They existed for a long time yet it still wasn't until like the 90s when child rape was something that became a joke, somehow magically, that it actually became popular. You can even go back and watch old porn tell me how many are shaved or even trimmed. Weird coincidence right?
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If you look at old pin-ups from the '40s and '50s most of the women are shaved. The same in lewd images from the classical Greco-Roman world (of both the artistic and pornographic varieties). They came back into vogue during the Middle Ages, disappeared again for a few decades during the Rennaissance, then would persist until the '40s and the creation of the Bikini. It wasn't until the '60s that the bush came back as a symbol of female empowerment and blah blah blah which would remain until the early 2000's.
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No. You're confusing airbrushing with shaved. From Betty Page to Marilyn Monroe and thousands of unknown indie pinups in between, when you seek out and find unpublished photos and negatives from most of those shoots, the hair is there. Exceptions can be found, but the rule was airbrushing, not depilation. And in either case, it was only done because it was straight up illegal to show pubic hair in photos in the US for most of that time period. The airbrushing and occasional trimming was done to avoid criminal charges against the photographer or magazine, not because it was a common practice for women of the era.
As for Classical statues (most of which were sculpted by men, btw), there is still significant debate within art history circles as to whether the lack of body hair depicted on many/most classical art pieces eschewed the hair as a realistic representation of depilatory standards or as a deliberate choice to add a particular air of innocence by displaying the genital area as hairless. After all, despite many classical sculptures being intricately detailed, virtually NONE of them even include labium on female depictions, let alone vaginas. They are completely smooth and without variance, like a fucking barbie doll. No hair, no lips, no holes, nothing. Just blank space.
So I wouldn't get too hung up on the notion of the lack of hair being a nod to widespread depilation on actual females of the time. Unless you're also claiming that they had no genitals either. That said, I am not an expert in that field so I won't flex too hard.
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