Hair and Loathing

Welcome to Hair and Loathing, a new four-part podcast series about women and body hair. Yep, we are talking bums, boobs, thighs, toes and tummies. You name it, it's probably got some hair on it! In this first episode, presenter Charlotte Cook, digs deep to find out body hair can become an overwhelming issue for young women in a society that has for so long promoted a 'barely there' aesthetic.

In Episode 2 Charlotte takes a look at what it means to be hairy when it comes time to get your kit off in front of someone else. Questions around sex and intimacy - and whether to maintain some fur - or be bold and beautiful with your hair down there, at front and centre in Hirsute and Horny.

Toes, tummies, upper lips, gorilla hands, chins and everywhere in-between...hair! It's everywhere! And some of it, for good reason. Others, not so much. In this third episode of Hair and Loathing Charlotte Cook finds out about hormones, treatments and the journey for transwomen.

Western women have been pushed around by powerful marketing for around a century to maintain the hairless beauty standard, but that's not the same for all ethnicities. In episode four Charlotte Cook looks at the cultural and religious aspects of body hair.