It's up to mums to teach their boys that pubic hair on women is normal!?

[Uppatreecuppatea]

I've read countless surveys and reports over the last few months that state that young men would be 'grossed out' if they went to bed with a woman and found that she had pubic hair.

They seem to think that all women either come hair free or should wax it all off.

I think a lot of this attitude comes down to them viewing porn where it's normal for a woman to have zero pubic hair and a neat little pudenda.

It's a worry. I quizzed the local boys who work in our pub and they all wax their chest and think pubic hair is disgusting on both men and women.

So glad I am married to a man who appreciates the 70's!

But what is in store for our young girls?

Very much down to social class I'm afraid.

Yes porn is a pube free area as that is the 'in phase' right now just as the '80's bush' was once a phase.

But do you not think teenage girls watch porn?

I am told by friends in the US that girls there are grossed out by men's with foreskins. Who knew?

Makes a Veet strip wax seem like a walk in the park.

and i expect all boys with long/dyed hair are to be avoided/girls with shaved heads likewise?

80s bush? Love that phrase! Sounds like something Magnum PI would have had...

Porn has been around for as long as people have. And it will stand the test of time far longer than any fashion phase ever will.

I don't know why you are blaming this on porn. I have seen very little porn, and I have been having Brazilian bikini waxes for nearly 20 years.

Christ on a bike!

Why is your ideal of a hairy minge better than somebody else's of a hairless one? Surely it's each to their own and all?

FWIW I hate pubic hair. I hate it on me as I don't want a sweaty minge, and hair feels unhygienic to me. I hate it on other people because, well, who wants a mouthful of pubes when they give head?! When I was at school, the fashion was for lads to defuzz their genitals because they thought it made their tackle look bigger. It goes in circles...

You lead Clouds others follow

Its not just young men. This actor seems to expect it too and hes 45.

www.getthegloss.com/article/going-south-my-first-bikini-wax-in-20-years

CloudsAndTrees - how much money do you reckon that is then....

...hope you get it out enough to make it cost effective

OMG Magnum would probably have had the entire bodily rug

And yes to foreskins and American women (well not every American woman obvs)

It's not really the done thing over there it would seem.

I'm the opposite: I'm a bloke. I'm pretty young. And I grew up thinking the opposite. The first naked woman I ever saw other than my mother was, ahem, extremely hairy down there. So when I later saw a woman who had shaved it all off I was mildly shocked.

Our DD will be told that it's normal and it's up to her to do whatever she wants with it.

Can't believe posters are getting applauded for calling other posters fuckwits

Aibu - home of the lowest common denominator

Access to porn has changed.

Back then they were just called bikini waxes though Enjoy! I liken it to the whole baby led weaning thing. Going on for years before anyone actually gave it a name

I think a lot of this attitude comes down to them viewing porn

Theres a sweeping judgement that all the young men in Ops local are furiously beating their meat every night tp online fantasy instead of hooking up IRL.

sad world

What is this obsession with other people's pubic hair?

A hair-free one at that, no doubt!

Our DD will be told that it's normal and it's up to her to do whatever she wants with it

Well exactly.

That's the most sensible thing any parent of a DD or a DS can teach their kids.

What makes me a teensy bit annoyed with MN is that for some reason some parents think the whole 'pube free' fad/phase only affects girls?

There are lots of young boys who don't know whether to keep it/trim it/shave it/wax it.

Why on earth some people can only see it through the eyes of a girl is beyond me totally?

This has reminded me of when my DS(2yo at the time) saw me come out of the shower, he had recently taken interest in his own winky and noted that daddy had a winky, he saw my hairy bush and cried out "Mummy, winky broken!". I think I might have put him off for life!

I think that leaving it to mums to teach their boys about pubic hair might have the opposite effect. "Mum thinks pubic hair is okay, which means it is most definitely uncool".

I'd offer you a gaze, but I think you'd like it too much