Sensual EssentialsThat is the question. Whether it is nobler to include sensual essentials, remain in our natural state and risk the slings and arrows of outrageous comments from the general population, or to shave and fit in with the crowd. The question of sensual essentials has become all the more important over the past twenty years. Slowly modern sexuality includes looking as close to mannequins as possible. That doesn’t just go for the ladies. Men also shave their chests, backs, legs, and eyebrows for the newest Metrosexual look. As always, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Those who see clean shaven bodies are sexy are following a fad. They've forsaken sensual harmony for some other sense of identity. Common sense reminds us that the human body has tufts of hair on the body are sensual essentials, in specific places, not only for beauty, but for protection and attraction. The hair on our heads protects us from the sun. Fortunately, our tresses have never been more popular. People go to great lengths to keep it, get it back, style it, and promote its glorification. First eyebrows are being attacked. Why do so many women shave them off? Then they paint on some faux eyebrows for an almost clownish appearance. Eyebrows are meant to keep the stinging sweat out of your eyes. It’s O.K. to trim and clean extraneous hairs, but don’t forget what they’re for. In our quest to be considered beautiful, we risk no longer looking real. A little further south is underarm hair. Men are still allowed theirs but for how long? In a trend that’s moving away from au natural to body builders as beautiful, the image we’re sold of physical beauty is becoming hairless. But do they really represent sensual men? If we agree that they depict masculinity at its finest, it won’t be long before the Metrosexual man includes underarm hair removal. Or have they already? I haven’t asked to look lately, but if what is portrayed on Real T.V. is indicative of masculine beauty, it’s just a matter of time. American women have been shaving their underarms for a little over 100 years. In their quest to make us smell like something else, antiperspirant manufacturers have asked us to lift our arms and decided that clean shaven is prettier. They’ve forgotten that this hair, along with pubic and head hair, holds onto our pheromone scent, acting as a natural perfumery for sexual attraction. Whack it off and lose the most powerful sexual tool of attraction in a woman’s armory, her natural sensual perfume. And last but certainly not least, pubic hair. I’ve heard women in their twenties and thirties claim that they think pubic hair is not only not sensual but actually ‘disgusting’. Since when did any part of our body deserve to be called disgusting? That sensual hair is for protection--protection during the ‘bump and grind’ for the best clitoral stimulation, protection from airborne germs that end up on our skin and can easily move into the vagina, and protection from some of the less than friendly soaps and lotions we slather on ourselves. Trim the pubic bush with a sensual design, don’t whack it completely off. Make it look stylish. Share this sensual experience for maintenance with your lover as part of grooming and foreplay. Appreciate its function and leave some so that it can work for you. And don’t forget that underarms are only an erogenous zone when there’s some hair on them. Scraped and irritated, allowing chemicals from antiperspirants to invade our tissue,shaved skin wreaks havoc and no longer enjoys the sensuous touch. Can we come to a compromise about this? Can we leave a little of the sensual essentials behind to do what they were intended to do? Can we learn a little body acceptance? You know, you mess with Mother Nature and she’ll mess back.
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