I have noticed an increased level of repugnance relating to women who refuse to go bald. Dating forums are full of discussions like these and men are quite vocal in their preference to the porno bare look. Add to it all the "hygiene" issues (I mean, clotted menstrual blood? Really? Shouldn't Amerigo wax his a-hole to keep the poo balls from clinging then?) and it becomes a really annoying issue.

When does pubic grooming come up in a dating environment? I've seen a few people who add to their on-line profile just to help weed out men who want the bare thing.

And it does come up, you know. I guess men got used to staring at denuded vulvas in the laddie mags and on porn and after a while, the girlfriend/wife begins to look a little shoddy.

Long before it was a fashion or even before I had seen a photo of a shaved woman, I shaved myself. Just curious. No man involved - single at the time - so not sexually motivated. The result I found disturbing - it looked too like my memory of myself just a few years earlier. Men might not find it childlike as they probably haven't looked at many 11 year old girl vulvas, but every woman has seen at least one - and that is what it reminded me of. Growing back? Never want to go through that again.

This current fashion is straight out of porn and has been normalized via Playboy via starlets. Somewhere along the way women got the message that empowering themselves sexually meant conforming to the look and sexual styles of a porn star.

No wonder Kit Naylor hasn't knocked boots in 15 years - who wants to deal with this crap anyhow.

I liked Bettie Page. I am glad she lived a grand old life and sorry that she had the hardships she did.

She always seems so relaxed about her self. Even the poses - it never appeared like she was trying to be sex-hey in the way say, Pamela Anderson and her ilk try so hard to be. She was beautiful in a healthy happy comfortable in her own skin way. Nothing forced in her smile.

The movie is a pretty good Biopic. I didn't know too much about her life outside the photos and images and it fleshed out the human behind the body and face.

@walter_map

In both cases, you must be act before they do. Reaction, and revenge, is useless.

If you really want to solve the problem, you must find another way

Since there is nothing to be done for the victim, are you suggesting let him walk? If he had murdered her, nothing can be done to bring her back, so why bother with punishment?

What should the punishment be, for anyone, when their actions have irrevocably changed the lives of others?

If there is no reaction to the act - what is there?

@walter_map

If there is no reaction to the act - what is there?

Prevention, my dear. Prevention.

Having read other things you have written I am well aware you are not idealistic and utopian.

Yes - prevention. We should all live in a wonderful world where acid is not thown on anyone because they won't do our bidding, or as a punishment.

However, we live in a culture ourselves, where murder and rape and assault and robbery go on daily. We have yet to fix those problems with "prevention"

As far as burning this guy's eyes out? It is as barbaric as what he did to that woman. Who, will probably have a much harder time living given the state of living conditions for women in that culture.

Is your "leniency" due to the victim being a woman? I ask this based on the tone of some of your other posts.

I have no idea what could be done as a punishment (as I do believe that acts should be punished when they do this kind of harm) What would we do here? Put the guy in jail for a long time. Nothing for the victim.

Perhaps the state should make reparations and the man jailed. If the state has to pay victims, it would have a vested interest in "prevention"

@walter_map

Your posts clearly show you to be a psychopath, and a danger to civilized society

Now this is the walter_map I am used to!

This poster has unhinged many other threads - not just the ones here on broadsheet.

As far as idealistic words related to the article, putting acid in someone's eyes, either as personal or state punishment, is barbaric. Many countries consider our executions as barbaric. Even the most civil of countries have murder, assault, rape so obviously having a benevolant society will not prevent all horrendous crimes.

If that woman in Iran has a choice, it is her own laws that provide her that. The crime and the punishment of acid are barbaric. Do not think I am advocating this kind of punishment.

But rehabilitation would have to be done at the society level for this kind of crime to stop. I do think if more men were faced with possible blinding by acid rather than just paying off the victim, it might curtail some of this activity until society over there changes.

Me? I'd put the asshat in jail until assured he can never add to the gene pool, and I would have the government (tax payers) pay a good sized retribution to the victim. You can bet tax payers would start to demand real changes once it hits them in the pocket books.

Just imagine what would have happened here if we had to pay a War Tax to pay as we go in Iraq.

But our government and Iran's are quite content for status quo in some areas.