I really wish the women up-thread would fess up to ALL of the reasons they have little or no pubic hair. I’m sure men might like the feel of smoothness and sensitivity along with the less sweat they are all talking about, yet most of them don’t do any of that. Why don’t they? Why don’t they shave their legs and pits…

You know that you are in the majority here, right? The tides have turned and it’s women like me who don’t wax (anymore) who are subject to the most scrutiny these days. I highly doubt anyone is really giving you that much shit for doing what is expected of all women these days. The rest of us however have to deal with…

I am SO glad shaving off the bush wasn’t a thing when I was a teen. Yay for being an old!

The fetishizing of young girls bodies isn’t based on actual young girls-lopsided, painful breasts, stretch marks, sprouting hair. Bare, childlike bodies (with the exception of having huge breasts) represent passive, undemanding, easily controlled and always sexually accessible femininity. The shaved cooch itself is…

I know why we call ‘em ‘adult coloring books’, of course I do. I have a few of them, and I like them. I get it. Coloring books for adults - typically far more complex than kiddie coloring books and in many cases filled with images that are less likely to be enticing for children.

If your personal aesthetic is completely bare on men and women or any combination thereof that’s fine but a lot of times there seems to be a great deal of shame attached to the reasons behind why women in the particular make the decision to go bare and that is what bothers me not the actual doing it. Our genitalia is…

“A total of 875 (31.5%) reported grooming because they believe it makes their genitals more attractive, and 586 (21.1%) reported grooming because of partner preference.”

I’ll address this, if only to shut the duplicates up. Because really? You want to sit here and deny that female pubic hair is something no one ever hates on? You’ve never heard people call it gross or unhygienic? Did you read the article you’re commenting on?

No, I get that some people equate any and all body hair except for eyebrows and the hair on their head as being completely gross but the reasons behind it don’t strike me as emotionally healthy given that body hair is an absolutely natural and human thing. Individuals are free to do with their body hair as they please…

Well I personally do prefer bearded men. But our culture doesn’t fetishize boyhood the way it does girlhood so, false equivalence. The roots of men shaving their faces are military, not sexual, even if some women do happen to enjoy it.

The desire for getting rid of natural hair on women comes from somewhere... and it is the hair that grows after puberty. Most women don’t shave their arms or have a bald scalp, neither of which changes with puberty. They get rid of leg hair, underarm hair, pubic hair and facial hair. Why is that??? I’m not being…

He’s not using it to moisturize, though.

I have never tried a bare foof and whilst I might end up liking the sensation, I almost certainly would not have the energy to maintain it. I barely manage to shave my legs (and I do it in a resentful and slapdash fashion) so I will keep my nether foliage as it is - vaguely trimmed if I remember, thick and full as a…

I’m all for doing what you want with your body but I think the explanation given “for hygiene reasons” gives it all away right there, especially when I hear the same from super young girls. Why completely bare equals automatically hygienic is beyond me and I find it deeply troubling. For me it’s in the same category…

Agreed. We’re probably different generations here, but it’s just that I never felt pressure to keep hair. It was the opposite. I always felt pressure to remove.

Especially because the body grows hair there for hygienic reasons! Like armpit or head hair the hair traps and disperses bacteria and sweat. So remember kids, a hairy snatch is a clean snatch.

Its kinda disturbing that some women think pubic hair is dirty or unhygienic or whatever.

But that is how kids look! Your partners grew up in a society that fetishizes young girls bodies and praises grown women to the degree they are able to replicate them. Your partners aren’t child molesters and there’s nothing morally wrong for any given person to go hairless if that's their preference, but it’s a…

I think it’s sad that adolescent girls find hair unnatural and are shamed for it. I am PRO everyone caring for their hair as they see fit, without shame.

Well, as someone who stopped shaving, I’m pretty sick of everyone telling me I’m unhygenic/gross/ugly/smelly and lazy because I have hair. I’m also tired of seeing dudes (who probably wouldn’t go down anyway) claim any hair on a woman is the reason they won’t eat her out.