70s bush envy

[Sparklybutold]

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)

No, it isn’t weirdly. It gets a lot more raw if there is hair rubbing the skin all the time.

I don’t do it every time, I use a lot of shaving stuff and an extremely sharp razor… I’m also a wheelchair user with care needs so my showering ways/situation is probably different to a lot of other people’s.

Mine still does. Sorry.

I love pubes, me! I love a big fluffy bush. I remember Caitlin Moran, in one of her many navel-gazers where she enjoys being female (yay for being female tho!) said an underrated joy in life was to bouff up a freshly washed bush, basically fluffing it up and a bit of back-combing, and then bounce your hand gently up and down on it, bouff bouff bouff. Lovely.

Mine can no longer do that! I'm VERY nostalgic for the wild and curlies of my 20's. Now I'm 50 and my bush is balding at the sides (I think it's the elastic of my pants!) and thinning on top and is just not very fucking CURLY any more! I knew they thinned, greyed and balded but by Merlin's Beard, why do they straighten?!

Why any red-blooded woman would allow her partner to encourage her to rip them out is beyond me. They're meant to be there. so are areola hairs but I tweeze 'em out!

😂 Such a brilliant description.

When I think of the number of times men cut themselves shaving - and that's their fully visible and easily accessible faces, right in front of a mirror! Christ.

This is quite horrible? I remove all of mine and have for years including when I was completely single and times I've had gynae ops and no regular sex, I do it for me but I accept other people keep theirs for them why can't you? And yes I do it because it makes me feel nice and it makes me feel clean, whether that's true or not. I don't agree that I'm absorbing any sort of culture, I think you're trying to make a bit more of an issue out of it than it is.

I love this post so much. ❤️

Yes, this is my view. Any man who wants a woman fully waxed down there is seriously questionable. No man seemed to need that in the 80s …

I think some men are just rubbish at shaving. I know my bits so well I can blind shave and still don’t cut myself 😅

🤣

CheerUp, you literally said pubic hair make an up heave, yet you think someone pointing out that society plays a role in waxing habits is horrible

I'm not sure you have much standing here😭

You mean I couldn’t plait it or do dreads… maybe some beads.

Clipping just takes it short so all the hair is doing is growing again the same as head hair, doesn’t disrupt the surface skin so no irritation.

Waxing regrowth is soft we as the hairs gone at the root so it’s like when a moustache or chin hair pops up, you don’t feeling.

Shaving regrowth was itchy and sore when I tried it once in my teens so I’ve never done it again.

their tolerance for sensations different sure

Right, so what is a comfortable or un noticeable sensation to you, can be intolerable to me?

Their bodies are different sure

So, the texture of my pubic hair can be different to yours? and the sensitivity of my skin can be different?

And when you combine the coarseness of my hair, the sensitivity of my skin and my intolerance for certain sensations, I can feel more comfortable without hair on my labia?

and hygienic for them than letting it grow - no

I don’t think it’s more or less hygienic (pubic hair is obviously perfectly hygienic)- I just think it’s more comfortable for me.

there is some kind of problem that needs addressing with a doctor.

There is a problem- I have thick corse pubic hair, sensitive skin and I’m always sitting down so friction, dampness and heat occur. The doctor said…” you have thick hair and sensitive skin, it’s a friction rash… try using a barrier cream like sudocreme”. Which I did until I discovered that if the hair is gone the rash is much better.

Me! I do, not saying I'd keep it but I'd like to have the choice, also pretty sparse. Would like thicker hair on my head too, sadly is not to be!

I think a front bush looks way better than the fat bulge or plucked look.I like the bit underneath removed but that's because I'm yeti like.

I detest the male shaved look. Anywhere really. Seriously you aren't fooling anyone that your dick is massive or you are youthful because you shave your grey chest hair. To me it screams insecurity and vanity, neither of which are attractive. An ugly hairy bloke that owns it is much more attractive. (See:Lemmy )
Different for women since literally every part of their bodies has some sort of beauty standard from smooth elbows to thin ankles.

Used to wax. The ingrown hair boil from hellade me question my choices and once I'd been preggers I basically just realised I didn't care enough to spend £££ getting it waxed. So it gets trimmed and neatened but that's all.

I couldn't care what anyone else does. They're our bits you style 'em as you like!

If someone doesn't like it, then security can tell them their name isn't on the guest list

It’s none of my business what you do with your pubes, but just wanted to point out that the fact it makes you feel ‘clean’ means you probably have absorbed some of society’s messages about the subject. I have lost count of the number of times on MN alone that I’ve read posts saying that having a hair-free vulva is cleaner/more hygienic- it’s a really common myth. There is no actual evidence for this in the real world. Any vulva which is regularly washed is clean, regardless of hair.

I wasn’t sure if you meant George or the wailing Kate.

I’m growing mine whilst I can, because as you age you revert back childhood with no teeth, or pubes.

I think a simply marvellous bush, fluffy in all its glory, is really sexy. Anything hairless, plucked to within an inch of its life is such a turn off… somewhere between a plucked chicken and a bad porn movie…

But you are absorbing culture. Because no one did it 25 years ago, as getting rid of pubes didn’t exist.

Its a new culture which you’ve absorbed.

I love listening to my 17 year old telling me that no woman should feel the need to shave as it’s a feminist issue.

I agree that it is.

I used to let it grow when I was younger - I had seen my mom on the loo growing up and just thought that was how it was - I guess I was innocent!

I hated it - felt unhygienic , itchy , and I know gross but smelly too! Then I decided on a landing strip but would never get it waxed so started to shave it . Still felt the same !

Now I completely shave the lot off ! So much better ! Feels so clean . Only thing is when it starts to grow and it’s stubbly ! Can’t shave it every day as I would be covered in a rash so I do it weekly usually .

Can’t imagine having a full bush !!

Who cares if I am? That's my point, only my dh is going to see and know and I don't want pubes regardless of where I've got that message from. Unsure why the opposing side always want to tell women what to do with their bodies.

Nothing gets MN all cross like the pube issue. Wax it off, keep it. It’s just a personal preference.

In response to another comment here saying that no hair is a pre pubescent thing .

I had an ex who hated me shaving , so I did have a bit of a landing strip . He said it didn’t feel right to be shaved as to him a woman has hair and a child doesn’t and it made him feel icky .

But he was the only one .