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

Anyway, question for those of you who do shave, what do you use? No a rusty Bic, I presume!

Of course it's about exposure to porn. Not necessarily first hand, but if the boys/men that are around young women make it clear that they like fannies that resemble those of pre-pubescent girls, then it will influence young women. They will feel they have to conform to look sexually alluring. Sad and sinister.

Hmm - this is not something I have thought about very deeply. But I'd guess that its recent popularity in the UK is an extension of the whole bikini waxing thing, to do with looking 'groomed' in high-cut swimwear.

I suppose it has taken this long for the trend to evolve from a bit of token shaving round the bikini line when you go on holiday to the salons discovering a new way to make money and whipping the lot off. Then as it gains cultural acceptance you are deemed grubby and hairy if you don't.

It's a shame that young women feel it to be necessary .

I'd say peer pressure if I had to give a guess. Or what they perceive as the norm. I get rid of as much hair as possible. That's my personal choice, my Mum is a total hairy fairy and I don't recall her shaving her legs ever. She's blonde but she's still pretty fuzzy there. Both my DDs shave/epilate, including their fanjos. I've never asked them why but I would hazard a guess that it is probably because they've seen me hairless and consider it normal.

I can't speak for DD2s friends, but DD1 and her friends are incredibly relaxed about their bodies and I've seen at least 4 of her friends naked (they all seem to feel relaxed enough to wander around the house starkers ffs) and they are all topiarised down there. Bit hard to miss when you are sitting on the sofa with a naked 17 year old standing in front of you asking if she can have a rummage in the fridge.

^But why? Why go through all that?
Exist on your own terms is what I'm saying, I suppose^

I'm not sure, but if that is aimed at me, then it is all for me.

Ruskin certainly liked to draw the pubescent 10-16 'girlies' as he called them

Although biographers have argued he wasn't his wife's pubic hair he was horrified by, but her menstrual blood.

I thought it was pretty well documented that it was her pubes?

I'm not sure about the pressure from men either. Oldest lovers - 51 and 53 - both liked hairless. Youngest - 32 - liked hair used to beg me to grow it (the answer was no if anyone's interested). Youngest was deeply into porn and very erm adventurous. Older 2 found it horrific and afaik never looked at it.

Oddly the 32 year old who liked porn was also easily the kindest most loving and attentive man I have ever met. Of all of them he was the one I would have said would make the best husband material - nothing was ever too much to ask and he was like that for everyone.

Women who have the time to do all that stuff are rich, without time constraints, without other things to trouble their fluffy adorable heads with.

Nope. I get my hair cut (as do men), file my nails (so they don't scratch me / others), defuzz my upper lip (I don't care for my 'tache) and shave legs, armpits and pubes.

I also run budgets of up to a couple of million, teams of up to 60 and meet tight deadlines.

Yup, my head if just full of fluff.

Way to go, sister

Ahh. Ok I'm going to say sorry to you now Beer. Because I've been waiting for someone to say something and I've been a bit unfair.

I have had my breasts augmented. I deliberately said it that way as I knew from experience that the majority of people would instantly jump to conclusions (they did, there was at least one remark about bouncing breasts).

I actually had my breasts reduced. Purely for me. They were huge and I hated them because they restricted what I wanted to do and gave me chronic back pain.

I don't think I'm hideous at all. I'm very confident about the way I look. I can also understand my friend wanting the labia surgery as she wants it for the same reasons as I did - comfort mostly.

Again, I'm sorry for letting you jump to conclusions.

Zepherin - I feel deeply disturbed on behalf of young women, that we may be raising a generation of John Ruskins.

Just imagine how shit the sex lives of women are going to be, with men so pathetic that they can't fuck or perform cunnilingus if they see a hairy minge. What are women demanding from men in return for all this pube-ripping?

Red hot sex

Well to be fair the word "augmented" does mean "enlarged", so not such an odd conclusion to come to...

ah x-posts

But I still hear so many tales of women faking orgasms, never having had orgasms, not experiencing foreplay, men not shagging them for months at a time, having experinced cunnilingus twice in their lives...

Doesn't sound so red hot to me.

Oh I thought it meant changed, altered. In that case I need to say sorry for that too. Although it was a genuine mistake.

I've just looked on wiki and you are right it does mean enlargement

I said bouncing breasts. Reduction is an entirely other thing - as you say, to do with comfort and removal of pain rather than making breasts larger for whatever reason. I completely understand reduction.

If that's a snipe at my earlier post I was not referring to dittany. My post was at 21.15 if you want to double check. If your read it in context with Libero's posts it is quite clear.

If it wasn't then I apologise for jumping to conclusions.

Just imagine how shit the sex lives of women are going to be, with men so pathetic that they can't fuck or perform cunnilingus if they see a hairy minge.

But they wont have to - unless they find one of the 2%

As for shit sex, hair removal increases sensitivity....

SarahStrattonsBaubles, you say "enhanced" if you want to remain mysterious about your breast op; just means "improved". :)

Sorry, I mean you could say "enhanced", not that you have to!