Well, do you really think people here are so stupid that they don’t realize that adults have pubic hair or did you specifically feel the need to educate us with this special medical knowledge you have of body hair? There’s a thread about birthdays in this forum, perhaps someone should post “Birthdays happen every year” in case people don’t know that.
It’s NOT like saying “women wore corsets” and the like. I’ve read countless threads here about pubic hair and it’s a nose-wrinkling statement more often than not. As in “ew, I don’t want to look like a 12 year old. ADULTS HAVE PUBIC HAIR” Nothing wrong with people wanting to be natural or prefer their bits or their partners bits unshaven, nothing at all. But please spare me the idea that it’s simply stating fact because if that’s what you’re going for you’re assuming that everyone here is absolutely stupid and needs you to tell them about body hair. Protip: they do not.
Everyone has preferences and that’s awesome. I’d find it distasteful if someone said “ew, all natural and hairy is disgusting!” . With the “looking like a 12 year old yuk yuk” stuff there’s the added insult of hinting at pedo crap and it makes me doubt the observation abilities of those who say stuff like that if they really think the difference between a naked adult and a naked child is pubic hair.
For the tl;dr crowd: I don’t expect anyone here to care what anyone else thinks of their private grooming, but for a board that likes to think of itself as tolerant and accepting there sure are a lot of ignorant people up in this piece.
Yes, my use of it was *exactly *that. It was a statement on popular fashion, time specific. And it could hardly be “nose-wrinkling” as the same post included the information that I (sometimes) shave my pubic hair.
If my statement wasn’t the one you were talking about, and only coincidentally preceded yours by two posts, then nevermind, 'cause my use of the phrase isn’t what you’re talking about.
For me having pubic hair drastically reduces sensitivity to the point where it becomes nearly impossible to achieve orgasm. I think the ability to have orgasms is important. I also feel cleaner when I’m shaved. I hate feeling hairy.
I’m 39 and I’ve been keeping myself fairly well bald since I was about 16 or so.
I’m a 33-year-old American. I prefer woman to: shave legs/pits, remove ABSOLUTE MINIMUM bush necessary (yes, it looks pre-pubescent bald, squicks me out). Excess facial hair should get electrolysis IMO.
I’m a female, and I began shaving my pubic hair off once I saw the first hair. I’ve been bald my whole life. I have too much OCD to let it grow out to full bush…I really want to know what it will look like, and feel, and the color. Maybe I should let it grow out? Hmmm…
I’m 27 and male, and while I now 'scape occasionally, I only started in the last year or so. I started doing it because the woman I was seeing at the time liked it. I’ve come to appreciate it too, though I’m not a huge fan of shaving (ingrown hairs itch like hell, razor burn isn’t a lot of fun) so I usually just trim. However, I recently tweezed the whole area, which didn’t hurt nearly as much as I expected and looks and feels REALLY nice.
There’s another reason to at least trim pubic hair men don’t have to deal with. Quite frankly, I don’t like having much hair down there when I have my period. Blood and curly hair mix all too well.
And there is no amount of shaving that is going to make me look like a child. I’m 35, btw. I am glad Sleeps said what she said. The amount of snottiness that takes place about sexual preference has no place on a board full of supposed adultds.
Also, men, if you want us to go down on you, some trimming is…well, I was going to say “appreciated” but at 35, I say it’s necessary.
I’m from very hairy stock. I started shaving routinely (as opposed to special event shaving, say for a tank top etc) at 12, underarms and legs.
I did basic bikini line around 14 or 15 and thought man, that feels great. Since I subscribe to the “if some is good, more is better” school of thought, I decided to try buzzing (with a men’s beard trimmer) the whole thing. Felt smoother, airier and had far less chafing. Certainly less sweating happens in the summer when you’re on top of it.
Started waxing my upper lip in college, when a kind roommate informed me it needed to be done immediately.
I asked the SO to manscape because it looks and feels better in all aspects. He happily obliges. He asks me to keep his brows in check, which involves maybe 5-10 hairs plucked every week or so.
I wore boy-short-style swimsuits as a teenager so I never worried about my swimsuit line. When I was 18 I decided to shave down there just to see what all the hullabaloo was about (didn’t lose my virginity until 20). I kept shaving for a few years, but nowadays I don’t really keep up on it unless I’m in a relationship. I’m lazy and I don’t particularly care whether it’s there or not. It itches less when it’s shaved, but the feeling isn’t worth the effort it takes so I don’t do it for myself. But I don’t mind doing it if a partner prefers that.
Also I don’t get periods these days, so I don’t have to worry about bloody pubes. I’ll agree that a lack thereof was a major perk back in the day, though.
One of the guys I dated back in high school shaved my pubic hair for me once because one of his friends told him the sex would be better. I didn’t shave it on my own again until a couple of years ago after I divorced and I was back on the market. Some of my friends had said they always shave so I figured it must be somewhat worthwhile. Now I shave pretty much all the time, unless I’m lazy, but it never gets longer than the above mentioned putting green.
As for my legs, I’ve been getting them waxed for about 6 or 7 years so they don’t grow too much hair anymore. I also wax my upper lip and eyebrows.
Hell, I am going to get electrolysis done on my upper lip because I am tired of being hairy (it’s being Indian, it sucks) and even Nair super-sensitive formula burns my skin. Should I keep that there, too, just because it grows in? Stooopid.
I apologize to all whom my comment offended. My preference for hair and opinion that shaving the pubes can be an effort to look pre-pubescent is just that - my opinion. Adults do have pubic hair - sorry again if you thought my stating that fact was aimed at talking down to someone. It wasn’t. It was merely a true statement I made to support my opinion.
Now, if y’all will excuse me, I need to tend to my short and curly hair plugs.
I had pubic hair at age 12, too, for what that’s worth. Personally, I find pubic hair gross. I think it looks ugly, retains odor, makes it harder to stay truly clean, and GREATLY reduces sensation. I’d rather look, smell, and feel clean and be able to feel more when doing sexual things, thankyouverymuch.
Even if it is a preference to look young - not prepubescent - who the fuck cares? I just don’t understand the idea at all. Two 40 year olds are in bed together. They both are getting gray hairs. She looks in the mirror at her eyes every now and then, looking for crow’s feet. He wonders if he should bother dying his hair. But they’ve been together for 10+ years and love each other very much and have been together through thick and thin.
And yet the fact that one of them has their pubes shaved means that they have some kind of hidden latent pedophiliac desire.
Still, thank you for the apology. Though I also started getting pubic hair in at 12 or so. It wasn’t a harbinger that I was ready for sexual activity then, why does the absence mean anything? It’s hair, and it’s sex, and we all get weird about sex.
That is merely my take on it, not everybody’s take on it. I understand that. I hope you do too. Discuss all you want. For reasons I don’t want to go into here, I won’t be changing my mind.
