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Girls, generally, say 18-21 year olds, labia size and no pubic hair? Normal? Picture attached. Warning.

161 replies

Oblomov17 · 13/09/2017 14:11

I'm sorry for asking this question. I just wondered.
Have recently seen a few clips from tv show 'Naked Attraction'.
I know its not everyone's cup of tea. Quite contentious.

Not of much interest to me either really.
But I was quite fascinated by all the girls. Young, pretty, lovely.

But they all had very very neat labia. none hanging down.
AND they all had no pubic hair at all. Not even a French with a small strip of pubic hair.
All completely hair free.

So, is very neat? AND no pubic hair, completely the norm, these days?

Will our teenage boys, encounter this, as the norm?

I attach a picture, of which I just googled, just to show how neat and tight and firm all the labia on the show looked. Hope its not offensive.

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FruitCider · 13/09/2017 17:09

To be honest I thought the one on the right has rather long outer labia, and the inner labia are still a bit long. I've never seen anything like that the photo on the left! I wouldn't class any of those photos as hairless either, i would remove my pubes long before they got to that length.

RatRolyPoly · 13/09/2017 17:21

Yeah, "neat" and hairless is the current vogue. The pressure to live up to societal norms of beauty gets ever more intimate for us women - it's depressing. I used to be a lap dancer (fully nude) and you could see the trend coming in. FWIW the only girl as "neat" as picture two that I ever met had had a labioplasty. Although none were as extreme as the picture on the right.

RatRolyPoly · 13/09/2017 17:23

Actually looking again at the pics there were a few like the right pic. The girl with the labioplasty you could barely see the inner lips if I remember rightly.

This feels kind of weird to talk about!

RatRolyPoly · 13/09/2017 17:24

None were as extreme as the picture on the LEFT I mean!

PollyPerky · 13/09/2017 17:49

The one on the right looks a bit odd too. Sorry.
All the labia look a bit 'clunky' . The outer ones look thick and the inner ones look as if they are pushing them apart.

i would remove my pubes long before they got to that length.

Really? You;d better not see mine then. Full bush. No desire at all to remove or whatever. A slight trim down the sides is all that's needed.

Tattybogle89 · 13/09/2017 17:58

Oh god its another labia thread.

Tattybogle89 · 13/09/2017 17:59

@pollyperky you are quite critical. Are you comparing simply to your own , because there will be a vast variety!

DawnMumsnet · 13/09/2017 18:01

Evening all,

Inevitably we've had a few reports about this thread, so we're just popping on here to confirm that the OP is a long-term poster and that we believe this is a genuine ask.

We agree, the photo in the opening post is a bit in-your-face (well, actually, it's more in-your-pants) Grin but heck, we're all grown ups here - and the OP did put a warning in the title.

We think this thread is fine to stay up, here in the General Health topic, but obviously if loads of you find this too much, we'll consider taking it down.

Many thanks.

FreshSet · 13/09/2017 18:05

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FruitCider · 13/09/2017 18:12

Really? You;d better not see mine then. Full bush. No desire at all to remove or whatever. A slight trim down the sides is all that's needed.

That's your choice. Personally I prefer not to have pubes making a bulge and crunching in my pants!

Oblomov17 · 13/09/2017 18:21

Thank you MNHQ.
Have responded to your second PM.

I kind of wish I'd never asked now!!

No more 'Naked Attraction' for me!!!!

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shouldnthavesaid · 13/09/2017 18:27

The one on the left isn't normal. I looked like that and had surgery to sort it out as it was taking over my life - very painful. Gynaecology professor , GP and community midwife confirmed I was at the extreme end of problems. They told me it was called elongation/hypertrophy and can be a birth deformity of sorts. Yes, some variation is normal but that certainly isn't.

AccrualIntentions · 13/09/2017 18:30

As some of the comments on here demonstrate, women can be disgustingly bitchy about other women in respect of this area, so I'd say it's more likely that the only women comfortable enough going on the show were those with the perfect pretty little pink neat labia which are now seen as the only "normal".

shouldnthavesaid · 13/09/2017 18:33

I must admit my surgery results were better than that though, I had as much excess/damaged tissue removed as possible (2 hour op, 25 stitches) so all inside now. I think it helped that I was seen by a gynae team and not a cosmetic surgery clinic - would always trust the former more, although they admitted freely it's still a pretty rare op to be done on the NHS.

PollyPerky · 13/09/2017 18:33

*That's your choice. Personally I prefer not to have pubes making a bulge and crunching in my pants!^

Oh thanks for allowing me to have a choice. You have too. I didn't say you hadn't.

My pants don't bulge*. Very few of us walk around in just our knickers anyway. They also don't crunch^. It's soft hair, not cornflakes.

AuntLydia · 13/09/2017 18:38

Well this thread is an education. I have to say, personally, that hairless fannies are far uglier than I thought they'd be! I also can't imagine how much hair you'd need to have bulging, crunchy knickers...

FruitCider · 13/09/2017 18:42

It's soft hair, not cornflakes.

I haven't come across a soft pube yet, they are normally coarse and lack softness as most people don't condition them. Either way, I don't like the way they feel in my pants, the last time I grew a bush back I found it very uncomfortable!

uhhuhh · 13/09/2017 18:45

I don't know what's more disturbing- that photo or OP's, fondness, for sprinkling, around, commas.

demirose87 · 13/09/2017 18:46

Both don't look normal to me. but then again haven't seen very many.

Oblomov17 · 13/09/2017 18:51

Uhh
Grammar 👮 police is a different section of MN.
So off you toddle......

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PeaceAndLove1 · 13/09/2017 18:53

When I first saw the great wall of vagina it was a revelation to me, so thankful the artist thought of it. Ever since I can remember I thought mine weren't the norm but as the wall proves, what is the norm.

PeaceAndLove1 · 13/09/2017 18:56

demirose87 have a good study of the wall Grin

PollyPerky · 13/09/2017 19:00

I haven't come across a soft pube yet,

I have. Including some very hairy men.

You are clearly basing your opinions on your own and a limited experience of others (men or women?)

You're very welcome to pop by and have a feel if you want to be certain Grin

PeaceAndLove1 · 13/09/2017 19:00

I tell you what's shocking, women reporting this thread, dear me.

DjangoUnchained · 13/09/2017 19:01

Never seem any like the ones on the left in my whole life.