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In being surprised that apparently 98% of UK women under 25 have no pubic hair at all?

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Longstocking2 · 04/01/2011 23:52

Is that true?

A friend who is a practice nurse says she presumes it's just a fashion. None of her women under 25 who come for smear tests have any pubic hair.. all shaved, shorn, waxed to nada.

Obviously that's fine but it seems a little universal to me. Aren't there any rebels out there?
Is it just for the boys they do it?

Does the image not come from porn originally?

{shock]
Confused
would love to be enlightened!
Clearly I'm over 25 Grin

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sarah293 · 05/01/2011 11:32

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SnowyGonzalez · 05/01/2011 11:32

What in God's name constitutes "a pretty fanny"?!

Evildead, I'd probably have to trawl through the whole thread and re-read those posts, which I can't be arsed to do! I certainly don't see influence as being synonymous with stupidity/ gullibility. And even less so when we're talking about young folks who are still finding their way around the world and working out who they want to be.

smallwhitecat · 05/01/2011 11:34

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violetwellies · 05/01/2011 11:35

Its not just pre pubescent - if you wait long enough it will probably all fall out - or at least get sparse enough to pluck. - Anyone else ever worked in an Old Peoples home :)?

If Im going to be out and about in a bikini - (highly unlikely) then yes lower legs and bikini wax - because I dont feel that pubic hair should be public and Ive got feather loke a Shire Horse. Otherwise bog off - Boys (mostly) nowadays get their first sexual experience via porn, the girlies are shorn so the cameraman can see where to focus. So they EXPECT women to look like girls and are shocked when they come accross a real one.

As for sport - for some shaving allegedly makes you quicker - swimmers and cyclists. For others a lack of hair makes the saddle sores worse - Oh yes....

SnowyGonzalez · 05/01/2011 11:35

Emmylou, perhaps if you read the thread again when you have a bit more time for more than a quick skim, you might see more depth in this convo. I think you may have responded to something I've said, but only seen it at face value and so missed the point I was making. I'm sure that goes for other posts, too.

ifancyashandy · 05/01/2011 11:36

I also agree with you SWC. Which is why I contend that I am mostly hair free for myself.

ashamedandconfused · 05/01/2011 11:36

anyone else crossing their legs and wincing at labia trimming

violetwellies · 05/01/2011 11:36

LIKE a Shire Horse

KalokiMallow · 05/01/2011 11:37

Wrt the hygiene thing. It is definitely more hygienic in my case, hair + piercings don't mix well, especially when you are newly pierced. So I shaved it off for the piercing, then decided it was actually easier than faffing about trimming it.

Bearing in mind I also shaved my eyebrows off because I couldn't be bothered to pluck them, this isn't exactly unusual logic for me.

And if I've thought that way, I can't be the only one.

Saying that the only reason to shave it off is due to porn and/or wanting to look prepubescent shows a really lazy way of thinking IMO

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 05/01/2011 11:37

I think there are men who'll faint like John Ruskin, but they're a lot younger than the ones you've had sex with. Unless you've been shagging 18yos recently Grin

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 05/01/2011 11:38

That was in response to SWC

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Libero · 05/01/2011 11:42

Hair removal is NOT a new thing to do with modern day porn. In some African and Middle Eastern cultures, a woman's entire body hair was removed before marriage and a lot of women who could afford to would keep it that way for as long as possible. The same happened (and still happens) in some tribes in my country of origin. Has happened for centuries and will continue to happen.

I do not deny that it may have come from wanting to reinforce the youth of a bride/woman. However, modern-day porn was not a factor - though I am now waiting for someone to talk about the porn drawn on cave walls and how that influenced hair removal in BC societies and those which followed Hmm

Either way, if you depilate your under arms and/or legs and consider that ok and claim that to do the same to your undercarriage is wrong as it denigrates one's womanhood ...

  • - - - - - > this way to the fountain of hypocrisy
BertieBottlesOfMulledWine · 05/01/2011 11:43

Yes evildead Grin ... try telling that to your average 16 year old who just wants the boys to like her though. I didn't believe it when I was younger. I can't believe how much I used to apologise for having hair Confused

Morloth · 05/01/2011 11:43

Where do you lot get the time?! I can just about be arsed to trim (not shave) my armpits so the hair doesn't catch in my clothes.

I am furry all over, just the way I was meant to be. I don't smell because I bathe regularly.

How much time is wasted on this crap?

nikki1978 · 05/01/2011 11:43

Haven't read the whole thread but I do wonder if the fashion for extremely low cut jeans was what started this all off. Can't see why porn is a bigger thing now than it was 10 years ago when I was under 25 Hmm. Plus it is just more available now. When I was younger I had full leg and bikini wax and if ther salons had offered brazilians etc I would have gone for it. Just because I am very hairy and was embarrassed about the amount going down my upper thighs, under carriage and bum Blush.

Now I can get rid of it all and I do! Nothing to do with looking like a porn star - yuck! - but it feels nicer to me. Hair on legs etc makes me feel dirty for some reason. Sometimes I keep a landing strip or triangle on the front though.

KalokiMallow · 05/01/2011 11:44

Why not SWC?

Nefret · 05/01/2011 11:45

I remove mine and I am over 25! Most of it goes with the razor and I also use a trimmer. I started getting rid of the lot when I lived in a very hot country where the cultural norm is to shave for both men and women. It now just feels so much cleaner and nicer. I also shave under my arms and my legs all year round even if they aren't on show as it feels better.

nikki1978 · 05/01/2011 11:45

Oh I would NEVER shave again by the way. Made the light hairs on my upper thighs coarse and dark and the itching when it grows back is horrible.

No itching with waxing and the hair grows back finer. The hair on my shins is nearly entirely gone now permanently! I have been doing it for 15 years though.

nikki1978 · 05/01/2011 11:46

Hardly any time wasted morloth. Every 6 weeks I have an hour in a salon Grin

Granted it costs a fair bit but I don't spend much else on beauty so this is my treat!

BertieBottlesOfMulledWine · 05/01/2011 11:46

They don't faint, in my experience if you show a group of young lads a picture of a lady "au naturel" (however young and sexy she is) and they'll all exclaim in the manner of someone who has just been shown a naked picture of their own gran.

Most of them have the good manners enough not to do so in person Grin but make it fairly clear they prefer it off.

tyler80 · 05/01/2011 11:47

Porn on the internet is a bigger thing now than 10 years ago because people have broadband to their homes which wasn't the case 10 years ago.

KalokiMallow · 05/01/2011 11:50

For those of you so convinced that it is only ever done for men, do you shave your legs? If so, do you find it feels nicer shaved?

For me, I love the feeling of fabric against shaved skin. Which is another advantage to shaving everything off.

sungirltan · 05/01/2011 11:50

this reminds me of reading just seventeen when i was a teen. about every other issue they would do a whole article about how to 'defuzz', listing the various methods of hair removal and pushing the products. then at the end it would always state 'or you don't have to'

im curious as to whether its the same now as it was in 1995.