To consider getting a Brazilian wax

[GalGadont]

Never had one before as it seemed like a lot of trouble and wasn’t something I particularly felt the need for, I usually just shave and trim. Previous bfs have seemed to be fine with that (and of course I believe it’s up to me what I want to do anyway).

For some reason, no idea why, I’ve been recently feeling it’s something I might like to do. Not currently in a relationship so it’s not because of that, I just fancy being hair-free. Am I insane? Will it be expensive and incredibly painful? What are people’s experiences?

Omg - thank you to those who mentioned Lycon wax! After reading this thread I found a salon in London near my work who use lycon and it's life-changing! I was previously being subjected to strip wax (after too many ingrowns due to trimming I was grateful to not have those due to waxing). But omg, Lycon is heaven, the pain is just 20%, I barely registered it, and the whole thing was over in 25 mins. My skin is happy, not burning and I've even had a hot shower after.
To anyone on the fence - try lycon wax.

A total hyperbolic representation of what I wrote

You said women control other women's bodies. What do you mean by that @40andlovelife?

But control is not hyperbole? Give over hun. Unless you can provide an example of when other women are protesting for waxing to be illegal, or making fun of waxed legs, that's not true.

You want to be oppressed for being the beauty standard and can't accept that everyone of us is taken in by it to an extent.

So @GalGadont have you booked a wax yet? Or decided not?

That's how you are choosing to read it.

I think the point being made is that fashion often will choose to exaggerate what tend to be natural differences between men and women. Probably because those differences function as sexual triggers for many people. That's in their natural setting, without doing anything, men respond to women's different body shape, for example, so you often get fashions like corsets or more fitted clothing that make that more obvious. Or conversely, men's clothes emphasize their shoulders being broader.

Relative amounts of body hair are similar. They tend to be less in women, so it's not that odd that fashion might exaggerate that difference. Sometimes fashion picks up on random things, like bubble skirts, which come and go, but whenever it picks up on something that dovetails with the things our brain is scanning for looking for a potential sexual partner, it tends to be more compelling.

but whenever it picks up on something that dovetails with the things our brain is scanning for looking for a potential sexual partner, it tends to be more compelling.

It's not like you're going to be seeing that part of the person though when looking for a potential sexual partner (unless you're a nudist I guess). By the time you're looking at it, they presumably are a sexual partner. I've certainly never had anyone back out at the sight of hair.