To ask a very personal question?

[Mrsemcgregor]

I am talking pubic hair. What does everyone do with it? I hate mine (especially as I get older it's getting wilder!) but what I hate more is bumpy itchy red skin whenever I try to tackle it. However I seem to be under the impression that most women are smooth and basically hairless down there and I must seem like some sort of cave woman or 70s porn star in comparison.

My husband hasn't mentioned that he minds at all...but maybe he does?

And if everyone is hairless and neat down there please please tell me how to do it without hideous rashes!!!

was a midwife. Saw an enormous variety from totally wild to a dyed red heart! Personally find complete removal rather odd. Looks childlike. When I was a young woman we argued about removing underarm hair. No-one expects men to remove body hair.

Totaly agree with RiverTam.

Friend's loony bf (who devotedly shaved her although only he was bothered about hair, she just lay back and thought of English Gardens ...) texted her that after shaving he had also removed every hair from his bollocks with tweezers 'for her'! 😳 Now he is EX loony bf!

Oh yes, I had an ex who revealed his depilated scrotum to me and clearly thought I would expire with desire at the sight, but I had no idea what he was going on about and he had to point out that he was hairless. Mystifying. But then I think I have only the vaguest idea about male genitalia, I upset another ex by not being sure whether they had been circumcised or not. Can't remember the answer now.

annandale I read that as "dilapidated scrotum"

If you're interested in the "consumer's" viewpoint, as it were, I would say that the best way to style your pubes is however you like to have them. If I'm getting up close and personal, then smoothness has its benefits, but so does having hair, however it comes. I understand that some women find that a smooth vulva is more sensitive - whether that is a benefit or a drawback is of course different for everyone.
I know I'm not giving you much either way in this reply, but quite frankly, if I'm in the position to notice, I'll be more interested in the woman in question as a whole than in any particular details, other than as particular points to indicate my pleasure of noticing.
I'm pretty sure that if your DH had any particular preference, he would have mentioned it by now.

Blimmin heck - it's only hair. What's the big fuss?

FWIW Ii think it is more popular to wax now because the hot waxes are better and because it's a routine salon treatment. To generalise I think People are more comfortable spending money in salons / on themselves these days. I still remember my mother being appalled that I wasted money getting my legs waxed -and not just shaving. This was about 15 years ago. Think it was because money always been tighter for her and this fell in luxury category ( I call it maintainance!).

Personally I find it more bizarre that so many people (esp young women) chose to use fake tan - all those chemicals on your skin, all the time!

Personally, I shave under my armpits; it seems to make quite a difference to any unpleasant BO problems.
As for my legs and bikini line I use an epilator. I now find I rarely get hair on my bikini line now. The hair is my legs are definitely less and a lot less noticeable.
I do my underarms and legs about once a month.
As for my pubes, I just trim the stray long ones. That's it.
Personally, I think it's really weird for a bloke to want his OH to be bald; it seems like they're making their OH prepubescent and to me, it's seems to be somewhat perverted.
I was really gobsmacked though, when a Muslim friend told me that all Muslim women are expected to be clean shaven everywhere. Absolutely hairless, because it's considered 'dirty' and they cannot go to their Mosques. I was absolutely gobsmacked and she was amused, but how on earth you keep everything in tip top nude state, with three kids, and a household of men (13, including her husband) and a house to look after?! Plus, how about any more inaccessible hairs; how do they remove those? I was too polite to ask, but my mind boggles even now, tbh!

I doubt it fell into luxury category tiger, I'd imagine she'd call it waste. It seemed pretty outlandish when I first heard about it, I read a book of journalism from the 50s where waxing was described as something that only wives of millionaires would have, with the strong implication 'more money than sense'. Beauty companies have worked hard to make these things more normal. My Jackie annual for 1975 had as a top tip to buy your own loo roll so that you had lots of perfectly sized tissues to wipe off your frosted blue eyeshadow. Imagine a teenage magazine doing that now - where is the profit for anyone in encouraging a girl to use something so cheap?

The idea that hair is dirty seems very damaging and sad. Yet another thing for young girls to worry about and feel they need to do to make themselves acceptable to men!

I shave it all off, it's a quick shower job every morning when I do my armpits. I don't have any issues with ingrown hairs. Weirdly I am quite lazy about shaving my legs, I only do them once a week. DH has no real opinion of it, it's been my preferred look for 20 years so he's never known any different. I've tried salon waxes and they're OK but I'm not really a salon-visiting person - never have my nails or hair done either.

I have no idea what my other female friends/relatives do though - it's not the kind of information we'd share!

Mine has been trimmed once in my life. I hated the itchy re-growth. Never again; I'm as bushy as a bushy bush (and quite comfortable with that).

For those asking why some of us prefer it fully shaved: more sensitive. Ease of access. And personally, I like seeing exactly what is going on down there.

I don't know anyone who does more than bikini line. But I haven't checked out all my mates' pubic hair recently!

I used to get lycon waxing and I love how smooth it gets.

I just shave now because I get way less ingrown hairs and I don't find the grow back itchy and it is a quick and simple job to do myself rather than taking time to go to a salon.

I don't know anyone who does more than bikini line.

I think all my friends go for brazilian or hollywood (landing strip or nothing)