Reply #43: Well, again, it's the misogynistic angle, but in a pop culture window dressing that obscures it

[Echo In Light]

Plus it's a matter of confusing and/or manipulating the legitimate differences between sexual liberation and sexual exploitation ...some out of ignorance, other aspects quite intentional.

So, I'd suspect that since most of these trends objectify women, that explains why more women remove their pubic hair since doing so is packaged in the context of something She wants, yet is something that stems from, or is aligned with, His (male driven pornography) desire.

It's complicated, and I know that as a young man I was raised with all sorts of gender propaganda about How Women Are that time after time as I grew up proved patently false. So some of the more recent "raunch culture" is likely, in part, a backlash to women having to hide/disguise their very real wants/desires for many yrs. It just looks and feels very different from the sexual revolution/hippy/Counter Culture/women's lib social movements that were healthy and wonderful in breaking down old barriers and stereotypes. As where now in this age it just tends to look like men, and the male driven culture, were able to convince women they should be happy to imitate them, and fulfill their pornographic expectations as a form of social codification.

I mean, all of this is but one aspect of the individual's sexuality within mass society, and the matter is obviously far more comprehensive than saying it all boils down to just one form of cultural influence or another. But I tend to perceive our culture as being deeply, dangerously rooted in the uncritical mass consumption of media that's loaded with all sorts of views/messages.