AIBU to not know much about 'lady garden' maintenance!!

[Joolsy]

OK I'm sorry if I'm putting people off their breakfast. But I have never bothered much with doing anything about my hair 'down there'. I am not a hairy person so it's not like it's hugely overgrown(!). But all I really do is shave my bikini line, like once a year if I'm going on holiday (I don't wear a high-cut swimsuit). Seriously, what else do other people do? I'm worried now that I look like I'm smuggling a ferret down there whenever I go swimming. Should I be trimming it on a regular basis?

I've just completely got rid of my lady garden now that it is getting warm! A warm,sweaty lady garden is not for me😀

OP not been back?
So we've had lots of sharing about the state of MNers fannies, no doubt lots of hairy handers getting all excited reading it.
I can't believe that a grown woman has to ask other grown women what they do with their pubic hair.

So , OP, have you gained anything from this thread or are you still utterly befuddled about what to do with your minge hair?

itsmine you could substitute hot n wet for warm and sweaty that puts an entirely different tone on it. Anyway doesn't that mean that things are more scenty and scent = attraction... just an alt spin on it

The Oxford Companion to the Body dates the origin of the pubic wig to the 1450s. According to the publication, women would shave their pubic hair for personal hygiene and to combat pubic lice. They would then don a merkin. Also, prostitutes would wear a merkin to cover up signs of disease, such as syphilis.[1][2]

I just wonder if the mumsnet admins dug out a thread from 10 years ago about our removal, how much would be different? What the hell is it, that we all want or need to know?

yep... what do you want to know? before you ask I have no immature fantasies so don't ask that and whatever DW does with her bits is up to her I just love her warts n all

Glad to hear it. My DH has never commented, only positively. We are over 40 though, maybe that's what it is. Oh and about the sweat thing, I thought we had hair to catch sweat, so if it's not there...yuk!

Bold fail! Sorry sigma

lol captain sure that wasn't a typo?!?!?! I'm sure someone will ask for a bald fail. I've been sexually active for 37 years and I was 17 when I encountered a grown woman (she was in her 40's who had removed the whole lot - very long story) that was...1983. So it's something we should have got used to. It falls me that a man would reject a woman based an a trivial trait, I knew a bloke who would only sleep with Swedish Blonde, he was absolutely categoric about it - I told him, he was a bloody fool. Collars n cuffs eh! Each to their own and we can have opinions about it but not castigate others for different ones (except for spray tanned re-pube-icans... now I wonder if the Donald shaves his own patch

my own typo should be galls not falls

I'm sure women have done it for decades but i think there is a definite trend for it to be more commonplace over the last 10 years or so.If it's genuinely that a woman prefers it that way, then great. But I have more than a sneaky feeling that some younger women feel it's what is expected of them and that is what worries me.

captain I would remove the sneaky feeling and go with some men have a wrong mindset. I would state it's that awful old equation "if woman A wears/does X then she must be..." and yes it's still firmly embedded in mens minds. Given what I've said about DW I'm certain certain men will have an opinion. I've actually encountered it DW git heavily into burlesque and Alt-modeling. I mentioned it in passing in a pub convinced. a bloke in our group immediately trotted out the S-word, it became difficult and I dealt with it.

so to answer your ish question yes there is a certain presumption and sadly it filters down to young men because their male role models help to perpetuate it and with that goes a pressure on young women. The way it will be resolved is better male rolemodels.

it's not convinced it's was supposed to be pub conversation.

Polly when I was at school (not all that long ago) as part of our hygiene section of puberty/sex ed the friendly woman advised us (year 7) not to remove pubic hair because it could cause soreness, rashes, ingrown hair etc, but if we felt embarrassed when swimming we could trim carefully with scissors. Sensible advice, I thought.

Then I found out 3 years later that I was the ONLY one in my class who wasn't completely shaven and felt like a complete freak

Ageing I don't believe that 29 girls had removed their pubic hair. They might've told you they did to fit in. Did you ask to check

sigma How awful, I take it you no longer drink with said bloke.

According to the publication, women would shave their pubic hair for personal hygiene and to combat pubic lice.

So that's why people always talk about "hygiene" when it comes to shaving or not shaving.

Suddenly, that makes sense!

Though I still don't really understand - nowadays, there's other means of getting rid of lice.

Yes vestal and we have clean running water and wash daily these days!

I wax the lot off. It's what I prefer.

My dh asked me to try it (remove more hair) to make oral sex less tickly, as i was quite keen on that side of things i was happy to oblige and then subsequently found sex generally even better so have been doing so ever since. win win in my opinion. so my reason is a dh with a sensitive nose

captain yep, it ended that night. Just to lower the tone, one if the major things I love about DWs bald bits it that then she's wearing see through knickers I get to see the top of her bits through the material. It's something I love seeing at bed time as she's getting out of her clothes. I guess after 12 years of marriage I should stop watching her but still I find her body gorgeous even after 2 sprogs, a drink problem, wobbly and a unilateral mastectomy. But then that's just my opinion.

Are there any male posters out there brave enough to comment

I will be brave then.

I couldn't care much as long as it is kept tidy. However, the few conversations I have had or overheard about the matter from other men suggest some men do have a strong preference, usually for the 'Hollywood'.

Do you keep your pubic hair tidy then ForalltheSaints ? What happens if your DP doesn't keep theirs 'tidy'?

When I was married I would occasionally have a bikini wax if we were going on holiday but I never tidied up. Never crossed my mind.

However going back on the dating scene my younger friends told me I had to tidy up down there as that is now the done thing.

I can't be the only one who finds the whole 'tidy up' thing offensive? The inference that somehow we're messy or dirty is horrible.