Why removing pubic hair is a bad style choice

[FastidiaBlueberry]

Article here

I feel sorry for blokes who have to go down on hairy bushes.

Don't feel sorry. My DH says he would find a bald one- like a child's IHO- weird and revolting. He likes hair.

some men seem not to care at all. I've been told by several that they prefer a bit of hair. And by others that they find it off putting.

I don't care what they think, very much - you have to have something like that in common, really, if you're going to have an intimate relationship, and plenty of people seem to be on either side of the fence.

I hate being given oral sex anyway so it's immaterial.

It's from the guardian. When I've read articles from that newspaper on my area of expertise, they are, IME:

• inaccurate
• biased and
• badly written,

so I don't trust the grauniad's journalism. I mean, if they can't even be arsed to proof read and spell check, how arsed will they be about ensuring that the facts are right?

Urmm 'experience' is not 'fact', experience is just that, experience.

Erm, excuse me Chinley
some of the women on this thread who have removed their pubic hair have said that it did cause them significant problems.

I love my pubic hair too. This stuff leaves it soft, lustrous and full of body.

"A bald, scabby, spotty fanjo is yuk. Which is what mine would be like if I waxed it."

"My undercarriage defo couldn't handle it, I get huge bleeding holes just from waxing my bikini line. "

"I hate it! And my dp does too. I have had it done when it was the in thing in the 90s bu never again .most of my mates gave up years ago and reverted to bikini line wax ad a trim."

"And obviously also I agree with the article shaving and waxing can cause skin problems. Because I had it on my pits, legs and bikini lines until I discover IPL."

"I tried shaving once or twice when I was young as an experiment and it was dreadful. However well you do it, there is regrowth, and stubble, it's horrific."

Not just a few ingrown hairs, I don't think.

this thread has been hilarious, many thanks for livening up a boring afternoon. personally i find it a bit bizarre to get stressed about munching on a few pubes when you're quite happy to wrap your gob around someone's genitals. i've particularly enjoyed the defensiveness of the 'it's more hygienic to wax' crowd - well surely it's obvious that it's not given that the whole purpose of the hair is to catch airborne nasties and keep them out of your vagina?!? (s'like noses innit.) if you want to shave or wax do have fun with that but the implication that those who don't are somehow not hygienic is really unpleasant and does rather smack of internalised misogyny, whether intended or not

But none of the women you quoted mentioned infections, though.

Tbh, what kind of infections are we talking about? Assuming you wash frequently and wear cotton knickers and don't have unprotected sex I don't see what terrible diseases one could get? Does anyone know?

I man, I see how you could get infected hair follicle from waxing or shaving, but what I don't get iswhat kind of infections is the hair supposed to prevent, especially that lots of women don't have especially bushy undercarriages so

I've had thick pubic hair since I was 10, long before I had breasts.
And at a far younger age than my much fairer DDs

Shaving it off would just be as DD1 would put it "wrong in so many ways".

I have a genuine question here. Those of you that shave your fannies - do you not get itchy regrowth? And doesn't lots of stubble look worse that a full, er, rug? I have found this thread fascinating and hilarious and am considering a trip on the depilation bus but have these concerns! I use wax to tidy up the edges anyway so taking a bit more off isn't a big deal.

I do however find the implication that going au naturel is unhygienic rather unpleasant.

Also, is it the thing for men to shave their pubes as well or is it just women that are expected to?

I have to trim the edges to wear a bathing costume and that itches, so another good reason to leave the rest alone

The original article does not apply to lasered off hair. It's the waxing and shaving that causes microabrasion to the surface skin.

Like I said a few times up thread, I much prefer laser/IPL for all body hair. It gives you much smoother skin without the 5 o'clock shadow or ingrown hair. I guess how much you laser off is a personal preference!

chinley Fri 10-Aug-12 14:30:03

I disagree luvly.

fastidia is not 'right',

Chinley- she is.

I wasn't referring to this link to the Guardian. I was referring to information I've read over a number of years. I have also mentioned at least once in my previous posts why shaving women in labour was phased out when it became apparant that shaving did not result in a more "hygienic" labour, and was possibly going to cause more problems then it was supposed to solve.

This is medical evidence.

Have you actually read the linked article and bothered to look at the medics etc who were quoted in it?

Well, I did a quick search on the thread, and NO ONE said that a waxed/hairless/almost hairless vagina is more hygenic, one person said it feels like it, but didn't say it actually is

So all these people being judgy over other peoples' pubic topiary, and saying that people who wax/shave think hair is dirty/unhygenic - um, read the thread.

Tbh, what kind of infections are we talking about? Assuming you wash frequently and wear cotton knickers and don't have unprotected sex I don't see what terrible diseases one could get? Does anyone know?

I have read things on this by medics - google and find if you want to know- that removing pubic hair especially around the labia, makes women more likely - potentially in other words, to get vaginal infections because the hair would normally act as a barrier to bugs, and provide some physical protection to abrasion/damage etc.

This is exactly the same as nasal hair traps bacteria that would otherwise enter nasal passages and cause infections, eye lashes- your eyes- and eyebrows ditto.

It's not rocket science, is it?

The relatively small number of women represented on this thread who have been fine are not exactly a large scientific cross section- are they?

The hair is there for a reason otherwise we'd have evolved by now without it.