Hairless foofs

[Ginismyfriendx]

So can't sleep and watching naked attraction (please do judge me, I deserve it)
Are completely bare foofs a thing now? Having had a nasty experience of an ingrown hair from shaving bikini line (which required anti-biotics) why go through that? Nevermind the faff. Who want's an evening shadow on their lady bits?
All for a bit of pruning, but uprooting?

If it didn't rain soon all of us modern day British women might have to civsider getting a porn star wax to save water

I shave when I can be botheres. sometimes as a 'treat' to dh (lmao), but mainly because I just dont like it.
I used to epilate it the fuck off, but prefer just shaving

@SoupDragon point out where I’ve attacked anyone please?

So if you take off your pubic hair you don't wash as much- is that how it goes?

If it's cleaner then you don't take as many showers as you did when you had a hairy vulva?

It may not be cleaner, but it feels cleaner to me when I shave my pubic hair. I also have better oral sex when there is no hair. Sex feels a lot nicer, too.

SoupDragon if that's true it's easy to see why - look at the first half dozen posts, all about what posters do and what it feels like for them.

Then in comes yearofthewoman to deliver a lecture that nobody asked for:

Yes, completely bare foofs are a thing now.
It's from porn. Porn is a huge influence on our culture, especially on the younger, always connected generations.
Girls are told they're disgusting by not only boys but also other girls if they don't shave.
It's fucking depressing.

AND

Public hair is there to do a job - it protects our vaginas from bacteria and other unwanted nasties. Shaving it off leaves you more vulnerable to strep or staph bacterial infections, not to mention herpes. From this article: "There is an increase in staph boils and abscesses, necessitating incisions to drain the infection, resulting in scarring that can be significant. It is not at all unusual to find pustules and other hair-follicle inflammation papules on shaved genitals." Possibly not the desired effect, I suspect!

... and it goes on and on from there. Lots of the same with the added delight of 'not wanting to look like a pre-pubescent girl'. Felt like a pile on to me, and it was.

Hope this helps clarify.

Let those who wish to shave their bits, shave them.
Let those who do not, not.
Let each respect the decision of the other.
This applies whichever sort of bits you have, btw.

“A beautician I had in the late 90's suggested it might be easier to try the "new craze" of a Brazilian wax”

“it definitely was a thing in northern towns well before home internet (and therefore mass access to porn) was common place.”

Um... I had home internet in 1997 and I was nit particularly quick off the mark getting it.. so... Brazilians being new in the late 90’s is bang on for being the right time period.

Scrommidge is that from the bible?

That sounds like a lovely pipe-dream idea, Scrommidge... if only.

The older I get and the older my DCs get the more aggressively hairy I get. Never botherered with my bush, spider's legs never bothered me (still don't, don't like 'em, don't look), but I no longer shave my armpits or legs either.

It may repulse or empower my children, who knows? But they are both fully aware that it's quite acceptable to have body hair if one chooses.

And I feel subversively rather sexy about it these days.

(And no, I don't pluck my eyebrows, dye my grey hair or use fake-tan either, or wear spanx, or indeed a bra).

I saw Patti Smith live recently, there's a powerful, sexual, older woman who doesn't give a fuck.

We could all do with a bit of her in our souls.

*So if you take off your pubic hair you don't wash as much- is that how it goes?

If it's cleaner then you don't take as many showers as you did when you had a hairy vulva?*

During my period absolutely. Complete wash required each time I changed Sanpro compared to being able to use a wet wipe and merely have a daily shower/bath.

I had a staph infection from an ingrowing hair that took 6 months and 3 courses of anti-biotics to clear. I now have a scar from it. At one point (after the second course of anti-biotics) there was talk of surgery to get the 'sack' cut out. My GP was quite clear it was caused by waxing.

Waxing feels nicer I agree, but no way am I putting myself through that again.

