Given that said garment was sometimes worn to cover weeping sores, tongue-lashing may not have been a priority.
‘Weeping sores’…clearly scope for a graphic Spoonerism there.
Call me SIR damn it! 
Kidding aside, a lot of my OP was (to some extent) tongue in cheek. If you want to refer to an entire group of human beings as pubic hair wigs (once used to cover crab infestations and weeping syphilis sores), that is your prerogative.
I do, however, think that the point is well made that this is a little boorish. I do not think that it would be any better received if, for example, I started to refer to the French as frogs or the English as limeys (keep in mind that there are more pejorative terms out there for entire nationalities, these two examples were used because of my perception of their relatively low emotional charge).
At best, if I started doing this, I would be seen as a bit crass. On the other end of that spectrum, I could be seen as being racist.
Who’s gonna say it…?
On the other hand, I’m glad I followed the link. The hair does look long, but I think that’s so you can tailor and shape the shrubbery into whatever you think would up the property value (hearts, initials, lightning bolts). More pubic topiary, I say.
And while we’re on the subject of merkin references, I’m always tickled to see that the name of the band Gutter’s desperate to see in PCU are The Merkins (playing, if you recall, Frog and Toad Are Friends).
That would be “playing with.” Also, I love the viking beard.
I trim my pubes. I certainly don’t want any long-haired wig.
Could be worse. I’m thinking about India’s Prime Minister…
OK, go back to the link above, where you can buy(!) the merkin and look closely - VERY closely. You’ll notice the hair is attached to a sort of transparent crotchless panty thingee. I assume the hair (it is kinda long, isn’t it? Oh well, I guess if you wanna style it in a pubic behive or something.) is well attached with some sort of pube-glue. Is it just me or is this thread getting weirder and weirder?
oh looky - Cecil re. merkins - http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_232.html
“Merkin” is also a pretty common surname.
My father had an old army buddy who had the misfortune to be named Archibald Merkin. Luckily, he was fortunate enough to be an illiterate souse, and was therefore blissfully unaware of what a howler of a name he had. Oh, I dunno, maybe his wife privately called him her “threadbare crotch-hair teddy-bear.” Who knows?
But if the word bugs ya that much, I’ll be happy to switch back to “Damyankee.” 
What’s worse is that them Yurpeens think of us as Ugly Merkins!
:eek:
I mean, really!
You Yanking my Merkin?
I’d always called you lot Yanks, and continued to do so in the knowledge that many of you have some historical aversion to that particular term. Then I discovered the SDMB and the name “Merkin”. I like that one a lot.
Aussies call you names when we like you. Usually, it doesn’t get much more imaginative than “bastard”, so if we are calling you a pubic hair wig, you can feel pretty damn proud.
So: your toilets all swirl backwards, you regard beer as a major food group, and if you call somebody a “pubic hair wig” you are expressing respect and/or affection?
No wonder you’re down under.
We Merkins do not “whing”; we WHINE, dammit! And we’re good at it!
HEY!!! Who told you!!! :mad:
I’ve always spelt it “Mer’can” when referring to the people group.