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"It's taking another entirely normal female characteristic and turning it into a kind of defect that must be 'managed', at great cost and time and inconvenience."
I bought a $20 electric shaver and it takes me 5 minutes to trim my hedge. I don't see anyone bitching about men shaving their beards. Those are "entirely normal male characteristics" which have been turned into "a kind of defect that must be 'managed'.." If you went up and told some man how stupid he was for shaving his beard, you'd be out of line. Telling someone what to do with their pubic hair is even more out of line.
In conversation with the readers who have mentioned the posible discomforts of shaving down there, it's actually very easy to shave the fine hairs around the vagina and asshole, because they're very fine hairs. The only place most people really have to worry about razor burn is in the crevices where crotch meets thigh. I can tell you the reason for leaving a patch of hair on the front, though, is that the hair on the front is very coarse and the skin very thin. You're just begging for razor burn if you shave the front - the mons, I think it's called. Thus the "landing strip" and triangles and any other shape actually serve a very practical purpose. And it's not the hair on the front that most women get tired of; it's the easier-to-remove hair on the labia that gets period blood stuck in it (yes, I went there), and it's also that same hair that muffles contact with the sensitive labia skin during intimate moments. Even if it did start out as a man's idea for getting a better view, I'm sure the first woman to shave her vagina lips and then have sexual intercourse noticed right away, "WOW I didn't know I had so many nerve endings covered up all this time!"
I highly recommend trying it before judging it.
