Do you trim your "lady garden"?

Your opinion - I find it verging on offensive, like "panties" Eurgh!

Gransnet isn't all about informed discussion, Soutra...at least, it wasn't.

Soutra I think "lady garden" is less lascivious than twee and is probably used only by slightly camp gay men, although it is hardly a subject they discuss often.

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This is a ing thread.
(Is that a yawn, if so it would be approproate)
No one should have joined in.

and then 7 hours later:
We thoroughly enjoyed the thread Suzie. It was great.

I don't think the thread has incensed as such, but I for one objected to the lascivious - sounding euphemism - which didn't strike me as "quite amusing and lighthearted" but sickeningly twee. If you mean pubic hair then FFS say pubic hair.
Personally if you want to ask personal questions and other GNetters want to share their personal information, fair enough, but I found it about as relevant to informed discussion as puerile conversations behind the bike shed.

I like the euphemism, too. It's funny!

We thoroughly enjoyed the thread Suzie. It was great.

I can't believe people are incensed by this( after having read through all the thread of course). its a legitimate question I would have thought since it was discussed in the Telegraph! If you think it disgusting then don't read it and move on. Why do we find such a discussion disgusting I guess is more pertinent. The euphemism I think is quite amusing and light hearted and much nicer than others I can think of. Why do we have to be so straight laced? The attitude to body hair is linked to culture and I can't think of any reason why we shouldn't discuss it, I guess some peoples attitudes don't change.

I do think that the body /style police in the form of magazines etc. add to the pressure on youngsters to conform to a perceived norm.

I do not recall ever contemplating any hair removal (and am hirsute) until I had my first daughter and was denuded by the nurses!

Having pubic hair never hindered my ability to share enjoyable sexual relationships with partners which presumably is why girls dehair themselves now! Or have i missed something (not my pubes!)

This is a ing thread.

No one should have joined in.

I can't imagine !!

Suzied , who started the OP seems to have dropped from the scene . Wonder why ??

Yes as a euphemism soutra it is my nomination for the most kitsch and cringeworthy of the last 50 years. It somehow manages to sound terribly camp. Maybe it was dreamed up in the world of drag queens, who have to do a fair bit of trimming I suppose in their job.

My principal objection stems from the namby pamby euphemism "lady garden" [Eurgh] emoticon. What is wrong with calling it pubic hair?
And my disinclination to discuss my own or anybody else's practices remains unchanged.

Remembering how appalled we all were at being shaved prior to giving birth, I would never have believed that women would be doing it from choice. And after my first attempt at waxing my legs it would never have occurred to me to wax anything else.
On the other hand I think a lot af men are improved by having their backs waxed. I'm all for a bit of body hair but, with some of them, it must be like living with an Irish Wolfhound!

The only time I discussed pubic hair removal with strangers was with patients as I explained what and why I was doing this procedure before theatre. Personally, I am aware that all body hair needs cutting or tidied without having to discuss it with anyone.

It was obvious from the first half dozen posts what this thread was about .... those of a delicate disposition could have bailed out.

As Ana said, it wasn't in the gardening section

Mice if it's not the thread that's vulgar, then what is? I truly have not seen any vulgar posts here.

But we all have (or had) pubic hair. Why is it vulgar to talk about it?

Yes, I know what it was supposed to be, MiceElf.

Oh, and Nonu, my name is MiceElf. It's not hard.

That, Ana, was art criticism. If you read it carefully, you will appreciate why. The subtext needed elucidation. Soutra's distaste is perfectly clear and needed no comment.

Riverwalk, it's not the thread that's vulgar.....

I seem to remember you being quite eloquent on the 'vaginal knitting' thread, MiceElf! Was that not vulgar because it was presented as 'art'?

Oh! Mice I don't think there's been anything vulgar on this thread ... just a bit of fun.

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Mice and Soutra, I'm quaint too.

In my days as a Doctor, I'd have been more surprised by 'bare bits' and consulting my textbooks for endocrinological causation.

Micelf -- Right back at yer !!