The work, presumably a visual narrative, likely situates its characters—women who have chosen to retain their bodily hair—in classic Christmas tableaux: unwrapping gifts, trimming trees, gathering by the fire. By refusing to remove the "uncomfortable" evidence of their biology, these figures invert the holiday gaze. The viewer is forced to ask: why is a natural armpit more shocking than a tinsel-covered room? The answer lies in what sociologist Breanne Fahs calls "the moral panic of female hair"—a panic that reaches its peak during seasons of heightened aesthetic expectation.
Christmas is a ritual of surfaces: the glossy tree, the polished ornaments, the smooth skin of models in holiday advertisements. For decades, women in Western holiday media have been presented as hairless, scented, and softly lit—a sanitary ideal that divorces the human body from its natural processes. Against this backdrop, the adjective "hairy" becomes an act of defiance. Private Society, known for producing content centered on natural bodies, likely uses the 2023 release to exploit the tension between Christmas (a time of artificial perfection) and "hairiness" (a sign of the real, the uncurated, the untamed). A Very Hairy Christmas -Private Society- 2023 W...
The "Private Society" moniker itself invites analysis. Unlike mainstream studios, Private Society markets exclusivity through authenticity rather than fantasy. Their 2023 Christmas special likely continues their thesis: that eroticism or beauty does not require erasure. The "W..." in the title may hint at "Winter" or "Wonderland," but the ellipsis suggests an incomplete project—or perhaps an intentional gap, forcing the audience to confront their own assumptions about what a "Christmas special" should contain. The work, presumably a visual narrative, likely situates
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