Hair removal

thumb|Such delicacy befits girls ~ Martial Hair removal, also known as epilation or depilation, is the deliberate removal of body hair or head hair. 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 beenTwo hundred years ago,To preach upon eternal doomAnd watch my walnuts growBut born, alas, in an evil time,I missed that pleasant haven,For the hair has grown on my upper lipAnd the clergy are all clean-shaven. George Orwell, "A Little Poem", in Why I Write (1935) External links Category:Themes removal