# Simple question, Hairy Porn or Shaved Porn ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 18, 2011, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033 "2011-10-18T13:40:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033/141 "2011-10-24T15:54:42Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > A friend of mine once wrote that she’d take up waxing her triangle when men would wax their own junk. So I did it, on a kind of self-dare and to show her up. > Once. > Since then, I don’t expect girls to do it either - _ouch_. Long as we’re not talking Amazonian junglescape, we’re good. You waxed your pubic triangle or your nutsack? I ask because my wife has jokingly suggested I wax my nuts so I don’t have to shave them every week, thinking I’d run in terror at the mere suggestion. I’d be more inclined to get both of us lasered, but I’m wondering what you actually did. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033/142 "2011-10-24T16:29:56Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > You waxed your pubic triangle or your nutsack? I ask because my wife has jokingly suggested I wax my nuts so I don’t have to shave them every week, thinking I’d run in terror at the mere suggestion. Both. I figured, what the hell; right ? Since I was at it and there were some wax strips left… Besides, I had a manhood to prove ! To myself. Through extremely gay means. That left me whimpering like a little girl. What I mean to say is that I am a stupid person. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033/143 "2011-10-25T01:50:00Z")
I think it all boils down to how jaded one is. When making love isn’t enough anymore, people want something off beat visually or in any new sensory or sensual capacity. I tend to think the shaved contingent have had too much cynical influence and years and partners invested in sex that they see it as an erotic enhancement or something “different”…actually I think the bald head fashion or trend in men shaving their heads starting around the 90’s kind of coincided with the bald pussy phenemenon… perhaps women wanted to masculinize their pussies in a cynical, reflexive, and mirrored response… after all, long hair is the providence of women ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033/144 "2011-10-25T02:07:39Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > I think it all boils down to how jaded one is. When making love isn’t enough anymore, people want something off beat visually or in any new sensory or sensual capacity. I tend to think the shaved contingent have had too much cynical influence and years and partners invested in sex that they see it as an erotic enhancement or something “different”…actually I think the bald head fashion or trend in men shaving their heads starting around the 90’s kind of coincided with the bald pussy phenemenon… perhaps women wanted to masculinize their pussies in a cynical, reflexive, and mirrored response… after all, long hair is the providence of women But. . . it _feels better for us._ ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033/145 "2011-10-25T02:22:09Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > I think it all boils down to how jaded one is. When making love isn’t enough anymore, people want something off beat visually or in any new sensory or sensual capacity. I tend to think the shaved contingent have had too much cynical influence and years and partners invested in sex that they see it as an erotic enhancement or something “different”…actually I think the bald head fashion or trend in men shaving their heads starting around the 90’s kind of coincided with the bald pussy phenemenon… perhaps women wanted to masculinize their pussies in a cynical, reflexive, and mirrored response… after all, long hair is the providence of women I had no idea my 8-year-old female peers in 90’s were such deep thinkers. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033/146 "2011-10-25T02:32:39Z")
> [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](#): > > I suspect a majority of people don’t really care, and people who do care – especially people who specifically prefer disco bush, but really everyone with a preference – seek out porn for that. If people didn’t care it would default to the state that takes the least trouble, ergo bush. People prefer shaved so that’s what they get. I prefer shaved, same reason i like shaved legs and armpits: smooth soft skin is feminine and sexy, body hair is not. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033/147 "2011-10-25T02:33:12Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > But. . . it _feels better for us._ Yea, that’s also because the butt floss thong underwear also started to take hold in the 90’s along with the male baldness pattern, shaved pussies, a movement in the porn/erotica industry. So, perhaps form follows function here. Not to mention french and Brazilian cut bikinis. You might think it is a conscious choice, but you are dismissing the counterculture influences… You have a neo-hippy pussy of the new millenium if you shave. You have a hipster pussy. ---
**Author:** ![Riotous84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e36b37/32.png) [@Riotous84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riotous84)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033/148 "2011-10-25T02:53:23Z")
As one who used to get waxed pretty often (and yes, it does get less painful the more often you do it), I’d have to say that I can go either way really. An ex-lover of mine requested that I be entirely bare save a little tuft up top. I thought it was mostly just visually appealing for him but he later told me that it was more hygienic and comfortable (as it relates to friction). Waxing can be enormously expensive at anywhere between 50 and 70 dollars a pull, so now that I’m single I just shave to keep things neat. I prefer to leave a “landing strip” because it’s a good halfway point for any, errr, interested parties… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033/149 "2011-10-25T02:54:03Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > You have a hipster pussy. Does that mean you have to fuck ironically? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033/150 "2011-10-25T02:54:17Z")
