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Women in ancient Egypt removed body hair by plucking it with proto-tweezers crafted from seashells. The ancient Greeks burned it off, while Romans used pumice stones to rub it away. Centuries later, at the Manhattan salon J Sisters, Brazilian-born experts spread their gospel of pubic hairlessness via body waxing. The popularity of the no-hair-left-behind Brazilian wax peaked in the early aughts when Carrie Bradshaw famously experienced the agony of one on “Sex and the City.” The desire to rid our bodies of hair is certainly not…