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70s bush envy

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Sparklybutold · 24/04/2024 11:34

Is it just me or does anyone else have bush envy? Yes I mean pubic hair bush. I swear I have alopecia down there. I would love a big soft bush. Apparently you can get a bush wig which I'd seriously consider.

(Dear Aston University - stick that in your pipe)

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IdahoGal · 24/04/2024 17:21

Chunkycookie · 24/04/2024 12:52

I am and mine has turned grey and is disappearing (along with my leg hair).

Joys of getting older.

Mine too. But rather than disappearing, I fear it is migrating to my face.

Lagoony · 24/04/2024 17:24

For a lot of my 20s/ early 30s I rocked a full bush or lightly trimmed bush. Mine wasn't massive but majestic enough. I had plenty of sexual interest during that time and only 1 complaint, which ironically came from a guy with one of those big, unruly bush-like beards! I don't think he got what was funny when I laughed.

I am 32 now and at the moment I'm brazillian, I keep the part closest to the genitals because for me, it seems some hair provides some comfort as it forms a small cushion between your bits and your.clothes. I personally.also think completely bare would feel a bit pre-pubescent, on me at least.

CarrotPotatoRooster · 24/04/2024 17:24

I used to have a glorious duracell battery orange bush. Now it's white.
Never removed it. Ever. Relationship or no relationship!

Scirocco · 24/04/2024 17:27

I expected a thread about suburban gardening drama, but this is so much better.

Katbum · 24/04/2024 17:28

TheLadyofShalotts · 24/04/2024 17:04

Why? Can’t you conceive of other people experiencing sensations differently than you?

I take it you are aware that people’s skin/hair/body shape/ amount of and ph level of their discharge all vary? Therefore the sensations they feel vary?

You actually think that THAT isn’t possible, but that I,

a life long lesbian with no interest in what men find attractive,

married to a woman who is hairy all over whom I find very attractive,

that I who have a massive bush on the bits that you would see if I were in a bikini or changing at the gym (my mons pubis)

chooses to remove the hair on my labia, not because I find it less irritating to the skin and less likely to get caught during sex… but actually because ‘society’ thinks I should, and I’m just too dim to realise it?

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Yes that is what I think! Why do you care?

Peaceandquietandacuppa · 24/04/2024 17:30

LittleBooThang · 24/04/2024 11:35

Nope. It’s just grim. Taking care of yourself is important.

So much to unpick here…….

VeryUnlikely · 24/04/2024 17:33

I remember being told by a bloke to 'do something about down there for next time'. I said he needed to do something about his cock and face for 'next time.' Bloody cheek.

HesterRoon · 24/04/2024 17:33

My bf is a sexual health nurse-she says the fashion for young women to remove hair completely isn’t healthy and puts them at a greater risk of infection. Hair helps keep you clean.

EarthSight · 24/04/2024 17:34

LittleBooThang · 24/04/2024 11:35

Nope. It’s just grim. Taking care of yourself is important.

Do you say that to men as well?

EarthSight · 24/04/2024 17:34

HesterRoon · 24/04/2024 17:33

My bf is a sexual health nurse-she says the fashion for young women to remove hair completely isn’t healthy and puts them at a greater risk of infection. Hair helps keep you clean.

This.

TorroFerney · 24/04/2024 17:36

LittleBooThang · 24/04/2024 11:35

Nope. It’s just grim. Taking care of yourself is important.

How is getting rid of pubic hair "taking care of yourself"? It's not like it grows to your knees and trips you up?

LlynTegid · 24/04/2024 17:36

I think we should envy that if the choice you make is not to trim or remove, in the 70s no-one would have criticised you for it.

AInightingale · 24/04/2024 17:38

For the women who do remove it, isn't regrowth as itchy as hell? I know waxing is 'best' if you choose to remove hair, but I daresay many of those who do, shave. How the f isn't it as distracting and uncomfortable as hell?

TheLadyofShalotts · 24/04/2024 17:38

Katbum · 24/04/2024 17:28

Yes that is what I think! Why do you care?

Wow! I don’t care so much as I’m fascinated.

You really don’t believe that other women’s bodies are different to yours? When we strip off we are all exactly like you, down to the texture of our body hair and the ph balance of our discharge?

How do you square that with the evidence of biology and what you can see with your own eyes?!

TheLadyofShalotts · 24/04/2024 17:41

AInightingale · 24/04/2024 17:38

For the women who do remove it, isn't regrowth as itchy as hell? I know waxing is 'best' if you choose to remove hair, but I daresay many of those who do, shave. How the f isn't it as distracting and uncomfortable as hell?

Yea, it’s itchy if you leave it to grow back- I run over it with a razor most times I shower so I don’t get the regrowth feeling.

Polishedshoesalways · 24/04/2024 17:48

TheLadyofShalotts · 24/04/2024 17:41

Yea, it’s itchy if you leave it to grow back- I run over it with a razor most times I shower so I don’t get the regrowth feeling.

It must be red raw being shaved every single day 😬

lifeinthelastlane · 24/04/2024 17:48

DagenhamDanny · 24/04/2024 16:23

Personally, I love a neatly trimmed lady garden. But a full Amazon rainforest? No thanks.

You would genuinely stop having sex with a woman if she revealed this during the act?
I find that hard to believe

CrunchyCarrot · 24/04/2024 17:49

I'm disappointed no-one has mentioned Shepherd's bush. Magnificent thing.

70s bush envy
Callipygion · 24/04/2024 17:49

When having a caesarean section (30 years ago!) they shaved me down there, and the hair on bit in the middle (is that the mons Venus?) under the incision line, never grew back. That area is also a bit numb. I don’t think they sewed me up straight either as I had a linea negra and it ended up as a linea dog-leg.

DaoineSidhe · 24/04/2024 17:50

StarDolphins · 24/04/2024 11:55

I’m disappointed- I came here to reminisce about the laurel hedging at the front of my childhood home in the 70’s.

😂

CheerUpFFS · 24/04/2024 17:51

Each to their own but I hate public hair, reading soft bush made me heave a bit inside. My epilator is my absolute favourite thing, makes me feel so clean.

CheerUpFFS · 24/04/2024 17:52

Didn't mean to underline my post lol

Katbum · 24/04/2024 17:52

TheLadyofShalotts · 24/04/2024 17:38

Wow! I don’t care so much as I’m fascinated.

You really don’t believe that other women’s bodies are different to yours? When we strip off we are all exactly like you, down to the texture of our body hair and the ph balance of our discharge?

How do you square that with the evidence of biology and what you can see with your own eyes?!

Their bodies are different sure - their tolerance for sensations different sure. That removing pubic hair is more comfortable and hygienic for them than letting it grow - no. I don’t believe it. I think if that is the case then there is some kind of problem that needs addressing with a doctor.

IncompleteSenten · 24/04/2024 17:53

Trimmed or waxed or shaved adult women look nothing like prepubescent girls.

Our genitals change a lot during puberty. You could rip out your entire thatch, polish it with car wax and slap a smiley face sticker on it and it would still look nothing like a child's vulva.

CheerUpFFS · 24/04/2024 17:53

AInightingale · 24/04/2024 17:38

For the women who do remove it, isn't regrowth as itchy as hell? I know waxing is 'best' if you choose to remove hair, but I daresay many of those who do, shave. How the f isn't it as distracting and uncomfortable as hell?

Epilating is even easier than waxing as you can do it when it's super short. For me it's as much a part of a routine now as brushing my teeth I love it!