# shaving the pubes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaving-the-pubes/5605>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 24, 1999, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaving-the-pubes/5605 "1999-12-24T15:21:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![funneefarmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@funneefarmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funneefarmer)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 1999, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaving-the-pubes/5605/21 "1999-12-27T19:59:00Z")

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Warnth ? You don’t want frostbite down there now do you ?

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**Author:** ![NanoByte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@NanoByte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NanoByte)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 1999, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaving-the-pubes/5605/22 "1999-12-28T05:36:00Z")

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Seems to me its function is in being “not quite clear,” considering the lack of a human oestrus cycle. I mean the human male is supposed to be out there scrounging victuals ‘n’ wiping out his neighbors **part** of the time, isn’t he?

Ray (Which came first, form or function?)

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**Author:** ![NanoByte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@NanoByte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NanoByte)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 1999, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaving-the-pubes/5605/23 "1999-12-28T05:57:00Z")

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So why does hair grow in your armpits?

Ray (It likes the shade. . .or maybe it’s the last place to hold out against the clear-cut loggers. You’ll prob’ly tell me Cecil answered that one too.)

[PS to f’farmer: I’ve been to that beach, but I just stole that picture from the slide show at its Website. Don’t tell Nickrz, but I don’t recall that page’s having said anything about copyrights, and the people in the picture aren’t recognizable.

As far as unwinding, I’m apt to do more of that running and scrambling up a small mountain, like Diablo, as I did on Christmas day.]

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**Author:** ![galen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@galen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 1999, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaving-the-pubes/5605/24 "1999-12-28T14:17:00Z")

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I love a full bush as nature intended. I think Hugh Hefner is chiefly responsible for the plucked chicken look. Hugh doesn’t really dig mature women. A woman-child is more to his liking.

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**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 1999, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaving-the-pubes/5605/25 "1999-12-28T16:44:00Z")

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I shave the area by my thighs that isn’t covered by my underpants. I also keep the rest neatly trimmed. There’s nothing worse than long, curly, unruly pubes.

I would imagine that shaving everything off would be uncomfortable once it started growing back. A person would have to shave quite frequently too, wouldn’t they??

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