<![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @Style Queen: second that. Shobha is the best.

arirang

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @lunachick: Hear hear! Breasts, hips, bootay-- all other secondary sex characteristics are there. I've asked around and word is I don't look like a prepubescent child when I'm waxed...

hystericalredhead

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @Smackdown: That's hilarious and awesome! Personally, I trust my husbo with my life, but not my labia.

mysweetmango

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> The cult of the snatch wax bothers me so much, I started a blog in protest. We're grown women; we have hair, dammit. To expect otherwise and put hot wax or sharp razors in the most sensitive of body areas (OK, maybe less sensitive than eyes, but still!) strikes me as insane. A trim "hair" or there, whatever, but risking injury and infection to look like a pre-teen? Creepy. The Campaign for Unshaved Snatch (CUSS) and Other Rants (www.cussandotherrants.com) is about embracing the hairiness of life.

SuzanneReisman

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> To all of those fellow women claiming waxing, or any other method of making our cooch bald crosses some sort of "pedophilia" line, I ask, "Are your breasts absent?" I mean, I require my man to trim, the more the better for me. I do the same in the form of frequent waxes (saving up for the laser). He loves it!

The second he asks me to get my breasts reduced, I'll start considering there to be something "off" about the situation. Normal sized breasts + bald beaver does not a pedophile make.

lunachick

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Here's a tip whether you go landing strip or scorched earth: Use a gel shaving cream, rinse your razor in cold water before each stroke, and then use Cortaid 10 right after shaving. No red bumps, no growing-out itchies, no Macauley Culkin razor burn scream.
And shaving HIM can be both fun and payback at the same time.


MOJITOBABY

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @HannahBethD: @yarnmule: Absolutely. I may trim for his convenience but all-out bald is creepy pedophilia territory. I don't care how trendy it is, and that the ladies say they do it for themselves; it's creepy.

persephone

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @HannahBethD: @yarnmule: Absolutely. I may trim for his convenience but all-out bald is creepy pedophilia territory. I don't care how trendy it is, or that the ladies say they do it for themselves; it's creepy.

persephone

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> For anyone who has never done it, but would like some perspective on the pain factor, I'd say a Brazilian is worse than having my nipple pierced...

Youch.

Plus it's really not worth the $60 because I get the bumpy red itchies for a few days, I'm bald for just a few, then everything gets itchy again when the hair comes back.

Anyway, I could never get the waxer to believe I wanted to keep most of the hair in front and just get rid of everything else. What's wrong with looking like a grown woman, but being smooth and soft everywhere else?

Dvizzl

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> The first time I got a bikini wax, I brought the woman brownies because I felt so bad for her having to poke around in other peoples' hoo-has.


And can someone explain the shaving/deoderant thing to me? I missed that; I don't have enough time to read Wonkette and Jezebel AND Gawker.


exiled

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @shuffler: Sister, I'm with you!
Aren't adults supposed to have pubic hair? Any man who is turned off by it, is some kind of closet pedophile.
Also, I went totally bald during chemo. And it was drafty, as well as wierd looking.



redblues

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> "I'm afraid there isn't much left to stitch up." That sentence made my eyes water.

I got my first Brazilian at 17 for a beach vacation, and loved it. I wasn't doing it for a guy, either. Weirdly enough, I especially loved it when they waxed my asshole. Maybe I have a higher (lower?) calling in porn.

Zing

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @vivresavie17: Ahhh, but you may discover a whole new reason to 'love yourself' ;) Good luck and let us know how it goes.

ThaKadinskyPapers

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Terri and ThaKadinsky Papers, I'm so trying this tonight. Of course, that also means I'm probably not going to be giving out any numbers tonight either, damn.

vivresavie17

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> I'm sorry, but love me, love my Wookie bush.

caffeinequeen

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @GingerVitis: Why thank you GingerVitis, I do what I can. In any other segment of my day this would all be classified as TMI, but here in the wonderous world of Jezebel - it's valuable info :)

ThaKadinskyPapers

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @Terri: many thanks to you and the stripper friend. If i had stripper friends I wouldn't have to ask these things online.

hystericalredhead

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @ThaKadinskyPapers: Fascinating. And a truly worthy public service.

