You’ll have to forgive me if you knew about this particular invention, I’ve just recently found out of it’s existence! I’m talking about a concept so out there, and yet so obvious that it actually makes perfect sense now that I know about it. I’m talking about the wig. Not the one that goes on your head…but the one that goes down there. It’s called a merkin.

I was curious to find out of its origins, so I did a little  research on the oh-so-trustworthy internet. Good’ol Wikipedia told me that it was originally used by prostitutes and eventually made its way to the mainstream. Due to the nature of their jobs and the lack of contraception that prevented disease (aka Condoms) at the time, they were subject to all manner of afflictions. The sexually transmitted variety. So, to hide their pubic lice and any other visible signs of infection that clung to their pubic hair, they elected to shave it all off. Unlike in our modern times, gentlemen of that era did not insist that women come to them looking like the day they were born, in fact, proof of your “womanhood” was necessary, and so it came that the ever resourceful working girls made a plan. Like any good Boer would. Hence the birth of the pubic wig or the merkin.

Nowadays, it has a somewhat more respectable use in Hollywood. Actresses that appear in period pieces and have to appear nude in scenes use the vagina wig so as to look more authentic to the era before Brazilian waxes were the standard.

So there… I was more educated today, and I hope you were too. Aside from the cases I stated above, I’m also going to trust you to come up with your own err…creative way to use this fabulous invention. Wink, nudge etc