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

Well, I guess it very much depends where your friend is working. I have noticed that in my local family planning clinic most women/patients are under 25 and most of them if not all, have some monumental fake eyelashes (they also seem very well aquainted with each other. I wouldn't say though that 98% of the under 25 population wear fake eyelashes on Tuesdays at noon.

I'm over 25 and still like to be neat in the ladygarden department. Not bald (too farking scratchy) but trimmed. Some of us are rather more hairy than others, and I feel better and cleaner if I prune. But then I also shave my armpits and legs every other day. Oh, and some men certainly do trim their pubes, sometimes with hilarious results.

I have this discussion with the young uns at work all the time!! I think it is more of an age thing. I wouldnt say it is down to porn, more of a fashion. When I ask them why they do it they say its more hygienic. Load of rubbish.

I think if any of those twenty somethings got intimate with a bloke in his 40's he would think its Xmas! What I want to know is, are lads their ages not even surprised when they are hairless down there or, is it the norm? My friend has teenage daughters and they wax it all off. I find that very sad.

Becasue it is Riven, very insulting to suggest women can't think for themselves.

My decision is nothing to do with porn at all. Infact I was always set against the idea.

Until I once got a razor happy MW who took a fair bit off and when I was up and about I actually found having no pubes helped me keep my scar area clean until I could lose the sweaty overhang to be graphic. Allowing use of sudocream etc.

I then kept it as it felt just nicer especially after the gym and made sex feel better.

Absolutely nowt to do with porn at all.

What about lesbians who shave? Are they also doing it for the men, or because actually they prefer it?

Saying it has nothing to do with porn is like saying using beauty creams has nothing to do with fashion mags. It has all permeated our society to the extent that it's nigh impossible to separate one cause from another. For this reason it doesn't benefit anyone to react against the feelings of insult as a way of avoiding consideration of uncomfortable issues. That makes it all about ego, and not about truth.

I started after a operation where they had to shave a fair bit off to get access. when it started growing it was itching like crazy so I started shaving it off over the years it just became everything.

I have done it because "I" prefeer it not because of any man or any porn Not for a man I did it because it felt comfortable for me.

I dont do it because its hygenic but I have to say it is nice to not have the issue of hair getting stuck when I have my period . I dont have a huge hair growth so I shave about once a week and it stays smooth until about a day before.

And btw I readily admit that my use of beauty creams is influenced by fashion mags, of course it is. And my use of the oil cleansing method is influenced by MN .

I seem to have several thoughts about this. I don't believe the 98% though.

I'm 41 and I have never done much about pubic hair - one partner who liked shaving it, a short time when I occasionally got the sides waxed as I was having my feet, legs, tummy, throat, chin, upper lip and cheeks waxed as well, so to leave the pubic hair would have been a bit silly; I found the pain of writing enormous cheques at the end of this HIGHLY uncomfortable process too much, also I objected to the bossy marminess of the waxer. I have a partner now who tells me not to bother to remove hair, and the only thing I do now is my chin. I do contemplate laser for facial hair though, and one day I shall do that.

I think the better sex thing is interesting but not enough to make me spend a minute on it - poor dh!

dittany, I agree on the porn thing several people on the thread before you pointed out that their partners shaved too - my previous partner certainly did - he was always a bit crestfallen that I never noticed whether he had or not tbh. I can't remember whether male porn participants usually shave, I haven't watched any for so long. I should think that in modern porn they probably do.

emmyloulou, hair removal remains a personal choice and of course men and women can think for themselves, but IMO the mental environment around us is different because you never, ever see a flash of body hair in porn, sport or anywhere else.

Waxing my bikini line is torture, regular immacing is too much hassles, just do sides if swimming, shaving pubic area gives me folliculitis. Also being well over 35 my feminist hackles aren't comfortable with the prepubescent porn star look and I feel a bush is more "real woman".
It's only itchy when it's growing back..
Will shave under arms happily as quick to do and no folliculitis.
Agree ity's more a young woman fad.
My bloke shaved his bits once, made him sore when cycling and made them more sweaty and slidy. What's wrong with hair?

Riven, I walked into an Essex Platinum Orange Face the other day. Got the fright of my life!

Other cultures do it and its nothing to do with porn.

emmyloulou

It is a feminist issue. We are constantly bombarded with the idea that body hair equals smelly,dirty, unkempt.It's part of the Beauty Myth, and is connected with repressing and controlling female sexuality.

Think of all the time and money you devote to conforming to a media construct of feminine beauty. It's diverting your energy, keeping you as a passive consumer and creating competition and division.

This Cosmo Lipstick feminist shtick "I'm CHOOSING to paint my nails" = informed feminism makes my teeth itch

But kittya, we are talking about this culture!

For me as long as pants cover everything I can't see why I would want to look like a child. I completely agree with whoever said about porn and lads mags, seems like young women haven't got minds of their own. Without slebs chattering about waxing everything noone would consider shaving it all off....why would you?

I honestly think, given we have a four year old dd, that DH would boak if I was bare.

Who wants a bush? it is unhygienic

Is that a joke? unhygienic?

Feminis Parent

I honestly think that if you and dh are intimate that way then he should NOT be thinking about your dd no matter if you have a full bush or is bare.. to compare the two during that to me is just not a thing to do

I shave for the doctor but not out of worry they will go ewwwwww but because I have, well, basically a fanny-fro and figure it makes things easier to navigate!

It's not about comparing is it? It's about what a shaven woman represents, what she is trying to achieve.. And whether you like it or not a shaven woman looks childlike.