# (TMI) Trends in pubic hairstyles
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 21, 2005, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595 "2005-03-21T17:54:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595/21 "2005-03-22T22:41:28Z")
> [@Anaamika](#):
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> I \*tried \* to shave it into a landing strip. I really did! Or a heart. Or anything but completely bare. But my hair is curly and very thin, and no matter what I did it didn’t look like any kind of style, just messy. I’ve tried and tried and tried! So now I just shave it all off, it’s easier that way. .
Landing strips always make think of Charlie Chaplin. Or like I should have little toy airplanes and make whooshing noises.
Now, do you shave just the triangle, or do you also go down to the labia and get the stragglers? Cause that always made my heart beat a bit faster when I did it. Shaving nicks there are all bad.
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### Author:  [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595/22 "2005-03-22T22:43:38Z")
> [@Sample\_the\_Dog](#):
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> Plus, ditto, **inkleberry** , re the happy parts.
> Mmmmm… happy parts… 😃
A nice pink grapefruit always makes the best breakfast. :9
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2005, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595/23 "2005-03-23T00:26:08Z")
> [@inkleberry](#):
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> Now, do you shave just the triangle, or do you also go down to the labia and get the stragglers? Cause that always made my heart beat a bit faster when I did it. Shaving nicks there are all bad.
Stragglers. Everywhere. Er…front, back, all. And yes, you have to be \*very \* careful.
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595/24 "2005-03-23T00:53:14Z")
How does one shave their ballsack with out it becoming a “Carrie” event? I’ve always been affraid to try it myself. Up to it’s not a problem, but down low you’ve got all the wrinkles.
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### Author:  [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595/25 "2005-03-23T00:58:25Z")
Female, bisexual, 22, in a hetero relationship.
I don’t recall exactly when I started shaving, but it began as a reaction to having some really awful problems with having pubic hair during the period weeks while I was in high school. I started trimming, but that was a little weird and itched, so I tried shaving while leaving a frontal triangle. After a while that got boring, so I modified it to a landing strip. Well, one week I messed up and just took the whole thing off. During my first serious relationship, I grew all the pubic hair back and didn’t bother. After that, I left it that way for a while until my current serious relationship started. At this point it’s easier to keep myself shaved than it is to try and manage not having tangled pubic hair.
As far as noticing with others of both sexes, most guys tended not to do anything in particular with their pubic hair, and few actually trimmed it. None of them shaved on a regular basis, but one did shave on occasion. For women, a lot of them would shave the bikini line, and slowly make progressions toward shaving more of it. I think I’ve seen exactly one woman who shaved everything outside of a pornographic magazine, while the rest who did any sort of shaving ended up looking like a landing strip attached to a bearded clam. :dubious:
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### Author:  [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595/26 "2005-03-23T00:59:37Z")
> [@SHAKES](#):
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> How does one shave their ballsack with out it becoming a “Carrie” event? I’ve always been affraid to try it myself. Up to it’s not a problem, but down low you’ve got all the wrinkles.
I hate to say this, but you might need help doing this without cutting yourself. The method, from what I’ve heard, is to stretch the skin out so that you’ve got a smooth surface to shave.
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### Author:  [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595/27 "2005-03-23T01:13:27Z")
> [@SHAKES](#):
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> How does one shave their ballsack with out it becoming a “Carrie” event? I’ve always been affraid to try it myself. Up top it’s not a problem, but down low you’ve got all the wrinkles.
Is this a rhetorical question? Cause I could tell you, but then the TMI factor goes to 11.
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### Author:  [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595/28 "2005-03-23T01:14:34Z")
> [@Mirrored Indigo Shadows](#):
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> The method, from what I’ve heard, is to stretch the skin out so that you’ve got a smooth surface to shave.
This is pretty much it, in a nutshell.
HA! 😃
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### Author:  [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595/29 "2005-03-23T01:32:32Z")
> [@Sample\_the\_Dog](#):
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> Is this a rhetorical question? Cause I could tell you, but then the TMI factor goes to 11.
Curse my morbid curiosity, I really want to know, even though I haven’t balls of my own.
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### Author:  [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595/30 "2005-03-23T01:55:56Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#):
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> Curse my morbid curiosity, I really want to know, even though I haven’t balls of my own.
