That having a bikini wax shouldn't be a necessary part of any job?

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I've been watching the amazing gymnastics at the olympics and every time I can't help but wonder if they are all happy to have such revealing gym costumes. I would hate to have a camera doing a slow mo when I'm legs akimbo in the air wearing so little even if the camera angles seem to be discrete.

I have tried to look up if there is a rule about the cut and if they wanted could they wear little shorts but I can't find anything. I did read if they remove a wedgie they get marked down?!

AIBU to think that in this day and age it seems a bit odd that these elite athletes need to be so scantily clad and that they probably have more to worry about than waxing, ingrowing hairs and itchiness in the run up to the games?

My teenage daughter's school recently had an activities week to try to get girls more involved in their sports teams. One simple answer might be to let them wear the loose, mid thigh shorts that the boys wear, rather than the tiny, minge grazing skorts they are currently required to have for P.E. lessons. If tiny, skin tight clothes are important, why don't the boys need them?

Well, it has to be said that on account of this thread, I've stopped resenting my mother for not letting me do gymnastics or ballet.

But, y'know, as a still youngish woman who chooses not to wax, I'm probably a figment of MN's collective imagination. Everyone knows we don't exist!

Here's a chap who should have worn tighter pants.

Vbmum, they have gym knickers built in rather than shorts, amd the skirt doesn't even cover their bums if they bend or stretch even a tiny bit. And they are compulsory. It's an ordinary comprehensive. I wouldn't wamt to excercise dressed like that, and I'm not a self conscious teenager.

DD wouldn't lose points whether she shaved or not, I'm just making the point that many young women choose to shave or wax and never take part in gymnastics.

And as I've said its not the same as having to do it or forfeiting points! Just because some women are more than happy to shave/wax does not mean it's okay for those who are competing in these events to have to do it. How can you not see that?

Tara I don't wax or shave my bikini line, I use hair removal cream for bikini area. But then I'll go swimming even if it's not all neat in a normal blather, nobody inspecting my groin whilst I juggle a 2 year old haha

We need more info on Butt Glue, in fact it really deserves a thread all of its own.

Meanwhile......
I read about its use to hold up holdups, but I have not seen any advice on how to remove the glue/fabric .
Does it harm the fabric? Could you use it to secure, for example, necklines that gape too revealingly?
What sort of shops sell it? And if the answer is Ann Summers I shall live without.

I'm still with Jiggly on this.
I would rather (and have done!) wear the god-awful bogey-green, skintight, leotard with bright pink stars that's so high-cut at the hip it requires an entire can of butt glue to prevent a wedgie and win the trophy, than whinge at my coach about how the boys don't have to wear such costumes and one of the other girls gets to compete and take the glory instead of me - which would have been the case at my gymnastics club (not in the uk) when I was a kid.
I'm not saying that's right (and what I'm about to say is incredibly shallow but it's the truth!) but in such a brutal, competitive sport, winning feels so much better than a comfortable costume.

I can't get over the fascination with butt glue
Tricky
Reference butt glue:

• You can peel it off your skin (carefully!). Sweat usually helps it "tug" a bit less!
• I used to rub it off of fabric with a dry toothbrush then wash as usual
• hurts like hell if you spray it on broken skin
• would probably do the same job as tit-tape on a low-cut top! Never tried it!

We need more info on Butt Glue
Google is your friend in this...apparently washes off with soap and water. Sold on-line.

Hair removal for gymnasts is as old as the sport itself. I remember preparing for a competition and a female coach gently suggesting that if any pubic hair poked out of the sides of the team leotard, it might be an idea to remove it. I've remained fully shaven ever since, despite stopping gymnastics over 10 years ago. Almost all women below the age of 35 remove all of their pubic hair anyway.

Tit-tape of course! Thanks for reminding me of its existence Eggy...I bought a very nice dress to wear for my DS baptism at the weekend but the neckline gapes. You have reminded me i have leftover tit-tape from my wedding lying around somewhere.

Is the opposite of clean, dirty?

Tidy. - messy?

Natural - unnatural?

FFS I am glad to be one of the increasingly small percentage who has normal body hair.

Strawberry maybe you should try butt glue instead

Yes, thanks McT. It does not sound much use for preventing swimsuit wedgies other than in competitions. If it comes off with water, no good in the sea, and if it doesn't dissolve in water, holidays would be spent entombed in a cossie.

Eggy, I suppose its fascinating because I had no idea that there was such a need for its existence.

Five of my female friends have represented their countries for various sports*. None of them had to wear tiny gynae lycra, when compared to the men. I think the BS about, it's what you do because it's what the top management want you to is utter guff. Change the management.

*lacrosse, netball and squash.

"Almost all women below the age of 35 remove all of their pubic hair" - is this really true? Are there stats that back this up? I find it totally puzzling tbh if that's the case. I'm very glad I'm too old for this to be something that I have to worry about.

I'm under 35, I just tidy up the sides. No one is sticking hot wax on my nether regions!

Different surveys have different results

www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/body/news/a42147/half-young-women-uk-removing-all-pubic-hair/

www.buzzfeed.com/carolynkylstra/pubic-hair-science?utm_term=.bi5yDebaGN#.chAp1oqVLn

From personal experience at work I am yet to see an under 35 with an ungroomed bush, even at the height of mental illness, and most are completely shaven (that's men and women).

What I'm saying is that they may have done so anyway - why can't you understand that??

And what does that have to do with the fact that they would be marked down if they didn't?

Almost all women below the age of 35 remove all of their pubic hair anyway.

Well, that didn't take long, did it.

Under freaking 30 here and I don't.

To be honest pubic hair whilst performing such moves is likely to rub/get knotted against leg seam of leotard so it just makes common sense to remove it!