> An Ad for the upcoming "women's cable channel," Oxygen, cites "No Back
>Hair" as one of the joys of being a woman. Could it be that what goes
>around comes around? for centuries men, as economic independent actors,
>have felt free to judge women's bodies harshly. NOw women have some
>money, some independence, don't need to marry to survive, so THEY TOO
>can loudly express their preferences in body type, judge men harshly for
>not measuring up. A gay friend of mine said about ten years ago that he
>was always astonished at how heterosexual men just assumed they could be
>fat and slovenly and women would go for them anyway. Maybe that's
>changing.
according to the research done on college studients it is...slowly. women *still* say that a sense of humor and character are most important. they also say far more than men that there is no such thing as love at first sight and they don't generally think that love will conquer all, as men do.
white men are the romantics, actually at any rate, while these are still the number one answer [men still say physicall attractiveness is number one], they aren't overwhelming the top answers as they used to be
the question still is *why* is hairlessness considered sexy then? why was it fetishized so among gay males. i'd gather that it is related to the phenom of sporting that sixpack and those chiseled pecs. hair gets in the way of the view, no?
when i was dating stockerbrokerbuoy he told got off on shaving everything. he said he liked the way it felt initially. oiy, but the stubble!
kelley
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