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77pt77
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Gustave Courbet’s ‘Origin of the World’, 19th Cent...
There's so much hair by today's standard that you can barely see anything.
DataWorker
on Dec 17, 2020
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The hair is a thing in itself in some cultures.
HarryHirsch
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Yes. It's important to remember that the person who commissioned the painting was a Muslim, and in Islam both men and women are supposed to shave their genital area and underarms, because that's their proper state, according to islamic belief.
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