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Sparklybutold · 2024-04-24T10:34:00+00:00

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)

Waitingfordoggo · 26/04/2024 14:42

I had the same conversation with my DD too. That she is free to do as she pleases with her body hair. She knows I’m averse to shaving and leave my pubes alone, as well as my legs for much of the year. She started shaving her legs and pits when she was 11 or 12. I showed her how to use a razor on her legs the first time she wanted to try it. I have no idea what she does with her public hair (she’s 18 now and I haven’t seen her naked for many years), but she does shave her arms - apparently because a crush told her she had hairy arms when she was about 14. 🙄 Her body hair is very fine and fair. I think it’s a shame but it is her choice.

maddening · 26/04/2024 14:46

You could go for an 80s Bush- crimped and maybe with a neon pop of colour?

AnnieSnap · 26/04/2024 14:52

Allshallbewell2021 · 26/04/2024 14:07

I am very interested to know -

How do you respond to your dd's pubic hair when it first appears and they ask you about it? What do you say to them about it?
What age do you take them for it to be removed and by what method?

These are the two questions that take this out of personal choice and into education of younger women by older women.

Can they decide for themselves what to do when they're older?

These questions should be considered by @LittleBooThang I hope this thread has encouraged to at least think about her view that having pubic hair “is grim and unhygienic”.

Allshallbewell2021 · 26/04/2024 15:11

It's great to hear how positive mums are with their dd's development. I never wanted dd to feel ashamed of her body and she's fantastically unashamed.

thepastinsidethepresent · 26/04/2024 15:47

2) What age do you take them for it to be removed and by what method?

Take them? I'd have thought if they're old enough to have hair they're old enough to either remove it themselves (if they want to) or go to get it waxed or whatever themselves?

Waitingfordoggo · 26/04/2024 15:49

I agree with that @thepastinsidethepresent. It’s not a necessity. I have always paid for sanitary products, deodorants, shampoos, shower gel and toothpaste etc but if they want make up, hair products or indeed hair removal, they can budget and pay for those from their pocket money/ PT earnings.

Waitingfordoggo · 26/04/2024 15:50

Though they’ll sometimes get stuff like that in their Christmas stocking.

TheLadyofShalotts · 26/04/2024 16:22

I tell all my girls (who are my nieces actually but I’m very involved in their upbringing) that it’s up to them what they do with their bodies, and that their bodies are functional exactly as intended in their natural state-anything else is based on what is comfortable for them in terms of aesthetics and practicality.

I also have the same discussions with my ds who is approaching puberty.

BIossomtoes · 26/04/2024 17:35

I think the point comes when young women are far more influenced by their friends than their mums. If my mum had seen the state of my armpits every winter she’d have been appalled, hers were always smooth but my granny never touched hers.

MarioIa · 26/04/2024 19:23

I've never really understood the view on here about hair removal being 'unnatural'. So is having your hair styled/coloured, wearing makeup, having your nails done, wearing nice clothes etc.

It seems some won't be happy until we're shuffling around in bear skin capes and eschewing all personal hygiene. 🤣

CatamaranViper · 26/04/2024 23:20

MarioIa · 26/04/2024 19:23

I've never really understood the view on here about hair removal being 'unnatural'. So is having your hair styled/coloured, wearing makeup, having your nails done, wearing nice clothes etc.

It seems some won't be happy until we're shuffling around in bear skin capes and eschewing all personal hygiene. 🤣

So you view removing pubic hair as enhancing personal hygiene? Why?

MarioIa · 26/04/2024 23:27

CatamaranViper · 26/04/2024 23:20

So you view removing pubic hair as enhancing personal hygiene? Why?

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I wasn't just talking about that. Using exfoliater and shampoo etc isn't natural either.

LadySugar · 27/04/2024 08:32

Nobody has actually made the argument that its blindly good because it's natural.

Like how some people say being straight is the only way because it's natural with no further justification. That hasn't happened

People have said it is a protective barrier that prevents infections, it's a natural/normal part of a woman's body, why pay to painfully remove it
etc

Fragglecock74 · 27/04/2024 08:35

I have a full ginger bush. I don’t bother with it much as I haven’t had sex with my husband for years so there was no point. It’s fabulous not forever removing the bush. I’ve actually grown to like the 70’s look however, if I were to ever have sex again then I go from one extreme to another and used to have a tiny landing strip or full removal; I do tame it when I go on holiday or have a smear though.

