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My bad here is something in way of apology: http://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=1921121986

*Apology video does not cite its sources, nor is it historically accurate.

The thing about the internet is that porn makers need to keep one-uping each other. First it's two people fucking, then it's three people, then they're fucking in ancient Rome. Where's it going to end.

Why can't we all just enjoy videos of some perfectly normal sexual activity and leave it at that?

That kind of clip always makes me wonder about hair and grooming of bygone ages. Is shaving one's crotch/pits a relatively new thing? I could see royalty having the resources to remove unwanted hair from various places, but it's hard to tell if this was done or not based on the art of the age. I mean, I don't think they carved armpit hair on people, and leaving hair off of some spots probably saved on time with the ol' chisel.

Believe it or not, it wasn't pr0n that caused this quest for historical hair. It was the sword-and-sandals movies that have come out in the past decade or so. I see long barbarian-hair, and that's plausible, I see the shaved heads and crew cuts, and that's plausible. Then I see some dude with his hair parted and at first I think that's too modern, but then again, it's not hard to do. There's loads of info on women's hairstyles of the ages (at least for royalty), but not a whole lot to go on to judge the accuracy of a Roman Senator's genital area having a landing strip.

Greek and Roman statues were meant to be painted. So they lack of body hair on them isn't a good indication of actual fashions.

But, razors have been around since the ancient Egyptians, and so has waxing in one form or another, and threading. And fashions for these things have come and gone. Mostly, removal of (all or most) body hair for both men and women was the thing in the ancient classical world, and then in Europe it fell out of favour in the Middle Ages, and then came back in the Modern period for women. For men I think it probably fell victim to the dulling down of men's dress that happened in the 1800s.

I feel like in the Middle East it's always been the thing, but I really don't know much about it.

I'm guessing that as with any fashion, it goes through cycles. In an era when pubic hair is relatively visible, it's going to go through the same fashion trends as facial hair and head hair. In an era when it's not relatively visible, it's probably more likely to be au-natural, barring environmental reasons to be otherwise.