AIBU to not want to shave my fanny

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I know loads off women shave, wax , pluck , etc .......and think the end result is pretty

But what if i just dont want to anymore

By the way.

Does Immac still leave your skin smelling of garlic? Can't think how that would help out once oral crops up on the menu.

Why shave if you don't want to? If it bothers you just trim and tidy. Whose benefit is it for anyway?

YABU.... You MUST shave your fanny!

Would you acutally keep shaving if we all told you this?!

You don't need permission

Oh you lucky buggers that dont need to shave their entire legs or fans!!

Im olive-skinned and very hairy; have to veet me fan otherwise its just out of control and awful and theres NO WAY Id let my partner down there at that stage!!

Oh how I longed to be blonde and fair-skinned as a teen... sigh :)

I got myself a bikini trimmer - great investment. I'd never be brave enough to let someone near there with hot wax, no time for creams, can't be arsed to wet shave. It has different length settings so you can straighten up the edges (or just put your swimming costume on and check what shows!!) and trim the rest to a neat length.

First time I encountered a guy that had shaved completely it really freaked me out, but have since met a few. (Much nicer giving BJ's ) Always made me a little self consious about my own hair though!

LostMyIdentityAlonTheWay
No , not the only one, When I had my first baby it was common practice for the midwife to shave the mum to be's fanjo.
The after itching was horrible , and as I tore very badly and needed lots of stiches inside and out ... the regrowth itching did not help my poor sliced up fanny.
Never ever defuzzed since.

and now as an oldie I am actually losing my pubes, its all very sparse down there now , but not grey yet

OP , why do you need to ask , or are you just curious as to "why" people do and some don't

I am the proud owner an unpruned ladygarden.

I can't believe so many women put up with the itch from shaving or the pain of being waxed.

YANBU Leave your poor fanjo alone.

YANBU but I am clearly U as I thought it said 'share my fanny'

wants to live inside Hermionerocks head, just for a little bit

I agree with the other older posters on here. Have been with DH since the mid 80s so my experience of men is before that. No-one back then even so much as trimmed pubic hair, as far as I know - certainly the men I had sex with didn't. It never occurred to me that it was either necessary or expected.

it's horrible when you get old(er) and turns grey and sparse.
I wet shave the worst of it and trin with scissors. The completely bald look creeps me out - too pre-pubescent child for me!

Just to point out to those that say it is pornification to remove pubic hair, that there is evidence to the contrary and literature stating that pornography actually reflects what is the grooming fashion of the time - ie it is reactive not proactive.
The controlling of hair and sexuality has fetishistic symbolism and changes with fashion. The beauticians i have spoken to about this subject (i studied fetishisation at university as part of my wider degree subject) say that now they also wax many men too. Hairiness down there, just like facial hair for men has simply gone out of fashion. (altho i love a man with a beard)
Also many women and men find it more practical and pleasurable for oral sex and cleaner around menstruation - so in that sense in can be considered empowering.

It always amazes me on these threads how some posters will go on and on about women being forced to shave and judged if they don't..

.. then go on to judge those who do shave.

I mean FFS!

If you don't want to shave - don't.
If you do - do.
It is no ones business what someone else chooses to do with their genitals. It doesn't affect anyone else.

How fucking difficult a concept is that?

My DH keeps pestering me to because he looks at far too much porn (for my liking) and is used to being turned on by clean shaven women, although apparently I need to 'leave a strip'.

I said no. Precisely because of the porn reference. Am sick of it.

sorry spuddybean but I am having serious trouble to not pmsl imagining some of todays slebs think Jordan and the like saying

oh yes I shave my fanny because "the controlling of hair and sexuality has fetishistic symbolism and changes with fashion"

sorry very childish of me but pleeeeeeeaaase do people seriously think THAT deep about it.

I shave my pits . I shave my legs, I dont shave my fanjo ..
pits for hygiene, legs, because I think they look better(don't give a fuck what others think) and I leave my fanjo because it doesnt even cross my mind to do it.

and I am sure that is the same reasons as lots of people and not because it is symbolic of anything .

fit2drop - i know what you mean, it is wanky. But there is fetishisation attached to hair, unsurprisingly. We all have it yet it is all distinctive and different. It represents our gender and our genetics.
People as individuals don't think these things they are subconscious and part of the zeitgeist of society.
We all get swept along, but at it's core it comes from lots of little changes which together all make one large shift. ie technology - it just wasn't practical for a woman to keep shaving (or men) years ago, so hairiness was fashionable (and still is in some cultures) but now it is much easier and women and men started preferring it, for sexual accessibility mainly.
So then it becomes fashion and people are doing it without knowing why just that they like it.
Sorry i know i sound like a pretentious knob - on another thread i've just posted about pissing in the street when pissed so i'm not really sure how i'm coming across here!!

What a fab thread so funny, I don't shave but being a larger girl I find the tops of my thighs double up as a natural epilator!!

spuddybean no no no , not a pretentious knob at all....

I was just being ermmmm not sure what the word id , (wanky probably) but just made myself laugh thinking of various sleb types thinking that deep .

Its late, im just being pissy

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