Itloggedmeoutagain · 27/04/2024 08:50

Some interesting posts on this thread.
It would seem from many posts that the only opinion that a man is allowed to have on the subject is that a bush is good. Anything else makes him a paedophile or controlling.
Another interesting point is that any woman who waxes must have been influenced by porn.
Lots of posts about ingrown hair. If you go to a decent salon this shouldn't happen.
I'm in my 50s. I was single and in my 40s when i decided to try waxing. I preferred how it felt. I've never watched porn. I'm the only one in my group of friends who waxes. I'm married now but i was already waxing before i met him. He's not bothered either way. I don't have ingrown hair because i don't use a jack of all trades beauty salon i use a waxing salon. It doesn't hurt if you keep it maintained....i noticed a big difference after lockdown. Yes that hurt a bit!
And as for the posts about fashion, just do what feels right for you. If you want a bush have one. If you want to whip it all off do that. Personally I can't think of anything worse than tackling it with a razor! But if that's what you want that's your business.

TheQuietWan · 27/04/2024 08:54

I love my bush!

I do tidy up the bikini line area, as I’m a very hairy person, but otherwise I’m completely natural and other than one misguided Brazilian out of curiosity (painful, itchy, never again) I always have been.

For me, it’s part of being an adult human female. But I appreciate others feel differently.

TheLadyofShalotts · 27/04/2024 08:58

Itloggedmeoutagain · 27/04/2024 08:50

Some interesting posts on this thread.
It would seem from many posts that the only opinion that a man is allowed to have on the subject is that a bush is good. Anything else makes him a paedophile or controlling.
Another interesting point is that any woman who waxes must have been influenced by porn.
Lots of posts about ingrown hair. If you go to a decent salon this shouldn't happen.
I'm in my 50s. I was single and in my 40s when i decided to try waxing. I preferred how it felt. I've never watched porn. I'm the only one in my group of friends who waxes. I'm married now but i was already waxing before i met him. He's not bothered either way. I don't have ingrown hair because i don't use a jack of all trades beauty salon i use a waxing salon. It doesn't hurt if you keep it maintained....i noticed a big difference after lockdown. Yes that hurt a bit!
And as for the posts about fashion, just do what feels right for you. If you want a bush have one. If you want to whip it all off do that. Personally I can't think of anything worse than tackling it with a razor! But if that's what you want that's your business.

I always wonder about the re growth after waxing… don’t you have to let it get to about half a cm length for the wax to work? I feel like that would be spiky?

I must be lucky with shaving because I don’t get ingrown hairs.

Itloggedmeoutagain · 27/04/2024 09:05

TheLadyofShalotts · 27/04/2024 08:58

I always wonder about the re growth after waxing… don’t you have to let it get to about half a cm length for the wax to work? I feel like that would be spiky?

I must be lucky with shaving because I don’t get ingrown hairs.

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It grows back softer. Its not stubbly

LadySugar · 27/04/2024 09:44

It would seem from many posts that the only opinion that a man is allowed to have on the subject is that a bush is good. Anything else makes him a paedophile or controlling.

Having a preference is fair enough, whatever. A bush is a specific 'style'.

However,

Any man who chimes in to tell us that pubic hair in unclean, unkempt or gross can stfu, grow up and stop watching porn and leave his bedroom.

Itloggedmeoutagain · 27/04/2024 14:46

LadySugar · 27/04/2024 09:44

It would seem from many posts that the only opinion that a man is allowed to have on the subject is that a bush is good. Anything else makes him a paedophile or controlling.

Having a preference is fair enough, whatever. A bush is a specific 'style'.

However,

Any man who chimes in to tell us that pubic hair in unclean, unkempt or gross can stfu, grow up and stop watching porn and leave his bedroom.

It doesn't seem to be the men saying that it seems to be women saying that it's unclean.

LadySugar · 27/04/2024 14:58

I'm simply responding to the poster above

DagenhamDanny · 27/04/2024 15:32

LadySugar · 27/04/2024 09:44

It would seem from many posts that the only opinion that a man is allowed to have on the subject is that a bush is good. Anything else makes him a paedophile or controlling.

Having a preference is fair enough, whatever. A bush is a specific 'style'.

However,

Any man who chimes in to tell us that pubic hair in unclean, unkempt or gross can stfu, grow up and stop watching porn and leave his bedroom.

But a full overgrown rainforest IS gross. Not necessarily unhygienic but definitely gross.

Waitingfordoggo · 27/04/2024 15:36

What do you mean by ‘gross’ @DagenhamDanny?

Do you understand that you’re just stating a personal opinion there and not a universal fact? Do you think it’s ok to refer to women’s natural bodies as ‘gross’?

I hope you don’t have any daughters.

BIossomtoes · 27/04/2024 15:39

DagenhamDanny · 27/04/2024 15:32

But a full overgrown rainforest IS gross. Not necessarily unhygienic but definitely gross.

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Thank goodness my bloke disagrees. He’d have had a very arid sex life for the last 24 years.

LadySugar · 27/04/2024 15:46

But a full overgrown rainforest IS gross. Not necessarily unhygienic but definitely gross.

Interesting that people on this site will call anything and everything misogyny but somehow this is just an opinion.

Would you say this to a child or teenage girl, that her body is gross? Would you be happy for your daughter, niece or any girl to internalise this message?