# Do You Trim Your Pubic Hair? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 25, 2001, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448 "2001-03-25T21:24:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Wump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed655f/32.png) [@Wump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wump)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2001, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448/41 "2001-03-26T09:04:11Z")
I personally trim it pretty short, but don’t bic it simply cause i cut my face and legs(for swimming) enough as it is already… never mind my freakin’ nutsack! I dunno bout the rest of yous, but i don’t have a particularly hairy sac to begin with ---
**Author:** ![mischievous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mischievous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mischievous)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2001, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448/42 "2001-03-26T09:15:21Z")
Do none of you take advantage of the joys of waxing? Perfectly smooth, lasts for weeks, no ingrown hairs, no razor nicks! It only hurts for a second and then you feel all _tingly_. BTW, the woman who waxes me is a goddess. Personally, I like men to be trim, but bare is a bit odd looking. mischievous ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2001, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448/43 "2001-03-26T11:05:47Z")
Trim, very trim, with an electric razor (with a shim) every week or so. I’ve shaved bare a few times… but nicks hurt :eek: The reason: it looks good down on the beach 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2001, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448/44 "2001-03-26T13:05:59Z")
Trimmer/shaver checking in. Don’t shave against the grain as ingrown hairs in the nether regions can be a real pain in the…well, nether regions. ---
**Author:** ![Evnglion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@Evnglion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evnglion)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2001, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448/45 "2001-03-26T13:51:47Z")
\<— Trimmed ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2001, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448/46 "2001-03-26T13:59:34Z")
Never shaved or trimmed myself (offered to shave **Astrofiancee** , but she has yet to take me up on it ☹ )… But doesn’t it _itch_ when it starts to grow back?? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2001, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448/47 "2001-03-26T14:05:55Z")
I know absolutely nothing about [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=38460). ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Plankton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Dave\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2001, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448/48 "2001-03-26T17:40:24Z")
Well it seems an awful lot of people are into this. Good . I think there is nothing worse than long pubes getting tangled up in your shorts. Or your teeth for that matter. On another note, when I first did this, (with scissors over the toilet bowl) I was amazed at HOW MUCH there was! You could have stuffed a small pillow with it all. ---
**Author:** ![seawitch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@seawitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seawitch)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2001, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448/49 "2001-03-26T18:24:14Z")
Since I am not much of a lady, but I am a helluva broad, I refuse to wear underwear… and if you thing long pubes getting tangled in your shorts are a problem, wait for the day you get them caught in the zipper of your jeans! Now I shave. Wouldn’t you? ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2001, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448/50 "2001-03-26T20:53:06Z")
You betcha. 😃 I used to shave, but the regrowth was killin’ me (_itchyitchyitchy_), so now I only trim, with tiny kinda mustache scissors. I haven’t been brave enough to try an electric trimmer, and, since I live in kind of a small town, I don’t think I could find a wax treatment. My SO also keeps 'imself groomed, and I likes it. [waggle]And, lord knows, what the woman likes the man gets to enjoy.[/waggle] ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2001, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448/51 "2001-03-26T22:42:27Z")
Trimmed. My old haircutter did body trims as well, which was convenient - but I found a cheaper, more convenient person for the more usual haircutting and feel weird going back to the first one just for the body. As to scrotum - I have shaved, but trim (carefully) now. Shaving feels great afterwards, but jeezus it’s a process. And there is definitely an itch factor on regrowth. I’ve nicked myself both with the razor and with the trimmer, and the latter was the more painful. The solution, of course, would be to have a guy shave me…but that position’s been advertised for longer than I care to admit… Now, here’s a scary thought: _waxing_ the scrotum. I’m not sure there’d be anything left to scrote! ---
**Author:** ![Tyklfe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@Tyklfe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tyklfe)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2001, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448/52 "2001-03-26T23:25:51Z")
Oh GOD yes I got the girlfriend in College to let me shave hers for the first time one lazy evening because I was sick of choaking on the tiny hairs, and she couldn’t have been tied down after that(a wee excited was she). Then afterwards she asked to shave me - I was a little apprehensive at first - But later I was so happy she did it. Even though the girl is gone now I still keep it loyally trimmed very short. Tyklfe ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448/53 "2001-03-27T04:42:32Z")
Thanks for the hugs… After all it’s been a week today since the last time I had sex… and about 8 weeks since I’ve had GOOD sex…the screaming,clawing,can’t breathe,OMG OMG howling sex…🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448/54 "2001-03-27T11:24:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hardygrrl \* > \*\*Thanks for the hugs… > > After all it’s been a week today since the last time I had sex… > and about 8 weeks since I’ve had GOOD sex…the screaming,clawing,can’t breathe,OMG OMG howling sex…🙂 \*\* Oh, rub it in why don’t you? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2001, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448/55 "2001-03-27T12:40:25Z")
Mmmmmm… rubbing it in… ---
**Author:** ![5CentCigar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/ea5d25/32.png) [@5CentCigar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5CentCigar)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2001, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448/56 "2001-03-28T05:48:59Z")
I don’t use a razor. Usually I just jerk 'em off. ---
**Author:** ![Major\_Feelgud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3be4f8/32.png) [@Major\_Feelgud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Major_Feelgud)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2001, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448/57 "2001-03-28T06:37:09Z")
If you don’t wear underwear you gotta shave. You will always catch a few strays with the zipper. Remember that scene from “What about Mary?” And there’s nothing more gross than a groinful of pubic hairs poking through the zipper. ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2001, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448/58 "2001-03-28T20:24:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mercutio \* > **As of late, I have taken the advice of long time mentor Ron Jeremy and have started trimming down. It’s gonna take someone who is willing to go down there for me to shave it all.** You mean Ron “The Human Hedgehog” Jeremy?! Not only is he one of the ugliest human beings ever to walk the Earth, but one of the hairiest. I don’t care who the female in the scen is, if RJ is in it, I can’t watch. He’s THAT revolting. Anyway, I use an electric trimmer and trim religiously (by which I mean faithfully and thoroughly, as opposed to with incantations, songs and candles - although candles are almost always a nice touch). I also trim the body hair. It looks kinda weird to have 1/2 inch long pubic hair and then a jungle of fur on the chest and abs. The whole deal gets paid attention with the trimmer on the second setting. That way, it’s short enough to be unobtrusive, but not so short that there’s the “stubble burn” factor when put in play. Tequila, your comment and wording is nearly enough to make me change my stance (I couldn’t bring myself to type “position”) on having my scrotum sucked. An old girlfriend once got WAY too enthusiastic and left me in a curled up heap (I couldn’t bring myself to type “ball”) for half an hour. Since then, any attempts have been met with the quick and subtle body shift out of the way. \ ---
**Author:** ![seawitch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@seawitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seawitch)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2001, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448/59 "2001-03-29T21:09:34Z")
Good God, Major, a “groinful of hair poking through the zipper”?! If I had ever had that much body hair in the first place, I’d be typing this from backstage at the sideshow. Yikes. ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448/60 "2001-03-30T00:09:42Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by FallenAngel \* \*\* > [@](#): > > An old girlfriend once got WAY too enthusiastic and left me in a curled up heap (I couldn’t bring myself to type “ball”) for half an hour. \*\* Ouch!!! If it makes you feel a little better, I’m usually told I do it too gently. I understand they can be delicate things! I gotta go with seawitch too… I have visions of Sasquatch in my head now! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-trim-your-pubic-hair/59448.md?page=4)