u/Zeuvembie

I mean, I imagine after 4-8 weeks on board ship crossing the Atlantic, eating mostly salt pork, hardtack, and small beer, has to be fairly binding. Presumably there would be at least a few folks that required medical assistance to resume normal operations. So...what options were available? Were there any effective medicines available, or are we talking about dried, hollowed-out gourds for enemas?

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Liam Sharp's Kickstarter campaign for his Conan portfolio just went live. I know a lot of members in this subreddit have expressed admiration for his Conan art, so you may be interested in this too. Personally, (along with Rob De La Torre) Liam is my favorite modern Conan artist and I am thrilled for the chance to obtain a portfolio with some of his amazing Conan drawings...

FROM THE KICKSTARTER: "In April this year, Liam Sharp was invited to create a unique exclusive portfolio for the Lake Como Comic Art Festival. The result was this already-iconic set of Conan prints, the originals of which were featured in a hugely popular exhibition at the show.

The pieces were representations of classic scenes from Robert E.Howard's Conan the Barbarian stories - a character Liam has adored since he was a young boy - and are as close to canon as the artist could get them based on the texts..."

I was re-watching Home Alone (1990) (as one does during a heat wave in August), and got to the joke about French girls not shaving their pits, and that led my mind down other avenues about other bits that weren't often shaved in the first half of the 20th century but which became much more common in the second half.

So why is that? Did WWII inspire greater shaving for hygenic reasons, or to accommodate new styles of clothing like the bikini, or what?