Hairless

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Bel Olid. Hairless

CONTENTS

Guide

Pages

Hairless. Breaking the Vicious Circle of Hair Removal, Submission and Self-Hatred

Dedication

1 History of an Obsession

2 From Happiness to Shame

3 Is a Hairy Femininity Possible?

4 Because I Want To, Sure. But Why Do I Want To?

5 A Hairy Road to the Future

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Bel Olid

Translated from Catalan by Laura McGloughlin

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My mother said it was my fault. I wasn’t disciplined enough with waxing; I gave in too early to the razor. Actually, waxing was expensive; and my means as an adolescent, precarious. She had fine, light hair, and very little of it, and she only shaved once a year. Maybe if I had inherited that attribute from her, I wouldn’t have seen the need for questioning hair removal, seeking to free myself from it. The easier it is for us to conform to the canon, the less violent what it imposes on us seems. But conforming has never been my strong suit.

Outwardly, practically nothing changed. The people with whom I shared a bed and intimacy were used to the bushiness of my groin, as intense and extensive and fragrant as desire itself. But I knew I’d decided not to shave, and this hair wasn’t circumstantial. It wasn’t an accident that had to be corrected as soon as possible, nor was it squatting on my skin. I’d labelled it a legitimate resident of my body, and I planned to allow it to accompany me in sickness and in health, to the swimming pool and to the beach, until death (ideally, not mine) us do part.

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