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

Yup, expat, re cultures.

Seren....All hair removal is down to 'yoof' but shaving pubic hair is new....that's the point. It is more connected and far less removed from the original meaning.

And pubic hair is somewhat different to hair on legs isn't it?

Snowy, admit at least its been implied by a few of the more vocal posters.

BertieBottlesOfMulledWine see that should be used a Pro-hair selling point... Weeding out the arse holes!

We shave our legs (imo) to stop hairs sticking out of our tights. And to distinguish ourselves from men. Not to look prepubescent. Ditto underarms.

TheFeministParent I really don't think you can make a legitimate point that one thing is Ok and the other isn't.

I'm guessing as well that the razor wielders don't have hairy bottoms

Pre-pubescent girls have hairs on their legs. What a facile thing to say.

I have been known to do some bum fluff, even though I don't fuck about up front Tyler. I am horrified by my copious arse hair

i am one of the 98% but i'm 31! i hate porn and all it stands for - that is not why, i just prefer to be bald innit.

I do shave (not all off on the front but all off underneath as said ^up thread^).

I leave a wide-ish landing strip because I don't lke the look of it all gone.

I do consider myself a feminist.

I first did it because I was asked. Not ordered. Asked. I could have said no. He would not have left me had I refused.

I liked the way sex felt. That's why I continued.

I like wearing thongs and am hirsuit. The two do not look great together in my opinion.

I do think the trend was started by porn.

I can like the aesthetics of something whilst not liking the ethos. But (whisper it), sometimes, my partner and I like pretending we're in a porn movie.

Gay women also remove their hair.

femenistparent- i never get blood drying in my head hair

i would shave it once when i got my period and then it was left until the next month, i wasn't shaving everyday in ocd revulsion at my own body hair.

evildead it worked as an argument for me.

I do find a lot of women who are really anti-depilation are not people with fair skin and lots of very dark body hair.

expat - fit that demographic (believe me) but if I were to depilate all that could be depilated it would be sooo time-consuming and expensive. I was given some money which I spent on laser removal on chin and lip and it took moooonths - good result but I've decided to settle with the hairy arms, shaving the legs and trimming the lady garden.

< is actually not as unattractive as she sounds >

As I get older pubes are advancing like an army towards my bum. The frontline hasn't reached it yet but I fear it's only a matter of time!

Lots and lots of men do.

actually Riven - dh shaves 99% of his public hair.

Ah, see, I wax myself. Years of watching professionals, though, and admittedly this service is/was usually far cheaper in the US where I am from.

Also, again, I lived in hot climates or places that were sunny with hot summers.

Lots of skin on display.

I've found myself less hair as time goes on but again, it's possible I destroyed hair follicles over time.

Still, whwen you're in a place where it's so hot it's uncomfortable to even wear shoes like trainers, where you walk outside and get instantly sweaty from humidity and heat, having lots of body hair can be really uncomfortable and smelly.

Again, a lot of people indigenous to such areas have relatively little body hair. My father is half Mayan and never has to shave his own face but about once a week with an electric shaver. He has sparse underarm hair, but none on his arms or even his legs.

Why Melezka?

Why should a woman conform to societies ideas about whats ok all the time because its more visibile? Men don't have to shave their legs.

I think a woman saying I shave my fanjo because it feels nicer is less bizzare then someone wanting everyone to their my nice smooth legs.

I also suspect if we are going by what men and porn mags wants, most would choose a hairy fanny over hair legs anyway, so its still being done for others.

Is it an age thing tyler80.. Because I can't remember exactly when I started losing the war to arse hair.

god I hope DH doesn't come on mumsnet

everyone should chose what they prefer, for whatever reasons that is

I do however think that without porn/glam/celeb culture we would not have this bald genitals fad - lots of young girls have done it cos they feel they should and to fit in, just like i wanted my ears pierced at 16 for the same reason (and now never wear earings BTW!)

In the 60s & 70s ladies were shaved for childbirth and it was thought humiliating and degrading , they had to suffer the itchy regrowth but grew it back and were PROUD of it!

am sad that DD approaching puberty may feel she is odd/not normal if she has hair

and I am at people having intimite piercings yet thinking a few pubes are unhygenic! which of these is natural!

Gah one thing I really detest, is other women attacking other women in the name of "feminism".

The whole irony is hilarious. I tend to be well groomed as I like, it, yes me, I like to feel good and make the most of my attractivness. I have my nails and hair done monthly, I like to stay groomed, and hair free because I think it looks nice, I don't hairy like legs and pits. It really is as simple as I am quite physically attractive, I like to look it, I like to make myself feel good. I am quite pristine in every way, housework, etc, so it's not just personal grooming.

I like to look good for me!!! Some days I am quite meh about it, but in general I feel just a lot better when I have made an effort, noting sinister at all.

The pubes thing I found quite by accident, but when I did I found I liked it, it felt more comfortable for me especially down the gym and it made sex feel more stimulating for me, bluntly.

Some women do actually do things for themsleves because they want too.

Other women shouting them down, making them out to be thick followers of consumerism and doing it for all the menz, is highly offensive.

Women telling other women what they should be doing, what they should be thinking, and what they should look like otherwise they are disgusting, is just as bad as men doing all of the above, which seems to have been missed by the feminist brigade here.

I have skim read as I had someone over for coffee, but that seems to be the jist of the last pages since I posted, women attacking other womens choices, bad form.