It should come as a shock to no one that women have body hair. But thanks to celebrities on the red carpet and more authentic advertising, body hair is becoming less taboo day by day. Still, while there are certain kinds of body hair that have been deemed “acceptable,” like a fluffy tuft of armpit…
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The film’s director and photographer, Ashley Armitage, who also directed Project Body Hair, echoes these feelings. “In our film we wanted to normalize pubic hair because it’s exactly that—normal,” she says. “Body hair grows on people of all genders and it doesn’t suddenly become ‘gross’ or ‘unhygienic’ when it is on a woman, trans woman,…
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Body hair is having a (long overdue) moment in the spotlight. From Rihanna’s leg fuzz to Janelle Monae’s pubes, celebrities and social media alike are reclaiming what is absolutely natural. And because of that, body hair is finally losing its stimga as being taboo or “unclean”—except, weirdly enough, in advertisements. Ever see a razor commercial…
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