Monday, April 12, 2010

Shave Tail


During the `80s there was a wave of shaving videos. "ShaveTail," "Will You Shave My Pussy?" etc. This demonstration of personal hygiene had the status of forbidden spectacle, and was only at the beginning of the cusp of what would be a new aluminum age of hairless, bald (and to me uninteresting) pussies.

We had never seen such behavior before. Most mainstream porn was satisified with some missionary, a couple blow-jobs, a bout of cunnilingus, and the 3-way at the end for the big finish. These personalized and instructional videos were minimalist in their plot-lines (if there was plot). They were often shot on the new video cameras rather than film, and ran short. 65 minutes when that could be called a "feature" in the old days.

They skewed lesbian as well. That was the selling point ("I'll Shave Your Pussy and You Can Shave Mine") and they would eventually turn into a POV gonzo-style with every other perversion and spectacle included.

I'm not sure what the fetish over shaving really mean in the '80s. I'm guessing it was an excuse to show women playing with themselves, spreading and fingering with the thin pretension at innocent grooming, a voyeuristic, transgressive thrill that also mixed creaming, masturbation, and pre-adolescent suggestion to an otherwise rather explicit display of their attributes.

By the 1990s I think we'd seen about everything and our curiousity needed to be sated with more extreme, confounding and downright acrobatic stunts for the cameras.

Here's to a more innocent depiction of the female form.



And here's a retro look at a couple fucking, and she's not shaven. Her bush is hairy and natural, yet by no means out of control. Shot on film and edited that way as well - you can see the splices from the original edits go through. They used to film people in a different way, acting more naturally and any exposure was a happy accident.

This clip looks more like fucking than any porn I've seen in the last 15 years.

2 comments:

  1. Yeah, agreed...the whole shaving thing took on a life of its own. We're now left with the aftermath: a whole slew of denuded sex participants.

    I, personally, am disenchanted with the whole hairless genitalia scene. Trimming is one thing - a well-trimmed snatch can be a beautiful thing. However, wholesale defoliation just seems more and more...freaky to me. Hairless cocks, balls, pussies look so alien/sci fi. Does a hairless pussy on a grown woman really induce one to think of pre-pubescence?

    How much hair is too much? Too little? I guess we'll just have to take it on a case-by-case basis and allow plenty of room for self-expression.

    But I can only speak for myself.

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  2. Thanks for reading. "Too much" hair is in the eye of the beholder.

    And whether or not the hairless look suggests pre-pubescence... is also in the eye (and deep heart) of the beholder as well. ;)

    R

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