I’d like to request the OP redo this as a poll. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033/151 "2011-10-25T02:56:38Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > Yea, that’s also because the butt floss thong underwear also started to take hold in the 90’s along with the male baldness pattern, shaved pussies, a movement in the porn/erotica industry. So, perhaps form follows function here. Not to mention french and Brazilian cut bikinis. > > You might think it is a conscious choice, but you are dismissing the counterculture influences… You have a neo-hippy pussy of the new millenium if you shave. You have a hipster pussy. Yeah, the fact that hip dudes shaved their heads when I was a small child definitely explains the literal physical sexual sensation in my genitals. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033/152 "2011-10-25T03:01:09Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Yeah, the fact that hip dudes shaved their heads when I was a small child definitely explains the literal physical sexual sensation in my genitals. [You’re welcome!](http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/35658.html) ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033/153 "2011-10-25T03:03:47Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Yeah, the fact that hip dudes shaved their heads when I was a small child definitely explains the literal physical sexual sensation in my genitals. I guess this is just a problem with our youth, they have no historical perspective, as they are all quite autistic and sheltered in their ignorance. You think you like all that rap and hip hop bullshit because of no reasons, popular and historical? You think shaving is the norm? You forget, because of the trail of all the freaks that came before you blazed, and "normalized " shaved pubes and rap… you have no true perspective or touchstone let alone reason to the robotic shit you are compelled to do by many historical social influences, customs, and taboos. You are all children of Pop denying your mothers and fathers. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033/154 "2011-10-25T03:10:23Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > [You’re welcome!](http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/35658.html) Please, don’t do this to me now. Not here. I cannot, sir. 😃 > [@devilsknew](#): > > I guess this is just a problem with our youth, they have no historical perspective, as they are all quite autistic and sheltered in their ignorance. You think you like all that rap and hip hop bullshit because of no reasons, popular and historical? You think shaving is the norm? You forget, because of the trail of all the freaks that came before you blazed, and "normalized " shaved pubes and rap… you have no true perspective or touchstone let alone reason to the robotic shit you are compelled to do by many historical social influences, customs, and taboos. You are all children of Pop denying your mothers and fathers. LOL. I can’t. I just can’t. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033/155 "2011-10-25T03:49:05Z")
**devilsknew** : What are you going on about? Am I the only one being whooshed here or is **devilsknew** being serious? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033/156 "2011-10-25T04:25:29Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > No, my question is: Those of you who claim that shaving makes women look like little girls: Why are you so familiar with what little girls’ genitals look like? Well in the case of female posters, I bet there’s a good reason why they would know what little girls’ genitals look like. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033/157 "2011-10-25T04:30:13Z")
I prefer shaved for porn – I like to see the goods. Frex, Carolyn Ducey in Romance had a totally unshaved bush that was so thick and so extensive that she might as well have been wearing a bikini bottom throughout the movie … the old fashioned kind, that goes almost up to the belly button. And some of the old seventies porn turned me totally off unshaved bush, those tangles of dark hair looked really unhygienic to me. Ugly, even. In real life, it’s your genitals, decorate them as you like. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033/158 "2011-10-25T05:41:51Z")
I agree that they are your parts and you should adorn them as you prefer them. But insofar as the thread started out as an aesthetic appreciation poll/query… the delta triangle of hair affects me visually more than the presence and shape of breasts. I can adapt to it not being there, but then I could become involved with a breast cancer survivor who had no breasts. It’s not a dealbreaker in the sense that I’d avoid getting involved but there would always be a recurrent sadness that something I like so much, something I appreciate so much sexually, is gone. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033/159 "2011-10-25T13:01:11Z")
Clearly [this woman](http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/217465/217465,1272997536,1/stock-photo-a-cheerleader-is-doing-the-splits-with-her-pom-poms-down-on-the-ground-she-is-smiling-52355542.jpg) has made her choice. ---
**Author:** ![Terraplane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Terraplane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terraplane)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033/160 "2011-10-25T13:34:03Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > I guess this is just a problem with our youth, they have no historical perspective, as they are all quite autistic and sheltered in their ignorance. You think you like all that rap and hip hop bullshit because of no reasons, popular and historical? You think shaving is the norm? You forget, because of the trail of all the freaks that came before you blazed, and "normalized " shaved pubes and rap… you have no true perspective or touchstone let alone reason to the robotic shit you are compelled to do by many historical social influences, customs, and taboos. You are all children of Pop denying your mothers and fathers. Don’t you have some clouds you should be yelling at? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-question-hairy-porn-or-shaved-porn/600033.md?page=9)