily, but with Jeff Gannon always hanging around Bush does need Laura as his beard.

[marijam]

Ask a former soldier who was stationed and fought in Vietnam about crotch rot. This is not because of porn and isn't as "new" as some would like to think by relating it to porn.

[mm29464]

i also think that the current fascination with hairlessness, both female and male (wtf?) is strictly related to the mainstreaming of porn.

[mm29464]

i agree with the comments about how vapid and sexualized fox news is. I do think this topic is interesting and could be enlightening. however, the whole setup is meant to titillate. I also have serious problems with her analysis and think it is very ahistoric to presume anything by looking solely at art to determine how things used to be or have always been. art is stylized and often interested in form, not in merely replicating in exacting detail what is "real"--this was even true in pre-photographic times when one may suggest that there was a need for strict realistic reproduction. if one would follow your undisciplined way of looking at things, one could also infer that there was an epidemic of beautiful amputees in antiguity as many great roman and greek statuary are armless and headless.

also there is also as much an issue of class within the topic, as culture. for example, would the "professionals" --courtesans, prostitutes, etc--and/or privileged do something different than the average woman. would the wealthy, who had time and money to beautify and were expected to be much more ornamental (in the sense that it was the chinese women of a certain status, for example, who had their feet bound), participate in much more elaborate grooming than a less well-off woman .

[ElPerro]

It's nice to see that even a venue as vapid and vile as Fox can occasionally offer up something of value to the nation. As they say, even a broken clock is correct twice a day....

[PennLawyer]

If guys want to drastically improve their appearance, get rid of that shaggy caterpillar extending across your forehead and get into a hair salon and get your EYEBROWS waxed. You know, eyebrowS, emphasis on the plural. Really, a lot of men have that dumbed down, Neanderthal shag look, with a single, continuous eyebrow 1/2 an inch high and meandering across their face. You know those insurance commercials featuring the cavemen bemoaning that everyone assumes they're stupid?
They have that single eyebrow thingie going for them too.

You would shape and trim a beard or mustache - unless you're a hermit. So take a critical look at the hair between your eyes and your forehead. And while we're on the subject of male body hair, don't forget to trim your nosehair - really gross to look at. Some guys even have hair growing on their ear lobes.

[ElPerro]

you are correct. NO ONE looks good with a unibrow.

[Jason357]

That's seems to be an obsession with certain people, but I contact a whole lot of people and I can't thnk of one in hundreds who has what you described. Nose hair is another thing, but who the hell cares. I'd settle for some honesty and at lesat a hint of morality. I do see a lot of dishonest and cruel people, eager to destroy someone to distract from their own failure. Americans need more time looking at themselves, for a change and not worrying about being critics of how their neighbor lives. In other words, mind their own damn business.

[Nezua]

you don't know frida.

[GWHayduke]

Man, if only O'Reilly had asked Hillary which way she goes.

[Beachrunner]

What's that old saying? Oh yeah. . . "Bald is beautiful."

[Bodhisattava]

Has anyone considered the possibility that a new sociological crisis may be on the horizon?

Bald Pubic Areas?

No hair growth whatsoever where it counts?

And which one of the Presidential candidates is going to tackle this emerging crisis?

[XCITIZEN]

And I'll take ding-dong, pussy, cooter, boner, ass, and titties, and the like any day, I say ANY DAY over the unAmerican, and obscenely pretentious "Naughty Bits."