HelenaDove, your post to me, the one where you 'rest your case'... well, it's just an opinion isn't it? The poster owned it, said "I think...".
I don't post like that myself because I'm cognisant of other people's feelings on the subject. What I think many posters are not taking account of, is individual women are using their own reference points for this and for anything else really. The recent 'period' thread is a really good example. So many women suffer with this yet are told that they cannot possible be right... and it's the same on this thread.
A woman who says that 'she finds removing her hair more hygienic is referring to herself'. She's not scooping up other people in that claim, she's talking for herself. Neither you nor anybody else knows anything about why she feels the way she does yet immediately, she is pounced on and told that she's suggesting/implying or outright saying - that pubic hair is not hygienic. This is really unfair.
We are not 'the Borg', we don't think the same things and different things irritate and annoy us. I personally have a bugbear about SPAG corrections and I also hate threads critiquing what women wear or look like. I'm often to be found on those threads saying how distasteful I find the comments - and I'm usually on my own doing it too. Yet on threads like this, we are seemingly not 'allowed' an opinion that differs from keeping pubic hair.
As we're adults, properly functioning and thinking adults, this doesn't sit right with many of us but I cannot find a post on this thread that says anything along the lines of what you're suggestion - that 'hair keepers have been told they are unhygienic, dirty, smelly, whatever'. That hyperbole however is being used to justify some pretty low insults.
So, in summary, far from 'resting your case', it's really a question of 'testing the case', it is far from conclusive.