First, use a fully modern disposable-blade razor. Straight razors are right out.
Trim the hair closely with nose scissors, the kind with bulbed ends that won’t nick you. (Long hair will quickly clog the razor.)
I prefer to shave in the shower. Failing that, sitting on the edge of the tub is OK – place a towel on the rim of the tub or your butt will get cold.
Warm your nuts with very warm water. If you’re at all cold, your scrotum will contract and it will be harder to shave.
Use a gel rather than shaving cream. The gel adheres better and it’s easier to see what you’re doing. Seeing what you’re doing is important. (If you don’t see shaving gel in among the cans of foam at the store, look in the black men’s grooming products.)
Once you’re gelled up, shaving the shaft is a simple matter. When you’re ready to move to your ballsack, take it a small section at a time. I usually start by shaving the nether parts near the perineum first. I don’t know why, but I do. Perhaps I got in this habit starting out, since this area can be done just about as easily as the shaft.
For the scrotum proper – this will sound ouchy and counterintuitive, but trust me – use your testicles (one at a time) to distend your already relaxed and unwrinkled scrotum. This can be done by (carefully!) holding the skin behind the testicle so that the scrotum is smooth over the testicle. Then just shave it the same as you’d shave your cheek. If you’ve been shaving your face for a few years, you shouldn’t have to worry about cutting yourself (I’ve never even once nicked my scrotum or penis).
When you’ve shaved your entire scrotum, rinse off the gel with warm water, then give it another very thin coat and go after any stubble you’ve missed.
Voila! Now your partner won’t have to do the “Uh, hold on” bit again!
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### Author:  [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595/31 "2005-03-23T02:04:59Z")
Wow! I thought girly-bit shaving was complicated.
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### Author:  [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2005, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595/32 "2005-03-23T02:08:32Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#):
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> Wow! I thought girly-bit shaving was complicated.
The things we do for love, honey… the things we do for love!
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### Author:  [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2005, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595/33 "2005-03-23T02:10:25Z")
> [@Sample\_the\_Dog](#):
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> The things we do for love, honey… the things we do for love!
Your devotion is quite admirable.
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### Author:  [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2005, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595/34 "2005-03-23T02:10:44Z")
I’m an extremely hairy guy. I tend to trim my pubic hair up because it tends to get very thick and bushy. But I don’t remove it completely at any point, I just trim it once every two weeks or so so that it doesn’t get out of hand.
Luckily I have no back hair but I do shave hair off of my shoulders. No shaving off my chest hair though as I consider it very linked to my male identity ;).
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### Author:  [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2005, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595/35 "2005-03-23T03:45:30Z")
Straight male; married; 65: Shaved only for medical procedures; I’ve never encountered a shaved or noticably trimmed woman and I suppose now I never will.
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### Author:  [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2005, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595/36 "2005-03-23T03:50:26Z")
Am I the only guy left alive who prefers an untouched pubic region? Trimming, shaving…I just don’t get it.
Adam
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### Author:  [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2005, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595/37 "2005-03-23T03:57:04Z")
> [@Agent Foxtrot](#):
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> Am I the only guy left alive who prefers an untouched pubic region?
Hey, like I said in the OP, I like 'em both.
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### Author:  [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2005, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595/38 "2005-03-23T05:35:14Z")
> [@Sample\_the\_Dog](#):
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> PS: I don’t think I’d ever do the shave up top. Can’t imagine changing/showering in the gym with a bald pube.
Eh, doesn’t bother me. From what I’ve noticed at my college the college-age guys usually have some type of trimming (I go bald) while the older guys let the area go, sometimes to the point of wondering who let a fat, wrinkly, boobless woman in the locker room. TMI? You betcha.
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### Author:  [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2005, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595/39 "2005-03-23T05:37:29Z")
That was my 1,300th post? I couldn’t think of a better use.
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### Author:  [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2005, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tmi-trends-in-pubic-hairstyles/295595/40 "2005-03-23T05:59:17Z")
> [@Agent Foxtrot](#):
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> Am I the only guy left alive who prefers an untouched pubic region? Trimming, shaving…I just don’t get it.
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> Adam
I’m the same way.
Sometimes I feel like I’m the last man on earth that finds pubes sexy. I used to watch 70’s porn just for the pubes. If I want to see shaved I can stare at a mannequin.
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