
Where I grew up, pornography was difficult to obtain. Most respectable newsagents would not stock it, and even the unrespectable ones would not sell it to thirteen year-old boys. There was, however, a magazine called Health and Efficiency that boys at my school would sometimes get hold of. This was not pornography but a nudist or naturist magazine. It still exists:
http://henaturist.net
When I saw Health and Efficiency as a teenager, all or almost all the pictures were in black and white. And most of the women in the pictures were unshaven everywhere - natural women. If I close my eyes and summon up the sexiest image I can think of, I am probably channelling some photograph from Health and Efficiency in 1973: a woman, small-breasted but with stubby, large nipples, lying on her back, perhaps on a rock by the sea or in a field of grass; her arms are stretched out above her head, and in each armpit is a thick tuft of dark hair, matching the triangle of hair at her crotch. That hair runs up in a thinning line to her navel, down the top of her thighs. She is quite slender, long-legged, tanned, slightly masculine in appearance somehow. I think of her as European or Scandinavian, and impossible to attain.
Z does not shave her armpits [Z to A]. The discovery of that fact the first time that we met, when she came to my office to watch me jerk off, made the whole episode much more thrilling. D let the hair under her arms grow last winter, and so turned her armpits into a highly erogenous zone - a sensitization that survived her shaving them again for the past summer. She is now letting the hair grow, and matches my Health and Efficiency-derived fantasy image closely: the small, pert breasts with big nipples, the narrow waist, wide hips, long legs, the hair under her arms and at her crotch. D is a relatively hairy woman, and as far as I am concerned she can let all the hair grow. Her ass, with black hairs creeping between her legs and up her ass-cheeks, is extremely sexy to me. So too is the fine down that covers much of her body.
F, a little more reluctantly, has also been letting the hair grow under her arms. C tends to be lazy about shaving her armpits once the weather is cooler. So right now I am enjoying three different women au naturel, though both D and and F are more willing than C to heighten the sex-appeal by forgoing deodorant. Going down on D's armpit while fucking her can trigger orgasm for her, and for me the smell of her sweat is extremely exciting and arousing. For F there is less of an erotic charge, and so there is less in it for me as well. With C, who is really just being lazy, it is only mildly erotic.

I was never much of a fan of Julia Roberts until the photograph above made the rounds, typically with a fair amount of 'Yuck!' as accompaniment. Since then, I confess, I have jerked off looking at the picture a few times. Such is the erotic power of armpit hair. Would that power decline, if more women followed in Julia's footsteps? I don't think so. Thanks to Health and Efficiency, my predelictions are set. I wish all women were as Julia is (or was - for who knows whether she went home and shaved afterwards, vowing never to be caught out like that again).
