I tend to be on the fuzzy side. I habitually shave the pits and the entire leg, and have the entire arm waxed, and some miscellaneous plucking elsewhere. But I rarely landscape.
I’ve been known to do some minor trimming around the edges sometimes, for effect or occasionally for fun, but it’s never been required in order for me to wear a swimsuit.
It is just more pleasant eating at the Y when the bits are trimmed or shaved. I can think of more pleasant things than picking pubes out of my teeth. I extend the courtesy. The nads and groin area are neatly trimmed.
Would you want women to stop shaving their legs also? armpits? mustaches? I’m sorry but body hair is just manly and not attractive, thats why women shave everywhere else.
Women are pristine flowers and are non hairy dammit. You are way better looking than guys. Act like it.
For the record, I prefer women’s bush trimmed to a small, neat delta shape, not too thick. For some women this is how it grows naturally. But I don’t have a problem with other styles, including bald.
Anyway, there sure is a lot of foolishness on display in this thread. Why do any of you think you have grounds to be absolutist in matters of personal taste?
Yeah, just like beards never came back into fashion after the Romans started shaving. Some student of history you are. All trends have the potential to reverse themselves, especially those of only a few decades’ duration.
I used to hold this opinion too; then I stepped out of my Liberal Rage Room and realized that the shape of the vulva is pleasing and exciting, and there’s nothing wrong with wanting to see it.
I also find body hair to be manly, but unlike you I don’t perceive women’s pubic or armpit hair as “body hair” in that category. To me, shaving the pubes doesn’t make a woman look feminine any more than shaving the head does.
De gustibus non est disputandum. The fact that women have pubic hair suggests that there was sexual selection in favor of it, so I don’t buy the idea that men “naturally” want women to be hairless. But if there’s one thing this thread has demonstrated, it’s that diversity is the norm in matters of taste, and trying to argue this matter by saying that “men want this” and “women want that” is always foolish because of the large number of men and women who inevitably don’t want what you say they do. I hope for a world in which all different styles of bush are there to be enjoyed.
By the way, I shaved my own nether regions completely bald once, just to see what it was like, and immediately regretted it. It looked stupid to me.
I know some women find the term “bearded clam” offensive but it is apt. Clams do taste good, this should be a compliment, but somehow isn’t.
As I have mentioned before, one girlfiend commented that my balls tasted like graham crackers… WTH?
Keep it trim ladies.
Yeah, the problem with that is that you immediately realize it’s a bad idea when you shave the first patch. But you’ve already gone through all that work, and damned if you’re going to let that stop you.
I disagree with bush.
I had the exact same reaction when I shaved my chest once. People who shave their bodies must either be a) insanely dedicated to the task or b) not have a ton of hair to begin with. And I don’t even want to get started on the ingrown hairs…
I likes girlses hairs. And I likes that triangle shape. That ain’t no topiary. Let it be.
When did this “remove the arm hair” thing get started? It was completely unheard when I was younger.
Obligatory link to Demi Moore “giving birth to a bear cub.”
NSFW.
Two click rule in play.
These threads are always so amusing to me: earnest, profound discussions of pubic hair.
There is no way on earth I’m going to shave it all off. Hello? OUCH. It’s just not a project that holds any appeal to me at all. God, the maintenance. I don’t have the time or energy. And besides, my husband and I are both from the bush era, non-politically speaking, and there I shall stay to my dying day.
Unfortunately, unlike the bush, the long-ish dark hair on my arms is very visible to the general public during three seasons of the year. It might be / is probably my being paranoid, but when it gets too long it feels like people are noticing it. So it’s my hangup in this case.
According to my long time waxer, arms are still pretty far down the list of body parts women are waxing. Men in general are the hot new trend in waxing, especially the back. When I was there on Saturday, I was just after a a man who had be given his first back wax and a back facial as a gift from his wife. My waxer doubted that he’d be back.
TMI, TMI, and more TMI:
I cannot imagine really shaving it all off down there. I’ve occasionally been curious and started to attack the region with a razor and…ow. OW. OWOWOWOWOWOWOWWOWOWOWOWOW.
Nope. Not doing that. Not to mention I don’t think there’s a razor on this earth that could actually manage the task.Sorry to all of you who would rather have my girlie bits hairless, it aint happening (not to mention my boyfriend is really the only one that might have some reason to want one way or another).
And I’m glad to hear other women have an issue with swimsuits. I do too. Theres tons of hair there for me, and its hard to get it with a razor. It hurts, too. I was on a swim team in high school, so I went through the work, but trust me its not fun and if it werent for a fact that otherwise my pubic hair would be shown to the entire team daily I wouldnt have done it at all. Keep in mind- swim team suits are not skimpy bikinis. That hair has never “worn away” or anything like that, either. Now, though, I just pull out scissors every so often when if gets painful or when the boy complains.
To actually say something about the OP- honestly, what I’m seeing is more of a diverse acceptance of hair. It’s not going to go back to hairy beast is in style, but more ranges of hair growth are becoming acceptable. Diversity is a good thing, right?
yes, most of this post was me complaining about pubic hair. I hate mine.
Back facial? What does that even mean?
Yes. Put the razors down.
My limited understanding is that it’s just like a facial, only done on the back. 
This is a matter to which I’ve applied a lot of thought, some of it with my brain.
I think the choice of which bits women shave should have the same freedom as men growing beards or not. If I grew a beard/goatee/moustache, nobody would consider it disgusting, no matter how silly it looked - it is my choice to do so. Women letting non-head hair grow and it being visible in public carries a strong social stigma. Can this possibly be explained rationally?
Personally, I find pit hair attractive, but even I see that it is a distinctly not-good look with vest tops/evening gowns etc. It would look as unaesthetic as the crappy beard I would grow if I tried. Difference is, no klaxons go off if I wear a crappy beard in public. (I choose not to.)
As for pubic hair, I prefer it natural, tolerate moderate trimming, and find very groomed/shaved to be a complete turn-off. I guess this is similar to my attitude to make-up - prefer without, tolerate basic, really dislike heavy make-up. SO’s basic make-up is permanent armour between her and the world, and she cannot comprehend the fact that I prefer her without it. I don’t understand why she dislikes the ‘just the way you are’ idea. She’s started trimming and shaping ‘down there’ again after a few happy years of full bush. Damn. It’s her body, and she can do what she likes to it without pressure from me - that is her right. I also have a right to find her more/less attractive as a result; she knows my preferences, and whether or not she chooses to indulge them is up to her.
I also wish there were more “tasteful” unshaved pr0n, but that’s a different matter. (Did I say we live far apart?)
As for upbringing, I’m mid/late twenties, but some of my “formative” years were spent with an illicit copy of The Joy of Sex, which is full of decidedly natural pictures. How much of my predilections derive from this, I don’t know, but I certainly had no exposure to shaven/fake tits porn until broadband came along, by which point I had no interest in it.
I just assumed it was the act of grafting a face onto one’s back and then giving it a makeover.