Hugh Hefner was the main engine of what we might call “the third great revolution” of the last few decades.
The three great revolutions of the last few decades
The first was the internet, comparable to the advent of writing and the invention of the printing press. Then came the cell, the absolute autonomy in communications, and more now, when the apparatus is a central information that serves to inform, expand the circle of acquaintances, do bullying, to hear music, watch movies, seduce and harass, in the end, the whole of the arts, virtues and vices of the post.
Hair removal intimate, the third revolution
The third revolution, the Hefner, was not in the domain of the technique, but in the customs, and have to do with the hair removal intimate.
Who we was going to say, in the 80s, that the main customers of the famous prestobarba of Gillette and other razors of the future were going to be women?
No one would have believed it because it was simply unimaginable. And today is a reality: it will produce more machines of a pink color to blue, because, while there are men who do not shave, because there are almost no women (Cameron Diaz is one of them) that maintain the intimate frond, the night forest of the imagination of the poets, which is like the dark night of the soul, Saint John of the Cross, but in terms of the capillaries.
The crotch female lost its natural shelter, changed its ecosystem, removed its flora for the sake of an image. “The hair is the vegetable man”, wrote Lezama Lima, attempting to give a metaphysical sense that bloom intimate, but Hefner was filed.
Playboy magazine, and the hair removal intimate
Magazine Playboy it was one of the first to suggest the new scheme of the female body. The mount of Venus deforested. We began by removing the fronde thicker, leaving a few ways.
I remember that in Spain called “ticket metro”, a rectangle upward on the lips at that, in Colombia, told Baracus, and in Brazil, “the runway”.
By the way Brazil was very active in this, especially for his contribution of the “tanga” to the discussion of civilization and the postmodern. Hence, the removal of hair, in some aesthetic centers, he said, “groin brazilian”. Little by little, the thin line was disappearing to be imposed so that Hefner launched from her magazine and the shaved comprehensive, infantilisation, full of the intimate area.
With this new situation, the word “hair”, in reference to the body, you will lose completely its referent. To avoid the confusion began to say, “hair”, that horrible understatement. Hefner, with his image of a naked body, gave women a new element of seduction, but also a string, and above all an expense, because it forced them to take care of an area of the body that previously belonged to the domain of nature.
Today, as we are told by the writer british Caitlin Moran, if there is a party prank on Saturday, the woman should make an appointment in hair removal since Thursday, to give time to correct the irritation of the follicles. An emotional greeting to Hefner, the Steve Jobs of female hair removal, in its delicate tomb of black flowers.
