# Questions for Straight Men about Vagina **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 20, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393 "2010-07-20T21:28:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393/181 "2010-07-22T17:17:45Z")
Surely there are? Otherwise people wouldn’t spend time doing it. Or painting their nails, or washing their boats, and other things which aren’t necessary for survival. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2010, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393/182 "2010-07-22T17:21:49Z")
😕 The fact that people do things doesn’t mean they don’t have more pressing concerns. I mean, I trimmed my beard today, but I also went to work. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393/183 "2010-07-22T17:25:23Z")
Okay. Here’s an example: I like to paint my nails, but I rarely have time to do that. I might find the time only once or twice a year. I usually have more pressing concerns. Does that help? ---
**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:** [July 22, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393/184 "2010-07-22T17:28:49Z")
I think you missed my point, but in an effort to not hijack the thread any further, I’ll let it go. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393/185 "2010-07-22T17:31:21Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Hey, everyone, let’s make a deal! > > Us pro-shavers will stop saying hairy women are gross, and you anti-shavers stop saying shaved women look like they’re six. Deal? I’ll make you another deal. Those of us who think body hair on females is gross and unfeminine won’t state our opinions and preferences as fact and neither will the side that wants to mate with cavewomen. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393/186 "2010-07-22T17:31:28Z")
Most people’s schedules are not filled to the second with pressing concerns. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393/187 "2010-07-22T17:41:40Z")
I guess the only answer I have is I like pussy. hair or no hair. as long as its clean and over 18. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393/188 "2010-07-22T17:47:38Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I think you missed my point, but in an effort to not hijack the thread any further, I’ll let it go. 🙂 Okay, sorry, me too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GHO57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df788c/32.png) [@GHO57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GHO57)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393/189 "2010-07-22T18:25:35Z")
So, back hair is manly and sexy? Should I braid it… or is natural better? ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393/190 "2010-07-22T18:47:50Z")
“he had imagined women were quite different to what he saw I was, and that the reason he did not make me his Wife was because he was disgusted with my person the first evening April 10th. (1848)” art critic John Ruskin’s wife, whose marriage wnet unconsumated, reportedly because she wasn’t as slick as the Greek statues he so admired A FOAF told how he was making the dive down on a gal only to be taken aback by her foliage. Beckoning him hither to love’s wilder shores, she reportedly told him “Aw go ahead: it’s nature’s dental floss!” ---
**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:** [July 22, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393/191 "2010-07-22T19:00:06Z")
> [@GHO57](#): > > So, back hair is manly and sexy? Should I braid it… or is natural better? No, it’s feminine, apparently. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393/192 "2010-07-22T19:57:47Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > A FOAF told how he was making the dive down on a gal only to be taken aback by her foliage. Beckoning him hither to love’s wilder shores, she reportedly told him “Aw go ahead: it’s nature’s dental floss!” \ ---
**Author:** ![Honesty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f04885/32.png) [@Honesty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honesty)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393/193 "2010-07-22T20:38:55Z")
To answer the question, I’m gay and have been puzzled by male-female interactions. I’ve also been puzzled at how women go through a ritual of shaving, grooming, plucking hair that grows naturally in order to get a mate. It’s clear, however, from reading this thread that the majority of women do this voluntarily. I still think I would be pretty pissed if I were a woman and had to go through a ritual like that. The only vagina I’ve seen in real-life has been changing my sister’s diaper when I was a teenager. My recollection is that vagina looks awfully plain and wanted to understand more about it from another (albeit heterosexual) man’s opinion. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393/194 "2010-07-22T20:44:44Z")
1. The hair on your head grows naturally, but I presume you get it cut from time to time, in part to attract a mate, yes? 2. An adult vagina has a bit more going on than an infant’s, particularly during arousal. From my point of view, there’s nothing particularly fancy about a penis. Well, except mine, which is _fabulous._ ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393/195 "2010-07-22T20:46:49Z")
If they can see your vagina, you’ve pretty much already attracted the mate. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393/196 "2010-07-22T20:48:28Z")
> [@Honesty](#): > > To answer the question, I’m gay and have been puzzled by male-female interactions. I’ve also been puzzled at how women go through a ritual of shaving, grooming, plucking hair that grows naturally in order to get a mate. It’s clear, however, from reading this thread that the majority of women do this voluntarily. I still think I would be pretty pissed if I were a woman and had to go through a ritual like that. . I think you made a huge assumption by thinking that it’s done to get a mate. I can only speak for myself when I say that my choices, especially when it comes to pubic hair, are my own and for what is convenient, comfortable, and wanted by me. If a guy I’m interested in doesn’t like those choices, there are plenty of ladies who will accommodate him. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393/197 "2010-07-22T21:18:12Z")
\*Having \*a vagina is enough to catch a mate. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393/198 "2010-07-22T21:23:25Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > \*Having \*a vagina is enough to catch a mate. And yet, when we guys make this claim, we’re repeatedly told it just ain’t so. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393/199 "2010-07-22T21:26:28Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Hey, everyone, let’s make a deal! > > Us pro-shavers will stop saying hairy women are gross, and you anti-shavers stop saying shaved women look like they’re six. Deal? How about this? I’ll say when I see shaved pubes on either a male or female it reminds ME of naked children and I find the bald pubic area gross; however I don’t find the person who has shaved them gross at all. It’s just hair. But when I look at the shaved area it looks like my six year old daughter. (Maybe that’s why it bugs me? Maybe it’s because I was molested at six. Who knows. It’s a personal thing much more than an aesthetics thing.) And in return you people who shave are welcome to see my kinky red pubes as gross, but do you have to reject us as potential partners just because of a little hair? Where’s the love, RNATB? Where’s the love? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393/200 "2010-07-22T21:50:49Z")
Forget the whole shaved/unshaved: how do you guys feel about [Vajazzling](http://www.completelybare.com/brazilian-bikini-wax.php)? 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-straight-men-about-vagina/547393.md?page=11)