Shave or not to shave? I’m as nature intended. Do you go Brazilian, have a landing strip or let it all hang out.

Don’t like to ask Flexible Friend but how many hairy bushes do you come across in your everyday life?

maw as it you that strung fairy lights in hers # innocentface ?

Sorry that should read was it you.

Well, I’ve waxed hundreds but I’ve got to do my own tomorrow as I’ll be doing a lot of swimming.
I don’t remove any that I don’t have to, why would I bother?

I had one client who used to check in a mirror to be certain I’d made her runway straight?

Doodle

Ah. Thought it was you maw. Very festive. It was for Christmas wasn’t it. Actually if you had a landing strip you could use the lights to mark out the runway. ?

Actually, forget I said that .

SirC as I couldn't see your pic clearly (apart from the fact that the item was sold out!) I had to google same and got far too much information which I cannot now erase from my mind ?. One snippet was how to attach the aforementioned item. EEK!!

I do lots of swimming so need to shave but I think lady bits are so ugly they need to be hidden, however compared to men's bits they are much nicer.

I used to shave all off when married to make H happy, but since then have gone unshaven, which I prefer.

Sorry Greeneyedgirl I should have said - never, ever google merkins

nanaK54 Your response made me choke on my coffee with laughter!

In one of the agony columns I was reading in the 60s a lady enquired about what parts she was supposed to shave. The suggestion that it might include pubic hair was treated with derision.
How we laughed when I was at Art School and we heard about Ruskin being unable to consummate his marriage because he hadn't realized that women had pubic hair. We'd drawn enough naked women to know that the only hairless ones were Greek statues.

Thanks for the laffs folks!
Seriously, I read an unhealthy wish for shaved pubes was that a lot of men liked the ‘girlish’ almost childlike appearance, ugh?. I know it’s also a prerequisite for Arab men in the Middle East.

hollysteers, I share your concerns. I have always felt that shaved pubic hair was too closely linked to male paedophilia and/or an unhealthy interest in pornography.

hollysteers and MOnica - I've also always felt shaved hair was too close to paedophilia or porn. Hence my refusal to even tidy

I do life drawing and it's a sign of the times * Deedaa* that female models very rarely have pubic hair.

When I was young much of our sex info was gleaned from jokes at school.
Young ones now are "educated" via porn on the net, which is unfortunately readily accessible.

They therefore think that the norm for the female body is hairless, and this influences what girls (and boys) expect.
Fashion dictated by porn!

It’s not just porn - although that has definitely been a major contributing factor. The grooming/beauty industry has to bear a lot of responsibility for the emphasis on a rise of the unnatural look - fillers, tattooed eyebrows, waxing and so on. Chicken and egg I suppose.

Now all body hair disappearing or thinning but in the past just the occasional snip of random escapees round the swimming cossie. Was shaved for one of my 'birth' experiences and regrowth was agonisingly prickly and itchy. Why would you do that willingly? It's not exactly as if it was an area that's in public view. Nakedness happened naturally in my close family though so children learned au naturel not through porn.

Grandma2213, yes, I was shaved for a birth experience in the early 70's. It was a horrible experience and as you say, the regrowing period equally horrible. Why would you do that willingly.
I still find this subject a challenge because why would an adult woman want to look like a child?

Another 70s mother with an uncomfortable experience. Thankfully second child arrived too quickly for them to do it.

But my real objection is the paedo/porn connections.

It was on the news today that Mary Beard has announce that the naked women, goddesses, nymphs and other mythical peope who have appeared in art, mainly since the renaissane, were commissioned by men from men for men.

My mind boggles. Has it really taken her that long (how old is she?) to realise this? The rest of the world has realised this since they were first painted, only about 600 years!

The point of this digression being, that none of these naked ladies, painted for rich men's private delectation, have pubic hair. Nor do a significant numbers of those classical Greek, Roman and later sculptures of naked women (and men). And she calls herself a classicist

You are right about the portrayal of nudes in his history, but I wouldn't be so quick to diss Mary Beard because she makes history particularly accessible to many who are not as learned as you MOnica.

But yes, perhaps if artists through the ages had portrayed women in a more realistic way as nature intended there wouldn't be so much distaste in popular culture for female hair nowadays, so not just down to porn.

Perhaps porn is the modern day equivalent of macho power??

I'm on a bus laughing ?. Almost missed my stop!!
I have shaved in the past but can't be doing with the ingrowing hairs....
Neatly trimmed now ?

I used to be a midwife and then worked in sexual health, so I’ve seen how things have changed from women being totally ungroomed to completely hairless. I have to say that personally I think it all looks better just neatly trimmed. I used to see some shocking rashes, ingrowing hairs and spots, all from shaving or waxing. It’s a fashion thing and it will all change again.

After I had a hysterectomy the whole lot disappeared! So smooth as a baby's bottom now and no need for shaving or waxing.