# How common is female nipple hair? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 28, 2013, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161 "2013-03-28T06:34:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/61 "2013-03-30T18:11:47Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > Can they be woven into a decorative tea cozy ? > > 😃 Only for a very small teapot. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/62 "2013-03-30T20:21:09Z")
> [@clairobscur](#): > > It happens that my ex is curently staying at my place. She’s sleeping at the moment, but I’ll demand to be told the truth as soon as she’ll wake up ! :mad: For some reason she wondered why I was asking about her breast hairs 😕. Anyway she said she had one once, which weirded her out, but that it dissapeared by itself. She knew that some women had such hairs, but didn’t believe it was common. The fight against ignorance goes on. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/63 "2013-03-30T20:59:07Z")
> [@gracer](#): > > It’s nothing horrendous. Just the little line of hair that goes from your crotch to your belly button. Everyone has one, pretty much. Men more pronounced than women usually. In some women it’s barely visible at all. > > That’s what I mean by the variation working the same way: there is definitely some hair there, in some women there is a little more and in some it is a little darker. Many women remove the hair, so you wouldn’t even know. Women with a more pronounced snail trail are probably more likely to also have more pronounced hairs around their nipples. It’s the access road to the landing strip. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/64 "2013-03-30T21:06:08Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > Quite a lot actually, it’s a common fetish. Google up “hirsute porn” or “ATK natural and hairy.” I disagree. It was, until recently, as you know exactly the opposite. “Little girls,” anyone? I remember a long thread on this, oddly enough in GQ. In fact, in terms of numbers of women who swing this way or the other, crotch-hairwise, I don’t believe Brazilian waxes or very short waxes are all that common at all in the West. Plus, “fetish” is more or less a specific term, and is rarely the case. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/65 "2013-03-30T21:42:10Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > I disagree. It was, until recently, as you know exactly the opposite. “Little girls,” anyone? Believe it or not, it’s possible for two mutually exclusive fetishes to be very common. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/66 "2013-03-30T22:44:29Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Believe it or not, it’s possible for two mutually exclusive fetishes to be very common. \ ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/67 "2013-03-30T23:01:18Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Only for a very small teapot. 😉 Well, tip me over. . . ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/68 "2013-03-31T08:15:46Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Again though, that assumes that the women you’ve seen didn’t get them and just pluck them. How would you know? > > I get a couple around each nipple, and pluck them as soon as they’re long enough. No biggie. Yep, there’s no way I’d know, unless they told me, and they didn’t. I imagine the hairs are more of a problem as one ages. But my first girlfriend, she had them and they were quite long – maybe ¾" – and she was 16. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/69 "2013-03-31T14:06:13Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > This really should be taught to everyone in sex ed class. The first time I encountered a girl with nip hair was when I was 22. She had a little ring around both nips. I almost threw up all over her… Real women are something else, huh. You may also run into skin flaps, not-so-clean or yeasty smells, the odd pimple, non-stop queefing, or, while idly nosing around down there, a surprising tiny rivulet of light-colored blood heralding the onset of a period. It’s been known to happen. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/70 "2013-03-31T23:09:20Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I like how so many people are answering him so respectfully, whereas I’m all LISTEN! DON’T LOOK TO PORN FOR WHAT REAL WOMEN ARE LIKE! It’s a good thing when the number of people who want to handle this site’s mission statement of fighting ignorance vastly outnumbers the number of people here to point and laugh at said ignorance. I boggle at the number of people who seem to actually think the OP didn’t know that porn is not representative of the population at large. He was obviously just explaining why he’d never seen it before. The fact that he was asking the question was evidence enough that he didn’t think porn was accurate. Duh! > [@bienville](#): > > Oh, **JohnClay** , you know this place. You’ve been here a long time. > With a Thread topic like this _you will get teased_, but everytime someone posts to tease you they are bumping the Thread thus making it more likely to get replies from people with real info. > So, just roll with it. It may be obvious to people like you and me, but the OP is a very straight-laced thinker. It is technically against the rules (even if it’s never really enforced\*) for there to be teasing before the question is answered, and, of course, if you’re only interested in the answer, there’s no reason to read past it and find the teasing. If everyone were as rational as the OP, he would never see the teasing. \*There are mod notes, of course, but that’s as far as it ever goes, even though the behavior continues. It seems like the Pit rules in that enforcement is lackluster because no one really cares. Well, no one who sticks around on the board, that is. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/71 "2013-04-01T02:03:08Z")
Yeah, **T** , but what about nipple hair? ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/72 "2013-04-01T03:29:39Z")
I have about 30 long, dark hairs around each areola. I pluck them. ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/73 "2013-04-01T05:41:04Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Real women are something else, huh. You may also run into skin flaps, not-so-clean or yeasty smells, the odd pimple, **non-stop queefing** , or, while idly nosing around down there, a surprising tiny rivulet of light-colored blood heralding the onset of a period. It’s been known to happen. (bolding mine) _ **What** _, pray tell, is “non-stop queefing”? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/74 "2013-04-01T05:45:49Z")
Female nipple hair is often removed by slightly warming a Marshmallow Peep and pressing it up against the areola, allowing it to harden over a period of 3-4 days, and then tugging off. Special peep-fitted bras are available to wear during the “gestation” period. ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/75 "2013-04-01T05:48:38Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Female nipple hair is often removed by slightly warming a Marshmallow Peep and pressing it up against the areola, allowing it to harden over a period of 3-4 days, and then tugging off. Special peep-fitted bras are available to wear during the “gestation” period. I assume the ‘tugging off’ is done with one’s teeth, correct? 😉 Or, should that be lips? ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/76 "2013-04-01T07:38:17Z")
> [@JBDivmstr](#): > > (bolding mine) > > _ **What** _, pray tell, is “non-stop queefing”? 😕 Vaginal farts during intercourse. Wiktionary tells me it is an old word, a combination of “quif,” a Scottish word for “cunt” (it shows up in Ulysses, set in 1904, where a character is spoken of in contempt as “there he goes, airing his quif”) and, who knew, a nautical term “queef,” meaning “a blast of air.” ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/77 "2013-04-01T08:47:00Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Vaginal farts during intercourse. > > Wiktionary tells me it is an old word, a combination of “quif,” a Scottish word for “cunt” (it shows up in Ulysses, set in 1904, where a character is spoken of in contempt as “there he goes, airing his quif”) and, who knew, a nautical term “queef,” meaning “a blast of air.” Ignorance fought! Thanks! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/78 "2013-04-01T15:27:56Z")
No prob. I look forward to the thread: “How common is queefing?” I’m not going to start it. After you… I dare ya. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/79 "2013-04-01T15:38:03Z")
I knew a woman who was a solid 7, but her constant queefing dropped her to a 4.5. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/80 "2013-04-01T16:23:19Z")
It’s not only the female anatomy thats involved. It’s also…ahh fuck it. See the general index to GQ. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161.md?page=5)