What is the actual objective of this thread? The hair-removers are most likely going to carry on doing that, because they prefer it. Regardless of whether other women think that they're doing it for porn or male-preference reasons. They'll have their own reasons for doing it.
I'm convinced that the women posting on this thread have their own pubic hair in mind when they post, not considering that it comes in various textures, thicknesses, growth patterns, etc., coupled with periods, sports, swimming and other factors that are taken into account by individuals.
I've seen posts (not on this thread) from ardent hair-keepers who remove hair from legs and underarms because they feel pressurised to do it. Those same women criticise other women who take it further and remove their pubic hair. How is that not hypocritical?
I've taken on board that some posters feel 'got at' because of posters saying that removing their pubic hair makes them feel cleaner. It's not a dig at anybody else but I can see that it would make some women feel that it is. I don't know what can be done about that? Should we just stop talking about it then? So that nobody feels 'got at'?
Some of the comments on this thread about 'pre-pubescence' are really quite offensive. The posters making them possibly don't mean them to be but they're not concerned when it's picked up so perhaps it's not that much of an issue for them regardless of whether it upsets other posters. I haven't appreciated those comments and I find it really difficult to understand why the posters making them don't see that it's offensive. Ditto the washing comments. Why make those?
I don't shave; I don't get on with it. I get waxed. I like the result, cleaning is certainly easier. I never felt dirty or unhygienic with hair but I will say that all of the comments I had about my underarm and leg hair when I had it as a young woman, were from other women. Never a comment from men. Why is that?
Women seem to be under pressure from the porn industry to remove hair OR not have access to sex with men who don't like it. What's so difficult about looking at it from the other side, that if a man/woman doesn't like the way you are (however that is) that he/she just doesn't get to have sex with you and it's his/her loss? That is what I'm going to be teaching my children - not to accept this crap from men or women, that they're great the way they are and accepted for the way they are, that all body shapes and grooming is normal and acceptable. Mostly, that they should never feel pressure from anybody to change how their body looks.
I've spotted a couple of comments that came in earlier that a 'woman's body is political'. What does that even mean and are women actually accepting of this? I can understand the gender pressure that's currently raging and that seems just so much more important than hair removal.
This thread hasn't really challenged me or made me think more because I've always been thinking about this but I'm genuinely interested in finding some common ground if it's there at all.