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Never have, never seen a need for it. I'm heading towards 40, am I just a hairy freak? I shave legs & pits but never bikini area

But what about when you wear a bikini? Do you have a massive 'fro hanging down each leg?

I don't do it much but it's definitely necessary to do some before wearing any form of swimwear.

I used to when I was younger, but can't even find it now and I'm not even sure it's still there to shave, so I don't worry now

No I really don't. There might be a stray hair or two but I've never noticed huge pant beard.

Same here - all natural here.

Me neither but my fanjo's blonde ;)

I shaved once. Never again!

Mine is blonde too but I still make it bikini worthy, no idea why as it hasn't seen a bikini in years and I suspect it never will

So not like this then?

I trim to prevent pube overhang in a bikini

That's it

I do shave my legs/pits though (outside of wintertime)

Wafer, no definitely not.

Plenty, did you name change just for this, if so I'm honoured.

Haha no, someone misread last summer's name - PlentyOfPubGardens - and I decided it suited me

I find mine gets a bit extreme if I don't at least clip it occasionally. I shave the very edges if I'm going swimming as they are dark and stick out past my costume.

I'm half Italian. I'm very dark and ahem, hairy. Hedge trimmers are more appropriate than the lowly Bic in bikini situations here.

I have been known to wear board shorts rather than trim down there

In the thigh area I'm basically a hobbit.

Lucky you!

A trim is as far as I go. Don't do my legs either but I do do my pits.

Nope I have never shaved either- there is no overhang.

The top half of the area was shaved for me for emc, that was horribleand scratchy.

I trim on the very odd occasion I have to don a swimsuit.

Other than that I am too lazy and I'm certainly not getting my bits out for someone else to wax! No way, not ever <shudders>

I have done it for a couple of years. Started when I first went abroad at 16/17 and I didn't want spider legs hanging out of my bikini bottoms. I thought Id just veet around the sides. It went wrong and the whole lot fell off!

Mine overhangs the edge of a swimming costume. Is not attractive. So I remove it.

Nope, don't do anything.

I don't know if I would if I was really hairy - like 70s porn hairy - but I don't really have much to start with. It's like that old gardening saying - "nowt much grows in t'shade"

And I only wear costumes with the skirt on, so that's not an issue either.

i am surprised that people will allow someone to pour hot wax onto their genitals, attack them with a sharp blade or cover them in chemicals to get rid of a bit of hair.

I am luckily fairly neat in the ol lady garden area, but I do need a tiny trim at the sides for swimsuits.

I have tried trims and a bit of undercarriage shaving as an experiment when I was much much younger. My dp at the time was horrified.

In summary I cannot claim to have left it entirely alone but I have hardly meddled with it much in nearly 40 years .

My philosophy is, if a garment doesn't do what it's supposed to, the garment is at fault, not my body - hence I have a nice sporty tankini with enough leggage to cover my luxuriant growth. I like the board shorts solution too.

How daft that ordinary swimsuits don't cover normal pubic hair.