# Mundane and Hairless - NJ may ban pubic waxing **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 20, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189 "2009-03-20T17:20:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189/41 "2009-03-22T18:48:55Z")
But they double-dip the stick of the girl before you and after you, too… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189/42 "2009-03-22T18:51:00Z")
I did not know what waxing actually was. I think I’ll curl up into a little ball now. _twitch_ ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189/43 "2009-03-22T18:52:38Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > But why would you care if they double dipped your stick? You’re only being exposed to your own germs then, right? No, because they are reusing the same pot of wax. They double dipped several other people’s sticks in that wax before starting on you. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189/44 "2009-03-22T18:59:48Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > But why would you care if they double dipped your stick? You’re only being exposed to your own germs then, right? Ok. Big pot of wax. Just full to the brim with wax. To use up all that wax, it takes a solid week or two of clients, then they just put in more wax, rinse, repeat. So, I go in. She takes a clean stick, dips it in the wax, spreads the wax on my lady bits, does the waxing end of the deal, then needs to do another spot. She takes that stick, dips it BACK IN THE WAX (after it touched God knows what part of my body), then does the same thing as many times as it requires to get the hair off my body. Then you come in. She takes a clean stick, dips it back into the wax that is full of my yuckiness, gets a glob of wax, and throws it on. Then someone else comes in. She takes a clean stick and dips it back into the wax with your yuckiness and my yuckiness. You get the idea. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189/45 "2009-03-22T19:05:15Z")
Wouldn’t one, um, tidy up a bit before a Brazilian? Or at least take a shower? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189/46 "2009-03-22T19:15:21Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Ok. Big pot of wax. Just full to the brim with wax. To use up all that wax, it takes a solid week or two of clients, then they just put in more wax, rinse, repeat. Wow, usually they go through a whole pot of wax JUST on me when I go in, but maybe I have more hair than most. Okay, I suppose that could be oogy. Though again, at my place I’m usually there for just legs/arms and underarms and for that they just use one of those tube thingies. No pot of wax. Though I’ve been to places that did the pot of wax, and it never bothered me. I don’t know, I guess I’m not that easily grossed out. I’m not about to shave, I’m not going to use Nair, and I am not self waxing, so I’ll suck it up. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189/47 "2009-03-22T19:55:10Z")
Why are they singling out Brazilians? What’s different about their pubic hair? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189/48 "2009-03-22T20:10:06Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > I read the thread title as “public waxing.” Gah. So did I! ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189/49 "2009-03-22T20:28:04Z")
I think the bigger issue than the fact that a Brazilian wax involves wax all around the hoo-ha, as it were is that in many places a “full” Brazilian also involves waxing around the rear entry as well. Mmmm fecal choliform bacteria in my nice, warm wax incubator. ---
**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 22, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189/50 "2009-03-22T20:36:30Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > But why would you care if they double dipped your stick? You’re only being exposed to your own germs then, right? Shared wax pot. You’re theoretically exposed to your germs and everyone else whose stick got dipped a second time. ---
**Author:** ![Dublin11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Dublin11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dublin11)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189/51 "2009-03-22T21:02:19Z")
If something is to be made illegal, logic says it must be policed. I see from the link that normal bikini waxes are not included in the proposed ban, just full Brazilians. If this law ever comes to pass, I wonder how many of the NJ police force will be queueing up to be on the crack squad tasked with enforcing it? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189/52 "2009-03-22T22:00:08Z")
> [@Una\_Persson](#): > > Although it doesn’t work for all hair and skin types, it’s unfortunate there is so much resistance to lasering. I’ve seen plenty of women who were ideal laser candidates dutifully go for waxing, sugaring, or other techniques for years, spending more than they would have over the years to just get it lasered. You can even do half-and-half, where you get, for example, 3 laser treatments that get rid of 50-75% of the hair, and from then on there’s so little left (and what’s left is very often thinner and slow-growing) that just ordinary shaving is very fast and easy. I completely agree. I started shaving it all off when I was 18ish. I refused to let it grow enough to get waxed. A few years ago I figured I’d shaved long enough and got myself lasered. Of course they let me know that it might not take care of all of it and that it could grow back, but as of today I have no regrowth and it did take care of all of it. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189/53 "2009-03-22T22:12:34Z")
> [@Dublin11](#): > > If this law ever comes to pass, I wonder how many of the NJ police force will be queueing up to be on the crack squad tasked with enforcing it? 😃 That is just stupid. The obvious solution is to put web cameras in the waxing booths where concerned citizens can check if these salons comply with the law. Hard as it is to believe, I am sure some people will volunteer their time to help their fine state. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189/54 "2009-03-23T04:33:11Z")
> [@](#): > > I see from the link that normal bikini waxes are not included in the proposed ban, just full Brazilians. Don’t go splitting hairs. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189/55 "2009-03-23T18:24:45Z")
[David Horsey weighs in on a totalitarian nightmare averted](http://blog.seattlepi.com/davidhorsey/archives/164767.asp). ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189/56 "2009-03-23T18:59:35Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > Can I ask a question? Most STDs are, um, pretty hard to get, right? I mean, she isn’t sticking the popsicle stick up your hey-hey, and then back into the wax, is she? Is there REALLY that much chance of contamination? > > I don’t do Brazilian, so maybe I’m just uninformed, but I do know that all my hair is on the outside… OK this is going to be graphic and I cannot believe I am going to say this on a public message board but here goes: My brazilian waxer is damn near as thorough as my gynecologist. There’s the hair you see, then there are the folds of labia, the vaginal opening, across the taint and straight up past the asshole. It all gets taken and all those areas are moist breeding grounds of disease if you have one (ok, maybe not the asshole so much, but still). Yes, before you go in for a Brazilian I do wash vigorously. But guess what? If I have an STD the washing isn’t going to make it go away! However, I do not know what temperature kills the STD and browsing around on the web didn’t help because I’ve got one doc saying yes, you can spread disease through the melting pot and another saying the heat is enough to kill the disease. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189/57 "2009-03-23T19:17:42Z")
Wow. _Wow_. I am never getting a Brazilian wax. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189/58 "2009-03-23T19:19:20Z")
Oh dear, GOD. Straight up past the asshole? **ShelliBean** , if I ever do decide to get my pubes done, I’m giving my waxer strict orders not to stray below the cleft area. And maybe a little above that. What’s it called when you don’t want it all gone? French bikini? I def. don’t want brazilian. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189/59 "2009-03-23T19:30:48Z")
Oh hell the best one (the expensive girl that I love) usually goes over it with a tweezer afterwards to make sure. I promise it is not as painful as it sounds. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189/60 "2009-03-23T19:46:15Z")
> [@ShelliBean](#): > > …I promise it is not as painful as it sounds. It can’t be. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-and-hairless-nj-may-ban-pubic-waxing/490189.md?page=4)