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

[Longstocking2]

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]

would love to be enlightened!
Clearly I'm over 25

Where did the magazine get the idea, sungirltan?

Oddly, when I made that initial post I wasn't talking about you personally. If you re-read my post you will see that it was actually in response to Libero's post and cross post, which was to you.

Make what you like of that. I will say though that the rabid feminism displayed in places on this thread is precisely why I go out of my way to avoid feminists in RL. I can't stand the holier than thou I am always right attitude that is always rammed down my throat.

If I want to shave I fucking well will shave. If I don't want to then I won't. It has absolutely fuck all to do with porn or pleasing men or all the other bollocks sprouted. It is because I want to, because I like it.

How insulting and frankly rather silly Sarah

Maybe this is another demonstration of the "mainstreaming of pornography". In the case of shaven crotches, it's something out of porn that's become absorbed into many people's minds as just another fashion, and if anyone remembers its origins, they're accepting them. And by saying "It's hygienic!" people are finding new ways to say how nice it is. That's really ironic.

If I had dangly labia I would have surgery on them because it's bloody uncomfortable. Not because they are on display.

I've had a breast augmentation too. Oddly I did that for me, not for the man in my life.

Really wuckter. Oddly I don't care.

she can spot their pubic hair peeping out of their trouser (natch) zip...

It's easy anothermum - you just look out for the body hair and the saggy tits and run

Lol. I just wouldn't be friends with one. Not in an insulting way but purely because I chose my friends for their relaxing qualities. I want to feel at ease and comfortable with them not engage in intense debates with them. I have quite enough to cope with ex SIL at family gatherings. Apparently I am the work of the devil because I wear make up, have my hair done and have had plastic surgery.

She bounces their dungareed arses out of the way with her breasts

and i just REALLY hate pubes in the soap

Err they are uncomfortable. Well from my extensive survey of ummm 'one' they are anyway. One of my friends moans that hers dangle down and get dry and sore. Hence uncomfortable - she wants hers trimmed so they don't do that anymore.

That is an interesting point about genitals somehow being no longer private and therefore in need of grooming.

My friend who has teenage daughters can testify that their pubes are not really not private, apparently pube shavings are a new hazard of the bathroom... nice

TeiTua...In Middle Eastern/North African countries (pre-dominantly) Muslim countries, they shave as it is in fact more hygienic;
AND let us remember that these countries are not open to the mainstream porn/page 3 images that we, in the West are sadly accustomed to.

I didn't shave armpits until fairly recently.

When I was a pretty, skinny clubber I remember going out with little vests on and liking how my underarm hair looked. I felt that people who felt the need to shave were possibly more uptight and less happy with themselves. Looking back I was so obviously feminine and attractive I didn't have to work at it.

Now I'm older, a mum of four, a bit heavier I feel less obviously attractive and perhaps I feel the need, or the social pressure, to do all I can to eradicate anything which might be considered masculine.

Mercifully I don't consider pubic hair to be masculine in any way, but I'm wondering if those depilators among you do?

There was a very interesting post earlier on about women being shaved for childbirth in the 70s and finding it de-humaising and humiliating and being keen to grow it back asap.

I tried waxing once just because it seemed everyone was doing it. It was horrendously painful, deeply embarrassing having a woman down there in my bits ... it looked awful and was very uncomfortable growing back.

I epilate. It means I don't have someone rummaging around near my bits (I don't like that either spidermama) yet it works as well as waxing.

You can also get a nice endorphin high off it

So many say they do it for 'hygiene'.

So with no hair there to absorb it blood must get smeared and splotched over the silken skin, even if most goes into the sanitary towel? So you'd still wash it off. And sweat and secretions - doesn't it trickle down your legs or go crusty in your knickers? Well,got to go somewhere hasn't it?

Would have thought it's more hygienic to have a bit of hair as it creates an air pocket, absorbs moisture, reduces chafing and acts as a bit of protection.

But if you feel cleaner, then hey,that's how you feel.

Could it be that the prevalence of shaved pubes in porn is due to it's popularity with young women and not the other way round.

I think cause or effect is difficult to be sure of, even for the remarkable number of porn experts here on MN

Crikey - will head hair be the next thing in the line of depilatory fire?

Perhaps, Broomstick, after all women are the driving force behind porn.