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Shaving, Anal sex and Free Will

21 Dec 2022 · 2 min

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In this monologue, the speaker reflects on personal grooming choices, arguing that while growing a beard is a natural, passive process, the decision to shave—especially body and pubic hair—is driven by societal pressures rather than genuine personal preference. Citing a student named Suzanne Noble, the speaker links the prevalence of shaved pubic hair and other sexual practices, such as anal sex, to the influence of pornography, suggesting that these behaviors may be performed against one's better judgment. The talk culminates in a broader philosophical question about the extent of free will, proposing that many choices labeled as "personal" are actually responses to socially and politically constructed demands.

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I was once asked why I choose to grow a beard, and the question is the wrong way around. I don't choose to grow it, it just grows. The real question is why people choose to shave their beards off. And the same can be said for pubic hair as well. It is not natural, as some student Suzanne Noble said to me once in a lecture, for people to shave their bodily hair, arms and legs and pubic hair, it is not simply a personal choice but is the result of a system of social pressure that emerges from, amongst other things, pornography. Not the beard, of course, but the shaved pubic hair emerges from the pornography. And it has become entirely natural, as people see it, to shave your pubic hair and to indulge in other practices that emerge from pornography, and perhaps indulge in them against your better knowledge against your better will, uh, for example, and such as anal sex. And I think we have to ask the question about how much free will we actually have, and what we think of as personal choice may well be just the following a demand that is set socially and politically.