Hair removal has been practiced by humans of most cultures throughout history.

Cultures that idealized femininity and smoothness in all genders - such as some indigenous peoples of Pre-Columbian North America - used heated bees wax to remove hair from all areas of the body. In many of these cultures their religious leaders, the shamans - who were born men but with feminine attributes - attained a state of not being male or female, in one way, by practicing hair removal with wax! Some sources suggest that waxing was first developed by these people millennia before our common era.
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