Hair and Loathing

Hair and Loathing is a podcast - not to be confused with Fear and Loathing - the classic novel by Hunter S. Thompson. So if you’re hoping for some wild drug fueled journey across Aotearoa, you’ve sadly been misled. But this is still a high intensity, slightly painful story, with occasional drug use (paracetamol) and some profanity.

Episodes

Hairy Areas - Top to Toe with Petra Bagust

October 19, 2023 • 72 mins

Petra Bagust (Grey Areas) and Charlotte Cook (Hair And Loathing) share intimate details and personal stories about different parts of their bodies and how their hair impacts their everyday lives.

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Bushy beavers and bald Brazilians

March 14, 2022 • 23 mins

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.

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Culture, colonisation and the short and curlies

March 14, 2022 • 26 mins

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, presented and produced by Charlotte Cook, she looks at the cultural and religious aspects of body hair.

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Hirsute and Horny!

March 14, 2022 • 25 mins

Hair and Loathing is presented and produced by Charlotte Cook. In Episode 2 she 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.

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From peach fuzz to nipple beards

March 14, 2022 • 26 mins

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.

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Hair and Loathing is coming your way!

February 28, 2022 • 1 min

Hair and Loathing is a new podcast series presented and produced by Charlotte Cook, and takes an inside look at why women maintain a 'barely there' look to satisfy the status quo and why some women are pushing back in the fight to keep their short and curlies front and centre.

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Hair and Loathing

Episodes

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Culture, colonisation and the short and curlies

Hirsute and Horny!

From peach fuzz to nipple beards

Hair and Loathing is coming your way!

Popular Podcasts

Hairy Areas - Top to Toe with Petra Bagust

Bushy beavers and bald Brazilians