I have to disagree with this. I’ve seen many Asian women in a state of undress (both in person and in photos) and every one of them has had either body and pubic hair or the evidence of having removed it. If there are Japanese women with no body hair naturally, they’re either a tiny minority or extremely shy.
Still, I’m right there with you on your second point.
All humans, Japanese or not, have roughly the same number of hair follicles as our ape cousins, but our body hairs are finer. So although these women may not look like they have body hair, they do–it’s just that it’s very light and fine.
Not to sidetrack too much this very interesting subject ---------But—
Why does underarm hair and pubic hair grey and whiten at completely different rates than beard and hair-on-head do?
I am 63 years old. The hair on the top of my head is almost completely white. My beard hair is almost completely white (I would make a great Santa Clause)
My underarm hair and my pubic hair are exactly the same color that it was when I was 16 years old.
What gives?
My own personal theory is that it is “natures” way of enticing very young and fertile women into the arms of fat old farts.
“Snow on the mountain means fire down below” sort of shit.
The simple explanation for pubic hair contains two reasons:
The first quite obvious one is to express sexual maturity to the opposite sex. It simply acts as a method of identification for the opposite sex that a person is sexually mature, or capable of reproducing. This is also why I recommend trimming and not full shaving so that you don’t end up looking like a prepubescent little boy or girl.
The second reason is to properly disperse sexual pheromones released by sexual glands in the genitalia. Pubic hair gives these secretions larger surface area to spread over, and to be captured by the thick mat of hair. Also provides shade to prevent evaporation of these liquids so that the body does not waste water attempting to overproduce sweat which would otherwise evaporate quickly, providing more efficient cooling of our “important parts”. As we all know (especially for men) we don’t want those getting too hot.
Of course these examples are simply ones i came up with off of my head and would have to be confirmed with a source, but they seem to be the most likely solutions 
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This. It’s like the garnish on your plate: a triangle of pubic hair on a field of relatively smooth skin is for display purposes. Google garnish (fine dining), showy bract (advertising the goods in the floral community) or baboon butt (self-explanatory) for examples.
I commend you on choosing the cleanest possible thing for zombies to cry out in this thread. Impressive. You had many other options.
In the old days when people married young, pubic hair distinguished those “of age” from those who would land you in cave-jail for pedofilia
I am impressed that the user name Isolveyouproblems has not been previously picked up on the Dope. It seems like a natural for this place, along with Mr. Knowitall and** I’mrightagain**.
Are there not rudimentary things that serve on purpose? In grade school we were taught that our appendix was a purposeless rudiment. Could pubic hair not be one of those things?
Someone above went off on a bit of a tangent with hair color. Might I be permitted something similar? My wife had to do some chemo for some rare malady and she lost her pubic hair and underarm hair but no noticeable loss of hair from her head. What would you conjecture about that?
Pretty sure it doesn’t qualify as a dry lubricant.
I’m in favor of the scent-dispersal (pheromones) theory.
I had full-grown pubes (and usually underarms) for about 6 years. I’ve had no underarm hair, and short to no pubes (I shave everything off fairly frequently) for 5 years now. Things I’ve made note of:
*Being hairy is much itchier than being shaved, for me personally. I start to itch (and scratch!) when my hair regrows more than about a quarter of an inch. Sometimes I get a little bit of itching the first two days after shaving, but not if I moisturize properly.
*Long pubic hairs get caught and pulled in a variety of situations, which is obnoxious.
*Pressure or friction on a full bush makes my pubic area very sore, in the same way your scalp can get sore (women will be more familiar with this) when you style your hair too tightly or in a different way. This is also obnoxious.
*Sex when I have no hair vs some hair vs full-grown hair is not noticeably different. Same for sex with partner with no hair vs full pubes. No negative effects to report of bald on bald or stubble on stubble (BF and I have fairly soft pubes, so stubble isn’t painfully bristly).
*It’s MUCH easier to physically clean myself, and stays cleaner and less odoriferous much longer, with less hair. This is the main reason I continue to shave it all down regularly.
*No difference in sweatiness of crotch or pits between shaved vs full. I don’t sweat much in my crotchal area anyway. YMMV.
*Not sure about the non-sex ‘friction’ angle. My thighs and crotch don’t rub together when I run or walk, and I don’t have testicles, so I can’t speak for the people that experience that and how pubes vs no pubes would effect.
We have public hair because some of our ancestors did, and they survived and had children, while the ones without pubic hair, or other hair formations didn’t. The ones who died may have just lived next to a volcano. Or the ones who survived may have been incredibly atttactive and/or fertile. Maybe mammoths couldn’t smell people who didn’t have pubic hair and stepped on them in the dark. Pubic hair doesn’t have to serve a particular advantage by itself.
For the groin and armpits it seems quite reasonable that areas of the body that are developed by hormones at puberty would develop hair as well. We do have hair follicles all over our bodies already. So in for those areas pubic hair might just be a secondary characteristic with no advantageous function.
The interesting thing is the leg hair in both men and women. Hair all over in men could be explained by testosterone, but leg hair must be promoted by estrogen as well, or upper body and facial hair somehow not triggered by the lesser amounts of testosterone in women.
Does anyone know if other primates have pubic hair? (Hair that develops at puberty, not just hair in the groin and armpits)
So you won’t poke your eyes out? 
Sorry, I just couldn’t resist!
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I’m pretty sure none of my ancestors pubic hair was “public”.:eek: (If it was, then they did a good job of keeping it out of the daily papers. :rolleyes:
Ummm… I’m pretty sure that “pubic hair” has nothing to do with “puberty”, per se.
My dictionary states that it is… “New Latin” for “os pubis” literally, “bone of the pubic region”. 
WOW! That’s something that I’ve never heard of! What kind of "rare malady’ was it? I’m not a Dr. nor do I have any medical training, or particular knowledge of Oncology and the various treatments used therein. It’s just that everyone I’ve ever known or come into contact with that had undergone chemotherapy, generally lost their hair everywhere, on their body.
(I hope your wife recovered.:))
Like many other things, pubic hair serves no purpose, unless you devise one. The only actual reason why we have it is that we’re descended from people who had it. If it had not been passed down to us, our lives probably wouldn’t be any different.
Wow, I can’t believe I know more about women than a woman (assuming you are one), but in this case I do.
I lived with a woman for a couple years who was a mix of Filipino and Chinese, and she had hair on her head and pussy, and that’s all. Never shaved, never needed to.
And may I take this opportunity to say that I find pubic hair very sexy, and I resent the fact that you practically have to resort to fetish films to find pubic hair in porn these days. I don’t think pussies that have been shaved bald ever look better, and in many cases, they look positively gross, when the shaving results in lumps, bumps, stubble, rashes, and pimples. Thank you.
:dubious: Oh my! Sir, you may think, you “know more about women than a woman”. But I must say that you definitely don’t, know as much as you think you do.
You might have knowledge of one particular woman, but your statement implies that your knowledge of women in general, is all encompassing. :eek:
I know more than a few, that would argue otherwise. 
Ok, we are definitely not talking about public hair.
Pubic hair, as you describe it, develops in most humans along with puberty, distinquishing it from the hair on the top of our heads that develops much earlier, and is usually public. The tie in between crotch hair and armpit hair seems obvious. Facial and chest hair that develops in men could be attributed to testosterone, but both men and women develop leg hair starting at puberty, and thats the part where explanations for the rest don’t match up.