I'm fed up with being told hairy is bad.

What pees me off (as well as hairy fannies apparently being unacceptable these days) is that girls (and boys) now think that body hair on a female is unnatural!

IT ISN'T! Body hair (often a lot more than you might think) is present on all of us. I have it on my legs and up my tummy as well as the Usual Places. And there it stays.

I clear my inner thighs if I'm going to be wearing a bathing costume, just because I don't want people to think I have a wolverine tuned into my knickers, but other than that (and I admit to waxing my moustache when I start to look like Stalin) I leave it. I was a lot more self-conscious about it when I had less (i.e. when my lady hormones were still in action and fighting valiantly against the sea of fur creeping all over my body). I am, and always have been a hairy lady, so, alas, is my daughter. So was my grannie - my mam and my sisters missed out on the gorilla gene somehow.

In many cultures it is still considered sexy. Apparently.

I think it's an age thing - it definitely didn't seem like a big deal not to shave when I was in my 20s, so maybe I'm just stuck there. I'm always at the idea of men shaving their bits, surely a bit of furriness is part of the experience?

I shaved under my arms briefly in my mid teens, but haven't owned a razor or shaved anything in the last 30 yrs or so, though do a little trimming of pubic hair on occasion with nail scissors. I can honestly say that no-one has ever commented on it.

Normally shave my legs, but was in rush Fri and went out with pale, hairy legs. Nobody noticed and I forgot about it while out.

I'll do some general.maintenance, but I'm just too old/don't get purposely bald fanjos....

@FurryDogMother

Isnt there an electrical shaver to help with it? Its reason why i tend to dislike manual shaving blades. But nothing wrong if one likes to live like that. I dont think too much about it :D

I shaved my legs once, 40 years ago, and managed to cut my shin. 'Fuck this for a game of soldiers' I thought, and have never shaved anything since. No one has ever mentioned my general hairiness, not once. Shave, or don't shave, your choice, no one but you will really be bothered (and perhaps certain DHs - in this case, DH doesn't stand for 'dear husband').

I am a male. I shave it all off because its comfortable. I guess it depends what lifestyle you like. If some dont like it then thats their thing, i wouldnt really overthink this stuff on what other thinks. People think this and that but that doesnt mean you have to agree with everything other says.

Has anyone else watched naked attraction? I was very surprised how much pubic topiary the men were doing. So much so that In the episode I watched they commented that one man had a full bush. I hoped there'd be less pressure for women to shave, not more pressure for both to be less hairy!

I can't say I have ever really noticed how hairy a another woman's legs are and even if I did notice I certainly wouldn't think anything

I always wear dresses. I shave my legs once a week if I will be bare legged or wearing sheer tights ; much less frequently if it is opaque tights weather. I'm presumably a brain washed idiot for doing so, if I am, I don't care. I would however not notice if someone else had shaved or not.

Actually that's not strictly true - it would depend on the rest of the outfit. If the woman was very glammed up at a wedding or black tie event and it was obvious I probably would notice but wouldn't spend time pondering on it or why. If it's just casually out and about in shorts or on a beach it would not register.

It's ridiculous that we feel we have to shave our legs really. I used to defend it to myself by saying it was my choice and that I shaved because I prefer the look of my legs without hair. But that's nonsense really. We only prefer it because we've been brought up thinking that leg hair looks wrong on women. If it were the norm for women to have hairy legs, and it was considered weird to shave off your hair, we'd all be hairy. Maybe there should be an MN hairy leg club!

I go out without shaving loads, underarm, legs I don't give a shiny shit. I'm in London too!

I'm in awe of the hairy club site that was posted! I feel quite inadequate now, I don't have the genes to grow that amount of leg hair

I generally wax my legs, but my beautician was away recently and I went 8 weeks with gradually more and more hairy legs, but it's so hot here I just flopped about in shorts anyway. No one died. My husband has never noticed the presence or absence of hair, he doesn't give a bollocks.

Your husband is very mean to say you're disgusting.

Does anyone else get razor bumps??
Horrible minging itchy spots constantly err feel so self conscious me that's why I hate shaving

Viloot I would say dp is hair loving as such, he just respects my choice that it's my body so my choice, I also don't dictate to him about his pubic hair. He's in the forces and they shower in groups and actually other men say to him "gosh didn't your Mrs mind you not grooming your pubic hair" its never said exactly like that, as you can imagine and he just replies no why would she?

We just have a relationship where your pubes are your own and it's up to you, it's such an intimate and sensitive area, I'd rather be comfortable as does he.

He also only ever says anything about my leg hair when it's at that prickly growing back stage, he says it hurts him

So your husband shaves his legs, does he? He must, because otherwise he's a total hypocrite who should be ashamed of himself. And his disgusting hairy legs.

My legs are hairier than some men's, and my only regret is that I don't own enough shorts to show them off.
I tend to want to cover most of my skin to spite patriarchy, but then, hairy legs don't spite just Western patriarchy, they also annoy Islamists. Two birds with one stone, so to speak.
(I know merely annoying sexist men doesn't actually achieve much, but it is easier to do than, I don't know, blowing up post boxes or whatever the suffragists did back then.)

I'm 26 and don't give a shit

Also DP prefers pubic hair on a woman, which is refreshing.

Thank you for the tumblr link. I very rarely shave or wax, because I get terrible ingrown hairs, but I NEVER go out with hairy legs on show. I know I shouldn't care and I don't know why I do care. I definitely need to think about this more because objectively it's just hair, and I don't even notice if there is hair on someone else's legs. And it's definitely just my issue, DH couldn't care less.

Firstly thanks for linking the hairy leg club. I love it.
This post has really made me think, I've been leaving my bikini after years of going full Hollywood since my early twenties. I started to really question why I was doing it. I hadn't thought about legs tbh but now I am thinking about why society expects it and why I conform.
Your legs look fine no one will notice.

And I agree, your DH telling you that your leg hair is disgusting makes him sound like an immature child.

A bit of moisturiser wouldn't go amiss though

I used to shave my legs but just can't be arsed . My legs are hairy , I don't care ! This pic doesn't show them very well though.

Hairy fuckers unite !

I don't shave anything.

I don't give a shit what people think anymore.

If they don't like my hairy legs, then they are perfectly entitled to stop looking at them.

Thankfully, I am now over 40, so have become almost completely invisible, except to fuckheads who seem to think that telling me that I'm fat will come as news to me.

Oh and your DH saying it's disgusting, that's just horrible.

I hate it too. And people say 'oh, I shave my legs because I prefer it'. Well maybe but wouldn't it be fantastic to see women with hairy legs occasionally and feel that it's an optional thing? I even feel self-conscious after I've shaved about the tiny black hair dots which no one else seems to have! Can some of you who don't bother move to London?