But why do we recoil at the sight of a few follicles? When and why did women begin to strip hair from their bodies, anyway?
Historians are unable to pinpoint the first group of women to remove body hair, said Victoria Sherrow, author of "Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History." Women in ancient Egypt used beeswax and depilatories made from an alkali, like quicklime, to remove leg hair, she said. Ancient Romans and Greeks used pumice to remove body hair.
"Some cultures regarded it as uncivilized, since body hair appears on animal bodies," said Sherrow. "The idea of a hairless body for American women developed between 1915 and 1945."
Many attribute the kickoff in 1915 to Gillette's Milady Decollete, "the first razor designed and marketed specifically for women, and was billed in the extensive national advertising campaign as the 'safest and most sanitary method of acquiring a smooth underarm,' " according to author Russell B. Adams Jr. in "King C. Gillette: The Man and His Wonderful Shaving Device."
The movement also took hold as sleeveless dresses and sheerer fabrics became fashionable and hemlines rose. Safety razors were also produced en masse.
"As the middle class grew, women's lives increasingly became defined by spending power and habits," wrote Jennifer Scanlon, professor of gender and women's studies at Bowdoin College, in her book "Inarticulate Longings: The Ladies' Home Journal, Gender, and the Promises of Consumer Culture."
It was the perfect storm for advertisers as magazines like Ladies' Home Journal and Harper's Bazaar flooded homes, not only informing, but shaping women's concepts of beauty.
"You see this kind of transformation of the female body — that women are increasingly to be looked at," Scanlon said of advertisements at the time. "There's sort of the promise that more and more women can gain access to beauty if they engage in these practices (like) shaving their armpits."
While engaging in such practices was synonymous with femininity, during the 1970s and 1980s, not engaging in them became the "litmus test of feminism," Scanlon said.
But since that time, 'going bald below' gained more steam as bikinis became teeny-weeny.
The only answer I can think of is to make it a more enjoyable experience for the other person that is rimming him and penetrating him. But I cannot see what advantage it is to Eric. Perhaps Eric can enlighten us, lol. 
it just never occurred to me that's all.