Thread: Au Naturel in Vogue

Reading about it, especially among Hollywood actresses, is one thing, seeing it is another. I'd never tell another how to groom. What a woman does with her body is her business. But that does not me I have to like it. It does mean that I have to keep my opinion to myself.

Just because some Hollywood actress have gone au naturel doesn't mean that it's a fad to be copied by all women.

I live not far from beaches where women routinely wear virtually nothing. Is this au naturel thing a fad that, like the opposite was a few years ago, will pass? If it'll pass, how can we nudge it along?

It used to be that European women were easy to spot on beaches. They were hairy. Now it's American women that are going au naturel.

I wonder if it would be legal were I to place signs on city and county beaches advertising Straight Razor Place? I wonder whether au naturel women would get the hint.

I've read and heard that waxing business has tapered off and is falling. Maybe the au naturel fad has something to do with it.

Am I the only dude that prefers shaved legs and armpits? Do dudes like hairy women? I honestly don't know.

OK. I'm done. I've gotten it off me chest. I'm all good now. But I do prefer shaved legs and armpits. I'm good if women were to miss a few days, a week even. But when it gets long enough to see from across a room, bust out a razor...any kind of razor.

Jus' sayin'...

Epilogue: Some images never leave our minds' eye. When I was in my early teens, maybe in 8th grade, a group of kids used to be driven to a local beach to be picked up by another mother. Boys wore bathing suits called jams. Girls wore very modest bikinis covered by shorts until we found a spot on the beach. One of the girls obviously put her shorts on at home before her mom could see her bikini. When she took off her shorts, it was obvious to the other girls that she hadn't been taught proper beach grooming. I won't go any further in to this, especially because she was a very sweet kid, not the most popular, but she made up for it in personality. The popular girls teased her. I don't blame them. They were just kids who were unaware how teasing could have a lasting impact. I didn't know what to make of it, so I pretended to not notice. The next time we went to the beach, she was good. The moral here is that especially moms have to teach their daughters at young ages some things that cannot be neglected. To this day, I feel badly for that girl. I hope she married a billionaire and lives on a beach in Hawai'i and wears a bikini every single day.

My girlfriend has exhibitionist tendencies. When she was a kid, she had to stand bikini inspection before her dad would let her go to the beach. She'd put her revealing bikini in her beach bag. When she got to the beach, she'd change and change back in to the modest bikini before her dad picked her up. Her revealing bikini would be modest compared to what college kids wear on So Cal beaches today.