ThaKadinskyPapers, I applaud you. As does my vag.

GingerVitis

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Be Sweet, is your name an Afghan Whigs reference? nice.

sinikl

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @hystericalredhead: You've never heard that one...you put deodorant on that region what like 30 minutes before you shave and it does something magical like soften the hair or the skin or something but ti helps you get a closer shave. Then use cheap vitamin e conditioner for shaving cream and you're doin' it stripper style. Well at least the stripper that lived with my family for a summer when I was 16. No wonder I'm this way now.

Terri Ann

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @flackette: please elaborate. Or email me. (name above @gmail.com)

hystericalredhead

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @GingerVitis: "And how does one get a truly close shave in one's nether regions without going against the grain?"

IMO: I don't see how you can avoid going against the grain a little. The trick is to avoid any and all razor burn, because THAT shit will burn like a motherfucker and have you wanting to hold your petals open with clothespins just to avoid the friction. For those times when I want a super smooth finish, I start with a bath and essentially 'soak' my flower for a long time to soften any stubble, followed by a good razor that I'm really, really comfortable with using. I keep a seated position (don't want to slip craning my neck for a better view) and use baby oil in place of shaving cream. Now, I don't recommend this to anyone who is not already comfortable shaving this area, because using something like baby oil, well you can just imagine how close to DEFCON 1 your brain goes - what with the super slippery blade and all. Again - just *my* personal preference over shaving cream or soap for getting the 'smooth as barbie doll' feeling.

ThaKadinskyPapers

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> While this is surely no fault of my labia's, once in college I was trimming my lady-bits with my boyfriend's beard trimmer, and I, er, dropped it in the toilet. I don't think he ever quite understood how it got from under the sink to the toilet. But he never actually figured out what happened either. And yes, it was heniously evil of me to be using his personal item for my personal purpose, but he never used it! I swear! Not even one time! Really! Maybe I shouldn't post this...too late now!

kaisersooze

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> The nazi waxer would have lost me at 'duct tape.'

Obviously Not Omniscient

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @apollonia666: Agreed. I've actually had boyfriends demand this. I always refuse. I think I should have full control over what I want to do to my labia.

@flackette: I've heard this works wonders, but I've been too lazy to try it.

groupie

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Gawker just served up the male counterpoint to this story.

[gawker.com]

justthetip

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> oops i mean "too" in that last sentence

tstrizz

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> About a year ago i read an article in a fairly high-end news magazine (maybe the NYTimes magazine) about how the popularity of Brazilians is causing a huge rise in vaginal cosmetic surgery--as in women getting collagen injections in their labia to make them look younger and plumper, as well as other procedures to make their vaginas look more "attractive" to men that they sleep with. Apparently the fact that Brazilians make everything down there much more visible is causing women to become self-conscious about whether those previously hidden parts of their anatomy are aesthetically pleasing enough. Ever since I read that article, I've found the whole cultural emphasis on and fetishizing of Brazilians to be incredibly sick. Though I always found them a bit to Lolita-esque for comfrot.

tstrizz

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Do lesbians wax?

GinaRomantica

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Wait, what's the Playboy?

besweet

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @GingerVitis: That is so funny - that Gawker post was the shit! I've been going the shaving or waxing/deodorant route and it totally works. I put it on every day, if I can remember.

Archetype

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @GingerVitis: Dunno about cancer, but it doesn't sound like a good idea, in any case.

alicetheowl

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @GingerVitis: Nearly every dude I worked with has rocked the Hawaiian shirt on more than one occasion. I'm definitely going to be looking at them in a whole new light.

HannahBethD

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @alicetheowl: Me, too -- plus the fact that putting a chemical that makes your hair fall out right up against three orifices and a whole bunch of mucous membranes sounds like a ticket to Cancer City, if you ask me.

GingerVitis

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> You straight girls hould ask your mens to get a "crack and sac" if you're going to go through with the horrors of waxing.

