Truth is sculpting body hair was taking too much time and production couldn’t keep up with demand, so management decided to cut costs and keep it smooth.
Men were depicted with pubes, though. See the article, too.
A female friend of mine actually did a bachelor’s thesis on body hair removal across certain cultures and time periods. Fun discussions were had.
Short version, body hair removal on both women and men has been around for a very long time and is subject to changes. Depictions of nude bodies follow somewhat different rules, though. If they are at all permissible, that is.
Smh
U know how hard it is to carve pubes???
This not famous enough sculptor did Bezos solely because he’s bad. Er bald.
I’m so glad he did that crossover with The Slo-Mo Guys and Adam Savage, because that’s how I found the soft-spoken batshit insanity of his videos.
You know how Roman statues were actually painted bright colors? In ancient times pubes were actually glued onto the groins of sculpted figures, unfortunately with weathering over time most of these sculptures lost their pubes
Not Roman, Greek. The Greek sculptures were painted. Roman sculptors found the Greek marble beautiful without paint, and didn’t paint theirs.
Wikipedia disagrees: Roman Sculpture
Most statues were actually far more lifelike and often brightly colored when originally created; the raw stone surfaces found today is due to the pigment being lost over the centuries.
One medieval writer even went as far as to claim that if you take the hairs of a menstruating woman and bury them in the garden, a snake will grow from the earth. (If any of our dear readers try this at home, please write in to the ABC with your results).
It’s OZ, the chances of there not being a snake in your garden are pretty low.
You might want to read into it some weird sexist agenda, but really, they also had a lot of naked men with realistic penises and no pubes. I’m sure it’s cuz those dudes had to shave to make it look bigger, yeah?
