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Thanks to the devoted reader who sent Dawn a clip from the Midwood High School paper The Argus entitled "Personal Grooming Goes Down Under" which labeled pubic hair "a problem most teenage males struggle with today."

Now, Dawn has never thought of public hair as a problem to be struggled with (unless unobtrusively removing the occasional curly caught between teeth during enthusiastic fellatio counts as a "struggle"), but evidently many of today's teen boys feel the need to engage in "manscaping." The Argus notes that one junior boy called shaving his nether region "fun," saying he carves out "hearts, lightning bolts or the Charlie Chaplin." A junior girl said she tells her boyfriend to shave his pubic hair because "it's physically more appealing."

Following the modern paradigm, the student-penned article curtseys both to medicine (with a warning from the school nurse about ingrown hairs) and to religion (with a discussion about the religious mandates regarding hair removal).

The otherwise captivating piece did not, regrettably, include any photographs or sketches....