Reply #30: Well, I'm no expert...

[benburch]

A. I know it existed to a VERY small degree in Victorian porn. Likely because sexworkers did it to deal with crab lice. (ICKEEE!!!) "Golden Age" (Though about 1983) porn films rarely had women who shaved their genitals. It was considered fetishistic, and where it existed in films it involved an eroticized "shaving scene". I think it came into vogue when Hustler, in their zeal to show ever more gynecological detail, started having models do it for centerfolds. Thereafter it became the norm in porn films and part of the erotic expectations of a generation of impressionable young people. Fortunately I escaped that.

B. Originally, male desire. Was it from an impulse to pedophilia? I don't know. Pedophilia is just so far from anything even vaguely erotic to me that I cannot judge. I've always been turned on by older women, even when I was a teen.

C. Sure. Anybody who isn't self-realized is a problem to themselves, and needs to work on their self-esteem!