70s bush envy

But you are slagging off a female body.

Im not doing that.

Yes you have. What else does this mean? But a full overgrown rainforest IS gross. A “full overgrown rainforest” is attached to a human body, isn’t it? It doesn’t exist in isolation.

According to me. I'm allowed an opinion, just like you are.

I haven't said that anyone's body is gross.

Of course I'm just stating an opinion. One of my exes had a full rainforest down there. I was frequently still finding pubes between my teeth the morning after.

Yeah, gross according to who? I don’t think they’re gross at all.

But a full overgrown rainforest IS gross. Not necessarily unhygienic but definitely gross.

Interesting that people on this site will call anything and everything misogyny but somehow this is just an opinion.

Would you say this to a child or teenage girl, that her body is gross? Would you be happy for your daughter, niece or any girl to internalise this message?

Thank goodness my bloke disagrees. He’d have had a very arid sex life for the last 24 years.

What do you mean by ‘gross’ @DagenhamDanny?

Do you understand that you’re just stating a personal opinion there and not a universal fact? Do you think it’s ok to refer to women’s natural bodies as ‘gross’?

I hope you don’t have any daughters.

But a full overgrown rainforest IS gross. Not necessarily unhygienic but definitely gross.

I'm simply responding to the poster above

It doesn't seem to be the men saying that it seems to be women saying that it's unclean.

It would seem from many posts that the only opinion that a man is allowed to have on the subject is that a bush is good. Anything else makes him a paedophile or controlling.

Having a preference is fair enough, whatever. A bush is a specific 'style'.

However,

Any man who chimes in to tell us that pubic hair in unclean, unkempt or gross can stfu, grow up and stop watching porn and leave his bedroom.

It grows back softer. Its not stubbly

I always wonder about the re growth after waxing… don’t you have to let it get to about half a cm length for the wax to work? I feel like that would be spiky?

I must be lucky with shaving because I don’t get ingrown hairs.

I love my bush!

I do tidy up the bikini line area, as I’m a very hairy person, but otherwise I’m completely natural and other than one misguided Brazilian out of curiosity (painful, itchy, never again) I always have been.

For me, it’s part of being an adult human female. But I appreciate others feel differently.

Some interesting posts on this thread.
It would seem from many posts that the only opinion that a man is allowed to have on the subject is that a bush is good. Anything else makes him a paedophile or controlling.
Another interesting point is that any woman who waxes must have been influenced by porn.
Lots of posts about ingrown hair. If you go to a decent salon this shouldn't happen.
I'm in my 50s. I was single and in my 40s when i decided to try waxing. I preferred how it felt. I've never watched porn. I'm the only one in my group of friends who waxes. I'm married now but i was already waxing before i met him. He's not bothered either way. I don't have ingrown hair because i don't use a jack of all trades beauty salon i use a waxing salon. It doesn't hurt if you keep it maintained....i noticed a big difference after lockdown. Yes that hurt a bit!
And as for the posts about fashion, just do what feels right for you. If you want a bush have one. If you want to whip it all off do that. Personally I can't think of anything worse than tackling it with a razor! But if that's what you want that's your business.

I have a full ginger bush. I don’t bother with it much as I haven’t had sex with my husband for years so there was no point. It’s fabulous not forever removing the bush. I’ve actually grown to like the 70’s look however, if I were to ever have sex again then I go from one extreme to another and used to have a tiny landing strip or full removal; I do tame it when I go on holiday or have a smear though.

Nobody has actually made the argument that its blindly good because it's natural.

Like how some people say being straight is the only way because it's natural with no further justification. That hasn't happened

People have said it is a protective barrier that prevents infections, it's a natural/normal part of a woman's body, why pay to painfully remove it
etc

I wasn't just talking about that. Using exfoliater and shampoo etc isn't natural either.

So you view removing pubic hair as enhancing personal hygiene? Why?

I've never really understood the view on here about hair removal being 'unnatural'. So is having your hair styled/coloured, wearing makeup, having your nails done, wearing nice clothes etc.

It seems some won't be happy until we're shuffling around in bear skin capes and eschewing all personal hygiene. 🤣

I think the point comes when young women are far more influenced by their friends than their mums. If my mum had seen the state of my armpits every winter she’d have been appalled, hers were always smooth but my granny never touched hers.

I tell all my girls (who are my nieces actually but I’m very involved in their upbringing) that it’s up to them what they do with their bodies, and that their bodies are functional exactly as intended in their natural state-anything else is based on what is comfortable for them in terms of aesthetics and practicality.

I also have the same discussions with my ds who is approaching puberty.

Though they’ll sometimes get stuff like that in their Christmas stocking.