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

I agree with Riven in that although most women dont do it because they see porn and think "ooh I'll have my bush just like hers", porn probably started the fashion of styling or getting rid of your pubes! It has become fashionable to consider your lady garden in the same way as the hair on your head! Some have styles, some get rid, some leave it be. And this has led to it being far more acceptable to get rid altogether than it was 20 years ago when it was considered a bit kinky.

Riven wear swim shorts, men's or women's will cover everything

Shaving/trimming? You see I am tidy, but not bare.

I think its sad. My aunt teaches beauty therapy and its part of the course, everyone in the class has it done, appart from her (shes my age!)

Cultures do cross over these days though, my Indian friend get it all threaded off. I cant imagine a worse pain!!

Fabbychic

Why? Seriously,I'm interested. This hascome up a lot on this thread, and it seems to be an automatic knee-jerk reflex, rather then any reasoned response.

im under 25 and its all gone down there! I dont like it

uggghhh porn styling is everywhere seeping into all of our society

thinking that this is a woman's choice is nonsensical

FFS pubic hair is not unhygienic! Pubic hair is there for a reason - to protect your bits from bacteria and the like. Therefore it's more hygienic to keep it. It's also there to absorb sweat. It's only unhygienic if you don't wash it.

But I dont think many youngsters are into porn are they so they dont relate the two.

My friends daughter is only 17 and has it all off.

I know no one can be immune from culture, but it does seem like young women have been completely conned into thinking that they aren't attractive unless they look like a Barbie doll - great big eyelashes, shaven haven, tiny waist, big tits.

And the more girls take on fakery to achieve this look (and celebs and mags show this stuff as the norm), the more a normal girl without a padded bra, false eye lashes and depilation all over start like the odd-one-out.

It is all a huge waste of girl's time and money and self-esteem and attention.

I just hope the fashion pendulum swings back the other way sometime soon.

17? FFS.

Just because a girl blindly follows a fashion it doesn't mean roots aren't porn.

Porn and the wider media inform each other.

I honestly think its down to fashion.

Kittya, she may not make the connection but the fashion for doing this has come from the porn industry and affected non-porn related fashions.

If the porn industry had decided 20 years ago that bright purple muffs with orange streaks was the way to go, you can bet your bottom dollar that we would be seeing pube dye on the shelf at Tesco!

i find it pretty insulting saying that some women are weak willed enough to be influenced by porn.

like i said in my last post i was 18 when i started. i never saw porn on telly or in magazines and the internet was hardly used back then. i never read fashion or celeb mags, i was more likely to read the broadsheets and kerrang.

but being out of the house at college all day it was horrible having blood drying and crusting up my pubes. washing over the sinks in the ladies was not an option. it was much easier to have it smooth and wipe clean with wet wipes.

never had any probs with ingrown hairs either.

because there are some that are weak willed

im not.

Bamboo, if it's that back why not use a bottle of water and clean yourself into the toilet bowl?

Bamboo, I think you are missing the point.

Whilst some women have always done this from personal choice, there is now a fashion for doing it and that fashion started in the porn industry. No one is saying that a woman who shaves is directly influenced by porn, but that some, particularly younger women, may be influenced by mainstream fashion, and that has included LG styling in recent years.

My 19 yo daughter has shaved/immac-d since 15, I think it's some kind of teenage rebellion against her crusty parents.

Joking aside, a lot of the pressure to conform WRT fashion comes from school and is directly influenced by porn. Teenegers file-share and can hack through most porn filters and firewalls. They are all exposed to it, and from an early age.

OK Bamboo, if you are literally the only human being on the planet never to be influenced by advertising they have seen, good for you.

I still think 'Clunk click, every trip' whenever I fasten my seatbelt, and Jimmy Savile hasn't said that since about 1978.

Riven

Teenage girls are just as bad for looking at porn IME.

Assuming it originates in porn, does that matter?

If so many women on this thread say they do it because sex feels nicer doesn't it make sense that the porn industry would know that too?

Maybe you had so many men walking aways after a days work with severe beard burn that they thought you know what, lets get these fannies shaven.

I don't think its to do with looking younger which is what I find really insulting because most of the women who shave are young. No one is trying to look like a 7 year old. I started getting hair at 10 or 11. No one wants to look prepubecent.

I'm a practice nurse and now see far more pubeless women than I did when I started 11 years ago (of all ages).

We don't smear women under-25 but the young women I do see for vag swabs etc are generally hairless, probably not 98% but definitely the majority (maybe 75%?)

I do find the insidious artificiality of female fashion quite disturbing nowadays, especially as a mum of 3 girls. There aren't many young women I see without artificial nails, eyelashes, hair colour, straightened hair, waxed genitals etc.