This lesbian keeps it trim and tidy and and I ask my ladies to do the same. Everybody seems happy with dat. :)

BowlingForDollars

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> I've been trimming for the last year or so, married for six years. My husband was rather pleasantly surprised. It would get in the way and make him start itching at very inconvenient moments, and, after I did it once, I liked how much more I could feel with less hair, and how easy it was to maintain.

But the idea of putting anything sharp or hot near the most sensitive spot on my body terrifies me. Scissors I can deal with, because I grip and snip, and so that keeps the blades away from my skin.

I'm also allergic to Nair.

alicetheowl

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @flackette: I've been trying this for about a month now, after that whole razor-and-deodorant thread on Gawker ... but I have a couple of questions:

Do you put the deodorant on your puss every day, or just right after the shave? And how does one get a truly close shave in one's nether regions without going against the grain? I try to shave in the direction of the hair, but that never seems to get it bald in the wax-y sense.

To save $50+ a month, I am dedicated to mastering this concept ...

GingerVitis

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @Style Queen: Thanks for the Shoba tip! I get my eyebrows threaded and I'm convinced no one needs to wax their pubes if they can do that instead.

semen0901

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Razor and deodorant, people.

flackette is frustrated

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @shuffler: I'm sure you've read most of the comments above - a LOT of guys expect a woman to shave and yet don't feel like they need to do anything to make themselves more presentable. Not every man, but a lot of them.

Your Sister-in-law's Baby Cousin Traci

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @labusgirl: It's in Beverly Hills on Canon just south of Santa Monica. It's about $60 for the Brazilian $70 for the Playboy :)

captainoats

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Um, someone should lighten up.

ThaKadinskyPapers

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> This is why God invented Flyover states. Common sense, people. It should increase when you spread your legs, not decrease. "Wax Nazi", "Just sanitary enough", "thick accent", "Duct tape" Those voices in your head was your intuition screaming at you to get the hell out of there. Listen to the little voices, they are there for a reason.

flyoverstate

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @msb2:

i did too! i am the horror story / beauty blunders of my girlfriends. i was rushing at home with a quick trim before picking up my nieces to go to the pool and i snipped the labia. after cleaning it carefully i stayed on deck watching the kids i didnt want to risk an infection there.

remember this : never EVER rush. no matter how many times you have done it before.

pink_orchid_martini

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @vivresavie17: lol to that Terence Howard bit! I bet ol' Sean Connery doesn't mind a bit o' herr pie neither!

Once in New Orleans, my g/f and I had been sluttin' it up and down Bourbon all day and had set our beer-googled sights on.....whoeveritwasdoeasn'tmatternow and started that whole make-up out process when my friend grabs our room key and says she'll be right back. Seeing as how I'm the one who always has to navigate us back to the dock and right then I couldn't even find my own tits I really didn't see how she was going to find the hotel and make it back to where ever we are. And when I asked her what was so crucial that she had to go? She said, "I think I really need to go shave my hoohah" (as she points at the drunken ape who was still making out with her ear). Sad, really 'cuz she actually left the bar to go do this.

ThaKadinskyPapers

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Another reason why I don't think I would ever get a Brazilian is because when I was in college, I was in a few theater productions with Those Cool Chicks, and they used to talk very loudly about their Brazilians during rehearsal. They would also tell very loud, "Girls Gone Wild"-style stories about how they would check out and compare each other's Brazilians, in the same faux bicurious way that they sometimes made out with each other at parties to garner male attention.

There was one in particular where I just wanted to be like, Yo, you may have a Brazilian, but you're still a frigid bitch. (I later found out from a totally neutral outside source that she was indeed a cold fish in bed. Awesome.)

vivresavie17

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Ooh! And slightly off-topic, but totally fascinating -- my friend's waxer once let slip that one of her clients is a dominatrix, and once told her that men who wear Hawaiian shirts are inevitably submissives.

This being LA, where far too many dudes sport the Jimmy Buffet look, that nugget of info was ... illuminating.


