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cherrycola2004 · 31/10/2017 16:38

I’m quite new here not sure where to post this so feel free to move the post.

I just wonder if you remove your pink hair how do you do it? Shaving is making me so sore and itchy, hair removal cream doesn’t seem to work too well, Home waxing kit was pointless and pretty much just took my skin off (ouch!)

Is a proper wax the only way?

Any tips or tricks?

Thank Smile

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MsHarry · 04/11/2017 10:13

Leave it alone.Muffs are buff!

JustCurious11 · 04/11/2017 10:20

It doesn’t matter either way, it’s about preference isn’t it. Times have changed and women don’t just groom their eyebrows, legs, under arms etc. Some now groom their vagina too. The only time this would be a bit suspect is if she were doing it, despite not really liking it, to please a man. Many women do it because they want to and like it. I was single for a period of time and I still groomed myself because I want to and like it. If my dp said I want a full bush or I want it completely shaven altogether he can go whistle!

BertrandRussell · 04/11/2017 11:28

So why did women suddenly start wanting to "groom" their pubic hair at roughly the same time? What else happened in the late 80s/early 90s that might have prompted it?(

JustCurious11 · 04/11/2017 11:36

Who cares? Does it make someone more superior if they don’t shave their fanjo?

You could say that about anything - When did women start plucking their eyebrows? When did they start shaving under their arms? When did they start shaving their legs?

Then there’s other questions such as When did women start getting boob jobs? When did Botox become something people want? When did face lifts become a thing to have?

It all came from somewhere at some point and it all stems down to one thing and that is “Vanity.”

JustCurious11 · 04/11/2017 11:40

I think it was the rise in popular tv programmes such as Sex and the City which prompted a lot of previously taboo subjects to become mainstream such as the shaving of pubic hair.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 04/11/2017 13:53

Some now groom their vagina too

No they don't. They groom their pubis, their pudenda, their mons venus, their labia or their preferred euphemism - not their vaginas. Vaginas are internal and hairless.

I remember a radio programme which said that the popularity of pubic shaving has been shown (i.e. scientifically) to be related to the increase of easily available pornography. The pornographer strips away the hair because the buyers want to see everything.

There's an article here
www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-friedland/women-pubic-hair_b_875465.html

You may or may not agree with this,

JustCurious11 · 04/11/2017 14:11

Who cares?

BertrandRussell · 04/11/2017 14:32

Well, some people do care. You obviously do or you wouldn't be on the thread!

JustCurious11 · 04/11/2017 14:39

I mean that old chestnut about it coming from porn. Who cares if it did? Yes it probably did stem from that and trickled down to mainstream, everything that comes into mainstream started somewhere. There are probably many things people do to each other in the bedroom that originated from porn somewhere along the line. That doesn’t make us all porn stars though does it?

I presume those against shaving pubic regions also don’t shave their under arms or legs?

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SchadenfreudePersonified · 04/11/2017 15:15

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More to do with the subjugation of women.

JustCurious11 · 04/11/2017 15:16

Interesting article. My mother says when she was a child in the 50s she actually thought women had “pointy triangle” shaped bosoms not realising it was a bra making it that shape Grin

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motherinferior · 04/11/2017 15:34

Plenty of women on the Indian subcontinent have had pubic hair. My mother and her generation all had it. So do my cousins.

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Goshthatwentwell · 04/11/2017 15:54

Seriously? The point about porn and ancient cultures is that they very much born of patriarchal societies.
I have only ever seen one woman out in public with hairy armpits. I have also only ever seen one woman in a swimming costume with pubic hair showing. It is absolutely not socially acceptable to have either.
Which considering it is as natural for a woman as a man to have hair tells you what?
Yes I like my Brazilian. I am amazingly hairy and it saves a faff with bits of loo roll and tampons.. I shave everything else when I know it'll be on show. I would never shave my legs again though if I could get away with it. Which you can't. I don't want muffs to go the same way.

JacquesHammer · 04/11/2017 16:00

I would never shave my legs again though if I could get away with it. Which you can't

Why not? Why can't you get away with it?

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pennysnow · 04/11/2017 17:08

Plenty of women on the Indian subcontinent have had pubic hair. My mother and her generation all had it. So do my cousins.

I am amazed at how some posters know how many of their female family members shave their bush, (or keep it as a full bush,) and how many of their friends shave (or not!) I don't think I know the pubic hair status of any of my friends or family members! Grin

Personally, I think it's up to the individual, and is nothing to do with anyone else. Keep it full or shave it off. Whatever floats your boat! I get why women do it at the time of their period though. Having a full bush at the 'time of the month' can be rather unpleasant. Confused

SchadenfreudePersonified · 04/11/2017 18:36

I don't think I know the pubic hair status of any of my friends or family members!

Nor do I, and I'm happy to remain in ignorance. Grin

BertrandRussell · 04/11/2017 21:13

This thread has just ruined Strictly for my family- I couldn'r help speculating about the pubic hair status of all the women-dp and ds were deeply unimpressed.

Mumof41987 · 04/11/2017 21:24

I shave it all off and always do it against the hAir growth. Maybe I'm lucky but mines always super smooth , looks completely hair free and no sign of stubble . I shave every 3 days and have no trouble at all . Never had an In grown hair or a rash . I can't stand any hair at all Down there now and especially hate stubble so I do shave every 3rd day which works for me