It’s easy to think that, when it comes to women’s bodies, hairlessness has always been the Western beauty ideal. But combing through history, you’ll find plenty of evidence to the contrary. 18th- and 19th-century lovers, for example, would gift each other locks of their pubic hair, which were encased in jewellery, carried around in trinket boxeshellip;read more raquo;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;View Gallery (9 images)nbsp;