I am 19 years old and can tell you from experience that 98% of the women of my generation are 100% bare and bald. Almost every chick who i have been exposed to started shaving when they first had the need to because “they hate hair”. Older women probably do not. All the teenage girls today do. Just a different generation. I wonder how long they will keep it up, and hold old they will be when they finally dont care anymore. Yup so all your teenage nieces and daughters…
I, personally, shave all but a triangle in the front (a landing strip) which I trim.
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t at least trim their bush.
It seems unsanitary to have a big hairy muff, not to mention icky.
I stop my fiance if he decides to go down on me when it’s been a couple days since I trimmed down there.
galen writes:
Ahhh, the innocence of the Young, so unaware of the History of Our Porn.
Playboy had a cnscious editorial policy of not showing pubic hair throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s. I think you could see it in other, lesser “Men’s magazines”, but Hefner insisted that this was a low-class thing, and you’d never se pubic hair in Playboys.
Then along came Bob Guccione’s Penthouse with its gauzy out-of-focus shots, it’s ubnladylike poses, and generous helpings of pubic hair. It started to make inroads on Playboy’s turf, and so Playboy retaliated by finally showing pubic hair. Longtyime Playboy readers wrote in letters counting the umbers of pubic hair shots, the PBI, or Pubic Hair Index. By the mid-1970s pubic hair was common in Playboy as well.
But, although some ladies may have been trimmed and manicured, I don’t recall seeing them shaved. Playboy avoid showing pubic hair by avoid direct crotch shots altogether, not by shaving.
Ahhh, but when you are on a Caribbean beach in a tiny bikini bottom (sans top, of course), the pain is worthwhile. Or so my gf assures me. 
It’s really not that bad after the first couple of strips. However, if you go, make sure you go to someone who will 1) not bruise you, and 2) take care of all of it. There’s nothing worse than a handful of stray hairs in a weird place.
However, if I could afford it, I’d get laser hair removal done down there, at least on the sides. It’s just easier to do things so you do not look like Buckwheat is living down there while wearing a bathing suit.
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MOving this to IMHO. The answers are more along the line of opinions, observations, and personal experiences.
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I’m a massage therapist and deal with a lot of naked bodies. The correlation between age and pubic hair styling is pretty linear, younger=balder, but with plenty of exceptions. Fortunately the bald look seems to have peaked (except among teens as noted above) and more young women are letting their hair grow in again. Much nicer, the bald look is so silly.
I started shaving my nether regions the day I discovered hair there. It grossed me out. Body hair in general grosses me out on females – I kid you not, it took years and years for me to stop shaving my arms. And I really am not one of those hairy women, just don’t like body hair. I still keep my pubic region bald as a cueball – I use a good Venus razor and keep it tidy in between shower-shaves with a braun electric. I know my husband likes it bald, but honestly, it’s for me, not him. Plus, it keeps things much more sensitive and scent-free if ya know what I mean.
FWIW, my daughter (age 14) asked if she could shave hers when she started getting hair. She is blonde and get very little any kind of hair – she literally could go weeks not shaving her legs and you’d not notice unless you touched her – it’s silky fine blonde hairs. I told her it was her body, and she could shave whatever she liked. She shaves, too. Meh. Some of us just don’t like hair…what can I say?
Edited to say I forgot to mention I am 35. To my knowledge, my mother did not shave. My sister, who was in porn for quite a while only did a trim, never bald that I know of – in fact, she used to tease me when we were teens because I shaved mine bald.
Just made my day.
I think it started when porn became more mainstream, especially on the Internet so you could see the goods.
I guess girls are just modeling themselves after porn stars. Nothing wrong with that, right?
I’ve been with one guy who shaved. He was a tennis player and he said he liked shaving everywhere because it cut down on wind resistance. :dubious:
I shave because I like it better that way. Nothing to do with anyone else.
Sorry to make a followup post, but I personally like shaved vaginal areas. I mean, duh beggars cant be choosers so I wont balk if there’s hair under there, but to me the landing strip is the paramount of sexy happy fuck time.
I keep the bikini line shaved and the hairs trimmed to a reasonable length, but the thought of having someone rip it all out with hot wax is…unappealing. I would kind of like to try shaving the whole thing, but I’m kind of afraid of the growing back process–itching and whatnot. My husband prefers the hair, so I’ll probably stick with the muff. I’m 26.
In my life, I’ve yet to encounter a woman who doesn’t at least trim. My sample size is somewhere around 25. Before I got married, I had a goal of finding a girl with a full big ol’ bush, just for the experience. I never found one. It almost became a fetish for a while. The most hair that I’ve personally seen on a women was about a half inch of length all around.
In my dating years, I always travelled with a beard trimmer in order to offer my “personal grooming services”… Aside from making things more “appetizing”, it insured I would be remembered for at least a month after we broke up.
I’m sorry, but shaving down there is the ultimate in pain and inconvenience. I guess if I cared, I’d go to the salon and have it waxed, but I don’t care enough to pay up and suffer that kind of pain either. I figure, I’m happy with it, and if any contestant should make it so far and not be happy, that’s not my problem. Once you’ve seen my inner thigh, I hope we’ve got more important things to worry about than what the Playboy models look like.
(For those keeping track of the generational split, I’m 24.)