Hair and Loathing

Hair and Loathing

It's a natural part of a woman's life but millions is spent every year to get rid of it. Dig into the controversial, personal, peculiar, furry world of female body hair.

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February 28, 2022 1 min

Hair and Loathing is a new podcast series presented and produced by Charlotte Cook, and takes an inside look at why women maintain a 'barely there' look to satisfy the status quo and why some women are pushing back in the fight to keep their short and curlies front and centre.

Body hair is something we've all got, the girls, the guys, the gays and the theys. Most people can remember getting their first pubic hair: sometimes it ...

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Welcome to Hair and Loathing, a new four-part podcast series about women and body hair. Yep, we are talking bums, boobs, thighs, toes and tummies. You name it, it's probably got some hair on it! In this first episode, presenter Charlotte Cook, digs deep to find out body hair can become an overwhelming issue for young women in a society that has for so long promoted a 'barely there' aesthetic.

It's a prickly subject, sure to ra...

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March 13, 2022 25 mins

In Episode 2 Charlotte takes a look at what it means to be hairy when it comes time to get your kit off in front of someone else. Questions around sex and intimacy - and whether to maintain some fur - or be bold and beautiful with your hair down there, at front and centre in Hirsute and Horny.

By Charlotte Cook

Just like hair that you shave, it comes back. And so do I, with a second episode of Hair and Loathing.

Yes, it's still...

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March 13, 2022 26 mins

Toes, tummies, upper lips, gorilla hands, chins and everywhere in-between...hair! It's everywhere! And some of it, for good reason. Others, not so much. In this third episode of Hair and Loathing Charlotte Cook finds out about hormones, treatments and the journey for transwomen.

Toes, tummies, upper lips, gorilla hands, chins and everywhere in-between...hair! It's everywhere. And some of it, for good reason. Others, not so much...

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Western women have been pushed around by powerful marketing for around a century to maintain the hairless beauty standard, but that's not the same for all ethnicities. In episode four Charlotte Cook looks at the cultural and religious aspects of body hair.

By Charlotte Cook

Society for hundreds of years has told women to be hairless.

Until recently women are rarely ever shown with any hairy bits anywhere in the media. I certainly ne...

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October 18, 2023 72 mins

Petra Bagust (Grey Areas) and Charlotte Cook (Hair And Loathing) share intimate details and personal stories about different parts of their bodies and how their hair impacts their everyday lives.

Watch the video version of the episode here

If you've ever wondered why people want lovely long eyelashes and hair - but are not so keen on the monobrow or the dreaded sign of salt and pepper ageing - we might just have the podcast for ...

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