Hair removal

Hair removal, also known as epilation or depilation, is the deliberate removal of body hair or head hair.

Such delicacy befits girls ~ Martial

Quotes

• In that you pluck each hair from your breast, from your legs, from your arms; in that your prick is shaven, and covered with short hairs; we all know of course, Labienus, that you do this for your mistress. But to whom do you offer your arse, which you shave, Labienus?
  • Martial, Epigrams, 2, 62 ("To Labienus")

• Why dost thou pluck each hair from thy aged cunt Ligia? Why rouse the embers of thy deadened lust? Such delicacy befits girls; for now thou canst not appear even an old woman. This, believe me, Ligia, Hector's mother, does not with grace, but Hector's wife. Thou art wrong if thou thinkest it a cunt, at which no prick can stand. Wherefore if thou hast a particle of shame, Ligia, beard not the dead lion.
  • Martial, Epigrams, 9, 90 ("To Ligia")
  • The Index Expurgatorius of Martial (1868), pp. 20, 71

• Indeed it was a tradition of Ibn Abbas (Allah accept of him!) that the Apostle said, 'Whoso cutteth his hair on a Friday, the Lord shall avert from him threescore and ten calamities'
  • Richard F. Burton, tr., "Tale of the Tailor"
  • The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, I (1885)

• BEARD, n. The hair that is commonly cut off by those who justly execrate the absurd Chinese custom of shaving the head.
  • Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

• A happy vicar I might have been
  Two hundred years ago,
  To preach upon eternal doom
  And watch my walnuts grow
  But born, alas, in an evil time,
  I missed that pleasant haven,
  For the hair has grown on my upper lip
  And the clergy are all clean-shaven.
  • George Orwell, "A Little Poem", in Why I Write (1935)