The Care & Grooming Of Your Nethers
Welcome to Jezebel After Midnight, in which we indulge in sexy sex talk.
At dinner last night, my friends and I got into a conversation about bleached assholes. Anal bleaching has been around for a while, but still — when someone you know encounters a lightened bung hole, it does raise an eyebrow. (One place that…
Christine O'Donnell Now A Feminist. Sort Of.
Christine O'Donnell, meet Krystal Ball, who knows a thing or two about how to play the publication of "embarrassing" photos or material. But judging from O'Donnell's response to the publication of her ladybug-costumed makeout, maybe she already knows what's up.
Cosmo Is Still Terribly Concerned About Your Pubes
The May issue of Cosmopolitan featured four stencils for your pubic hair. Now, the brand-new September issue has a HUGE coverline which yells, "Untamed Va-jay-jays: Guess Which Sexy Style Is Back." Lord.
Megan Fox Hates Everything In Allure
The June issue of Allure is all about you, dear reader. You, and the self-diagnosed OCD sufferer, mommy-figure, nerdy girl, and contradiction-in-every-possible-term sexyface expert Megan Fox. And if that isn't enticing enough, Eli Roth reveals his beauty secrets. The horror!
French Vogue Features Crystal Renn… And Her Pubic Hair
The May issue of Paris Vogue features Penelope Cruz as guest editor. Inside, the shoot starring noted plus-size model Crystal Renn includes one partially nude image, in which her pubes are the focus. [NSFW]
The Lazy Girl's Merkin
Got hair? An international design team has created a line of body hair clothing, including t-shirts with chest and armpit hair, leggings with pubes, and panties with a full bush. [TrendHunter]
Wash That Man Right Out Of Your...
For $11.80 a bottle, Muff-So-Soft shampoo will make your lady bits minty fresh. Tip: If you feel the need to rub strange products on sensitive areas, Colgate will get the job done for a quarter of the cost. [Fail Blog]
Car Crash Caused By Woman Shaving Ladybits
We've all been there: A Florida woman, late for a hot date, was shaving her bikini line while she was driving (on a suspended license, to boot), causing a crash. Even better, her ex-husband was holding the wheel. [KeysNews.com]
The Pubic Option
Everything you wanted to know about pubes, including an infant who had them and an argument or two against Brazilian waxes. [SciAm]
Nation Manscapes In Preparation For Valentine's Day
The grossest thing about The Onion's "20,000 Tons Of Pubic Hair Trimmed In Preparation For Valentine's Day" is its use of the word "manscaping" without quotes. Is this just common parlance now? What's next, manties? [Onion]
Mommy, What's A Merkin?
Says Lucy Lawless, who chose not to wear one in Spartacus: Blood in the Sand: "It's a way of wearing pants when you don't have any hair." [NY Mag Vulture Blog]
Wax On, Wax Off
In case you needed a reminder that beauty means getting your pubic hair ripped off by a stranger, a Bucharest agency has created this charming ad, which allows you to tear off individual hairs — and get their number. [CopyRanter]
"The Magic Is In The Hole"
Bitch Magazine turned down this ad, for Voodoo Doughnuts in Portland, on the grounds that it "goes against our mission statement to be anti-sexist." We agree, and add: Pubic hair and doughnuts are two things best enjoyed separately. [AnimalNewYork]
To Wax Or Not To Wax: Advice From The Wurtzel School Of Incredibly Depressing Womanity
Courtesy of a "Nerve Debate," we now offer the worst reason ever to get a Brazilian wax: because Elizabeth Wurtzel says so.
Dare To Bare
Sign of the times: "'The biggest challenge was to get extras who were skinny but who were not working out all the time,' producer and screenwriter James Schamus said to reporters... 'And who still had pubic hair.'" [WaPo]

