Dr. Bob

I thought it was a smidgen of self awareness about how quickly we judge people.

Who cares?

Removal is so common now that “hairy” is a category on porn sites just like feet or squirting. I suspect I am older than OPs boyfriend and I have never been with a partner who wasn’t close cropped to bare. So attributing it to GenX thing is incorrect. I suspect it’s the boyfriend’s preference.

I do have a copy of “The Joy of Sex” from the 1970s and it has more hair in it than a furry convention.

It’s your boyfriend’s kink, and a pretty common one. I’m also GenX and shaving/waxing is pretty normal for us for both sexes.

Historically, a pornstar named Seka was the first clean shaven woman I saw (yes it was a magazine spread). That was the 1980s and I was trimming by the 90s.

Less than 50 lbs a year. It doesn’t make any sense to manufacture in Canada and move it across the border. It’s easier to import precursors and manufacture in the US. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/politics/us-canada-trade-fentanyl-fact-check/index.html

eta: thousands of pounds move from Mexico to the US. But it’s not a factor on the Northern border. Now if you could stop smuggling guns up here that’d be real nice.

I don’t think it’s the consumer market. It’s more expensive to manufacture with physical controls, keyboards, and moving parts. It wasn’t lack of consumer demand that killed the phono jack.

I think you are overly optimistic in several points. Trump has already shown that the “ally” thing is meaningless.

We had a free trade agreement (NAFTA) that he didn’t like so he tore it up to negotiate the USMCA. Now he doesn’t like that and is threatening tariffs. As many people are asking “what use is an ally if you can’t trust them to keep their word?”. If they negotiate agreements but refuse to hold up their end of the bargain, what value is the agreement?

Trump has withdrawn from the Paris accord, is talking about withdrawing from NATO, and has threatened to withdraw from the G7 if we don’t let Russia back in.

We have mineral wealth which he is very interested in right now, and a claim to large sections of the North that are becoming valuable for shipping, and which we are not able to defend. So yeah, we are in a bit of trouble. Blithely ignoring the issues is not helpful at this time.