Day 4 Blog # The Slap

Have you been watching The Slap?
It's been a long time since I've been soooo excited about a TV show.
I race around making sure the kids are in bed, kitchen's tidy, cup of tea's ready (no mean feat) so I can greedily devour this brilliant show on ABC1. You can still watch it on iview if you've missed it.

When I read The Slap, by Christos Tsiolkas a couple of years ago, I did what everyone else did, and talked about it with shining eyes over food and drinks with friends and relatives.
I've often pondered the author's talent in taking a simple premise - in this case, corporal punishment - and turning it in to a novel of such beauty and complexity. This is a book that has sparked a million conversations, ruminations, questions and judgements. I loved it!

The success of The Slap has got me thinking about how I too can take an average modern dilemma like smacking, and turn into a bestselling novel?
Then it came to me.
Pubic hair!
It's a pretty hot topic at the moment and many of us have our own perspective on the to wax or not to wax debate. Hell I've even written a whole blog about it!
So here is the synopsis for my next novel.
Please let me know your thoughts.

THE FLAP

A small gathering of friends get together in an inner suburban Melbourne backyard one Saturday afternoon for a barbeque.
All is progressing amicably enough until Sharon, (who's a bit of a party girl) wearing a short denim mini, leans too far back in her chair toppling backwards. She lands, legs akimbo, revealing one very smoothly shaven left labia in all it's gleaming glory. She'd elected to go commando on this particular day. In that moment, which seemed to span eons, her partner and 3 couples zoomed in.
The rippling effect of this event reverberates through all witnesses, having a myriad of knock-on effects.
Carol and Steve's marriage breaks up because Steve "looked for far too long and with unbridled lust in his eyes." Carol always suspected he'd had the 'hots' for Shazza. She also took it as a personal affront to her thick bushy triangle of which she was very fond.
Michael and Evie discussed the pros and cons of shaving/waxing and experimented with surprising results.
Teri and Arnold had deep and meaningful discussions concerning the appeal of a pre-pubescent look in relation to adult sexuality and what it all meant.
Sharon and Greg continued to have fun.
Various infidelities, break ups, make ups, opinions and events intertwine and play out as a result of

THE FLAP

The butterfly flapped and the cyclone roared.

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It's A Curly One

I've noticed that as young men grow more facial hair, women wax more. Instead of a bloke getting a face full of pubes, a girl gets a pussy full of face hair. Maybe there's a connection. Hmmm...

This hair removal thing has been getting up my gander for some time now. What's with it? I used to think it was a fad but its popularity is increasing.

Is porn to blame for all that waxing? It gets blamed for everything else so why not? But waxing must be worth it because women keep going back for more skinning of the cat and the results aren't always pretty. Besides the blood curdling pain, there's uncomfortable re-growth, in-grown hairs and cebaceous cysts that can get infected. A sexual health nurse friend of mine says if you've ever seen a vulva covered in red, pus-y spots as a result of waxing you'd never do it.

Yet lots of women say they love the feel of a bare mons pubis for the erotic feelings it invokes. OK, good - I'm all for that - dinner with the folks, work presentations and school pick-ups aside. And many believe and feel that it's cleaner. Many waxing websites attest to this theory, but the prevailing scientific thinking is that the purpose of pubic hair is to protect the body from germs and infections, not to increase their proliferation.

I understand that men like the feel of a clean shave (so do I) and no curlies to tickle and pull out of one's teeth must be nice too. And yeah, I can see that it's erotic for some - but so's a gimp mask, a nappy and taking it up the arse by a dominatrix with a dildo the size of double decker bus for some boys. So why the constant self-inflicted torture? If men didn't like it so much, I wonder if we'd bother? Then there's the whole little girl scenario. If you've got a young daughter it's just plain weird.

It appears that all that waxing has made men very finnicky. They're often turned off by a face full of hair and now even very young girls feel they have to comply. It's a nasty cycle. I say, 'If you don't like it, Bad Fucking Luck'! There's plenty of worse things not to like.

Personally, as you've probably guessed by now, I find a woman's bush highly erotic (although I am heterosexual so maybe it doesn't count). That flash of darkness hints of hidden delights - a true woman - spirited, sexual, mysterious, fierce.

Anyway, I've put three mannequins in the window this week with nothing on but a hairy bush. Oh the reaction!

HAIR. THE LAST TABOO.

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