Letters to the Editor
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VERY well put
>>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. For that reason, I am against it.>>
thank you.
When men (besides in comedy movies) yank their pubies out with hot wax, I'll reconsider my position.
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A few days ago Brazil was touted as wonderfully open and progressive
Because all the men down there wear banana hammocks at the beach.
Yet the Brazilian wax? That's just gross!!
Which one is it? Are we supposed to be like Brazil or not? Tell us what to do, please! We can't be trusted to have our own tastes!
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Topiary
My husband is a massage therapist who worked at a day spa. One of the aestheticians had a client who requested a pubic hair heart, so as to properly welcome her boyfriend home. While that's icky enough, the kicker is that this girl was -- no lie -- 15 years old.
Or maybe I'm just an old fogey.
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My wife doesn't watch porn
but wants me to trim and shave the pubes/chest area. I do it for her, she does it for me, we don't think about how you perceive us for doing it.
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re It's taking another entirely normal female characteristic and turning it into a kind of defect
Regarding the comment "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. For that reason, I am against it" I'll submit that, as a guy, I'm hairy, and it was a chick who first asked me to trim and shave.
Really ladies, get a handle on what both sexes are doing before you start getting offended.
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Wrong demographic here ....
"Some of you have probably heard of the Australian no-heat, sugar-based hair removal product called Nads"
I'm going to be spending a lot of time trying to figure out whatever it is that I'm doing that suggests that I've probably heard of Nads.
And when I figure out what it is that I'm doing that projects this impression, I'll quit doing it.
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the thing is...
...nobody calls guys dirty and unclean if they refuse to shave their chest hair. So it's nice of you to do it for the gf, but it's not the same.
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Oh please not again...
Personally I think the gals at Broadsheet are just bored and want to stir up another letter storm, since obviously pubic hair is the topic du jour on Salon.
When the day comes that women are forced to wax their pubes, I will consider this a feminist issue. Otherwise, I really see no reason for all this anger and rage. Its your pubes and you can do what you damned please with it, and if some guy really would like you to wax and you really don't want to.... well then clearly he is not the guy for you. Duh. Sorry, I just don't see the violence inherent in the system.
I mean come on: giving someone the finger because they produce a product that you don't want to use?
Pullllleeeasee, Broadsheet, isn't it time to find a real issue to talk about?
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Don't knock it til you've tried it
"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.
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I'm out
I have officially reached the point where I don't want to hear another word about anyone's pubic hair. Do whatever the hell you want with it - why do I have to keep hearing about it?
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Weird connection
This whole discussion of pubic hair, or lack thereof, is taking place on a web page that has a picture of Bin Laden in the top right corner. Bin Laden, complete with his huge, straggly-ass beard. It's part of an ad for a CNN special called "In the footsteps of Bin Laden".
Joan Didion has a line about the Summer of Love that says something about how in that weird, jingly-jangly summer of 1968, seemingly random connections made as much sense, if not more, than a conventional narrative.
Deja Vu!
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Anybody who considers a "bikini shave"
...with a razor or nads, should be aware that the hair will grow back eventually, and it will be very prickly and uncomforable while it is growing. Very, very uncomfortable. Just trust me on this. Don't try it.
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Hey, another article about pubes!
Salon, thanks for giving 50 of us the opportunity to share how we treat our pubic hair! I only wish the letters section allowed head shots, so I could put faces to names to bushes!