When I was a teenager, every single guy I dated was a jerk about my pubic hair. They were always very embarrassed for me (it was like I had spinach in my teeth or toilet paper stuck to my shoe) and would inevitably ask me to shave it off. When I refused, one boyfriend called me abnormal. A lot of women in the comments…

Yeah, fuck this. 30 years ago, women didn’t have baby pubes. Women now have baby pubes because porn actresses have baby pubes and that’s what men are now conditioned to want. I will never pour hot was on my actual lips, and the idea of doing that to my asshole is hilarious. I wax only when I’m going swimming, and very…

no, it doesn’t. but the origin of the practice (unlike men shaving their heads) is indisputably misogynistic and sexually exploitative.

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’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?

Because you came out of the door swinging about how you’re Queen Shame Victim.

You may want to edit your post from “in intelligent” to “an intelligent".

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…

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…

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.

Do you always wait to do research after you post the article?

Good lord. Are you joking? Did it occur to you to question why these sources were also avoiding the term, and that maybe they were wrong in doing so?

A good journalist would have looked into it before writing an article, and then stating the reason in the article (if there was one).

Courtesy of www.merriam-webster.com:

“Definition of rape

Sexual assault, sexualized violence, sex trafficking, forced sex. All terms that could be used that wouldn’t imply consensual sex occurred between a sex trafficked child and a grown man.

When did tippy-toeing around dominant culture terminology become more important than presenting a feminist analysis around here?

Sex trafficking and months of rape ARE NOT SEX. This headline is a disaster.

Can somebody ask Hulk or Thiel to send over a real journalist? Or at least somebody who understand the definition of common English words?

On behalf of everyone: See WHAT above?

How about just change the headline already instead of obsessively defending yourself on the internet?