# Pubic Hair **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 3, 2004, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair/232225 "2004-03-03T02:38:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2004, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair/232225/41 "2004-03-04T02:25:32Z")
> [@noname](#): > > Youre the woman, you tell me!! > MY guess: its the primodial urge in women, to select the manliest mate for protecting their offspring, one who can protect. An unshaven leg on a man denotes that he doesnt have time for such friviloties like shaving legs. He is more interested in going out their and breaking a few skullsthat threaten his family. Again, its just my guess. > Another guess: Women just prefer hairy men, cos they are cheaper than the bear rugs. Again. my guess. I just don’t see why leg hair on WOMEN is so godawful ugly that we have to shave it constantly, while men have it and it’s fine, and it looks no worse than mine would if I let it grow. I guess I figure if I’m close enough to a man to know the state of his pubic hair, I’m not going to worry about a stray one going here or there during any activities that follow the…um…unveiling. As long as it’s CLEAN hair. ---
**Author:** ![Gotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7bcc69/32.png) [@Gotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotti)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair/232225/42 "2004-03-14T03:50:55Z")
Good god is all I got to say about this thread. To those guys that say “Man-scaping is gay!” I beg to differ. Most women perfer a man who trims very short or shaves…cause “aggh aggh hack haaacck gaagg!” is not the sexiest thing to hear coming from the womans mouth as she gags on your nappy foot and a half long crotch hair. It aint the 70’s no more. If the woman is nice enough to do it for us, then we should do the same for them. It’s only fair… Joke time… How can you tell the porno you are watchin is from the 70’s? Answer: Cause even the dudes weiner has sideburns. 😃😃 :lol:-lol- ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair/232225/43 "2004-03-14T06:10:46Z")
I sometimes shave my legs, but not all the time. Only started having visible leg hair in my twenties by which point I didn’t see that much point. It’s not disgusting, it’s just a little hair. I do shave elsewhere, but that is for personal reasons, not societal ones. I like how it feels and what with having a figure like a fertility goddess I’m never likely to be mistaken for a prepubescent girl just because of my shaving status. I’m going to regret posting this much information in the morning ;). ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair/232225/44 "2004-03-14T06:30:01Z")
How odd that this thread should re-emerge the very day that I was seized with an irresistable impulse to do some clear-cutting… ---
**Author:** ![\_ceQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b9bd4f/32.png) [@\_ceQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_ceQueen)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair/232225/45 "2004-03-14T06:39:16Z")
I think it’s there for thermoregulation. But that’s just me. And just on women. Men’s nuts aren’t supposed to get too warm. I guess for men it’s to amortize the squishing, and for women it’s for thermoregulation. Yeah. that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Sandlegs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@Sandlegs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sandlegs)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair/232225/46 "2004-03-14T06:57:31Z")
just make sure to use a razor…i wondered what it would be like to burn a PH on my testilcle bag once…bad idea…i lit the end and it acted as a natural fuse…i was helpless as i saw the sparks advance to the testicle bag and burn it slightly and make me jump…ouch…never do that. ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair/232225/47 "2004-03-14T15:42:09Z")
Alright, dumb question: How, exactly, does one trim their pubic hair with a razor? I’ve made two attempts the same way I would shave my face, and twenty minutes later have dulled a disposable razor blade and removed many individual hairs, but not affected my appearance in any noticable way. Is there a manual somewhere? ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair/232225/48 "2004-03-14T17:40:24Z")
> [@UselessGit](#): > > Hah! I use a broken bottle to trim _my_ PH, maybe a lighter if there are special circumstances (sp?). Wimp. Wuss. Try my method: avice grips. You can rip off bigger clumps at one time than with the simpler pliers. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair/232225/49 "2004-03-14T17:41:52Z")
Of course, _a_ and _vice_ are separate words and should be treated as such. ---
**Author:** ![ContumeliousBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/57b2e6/32.png) [@ContumeliousBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ContumeliousBob)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair/232225/50 "2004-03-15T00:51:28Z")
Pubic hair is another form of lubrication for the bump and grind. ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair/232225/51 "2004-03-15T12:41:13Z")
Panasonic Wet/Dry shaver. A rechargeble electric that can be used in the shower. Trim the hair very short with shears, remove the stubble with shaver. Shaving every day in the shower keeps the stubble away. TMI ahead. I have a full beard (I’m Male) Little Sister bought said shave r as a Xmas gift. Boy friend asked “When are you going to use it?” Sister said better question is “Where?” That Man can blush!!! ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair/232225/52 "2004-03-15T13:20:15Z")
Pubic hair is icky. I did get lazy this year and let mine grow in for about a month… but that’s all better now. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair/232225/53 "2004-03-15T14:09:12Z")
> [@Rysdad](#): > > Wuss. Try my method: avice grips. You can rip off bigger clumps at one time than with the simpler pliers. Pfft, that’s nothing. _I_ use a rock. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair/232225/54 "2004-03-15T15:56:46Z")
> [@Rysdad](#): > > Of course, _a_ and _vice_ are separate words and should be treated as such. Since you’re correcting…it should be _vise_ grip. _Vice_ is a totally different thing, hopefully not relating to pulling hair out! ---
**Author:** ![Sutremaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@Sutremaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sutremaine)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair/232225/55 "2004-03-15T17:01:47Z")
I’d shave if I had to wear a ‘normal’ swimming costume or anything else that showed my bikini line, but otherwise, I’m not taking a razor (or anything else. Ha!) to my bits. Would I be right in saying that, at the moment, this is more of an American thing? I know Britain is turning into the 51st state, but please don’t let that come over here. Incidentally, does anyone else find it ironic that adverts which exhort you to ‘love your body’ are the ones that involve rejecting unpalatable aspects of it (wrinkles, hair, stuff like that)? ---
**Author:** ![Joaquim\_Matilda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@Joaquim\_Matilda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joaquim_Matilda)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair/232225/56 "2004-03-15T23:48:52Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > How odd that this thread should re-emerge the very day that I was seized with an irresistable impulse to do some clear-cutting… My wife & I were watching a porn movie Saturday night; it was boring – badly made. Straight sex is all we want and watch. We both think that oral is straight and love it. During the vid, she said something about wanting a little more kink; I grew two inches and almost had a coronary. She said, maybe a blindfold, wrists gently bound, a little role playing. Nothing painful, no one else with us. She said maybe I could shave around my nipples so she could get at them without anything in the way. I’m not that hairy but… I think letting her shave around them and trimming me down south would turn her on. She always said she won’t shave hers because it itches so much as it grows back. I’m going to suggest she just trim it little. She’s pretty thick down there. Why do we call cats “pussies”? ---
**Author:** ![Felissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@Felissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Felissa)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair/232225/57 "2004-03-16T17:28:32Z")
:rolleyes: I shave my underarms for hygenic reasons (ie I am a tree-hugger and don’t use conventional anti-persperant) and that’s it. If my s.o. wants me to shave anywhere else, I make him (or her, but right now him) do it. He does, I trust him, and he’s never cut me. Plus he \really\ likes it. And he keeps himself trimmed nicely. My last s.o. was a total bear. Either way is fine with me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair/232225/58 "2004-03-16T17:53:50Z")
I have a very hairy torso, so if I shaved completely it would look ridiculous; however, I do keep the boys smooth as well as my length. I just trim the bush. As was pointed out, my SO doesn’t appreciate the stray hairs during oral sex. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pubic-hair/232225.md?page=2)