@Ginismyfriendx it grows back soft and flat to the skin absolutely nothing like shaving.
I've had a look at my diary actually and I could easily do 25-30 a week this time of year.
It's actually my fave treatment to do, id happily do it all day, takes all of 20 mins including getting dressed/undressed, rebooking and paying!
Don't ever feel embarrassed, fannies and bumholes are like elbows to us.
Just have a wash first haha, I always leave wipes out anyway x

@TheDropBear
Hi, most would probably get it done where they work so they don't pay!
Or do it themselves. Sometimes it's easier to find the time to do it to yourself then it is to find the time for both of you to be free at the same time.
Often it will be 'Hun, can you do my bum and back of thighs, I've done the rest' or 'just do the underneath if you've got 5 kind, I'll do the rest later'
None of us are shy with it, we've all got one!

I will often ask one of the girls to do me a Hollywood but I wouldn't ask for a massage or a facial - I'd feel like I was taking the piss with that br a quick wax is nothing

@Ginismyfriendx

I think another reservation is that beauty therapists go 'ahh got a full on wax this afternoon. Don't want to look at another foof' (this isn't based on nothing, I once heard that exact conversation whilst getting my eyebrows done but they didn't say foof)
As in we all have bits of our job we hate...

No well in my salon we would say
'I've got all Fanny's this evening, nice and easy'

I occasionally do my bikini line if I know someone's going to see me in a bikini. And I trim from time to time to stop it becoming a forest. Aside from that I really don't care and DH also doesn't seem bothered, so it just wouldn't occur to me. I'm quite well groomed generally.

I have always dreamt of such a day as we can casually ask our colleagues to remove the hairs from our arsehole.

And thus it has come to pass.

What a time to be alive!

How do you women who have full waxes at salons not feel 100% embarrassed to have a stranger ripping hair off your vulva?

I'm really curious to know how other women manage the salon visits as I'd love to try a full wax but am too nervous and can't get past my embarrassment!

I go in, take my pants off and wait for her to come back in the room. I've not had waxes in ages, as years of waxing meant it stopped growing - and I had the little patchy bits left all lasered off. That's the same positions (frogs legs and hugging knees to chest) but with goggles and laser beams)

I don't feel embarrassed - it's what they do. They've seen it all before. They're not embarassed so why should I be? Then again I've had umpteen Drs rummage around down there and a whole threatre team wandering around whilst I've had my legs akimbo and ankles in stirrups, cranked open with a speculum for numerous egg collection and embryo transfers. It's a bit weird lying on your back hugging your knees to your chest the first time you have the full undercarriage done (so the therapist can get the wax to the perineum and the surrounding areas) but all she's doing is making sure she does her job well.

FWIW DH was quite disappointed when I had my first Brazilian as he thought pubic hair was 'womanly'. So it's not to please men for me. But he respects it's my body to do what I like with, and says I'm beautiful whatever I look like, so for me it really is a personal choice.

I feel cleaner without but that doesn't mean I'm saying it IS cleaner or that anyone who doesn't remove it is unclean. I just prefer the feel.

Oh and I never had ingrowns (Lycon wax FTW) and have never had thrush. Apparently I should be riddled with yeast infections given how often I read on MN that you're supposed to air your foof out at night and sleeping with knickers on is just asking for thrush (and given I sleep with knickers on under PJs, I should presumably give my vag some scuba equipment given it apparently needs air....)

My foof is becoming ever more lush and bouffant. In fact it’s more a bouf than a foof.

It resembles David Bellamy so much that if I could only teach it to say “fwog” it could make a fortune as a lookalike.

This started out as a very light-hearted thread which made me laugh, how on earth has it turned this wa Pubes, no pubes; each to their own. And sorry, but 'foof' is still making me laugh

"How on earth has it turned this wa Pubes, no pubes; each to their own."

No idea what happened there. Anyway, it was supposed to be about a 'war about pubes'. It's too early and my brain obviously functioning yet zzzz

I wish people didn’t feel the need to infantilise the language surrounding their sex organs. I mean ‘foof’ Ffs. How difficult is it to say cunt hairs?

So why? Why do people do this? Shave or not shave; just call your pines pubes. Fucking hell.

Don’t call your pines pubes unless you want to. Autocorrect might want that but it wasn’t what I meant to say. Call your pines whatever you want. Pubes on the other hand should not be fluffified into Fucking baby talk.

Equality, so much anger over what people choose to call their genitalia! As my teens would say, it's not that deep...