I’m posting this from a lakeside vacation cabin in a remarkably rural, non-trendy part of the north-eastern seaboard. I overheard my partner mentioning to another woman here that she had to trim a little more than usual for her new swimsuit. The other woman, a women’s health practitioner, said that in her local, equally rural practice at least half and maybe more of the local women she sees are shaving now, and added that it’s really taken off in the last three years.

This may come as no surprise to folks from urburbs and suburbs where alt-weeklies seem to get most of their advertising revenue from lazer hair removal shops, but if people here are doing it too then I think it’s pretty remarkable out here where the alt-weekly is far more likely to be “The Logger’s Gazette” than something like the “Boston Phoenix.”