Historisk intimbarbering

Folk forsker i de skæggeste ting (man skal passe på med at kaste med sten, når man bor i et horehus). Er lige stødt på nogle uddrag fra en bog - Wendy Coopers "Hair" (1971), bogen i sig selv kan jeg desværre ikke skaffe - som bl.a. handler om intimbarberingens historie.

"In Ancient Egypt, pubic hair was considered ugly and unhygienic; depilation was practised by both men and women. In Ancient Greece women were completely depilated; young boys depilated their legs but kept their pubic hair, which was considered highly erotic. In Europe in the Middle Ages, aristocratic women adopted depilation after the Crusaders brought the practice back from the Middle East. (The practice was, apparently, terminated by Cathrine de Medici). For most of European history, however, the shaving of pubic hair seems to have been a minority practice." (Cooper, s. 84, 114-115)

I 1700-tallet er jeg ikke stødt på intimbarbering endnu i de skriftlige kilder jeg sidder med, men lidt i skønlitteraturen og i pornografien. Renlighed eller nøgenhed var som sagt ikke noget man havde noget synderligt forhold til dengang.