@samarkand: Overzealous Merkin is going to be the name of my next rock band.

Also, I am now slightly wierded out by the Patricia Arquette story. Not that she wanted to wear a merkin, the way she went about making one. It makes it sound like she essentially glued a giant dust bunny to her crotch.

Are there women out there who grow a "Playoff Bush" for their favorite sports teams?

@dawnerni: If I had the nerve to get waxed and vajazzled, I'd bring a bag of craft store googly eyes and tell the aesthetician to go nuts.

@dawnerni: "V" for "Victory." Or for "vagina," I suppose.

@lezebel-in-chief: Its called the Merbacon. Or Bamerkin. Or as my husband calls it, "The Beggin' Strip"

The real reason dogs always sniff my crotch.

Direct quote from my mother when innocent 16yo newyorkmuse asked her what to do with pubic hair:

"Daddy, what's a merkin?"

@Steggysaurus: I don't shave or wax either. Too cheap to wax (plus it feels like getting punched in the cunt,) not fond of 'smuggling a hedgehog' feeling of hair growing back after shaving.

@RousseMacabre, from Ravenclaw: Oh, seriously. Anyone in bed with me who even *comments* on my au natural bush with even the slightest touch of distaste gets treated to a rant about how sick it is to find prepubescent pubes arousing.

@Chest_LaVie: That last sentence, that right there is a perfect reason to keep one's pubes. Such a simple yet expressive gesture. (Also, it made me laugh.)

@RousseMacabre, from Ravenclaw: My boss was saying something similar the other day (I work for a porno website, so it wasn't an innappropriate conversation at all). He was all like, "most women wax these days, so it's pretty much the norm and to have a full bush is weird. To see it you are all like, ahhh, disgusting!…

You know, this was awesome, but now I just feel sad that full bushes are now "unusual" or "throwbacks" or worse (in the words of society, not Tracie!).

Is that photo of Sasha Grey really a "full bush"? I mean, am I alone in that my pubes crawl toward my thighs and up my belly?