Letters to the Editor
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My Theory
My guess is that Cary put this topic out here so as to avoid making editor's choices on such a relatively pointless and genuinely private topic. I could be wrong, but that's what I would do. Essentially, he would get a day off to deal with more pressing matters. I find Cary's use of the word 'pussy' appropriate in context. 'Yoni' has yet to really catch on. I'd love to hear alternative terms acceptable to the offended parties.
Although, like another commentator I do find the prevalence of such a topic in the LW's dating notable. Maybe some mystery and attenuation of courting is in order. From a historical and geographical standpoint, shaving is a reflection of culture. In medieval India, a famously sexual culture, married women shaved and the full bush was the mark of nun or the prostitute/courtesan.
Anyway, the hygiene thing is a moot point. The benefits of both are variable. If one intends to shave both self and partner, electric is the way to go unles there is a risky shaving fetish in play. Razor shaving increases in the skin to skin transmission of HPV(genital warts). The virus lurks in some 90% of the population -- but it seems to be more 'active' as the preference for smoothness increases.
It is so interesting to see what matters to the masses today(at 21 pages of letters and counting), and what they have to say about it. As a culture we are porny and pedophilic? One's crotch grooming apparently merits more commentary than the search for self. Such are the joys of Emptiness, or is that vacuity?