"Wow, you look great today!" my mom declared through the FaceTime call. I sat up and smiled. The art therapy and Prozac were starting to work, and maybe it was showing. It was also a gorgeous April ...

From an early age, we learn about the ways we can remove body hair rather than how we can embrace it. Despite seeing a shift in how we talked about body hair in the 2010s (remember people dying their ...

The notion of beauty has always been in flux, shaped by culture and time. Historical attitudes toward body hair reveal a tapestry of changing perceptions. Ancient societies like Egypt and Greece saw ...

Queen Esie, whose real name is Esther Calixte-Bea, used to go to great lengths to remove the body hair from her legs, armpits ...

A high school freshman launches a campaign for female body hair acceptance, ostensibly as support for a friend with polycystic ovary syndrome, in this uneven feminist drama by Cary (the When I Grow Up ...

Many people see their body hair choices as reflections of their gender, sexuality, and femininity. Patriarchal standards deem body hair like thick hair on arms or faces as "manly" or "unfeminine." ...

In that day’s sex therapy session, the topic was body hair. But the process was about something else entirely. As we like to say in therapy, it is and isn’t about the content—and with this couple, the ...