Is having pubic hair deemed unhygienic

[taylor74]

Just following on from another thread.
Do people see others who don't shave or wax down below as unhygienic.
Personally I'm smooth below but that's my preference.
What's others views on this?

'of course its more hygenic not to have hair, that is just logic surely' is it?

I am 42 and have been trimming or shaving for over 20 years, for my own personal preference and bog all to do with how it looks to anyone else.

I dont like excessive body hair on anyone though, male or female.

Personally I also think it feels cleaner. I do have heavy periods and sometimes prefer towels to tampons, so it is easier to keep the area cleaner without a load of hair in my view.

If it is more hygenic to not have hair, why did hospitals stop shaving women when they found that women who hadn't been shaved had less infections.

It used to be the norm for hospitals to shave you before you gave birth.

Sometimes what seem common sense is actually wrong.

Arf @ AKiss

How is that logic? What do you think it is there for?

It's normal in some parts of the world to have no pubic hair for both men and women.

In North Africa where I'm from men and women shave.

If it is not unhygienic to have hair, how come surgeons and anyone involved in food prep cover their hair?

If you don't have hair then any secretions & leftovers from elimination will go straight onto the skin & have more chance of getting into the important lady orifice, whereas with hair there is at least some sort of buffer zone where the stuff has a chance of being detained before being hopefully washed away at reasonably frequent intervals. Admittedly it wasn't designed to be imprisoned within fabric for most of the day but with adequate general hygiene measures that shouldn't matter.

FFS.

I have pubes and I'm not ashamed of the fact. I do trim them, but see no reason why I should feel 'dirty' for not removing them completely.

Pubic hair denotes sexual maturity
Pubic hair traps pheremones
Pubic hair actually keeps the genital area cleaner and free from germs!
Pubic hair is decoative

It is entirely up to you if you want to remove yours, but it is beyond rude to sugggest that I am somehow unclean because I wish to remain as nature intended.

Don't diss the mons!

Don't know what happens in your kitchen squeakytoy, but my cooking techniques entail no risk of any hairs other than from my head ending up in the food.

my reply was to Maryz post about shaved heads!

I am not saying it is unhygienic but personally I feel a lot cleaner without hair, same goes for underarms. Especially when on period & after childbirth as I don't like it when clots have something to get stuck in.

Think it is a personal choice, same ad underarm hair removal. Incidentally I do have at least 1 shower a day so am not a minger

I removed all mine by accident once (ridiculous story involving hair removing cream) and looked odd. I didn't enjoy sex either while it was all off because I looked like a prepubescent girl down there. Somehow it just felt wrong. Freaked dh out a bit too!

Couldn't wait for it to grow back. (Back to getting someone to wax it for me these days!)

I'm under 40 and have always had it (and my husband doesn't care). I don't get why adult women want their nethers to look like a ten year old's.

I have had to name change for this, just in case anyone knows me...

But, I have hair at the front of my lady bits, and erm, underneath. On my 'lips'. While I can (and do, when I remember) keep everything neat, with a trim with nail scissors and sometimes Immac, or those teeny razors round the top and sides (this is really hard to explain!) I simply don't know how I'd shave/wax/Immac the underneath bit.

I have no experience of other women's bits, but my labia is really soft and sort of squidgy. Doesn't that make shaving slightly risky?! And waxing a bit tricky? And does the cream go, you know, inside?

I need an easy-to-follow user guide.

PS: I have just posted this from my work computer. Let's hope those IT geeks aren't reading...

squeakytoo - That is to prevent heads from your hair falling out and into food or someones body while they are operated on. I don't know about you, but there is really no chance of a public hair falling into my food as I prepare it.

ThornyKate - Women with hair who give birth have less infections than women who shave it off. So it may make you feel cleaner but it is safer and more hygenic when giving birth to have hair.

Do the women who completely remove their pubes, think that men who do not completely remove theirs are unhygienic?

But obviously they don't wash very much, Firawala, or they wouldn't think having hair there smells/is unhygienic!

at the idea of it's being unhygienic!! heheheh. No. The hair is there for a reason. A bit like the hairs up your nose, the hairs in your ears etc. - the hairs are protective against things getting into the sensitive mucousy regions.

Unhygienic is not washing it.

idlevice speaks sense re: the hygiene issue, presumably this is why women are no longer required to be shaved before giving birth.

Whether it 'feels' cleaner is just what you are used to - anyone reasonably scrupulous will obviously be fine whether they have hair or not.

I wonder if fashion will swing round and in a few years, anyone who's waxed their minge into sparseness will be left looking like 40 year olds in the 1980s with their overplucked eyebrows next to 18 year old Brooke Shields lookalikes .

(By the time that happens I really will be old enough not to care)

I just french plait my sides when I have a period, so I dont have to wash everyday - works like a charm

i don't remove mine BUT every once in a while i will trim the hair around my bits short. dh prefers it and my periods don't make such a mess. can only tell with legs open though. all the front fluff still there.

See, I always thought that we have pubic hair for the same reason as hair on our head and hair in our under arms. That being that the three extremities that lose heat rapidly are our heads, under arms and between our legs. Along the lines of evolution from primates, started off coverd with thick hair as the body needed the protection etc... as we wore more we evolved to need less 'coverings'. The hair that is thickest remains as its simply the last to....I imagine that over time it will disapear to the fine hair we have all over the rest of our bodies eventually.....if humans live long enough...

God what a waffle, just my thoughts on it.....probably bollox!