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Can a congressman survive once people on the Internet have seen his apparently waxed balls? It's a whole new level of exposure, made all the barer by the congressman's grooming habits. More »
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Household almanac Youman's Dictionary of Every-day Wants: Containing Twenty Thousand Receipts in Nearly Every Department of Human Effort offered some handy tips for at-home hair removal in 1872. You, too, can make "those substances which act upon the bulbous roots of the hairs, and destroy their vitality," provided you have access to ingredients like quicklime, "strong alkiline lye," and orpiment — better known as arsenic sulfide. All you have to do with those three is "boil together until a feather dipped into it loses its flue." More »
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The issue here, for us, is not that the woman has a stache; it's that she has a weird, manicured Mr. Belvedere stache. Well, that and the entire message of the ad, that is. (Thanks, BeautySchooled!) More »
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My wife recently bought me an electric razor. After years of shaving my feminine legs with Gillette Venus disposables, I gaze upon this emblem of our technologically advanced society with awe and wonder.  More »
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Apropos of Mo'Nique's legs and Amanda Palmer's pits, the Times has written a piece on what it means for women to be hairy. But does it mean anything at all? More »
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If you watched Mo'Nique make her way to the stage last night to accept her SAG award, you probably admired how amazing she looked in that dress. But she has a secret under there, and she's not afraid to share. More »
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I never get that offended by guys who have pube preferences for the women they date - unless they are militant about bald vaginas - because I understand the dislike of a mouthful of long, coarse hair. And that's why I recently told my man that he needed to do something about that giant, overgrown mass between his legs that looked more like the front yard of Grey Gardens than a crotch. There are a ton of gender double standards that drive me up a wall, but the widespread social acceptance of unruly, unmaintained male pubes is something we can easily change with one simple sentence: More »
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The economy may be in the crapper, but Americans know what's really important: Looking good! Science Daily reports that plastic surgery procedures will quadruple by the year 2015. They're predicting that cosmetic surgery will weather the current decline, and that in 7 years, 55 million surgeries will be performed annually. "While today's economy reflects a slow-down in plastic surgery procedures, the specialty will weather the current decline in economic growth just as it has previous declines, such as the stock market correction after the 2001 Internet bubble," says American Society Of Plastic Surgeons prez Dr. Richard D'Amico. "This prediction for 2015 is exciting." Definitely! Americans already spend $13.2 billion, more than the GDP of Bolivia, on cosmetic surgery, so quadrupling that number to $52.8 means more cash for doctors. Eh, you're thinking, I'm not shallow like that, I've got priorities. Guess what? More »
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Last week I went to the gynecologist. The second I arranged myself in the stirrups I had a startling realization: I hadn't shaved my legs in more than a week. Question is: Is this uncouth? Is there etiquette about such things? Was my lady-parts doctor insulted that I hadn't even bothered to take a shower for him, yet alone smooth my gams? Or was were my unshaven legs some sort of subconscious gesture of emancipation, i.e., I do not shave, therefore I am? Was it worth even wasting mental energy on? Hell, why not? I decided to poll my girlfriends to get the lowdown. More »
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Hair is steeped in symbolism and layered with subtext and meaning, especially for women. Our tresses speak volumes, suggesting to the world that we're wild, refined, high-maintenance or lazy. Hair can reveal our age and our ethnicity. And that's just the hair on our heads. For one woman, Laura Woodhouse (left), who posted today on UK feminist site The F Word, hair has become a reason to celebrate. One year ago today, Laura stopped shaving her armpits. (It's been 14 months since she last shaved her legs.) Woodhouse had some hair paranoia (hairanoia?) in the past. "I spent at least two hours defuzzing before visiting my boyfriend, and then spent the majority of the naked time we spent together worrying whether my bikini line was symmetrical, wincing where I'd irritated a bit of delicate skin with that nasty smelling hair removal cream," she writes. "I thought I was gross." More »
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