How the hell do you shave your fanjo?!

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Sorry to be so graphic but how on earth do people shave their privates?

Im 32 yrs old, have tried several times, but my pubes are so thick that it itches like crazy/bleeds gets so irratated and at times has been so uncomfortable I've not been able to go out.

Is there a knack I'm missing ? I've waxed a few times but mostly stick to using electric razors and shaving it really short. It's just way too thick

Sorry for tmi just curious as it's not something you really discuss amongst friends over lunch

Seriously, Nina. Enlighten me.

Your comment about a woman's labia looking like an 8-year old girl's is offensive due to the paedophile overtones. That should be obvious to you. You're insulting swathes of women who are exerting their freedom of choice over their own bodies and that's not on. Will you be alright with that when your daughter is a woman and other women say this to her also should she choose to remove her pubic hair?

I think this over-investment by actual WOMEN in other women's labia is creepy and distasteful; I don't know what the word would be for women being 'misogynistic' to other women would be but that's how it feels. It makes me uncomfortable.

I have a daughter also. I'm teaching her bodily autonomy and that NO man and NO woman has control of how she manages it. I'm giving her the tools and the rest will be up to her. I have some sympathy for you about pressure but honestly, that shouldn't be coming from women, should it? We have enough of a struggle for women's equality without infighting about what another woman does with her body.

Why get so defensive it you think it's fine to leave it untouched?

There is no pressure. There are those, however, who seem to want to pressurise women into NOT removing their pubic hair. That is odd.

Not being defensive. Genuine question.
As for bollocks about being anti woman because I don't see the point in shaving pubic hair off , that's ridiculous.
Your privates, your choice.
As I think I said several times.

My understanding is that it is a Muslim thing that has crept into mainstream via the porn industry? That is what I was told by my gp!

Personally I hate the feeling of my underwear directly touching my skin there. I far prefer the 'buffer' provided by that lovely mat of curly hairs. It allows ventilation and is less sweaty.

But each to their own. I do think this is a feminist issue though. People are saying on this thread that they feel/felt pressured into removing their pubes despite one post feeling that those with shaved pubes are 'got at' on threads such as this. You know, if just one person reads this and realises that they have a choice over their own body - whatever that choice - then that is a Good Thing.

As for bollocks about being anti woman because I don't see the point in shaving pubic hair off , that's ridiculous.

That's not why. If you just didn't see the point, fair enough.

But you're throwing insults around and being generally offensive, and it's clearly because you have issues surrounding this topic.

I have issues about doing something to my body because men like it from watching porn.
Otherwise, just fine, thanks.

I have issues about doing something to my body because men like it from watching porn.

Nobody should do it for that reason, which is what people have said to you. I don't think anyone on this thread does it for that reason so no idea where you got that from

I do it because I prefer the way it looks and I enjoy sex more without it.

For the objectors please accept that not everyone removes pubic hair to please the opposite sex or a sexual partner nor are they subjected to feeling any kind regards of social pressure or influenced by media.

I started shaving Boyd hair long before I had a boyfriend or any sexual feelings or relationship simply because I didn't like having hair down below.

I started my periods aged 9 in the January and was 10 in the April of 1976 and whilst I didn't have hair down below then I did have to use the horrible thick towels held in place with a sanitary belt. By the time I was a teenager and had hair there were press on towels as they were known as then. I had been acutely aware for a number of years of the horrible bloody mess of having a period each month and with the onset of pubic hair it dawned on me that I could shave it off and did so.

At that time I was not aware of any kind of shaving for appearance or any sexual connotation - I shaved because it felt so much cleaner during my period and a better experience when changing towels, especially during school time. No longer did I have a blood soaked patch of hair that as a young girl I find a bit disturbing, I could now wipe the area quickly and easily and put a clean towel in my knickers. I suffered with very heavy periods and shaving made my life so much better.

Hope that satisfies any feminist agenda as to why I shave down below.

Boyd - pubic

Kind regards - kind of

Darn auto correct

Thanks, crochita. That makes perfect sense to me ( although you don't need anyone's approval).

Hardly anyone specifically does it with porn in mind aha, but online porn has definitely influenced what apparently looks normal or not and that's filtered through to us normal folk.

That makes perfect sense to me

But just preferring the way it looks or feels doesn't?

I really hope that women are not now going to come onto this thread feeling that they have to justify their choice to remove their own pubic hair.

If women want to keep it - or get rid of it - for the porn-loving men in their lives, that is THEIR choice.

If they want to keep it - or get rid of it - for the feeling of cleanliness in their own bodies, that is THEIR choice.

Whatever they want to do with it - that is their own CHOICE and nobody else's business! It's abhorrent to me that women are judging other women for removing their own pubic hair, really abhorrent.

What LorLorr2 said.

I always shave and take it all off. I'm not very hairy so don't know if that makes a difference . I just couldn't wax as the pain terrifies me

I take it all off because I like it all off and feel much sexier being bald. Not everyone likes it all off but just cos I do doesn't mean I'm some kind of weird perverted freak. I don't judge women who have full grown forests so I don't know why people judge me for being bare down there ???

Those of you saying you feel anyone's having a go at you for removing hair, this is a bit like slim people complaining when bigger women get celebrated. It's the exception and not the rule.
If you like to remove hair that's fortunate because it also happens to be 'cool' at the moment and you are well represented:) Those of us who want to keep it do have to defend ourselves a bit because although you may not be aware, there is a culture amongst millennials where girls are expected to get rid and that stigma of being 'unclean' is more hurtful than someone saying it looks too young imo

What LorLorr2 said

Yep,I agree

Why is there hair there?
is it to collect sweat?

would it be better to stay there?

*than someone saying hair-free looks too young

"Those of us who want to keep it do have to defend ourselves a bit because although you may not be aware, there is a culture amongst millennials where girls are expected to get rid and that stigma of being 'unclean' is more hurtful than someone saying it looks too young imo"

Well said. I'm a nasty hurtful cow. You said it better.

Those of us who want to keep it do have to defend ourselves a bit

I disagree, particularly on this thread. Nobody has come on and said 'those who have a bush are gross and ugly and who wants a mouthful of hair when they're going down there!'

There have been no insults towards bush-keeping women on this thread.

There have however been very offensive remarks made about women who do choose to remove their public hair.