Do you trim your "lady garden"?

J - if you had a misunderstanding about Brazillian blow dry -have you heard of a "vajazzle"! ? Only those who watch the Only Way is Essex may understand that one!

I forgot the

J - That gave me a good giggle! Much needed.
There are some times when you are quite refreshing.

Mysteries of nature helmacd some people get hairier with age and some less so.There has been discussion on GN before e.g. of some legs getting hairier and other peoples legs getting less so.
Just to add to the mix some bits can get hairier (eyebrows, chins etc) while other areas may thin. Suspect some are hormone related e.g. receding hair to testosterone, armpit hair to oestrogen. Or that kind of thing.

Difficult to see without a mirror. Stomach gets in the way.

I think its great that these matters are discussed openly, Being brought up in the 40s/50s I knew nothing about sex and very little about my body when I married. And 50 years later I don't know that much!
I noticed someone said that their genital hair ( hope that term doesn't bother anyone!) was thinning. So can anyone tell me why that hasn't happened to me, unfortunately, but the hair on my head is beginning to thin, much to my horror. I'm in my late 60s.

One of the funniest episodes of Mrs Brown's Boys centered round Agnes doing a wax job on herself... My legs were crossed, I confess...

Another thought occurred to me, while waiting to be served in the Post office and standing next to the depilatories (as you do these days).
It is not always a case of shaving bags. Those who take it seriously wax often in salon. The Brazilian, I understand includes the whole pelvic area, all the way up to the coccyx. (is that Latin or Greek?)
I really cannot imagine paying someone to do this - and just how much must it hurt? So pain initially and then discomfort on re-growth. Sounds like self-punishment to me.
BTW - hairdressers round here started advertising the "Brazilian blow dry". Why, I wondered, would anyone want to go to the hairdresser's to have their pubic hair blow dried?
Turns out this was a misunderstanding on my part - its just something they do to make hair come out straight and shiny.

OMG... too much information surely? We really cares what other people do down there??

Frankly, mine is more of a weed killed waste patch!

jane Pedants unite! X

Sorry Ariadne <goes into Bernard Woolley mode> you did say it wasn't a euphemism in 'the truest sense of the word' and that seemed to suggest that it could therefore be a euphemism in a general sort of way.... if you see what I mean.
Sorry. Off to get the diinner ready now

This is putting me off my tea!

Respect, Jess!

Jane I did suggest that it was not actually a euphemism (GK eu=good; phemos= speak)!

I am happy to acknowledge that it is probably now an accepted anatomical term, but has only been thus for a few hundred years. Which probably validates it!

My DGC always say they want to poo , nicer IMO than , I want to shit !
In fact nicer then any one saying they want have a shit .

Most of these Latin medical words are just made up by either the church or medics aren't they? Rather than handed down from the Romans. Who probably had more earthy terms.
Mons Veneris - to give it its full title - the mount of Venus is a bit more chummy I think than "the shameful bits". Gets ready to keep showing off her grammar school Latin.... But if we are to be anatomically precise do not some of these gullible young things also denude their vulvae in order to conform to patriarchal pressure? (note the plural form oh ye pedants)

Agree about 'poo', feetle. I wonder if it started with 'poo scoops' for what we used to call dog dirt?

An email I sent to DH from Oxfordshire (he was in Cork) was blocked because I used the word shit. I was telling him about some wild mallards that had taken to visiting our small garden and how nice that was except that you had to keep a look out so that you didn't step in duck shit as there was such a lot of it.

He rang me to find out what on earth I'd said that warranted censorship, as he couldn't imagine I abusing anything or anyone. He was right.

Clearly the company he was working for had a very strict naughty word code in place, the sillies.

Ana and Ariadne
Pedant alert! While I am sure you are right about the Latin derivation of pudenda and its associated meaning, it is not a euphemism but a proper anatomical term.

Very PC.

Mine is a woman garden!

Suzied I see nothing wrong with your post and agree that anyone who doesn't like it need participate.

The trouble shows up right there - for centuries people have been taught to consider parts of themselves as shameful, unclean...

On the subject of euphemism, may I please express my revulsion for the suddenly ever-present 'poo'? Do these same people talk of 'wee-wees'? It's embarrassing to hear grown adults using nursery terms. Imagine a news-reader "At the din-dins held at the Guildhall tonight..."

Rant over.