# Is it standard practice for young(ish) women to shave/wax pubic hair... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 16, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544 "2013-02-16T21:38:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544/61 "2013-02-18T01:16:29Z")
> [@colander](#): > > I’m just angry that my idea for a Pubic Bedazzler Kit hasn’t caught on. Never give up your dream. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544/62 "2013-02-18T01:22:41Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > because it doesn’t resemble a pre-pubescent girl. > > Any more than shaved legs or shaved underarms cause confusion. Did I mention confusion? Pubic hair is a sign of sexual maturity. A couple of posters said a full bush is _gross_. Of course, some women find facial hair on men gross, too. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544/63 "2013-02-18T01:38:12Z")
> [@colander](#): > > I’m just angry that my idea for a Pubic Bedazzler Kit hasn’t caught on. You’ve never read any interviews given by Jennifer Love-Hewitt, have you? I think if you googled “vajazzalized” or something similar, you’d realize there’s nothing new under the sun. Indeed. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544/64 "2013-02-18T01:40:31Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I’m curious why no one has mentioned the pre-pubescent look of a totally bare pussy. Because I’m seeing this post for the 1st time. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544/65 "2013-02-18T01:50:18Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > because it doesn’t resemble a pre-pubescent girl. > > Any more than shaved legs or shaved underarms cause confusion. Right. Not too many pre-pubescent girls have breasts, either. Those are usually found on a woman with a shaved pussy. ---
**Author:** ![colander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@colander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colander)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544/66 "2013-02-18T01:59:13Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > You’ve never read any interviews given by Jennifer Love-Hewitt, have you? I think if you googled “vajazzalized” or something similar, you’d realize there’s nothing new under the sun. Indeed. 😛 Okay, but mine also has Lite-Brite functionality. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544/67 "2013-02-18T02:01:32Z")
Male, 52. First two females I had any experience with (1978 and 1983) didn’t appear to have shaved at all. Last GF groomed but left a little something on her little something. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544/68 "2013-02-18T02:09:05Z")
I’ve never been a shaver. Hate doing it every day and hate letting it grow back even worse. I’m 53 and have just started the full Brazillian wax. I love it! So soft and smooooooth. Yummy! ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544/69 "2013-02-18T02:38:12Z")
> [@colander](#): > > Okay, but mine also has Lite-Brite functionality. Hie the for a patent then! I’m sure you’d at least have the celebrity market. ---
**Author:** ![colander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@colander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colander)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544/70 "2013-02-18T02:42:28Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Hie the for a patent then! I’m sure you’d at least have the celebrity market. I want to wait until I think of a way to incorporate an Easy-Bake oven into the design. I’ve already thought up a slogan: “After you pound me… delicious brownie!” ---
**Author:** ![ASanders](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asanders/32/3367_2.png) [@ASanders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASanders)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544/71 "2013-02-18T03:02:38Z")
Woman here, age 51. Married twice (and currently, happily so for 18 years now). Not particularly hairy; have never had to shave legs or pits more than weekly. And have never trimmed or shaved the lady garden. It simply never occurred to me, and no partner has ever suggested it. Thank goodness. It sounds highly unpleasant and high-maintenance. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544/72 "2013-02-18T03:45:48Z")
> [@colander](#): > > Okay, but mine also has Lite-Brite functionality. That’s awesome! A landing strip with lights on the ‘runway’. ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544/73 "2013-02-18T06:54:10Z")
I shave it all off every few weeks at least, and have for about 8 years now. I’m 27. Most of my friends my age, if not all natural, have never completely shaved or waxed and think it’s weird. They’ll shave around the bikini line and trim, but nothing like me. ETA: I’m currently single and sexually inactive. I still shave every coupla weeks. I just prefer it. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544/74 "2013-02-18T07:45:31Z")
I’m a trimmer. I and my boyfriend prefer it short. I can (carefully!) shave the labia with no problem, but as others have mentioned, the itching anywhere else is unbearable! I can’t imagine a Brazilian, either. OMG! Do women mostly do their own? Or do they go to the little salons that advertise them on sandwich boards on the highway? For the life of me, I can not imagine letting some woman I don’t know (or do know) yank out my pubic hair. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544/75 "2013-02-18T14:28:09Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > Deliberate obtuseness can be used to great comedic effect :o nm. just having a fit. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544/76 "2013-02-18T18:07:03Z")
I’ve seen partial shaving a lot, especially the actual lips shaved with a little hair left above. And I’ve seen complete shaving in over 1/2 of my girlfriends/wives, even if they didn’t always keep it that way. Really if the woman likes oral performed on her, it makes things a lot easier. If they don’t like oral I don’t care greatly either way as long as it’s not a total jungle down there. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544/77 "2013-02-18T22:51:42Z")
Male, 55, and all the women I’ve seen in person were unshaven except sometimes on the legs. I like that just fine and am bewildered as to how the sight of naked women stopped being considered sexy. Armpits and legs unshaven are also perfectly pretty for me. ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544/78 "2013-02-18T23:51:22Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I’m curious why no one has mentioned the pre-pubescent look of a totally bare pussy. I kinda did in the post just before yours. > [@Procrustus](#): > > because it doesn’t resemble a pre-pubescent girl. > > Any more than shaved legs or shaved underarms cause confusion. It kinda does, depending on the size of the lady’s lady parts; and it certainly resembles it more than one with a short but dense area of hair. And shaved legs might not have been the best example, since pre-pubescent girls have more hair on their legs than the average (American) post-pubescent girl. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544/79 "2013-02-19T03:01:43Z")
Male, 55. My ex, (married 1978-85) was untrimmed. I asked her to shave a few times but it was not very mainstream at the time and she was completely uninterested in any but the most minimal trimming. I’m not sexually active (with other people) but I prefer totally bare on a woman, looks-wise. I do some shaving on myself but have bad breakout issues in the area between penis and belly button. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544/80 "2013-02-19T03:18:33Z")
Male, 23, I’ve only seen one girl nude (excluding porn, obviously) – my ex and she wasn’t shaved. Though she didn’t shave her legs either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-standard-practice-for-young-ish-women-to-shave-wax-pubic-hair/650544.md?page=5)