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hand. Across the page the "child's" shaved genitalia and woman's
"breasts peep out from under a pure white lace apron, and the body
is photographically "decapitated" and limbless. Such "sexual"
decapitation is not unusual in reality. Penthouse is more
glamorous in its child-orieited shaved genitalia display. The
pink image here of a woman using a straight- edged razor to remove
her pubic hair is part of a long and elegant photo essay.
Larry Flynt, the publisher of ~ ! ~ , testified on September
20, 1977 to the House Subcommittee on Crime. He revealed that
readers expressed their desire for children via requests for
shaved genitalia. This fact corroborates other empirical and
common sense observations and may be viewed as viable professional
information from the sex industry. Said Flynt:
Pornography is my business. And I have over iO million
readers of my magazine, it is a combined readership,
over 50 million. The majority of the letters that come
into my magazine are from people that would like to see
photographs of shaved genitalia. What they are really
asking for is photographs of children, but they can't
come out and say it. There are millions of those dirty
old men out there, and legislation Is not going to help
it, it is going to make it worse.
Gentlemen, i.n all due respect, I submit that there
are millions, not a handful, millions of people out
there that are turned on by children and want to see
them sexually exploited (p. 262).
P!~Z~RZ's (October 1979) article on the multiple sex
murderer, Gary Gilmore, Identifies the child lure of the shaved
female genitalia. Norman Mailer described Gilmore's tragic life,
including his sexual history, pedophillac activities, and his
preference for hairless genitalia:
Gary
knew
pussy
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asked Nicole to shave her pubic hair ... she
it had something to do with being a six-year old
once more...Gar 7 was fooling with ml.nors...(p.
[See Slides 53A & 53B] Photographs of adult models whose
pubic hair has been both radically thinned and partially removed
are now common across all three magazines. Such "sparse" adult
growth may be seen as a~subtle or blatant adolescent arousal cue
and may reasonably be viewed as similarly understood by adu~ and
juvenile male and female readers [See slides 54A &54B].
Hustler (February, 1978), portrayed a twelve-page photo essay
linking shaved genitalia and execution. This sequence shows a
young woman arrested, shaved, enjoying sex with her jailor and
then electrocuted. Hustler presented the nude woman in shadow,
except for a full frontally lit depiction of her shaved genitalia.
"Poof!" was inscribed on the opposite page [See Slides 55A
5~a].