70s bush envy

People who are calling it vile and grim
it’s sad to see you so conditioned to what society thinks is acceptable whilst men don’t have to do any down there gardening and no one bats an eyelid.

You attach it to a nude g-string with glue.

(I only know this because I used to work in the theatre - not from personal experience!)

@MoonWoman69 , that is one of the most beautiful and funny things I have ever read. You are one witty woman.

I hear you OP. My pubic hair has always been very disappointing. No amount of careful trimming has ever made it look neat and cared for, just wild and a bit sparse (I do have a good, thick head of hair up top though so I'm grateful for that).

I just mow the borders but the bush grows free. Age has led to a few patchy bits but I am experimenting with a comb over.

It’s honestly disgusting that getting a wax because you prefer it makes you and your partner pedophiles in some peoples opinions on here 😬🤣

It would be offensive if it wasn’t laughable. We are all presumably adults with adult genitalia and the thought that anyone one heres partners could confuse that for that of a child just because it’s bald is ridiculous. Just because you don’t understand the thought process or couldn’t see yourself doing it doesn’t make women that do like it ‘conforming to Mens ideals’ or ‘pedophile tendency’s’.
Honestly 🤣
P.S I get a rash and really sore broken skin when my hair grows so I get that pubic hair has a purpose but it doesn’t for me 🤣

It seems a few do. When I last went to have my chin waxed (oh, the shame!) the technician told me her oldest client is over 80 and has a Hollywood. She was very indiscreet and told me there was nothing there but she still keeps going and they don’t want to upset her! She also told me she hasn’t got many very young clients.

Wait… are 70’s bushes back in then (sorry not read the whole thread but loving what I have read!!)
I knew I’d come back into fashion in one way or another!!!
Love my hairy bush!!

Totally agree, it’s horrible to make these accusations. I don’t shave my legs to look like a baby so why is it any different on my bikini line? I just don’t like hair there, I don’t like the feel of it, never have. I don’t give two hoots about fashion or what men want.

Only on Mumsnet!

Exactly! It’s what feels comfortable to you, if that means no hair (like me) then that’s fine, it has nothing to do with men whatsoever and I don’t want to look like a child 🙄. So shaming on this post.

If you think that having a hairless vulva makes any woman look like a baby or a child then you are seriously lacking in thinking skills.

In fact, the emphasis that you and posters like you have put on women trying to look like children gives me serious 'ick'. It is also true that convicted paedophiles are only the tip of the iceberg. Give that some thought when you and other posters refer to your partners' views in this respect.

Men don't search for images of children/very young women, no. Not at all. Not all of them anyway. Ugh.

Of course it’s not! It’s just some women like to feel more smooth and clean - it has nothing to do with looking like a baby ffs - that’s a disgusting thing to accuse someone of.

This! No need to shame anyone who chooses either way or somewhere in between. It bothers me that people get so het up about how it’s natural to have hair and not to judge them then accuse people who do prefer no hair of looking like children (which is absurd).

@TheLadyofShalotts Excellent pair of points and bloody well made.

It's far healthier to keep your pubic hair. I dont anymore because 4 c sections caused a massive baldy patch in the middle with sparse hair around it! In my youth it was thick lush and Auburn. 🤗. It helps protect you from disease, namely sexually transmitted ones as well

Almost got tea up my nose laughing at this.

I've never understood this mentality of grown adult women being bald down there for themselves or their partners. To me if you make it bald and smooth it's going back to being a baby and child and why would any adult male or female want their partner to look like a child down there unless they are a wrongen that's into that kind of thing? Your basically telling your partner that u like when they look like a child down there and that gives me major ick and I'd be checking your hardrives. On the other hand I do shave my "spiders legs" as my partner calls my bikini line but only when I am going to be putting on a bikini or swimsuit I.e when going on holiday but that's it my partner loves my bush.

Quick question tho, why if you've been so influenced by porn, have you not been influenced to grow your hair out by your radical feminist gender non conforming peer group of 30 years?

😀 it’s funny- it’s almost like I have my own personal (physical) reasons to deal with my own cunt the way I want to…

and funnily enough only on mumsnet is ‘feminism’ so utterly lacking in intersectionality that people presume to tell a disabled, wheelchair using and intimate care receiving women that not only is she wrong about her motivations for managing her body, she is actually wrong about the kind of care it needs.

You can take care of yourself without removing all the hair barely anyone sees anyway. Taking care of yourself doesn't mean removing hair to make your bits look like a prepubescent tween.

I agree.

The pressure is very real- and fashion is obviously real.

But there are also other factors that influence how people manage their own bodies which are not patriarchy or fashion related.

I do something with my body hair which is apparently what men prefer women to do- I fully accept that. But it’s a coincidence.

The women who can conceive of NO OTHER REASON TO DO SOMETHING OTHER THAN IT BEING WHAT MEN PREFER are the ones centring the male gaze in their thinking- I’m just managing my complicated intimate care the way that works for me. Men’s tastes don’t enter into my thinking at all.

It would be interesting to see a graph of age and public hair, surely older women don't bother, although I may be wrong

Funny, we're both raging lesbians who remove our own hair but are perfectly happy with whatever anyone else wants to do with theirs, including sexual partners, being repeatedly told that we're slaves to porn despite the fact that we've been binning our hair off since well before the internet proliferated the porn the we don't watch throughout society. 😂

Quick question tho, why if you've been so influenced by porn, have you not been influenced to grow your hair out by your radical feminist gender non conforming peer group of 30 years?

And having a natural bush is not taking care of yourself?

I'll fight with people if I want cheers.