adma
Superstar
You're missing the point. Your finding of waxed pubes 'unreal' or fake or superficial is just as unsupportable as someone finding the reverse. You're just using your own conservatism as a universal standard then judging any deviation from it as immature or somehow less able. It's not at all the case that a man or woman who doesn't like grinding their genitals against a scour pad is "incompetent in 'taking in'" the situation. They're just as capable of taking it in as you are, they just reached conclusions you haven't.
Though the funny thing re your framing such insistence as 50s-style repression is: such scour-pad sexuality is *not* commonly associated w/the 50s--it's associated w/the dense, musty, hedonistic, boom-chikka 70s. The repressive 50s, in fact, tried to deny scour pads existed.
And indeed, it may be no coincidence that it was also the 70s that saw the hyper-embrace of the, er, dense, musty realm of heritage and existing built environments. Something was metaphorically "in the air" then--if it weren't for the 70s, we wouldn't have to be dealing w/these warehouses as "heritage".
With that in mind, keep in mind that the rejection of 70s hairy sexuality has less to do with it being oppressive/repressive a la 50s, than with its being somehow diseased and gross, associated w/everything from the Polanski case to the rise of AIDS. Which of course, compounds the "impracticality" to a certain modern-day perspective...