Talk:Leg shaving

message: Shaving for women actually exploded in western society during WWI. Since many males were now overseas fighting, the sale of razors fell, so the corporations started marketing razors to women.
Source: QuickShave.com
--Nalos6 01:13, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Origins of Women Shaving in Western Culture

message: Some women don't shave in order to be "less environmentally wasteful"?? This requires an explanation! -Branddobbe
Well, shaving cream comes in plastic or metal containers, and those often get thrown out, which creates trash. And the same goes for razors too. Ralphael 22:13, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ??

message: It says that cyclists shave their legs because an abrasive injury would heal faster. Is it not because they need massages after every race and massaging a hairy leg hurts? --Pelotastalk 21:03, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cyclists

message: Why doesn't the article include the fact that some men see shaven legs as being "sexy", and portray a role in sexuality? They may not be neccessarily a sexual part of the body but in recent generations the female legs, especially when shaven, can be seen as being almost a secondary sex characteristic. Just a word of advice, coming from a man.
Magicman710 (talk) 01:48, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Leg shaving as a sexual role

message: I don't know about the rest of Latin America, but males under 30 typically shave their legs in Puerto Rico. Its socially accepted and has no sexual preference associated with it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.171.242.9 (talk) 16:42, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Puerto Rico

message: Doesn't this article need a section on non-western and non-modern cultures?  I'm no expert, but from casual reading, I think that in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, the general practice was for hair removal, either by shaving, plucking or singeing, and sometimes for both men and women. In the Islamic world I think women generally go for complete removal of body hair.  Judging from photographs, the Nilotic tribes of the Sudan also remove body (pubic) hair (unless they are naturally hairless??)  I don't know about non-Muslim Indians or the Far East.109.149.27.188 (talk) 23:20, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-western cultures 

message: This Wikipedia page does omit how shaving is not only a sexual role, but it is also a societal norm. Women are expected to be these hairless beings, and perhaps this lack of hair is what further solidifies the dichotomy between the female and male gender. This page talks about how leg shaving became more prevalent after WW1 and asks, what were societal norms for woman and leg shaving prior to that time period? Were women still expected to maintain cleanly shaven legs? or was leg shaving something constructed by the razor industry due to decline in sales because of soldiers overseas? Before WW1 virtually no women shaved their legs, however by 1964 nearly 98% of women started to do so.  Although the Wikipedia page alludes to the rise in leg shaving after WW1, it does not mention what exactly prompted women to join this bandwagon of leg shaving and if this societal norm stemmed from a capitalist movement. What happened between that short time frame that caused so much of an increase in women shaving their legs? Someone else mentioned in the talk post that shaving, like makeup is something that is expected of women. I do think that the article has omitted many feminist movements that involve not shaving their legs, even in the talk page there is no discussion of this.  This Wikipedia article should omit the women and men headings since it further solidifies the dichotomy between sex, but should instead include headings that focus on the chronological evolution of leg shaving ( world war I, 1960-1980,and present day) and should maybe include a section about how leg shaving is involved in athletics, but should not focus on the gender differences. In addition, this article devotes little space to the topic of women, but a larger space for males, I find this interesting because leg shaving is often seen as a feminine attribute and not a masculine one in western culture. I would have expected much of the article to be designated towards females, however I was wrong. Some suggestions for this wikipedia article is to focus less on the dichotomy between the sexes and should focus on the history of leg shaving and it's practice in sports in both genders.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.65.78.188 (talk) 03:58, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of leg shaving and it's origin in western culture