13.5 The Quest for a Hairless Body

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Surely I am not the only woman who has ever eyed the razor and the shaving cream and wondered "Why?"

Women have been questing for hairlessness at least since Egyptian times, and though the record is mostly silent on this question, there are occasional hints about why and when and how women through the ages did it (mostly painfully and sometimes lethally).

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