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1 for the ladies - how do you keep yours?

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  • *max*
    *max* Posts: 3,208 Forumite
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    I guess it's true that it's all down to internet !!!!!!. Boys in their teens very often will have not seen a woman in the buff apart from that, and they are all completely shaved, so they see it as the norm. Which in turn makes young girls feel embarrassed/not normal about having hair down there.
  • geri1965_2
    geri1965_2 Posts: 8,736 Forumite
    Next we will all be expected to bleach our a-holes.
  • raven83
    raven83 Posts: 3,021 Forumite
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    Should start a thread, men how do you eat yours :p
    Raven. :grinheart:grinheart:grinheart


  • shegirl
    shegirl Posts: 10,107 Forumite
    30 (just lol) and hair free! I prefer it,ex loved it and it makes everything smoother and more sensitive ;)

    Now I just need a new man to cherish it:o:rotfl:
    If women are birds and freedom is flight are trapped women Dodos?
  • VfM4meplse
    VfM4meplse Posts: 34,269 Forumite
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    geri1965 wrote: »
    Next we will all be expected to bleach our a-holes.
    Domestos does the job, also has a handy nozzle and at c£1 per bottle is v MSE.

    (Joke btw).
    Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!

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  • *max*
    *max* Posts: 3,208 Forumite
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    geri1965 wrote: »
    Next we will all be expected to bleach our a-holes.

    :rotfl: Made me laugh! But there's truth in it! Dear me....:eek:
  • raven83
    raven83 Posts: 3,021 Forumite
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    Times change, my sister who is 50 thinks it is gross shaving it off and she loves having a "bush" and in the past she has even shampooed it and shaved it into a heart shape:eek:- not my cut of tea i am affraid.
    Raven. :grinheart:grinheart:grinheart


  • Torry_Quine
    Torry_Quine Posts: 18,884 Forumite
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    raven83 wrote: »
    I don't know. I started shaving from my teens, no one influenced me i just didn;t like the feeling of hair. Plus i suffer with heavy periods and would find the blood would matter in the hair:eek: I felt so much more cleaning when i shaved it:o I thought at the time i was in the minority and most people had hair but as it turned out alot of my friends at the time shaved too.

    I have no idea what my friends do so whether I'm in the minority I have no idea.
    I honestly think it's related to the rise of on-line !!!!!!. I was looking at some pictures taken in barracks rooms in the early 80s. All the pin ups had full and flowing bushes. Hell, back then legs weren't even shaven.

    Trim the sides so they don't escape the bathing suit was the norm. Still is I guess.

    I remember the love of my life telling me not to shave it ever again because it made him think of a little girl and it was off putting.

    Look at the !!!!!! stars they've waxed and whitened themselves so much that the young men of today think it's the norm and expect it.

    Waxin? Never heard of it before "Sex and the City"

    Yes I agree that !!!!!! gives a false idea of how men and women should look. :(
    *max* wrote: »
    I guess it's true that it's all down to internet !!!!!!. Boys in their teens very often will have not seen a woman in the buff apart from that, and they are all completely shaved, so they see it as the norm. Which in turn makes young girls feel embarrassed/not normal about having hair down there.


    We need to somehow let young women and men know that they don't need to conform to the ideal that hair is an imperfection.
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  • Edwardia
    Edwardia Posts: 9,170 Forumite
    I told OH I would if he did and he wouldn't so mine just gets trimmed back hard in summer when I feel like it.
  • coinxoperated
    coinxoperated Posts: 1,026 Forumite
    I've experimented with a few looks. At 16 I decided to shave a heart shape in. It looked more like an accident rather than a design.

    As a woman who has been with both men and women, strangely enough I would prefer my women to be fully shaven and men not shaved at all or slightly trimmed if its really bad. I guess thats why I shave fully now and actually feel a bit awkward with my boyfriend going anywhere near there if it's not smooth (although I don't think he is all that fussed as long as it isn't wild).

    There is just something about hair from the neck down that I do just find repulsive, but as a woman with the lowest pain threshold in england and the fastest growing leg hair on the planet, sometimes I do leave my legs for a week or so.

    Oh and I must admit, I broke up with a long term boyfriend and actually decided to not wear make up or shave for a month as an empowering thing. At the end of the month, I had a full shave, did my make up, and felt totally refreshed. A bit like growing out the old and bringing in the new! Don't think I could handle wearing jeans and long sleeved t-shirts again though :rotfl:
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