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)

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Anyone else suspect this thread has been infiltrated by men for wanking material as I'm pretty sure none of us ladies remove hair from our "vagina".

I'm pretty sure this thread isn't great for 'wanking material'

some people are so naive.

seeing as there are lots of people skulking on MN with a faeces fetish I find it highly likely there are people tugging away to the descriptions of fannies and their respective baldness or hairiness...

I thought this was going to about the innocence of your '70's childhood in rural Australia....

@ScubaDivingSpiderMonkey

Considering men are more responsive to images rather than words, I doubt this thread will be salacious material!
Thankfully, and I say this with the greatest respect, nobody has been proud enough of their lady gardens to post pictures and the descriptions of ingrowing hairs and such, is hardly five fingered shuffle fodder! 🙄

TerriePie
You make an interesting point about how the word 'vagina' is used very inaccurately as if it refers to the external area rather than specifically the internal canal. It's always annoyed me that people use the word wrongly.
But to my pedantic alarm, because of this thread, I checked what vulva means (I had always thought it referred only to the opening of the vagina) and I now realise it refers to all the outer shebang and I didn't know that 😳. How humiliating.
But my dd said at school in her yr 10 class physiological ignorance of the lady garden's moving parts is very great. A number of girls thought they urinated via the canal mentioned above rather than via the urethra.

Ha-ha this thread is hilarious. Thank you OP I needed a light hearted story to look through this morning. Sorry it may not have been intended this way but interesting.
Personally I like to be hairless from the head down, I like it to be hairless and smooth down there and it's annoying when it grows back. Me and DH prefer no hair. But not everyone's cup of tea obviously I think it's like with most things it's up to the individual.

I resent the fact I am grim and considered not to look after myself all because I have a bush! I get my hair done every 6-8 weeks (head hair lol), moisturise daily, wear nice clothes and enjoy putting on a bit of makeup but must be a complete slob because I have pubes!

I love my bush, makes me feel powerful and womanly. Sometimes i imagine im a medieval or viking woman when about to get frisky with DH 😂 Used to shave in my 20s and always felt itchy or conscious of shaving bumps.

I used to buy into the Ruskin myth then read more about it (art's a bit of a thing for me) and evidently it IS a myth. The rest is true- that she let him for Millais.

Blame Naked Attraction on TV- where the host and 'contestants ' refer to seeing a woman's 'vagina' - which is nigh impossible unless they are lying down with their legs wide apart.

The fatty bit with pubic hair is the mons pubis and also known as the Mons Venus!

There's been a thing lately for women and young girls (and on Mumsnet) to use 'vagina' for all of it which is just bonkers and quite shocking - if you need to explain something to a doctor, you're going to be talking about the wrong bits.

Deliciously -
I love the '🏔️ pubis'.
I like the word some relatives use:
Fooflah
A mate of mine who grew up in India called it her "noonie" (but to rhyme with Suni not Goonie.) I always thought noonie was the most affectionate word and least derogatory; it also sounds fine when a young one uses the word. A child saying "foofla" seems a bit like they're talking about a skimpy lingerie item from a Carry On film - one that Barbara Windsor might be wearing when she answers the door to the milkman. Essentially diminishing the power of what Courbet painted and called "The Origin of the World" still seen as a bit shocking. Now there's a proper bush and no mistake. And of course there is the mighty 'c' word which has such force and was appreciated by DH Lawrence and my DH when he really is angry with someone 🤦‍♀️.

Just came on to point out that a healthy bush of pubic hair didn’t just appear in the 1970’s, and that the practice of removing it stems from a culture that traditionally fetishises women’s hair as “sinful”. So no, it’s not grim at all…

Shaving them in order to pander to a paedophilic gaze is what's grim. For a website that is sensitive to any and every form of womens' subjugation, often to a ridiculous degree, I am astonished at the lack of awareness shown on this thread.

Nah I absolutely intended it to be lighthearted. One cannot talk about envy of the 70s bush and expect it to remain serious 😁

I don't think (?) it's paedophilia as such - I hope or that would be a hell of a lot of men with dodgy tastes - it's the reluctance to see women as full and complex humans with functioning body parts who bleed regularly and have body hair and don't just exist as pornographic avatars that exist to fulfill men's fantasies. You never see contraception in porn either, I think it panders to the same mindset.

I'm also querying whether people who proudly sport a bush - do you condition it?

Yes!

Easier but I prefer no hair.

I think women didn't have so many self imposed beauty regimes to follow.

Today if you follow them - no public hair or little, false or painted nails, eyebrows, slug like, huge inflated lips, contours, fake tan, no wrinkles at all, botox done in twenties by trendy circles. Or any variation of this

I think porn now dictates male sexual desire and function in a way which makes it invisible to the cultural view because it's endemic.

It's clearly creating high levels of sexual impotence and long term dysfunction.

I think most porn is profoundly misogynistic and by objectifying the stimulating subject it protects the viewer from true vulnerability - therefore reducing sexual union to masturbating with company. It's so sad.

I once had an undercarriage waxing...it was excruciatingly painful....never again. And don't get me started on the regrowth phase.

I think one of the reasons why it was okay in the 1970s to have an uncontrolled bush is because we were still in the throes of second wave feminist battles.

Women were fighting for - and winning - life-changing legal rights, eg. in the workplace, but it was still very much a man's world, in ways that are no longer the case.

There are always tangible backlashes to the successes of feminism. I think this modern extreme prescriptiveness and stigmatisation regarding the state of our pubes is one such backlash.

The patriarchy couldn't stop us getting maternity employment rights and equal pay; it lost some of it's stranglehold of control over us.

So instead it focuses on controlling what is in our knickers and making us devote money, time and brain space to 'boxing in' our boxes.

Lauder
But I think my dd and niece can't be alone in thinking this kind of hair removal is just is not only ridiculous but sexist and not a pressure they give a crap about. They're young.

I think it will become an outdated thing that only older women do eventually. I have great faith in Gen Z, they seem very clearsighted.

Why not then just, I don't know, shut the fuck up about it? If all women would just accept that we're all shapes, sizes, hairyness/baldness without needing to 'find their tribe' all the time and picking sides.

I get that the 'grim' comment was offensive, it was, it was also lacking any thought. I'm totally in agreement with that but most of the posts from women who remove their hair are not talking about other women's bodies, just their own. The women who choose to leave their pubic hair are generally being prescriptive and judgemental about any woman who doesn't do the same.

Imagine if women just left other women to their own choices without needing to denigrate and censure? What hair women do or don't have on their bodies really shouldn't even need a discussion because it's absolutely nobody else's business. Not even a little bit.