Hair removal



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)


 * B EARD, 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 growBut 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)