It is likely that America might eventually have gotten around to a taste for buffed bodies, depilation, white lilies, spare interiors and designer underwear if there had never been a Fire Island Pines circa 1981.
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Kapparis has argued that both of these punishments were intended to humiliate the adulterer by feminising them, as depilation was a standard part of a female beauty regimen in Classical Athens, and being penetrated was associated with femininity.
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In the film's funniest sequence, Melling oversees a heroic government-supervised makeover, performed in an empty airplane hangar by a crack team of hairdressers, make-up daubers and experts in the art of depilation.
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Her name is Phyllis, and she is a paragon, all lissome contours, silky hair and poreless " skin, " oil-heated so as to be warm to the touch . " Not only were her limbs satin smooth and would never need depilation or know scars, but they would stay in that condition, " her creator exults.
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After some initial ribbing, the guys at the bus depot started having their eyebrows shaped as well, and Reyes has moved on to more advanced levels of grooming : biweekly manicures, seaweed body wraps and a no-holds-barred depilation of his back and shoulders . " There ain't no shame in looking clean, " said Reyes, who is 35 and works for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority . " We're not in the Dark Ages anymore ."
