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Just wait until you rewatch the episode where Turtle misses his opportunity to get laid because he was shocked by a woman who shaved her pubic hair. That moment always stuck out to me as unrealistic; haven't women been waxing their pelvis since at least the 80s?
I wasn't having sex with anyone in 2004, but in media around that time it was treated as something of a new trend to fully remove pubic hair. There's a roughly contemporaneous episode of Sex and the City that involves Carrie goes to get waxed in LA (rather than her home in NYC) and is horrified that rather than a neat trim the waxer removes all her hair. And these were, reasonably, sluts.
Now I think even sexually staid women and even men do at least some pubic grooming.
The Atlantic says it was a 2000 episode. You were very close.
I wonder when getting rid of the male pubes became normalized. Back in 2007 even gays I knew said they only trimmed themselves.
The last time I was in a locker room would’ve been early 2010’s, and we made fun of guys who shaved down there.
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