It is done.
For those of you who were expecting screams of agony, I am afraid that I have disappointed you. Let me give you the story, not exactly on par with Master Wang-Ka but hopefully enjoyable nonetheless.
So I have the waxing strips in my hand. I wanted it done professionally. It was too expensive.
“Oh well,” I think, “I’ll just buy some decent wax to do it.”
The best I could come up with was those hand warming devices of torture, I mean, wax strips. Anyway, I’m as excited as a schoolboy. Well like some kinky schoolboy. The day has finally come to find the truth to WILLASS’s question: Can you wax your nuts?. I go upstairs into the bathroom, then change my mind and go into my bedroom. I figure I can get more “leverage” laying down. I read the instructions and it says to try out an easy patch to get the feel of it.
“Okay,” I think.
So rubrubrubrubrubrubrub, pull the two wax strips apart (you get two in one, this will become relevant in a little while.) and on it goes just on the inside of my thigh, a nice flat space with a reasonable amount of hair.
“One, two, three,”
and off it comes. And on the second piece goes and whoosh. Now that wasn’t so bad. The pain was pretty bad but for a few seconds and it’s gone. I look down at the pink, smoothness amid my “ginger jungle”. It looks like things aren’t going to be that bad. But I still wasn’t ready to commit to the ol’ nutsack just yet. Leg hair is one thing, pubic hair is a whole different story.
So another rubrubrubrubrubrub later and I slap one onto the top part of my pubes, just above Mr. Johnson. This one is a bit tougher. I take a deep breath, psyche myself up and
“Uno, dos, trez”
and off it comes. This one stung a bit more. I look at the strip and I’m thinking
“Where is it?”
I look down at my nether regions. It looks like my penis just went punk. It’s covered in wax and I’m panicking now so I put the strip back down, rub it nice and hard and
“Uno dos trez”
Some wax is now off with a few hairs, the rest still an assorted mess of wax and hair attached to my body. Now add problem #2. The second pull may have been to hard as a patch of blood spots has now emerged in the corner.
“Aaaaahhhh”
I’m trying to think of what I can do.
“Water washable”,
I think and jump off the bed to rush to the bathroom. But wait, the parents are downstairs and seeing their 18 year old son run naked across the hall with waxed pubes is good for no-one. I open the door and have a peek. All clear. I hobble across to the bathroom, because, you know, I don’t want to spread it about. Into the shower, and down comes freezing cold water. It doesn’t matter though, because I’m more worried about rubbing this stuff out. Water on its own is not good enough. I grab the shampoo. One lather, rinse and repeat later I’m feeling a bit more comfortable. There’s still some wax left but everything’s in order. So I am as tired as hell now what with all the panicking and some blood loss, so I take a rest, put the wax away except for one piece. After dinner, I go upstairs. I look at this one piece of wax remaining. I’ve got the whole angel/devil deal going on. One side is telling me,
“Do it Daniel, think of your fellow Dopers, you must do it for them, fight the ignorance.”
Meanwhile I’m remember the pain from last time and all I can hear is my nutsack going RRRRRRIIP!. I bite the bullet, drop the shorts and give another rubrubrubrubrubrubrub. But this time I’m prepared. I’ve brought with me a nice, ice cold drink so once I’ve pulled the wax apart I place the bottle on my private regions. Now for those of you still ignorant of the fact when male genetalia meets cold it shrinks to become something similar to female genitalia. So I’ve cooled the fellas down and on goes the strip, this time a bit more delicately. (I learnt my lesson.) So there I am, thinking,
“This is it, there’s no turning back now, it’s gotta come off.”
I hold on to my nuts as best as I can pull it taut and whoosh off it comes. Now this was undoubtedly the second best of the lot. I look at the strip and there’s some hairs and definitely no blood.
“Phew” I think until I look down again.
There’s still loads of wax left.
“Oh, not again” I say.
But wait. Remember I said that they comes in twos. Well there it was. The last wax strip, just glaring at me, waiting to hurt me some more. I figure I can kill two birds with one stone, get rid of the strip and the remaining wax. Down upon the two veg it goes and I sit there comtemplating again.
“What if I was lucky last time? What if this time I will actually rip off my nutsack?”
Too late now so I start counting.
“One, two, three”. I count again, “One, twooooowwww!”
Off it comes and still no blood. Didn’t help matters much though, a few less hairs but just as much wax. And so it all ended with another waddle down to the bathroom.
Am I glad that I did it? Yes, it was an experience, after all.
Would I do it again? Not by myself, I’ll tell you. But professionally it doesn’t seem that bad.
And the moral of the story…
Dopers make you do some silly things.
Pubic hair is a lot tougher than one would expect.
If you are going to wax, get it done properly.