When in Rome . . . trim your bush?

[rsadelle]

I got the first disc of Rome from Netflix. I had The Lost Room at the top of my queue, but it said "Long Wait," and I wanted a TV series. Rome wasn't too far down the list, so I bumped it up to second place. Then, of course, both Rome and the first disc of The Lost Room showed up on the same day.

So, anyway, I watched the first episode of Rome yesterday. I paid more attention to the Harry/Snape fic I was reading than to the battle scene, but I shifted my attention when there were naked women on the screen. Full-frontal naked women, no less. And full-frontal naked women with carefully trimmed pubic hair. And then I couldn't focus on whatever the plot was (and, really, it's not drawing me in even though I know it's a big fangirl favorite) because I was totally distracted by wondering about the historical accuracy of the neatly trimmed pubic hair. A couple of places say that it is, or at least may be, accurate. Despite that, I find it distracting and not what I expect from Ancient Rome.

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[allegram.livejournal.com]

Many years ago Newsweek (I think, it mighta been Time or one of the other news mags) published an article on mitocondrial Eve (back when this was a new idea for the general public). For some reason lots of Anthro textbooks include the cover picture in their discussion of this idea and it always totally distracts me from the actual disussion of the concept. At the time the picture got a lot of complaints, it invokes biblical imagery and the Eve in it is black (she actually drew two kinds of complaints, both "She's black!" and "She's too light skinned!"), but these things do not bother me. What really, really gets me is her grooming, she is reaching up for the apple and we can see her well shaved under arm. I find it fascinating that the razor was apparently invented 100k years ago...
Anyways, I understand the total distraction of a tiny meaningless grooming detail!