GingerVitis

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> And ur um....butt crack?

DontMakeMeAskOnCraigslist

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> I'm nearly in tears now!

Never waxed. Thought of it, when my guy friend was raving about some fuckbuddy of his who got Brazilians. But then I realized that the reason I like my friend is because, well, he's an asshole.

I'll stick to my disposeable razor, and I'm going to sing sweet, loving songs to my delicate flower from here on.

MooGooGuyPierce

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @Your_sisterinlaws_baby_cousin_Traci: It's a self-imposed beauty standard. A guy isn't going to run from you if you have pubes.

Catty Is Cumbersome

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> I was waiting for my waxer once, and this crazed-looking woman staggered past me and right out of the salon without paying ...

Apparently she had let the aesthetician spread the wax all over her vadge (my place uses hard wax, which just encases you and gets ripped off in one big thing, with no muslin or anything), then freaked out because it was "too hot," put her clothes back on with the wax still on her vagina, and fled the salon.

I asked my gal if she was upset about not being paid, and she was like, "oh, no, that's okay -- I honestly couldn't tell you how she's going to get that off."

Owie, owie, owie.

GingerVitis

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> ThaKadinskyPapers, you took the words right out of my mouth. I'll only shave if I'm a) gettin' some or b) going to the beach (and even then, I try to buy more low-cut-on-the-leg swimsuits so I don't really HAVE to if I don't want to. Isaac Mizrahi's Target suits, I've found, are pretty awesome about this.)

Seriously though, it's just hair. The average male can put up with insane amounts of mildew and mold in their bathrooms, but can't handle hair on a female? I do not understand. What's Terence Howard's take on this?

On another note, why is it that you ALWAYS seem to hook up when you haven't shaved. Shaving or waxing pretty much guarantees that you will go out and get, like, no male attention; skip a day and it's always the day you end up making out with someone on a barstool. It's such a surefire occurrence that I have a friend who swears against shaving on days where she just wants to get a piece of ass.

vivresavie17

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @Your_sisterinlaws_baby_cousin_Traci: Because there are self-imposed beauty standards. No one is forcing you to do it and a guy isn't going to think less of you if you don't do it.

Catty Is Cumbersome

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @Heather:

If pubes aren't your thing, then I'm all for laser. If you can afford it, you get a few sessions and you never have to worry about it again. Especially for light-skinned women with dark or black hair (me), it works beautifully. I get a five o'clock shadow on my legs/underarms/bikini if I only shave or use a depilatory. Not worth it -- I never felt "clean."

I could talk about body hair for hours. Seriously. It's sad, the mental space it's taken up. I've tried everything, and only laser has worked.

BeSarcastic

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> thank heaven for my husband. he agrees that the 10 year old look is pedophilish and gross. my skin is too sensitive to wax or sugar, so i am banished to the land of shaving to maintain my landing strip.
most men i know are surprised to learn that women aren't naturally hairless. morons. what is wrong with a little hair???


tmmkitten

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> I've never done the wax route when it comes to my cooter. Me personally, I don't think I could just lay back, open up and say 'ahh' to some stranger spa worker without having a serious psychological shortout.

I make do with shaving, which can be a pain the ass if done everyday - but if I'm not handing out any samples that day = no shave. As some others have mentioned, I too have sliced my petals a time or two (and once a nasty sunburn from too many cocktails by the pool) and that will definitely teach you a) not to shave your puss when you're hungover b) or running late c) VERY, VERY carefully when using a Schick Intuition for the first time. That big ass all-in-one might seem like a good idea for legs and armpits but it's hard to manuever in tight spaces and the slippery head thingy tends to get away from you.

ThaKadinskyPapers

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> My god. That poor vajayjay. I waxed one eyebrow in high school, and after getting the wax WAY too hot, I took a chunk of sensitive eyelid skin with it. I've entertained the idea several times, but I'm really just too damn practical to pay for that every month, aside from the potential mutilation that could happen. I stick to shaving, and only when it's long enough to to do it, as even when it's a little stubbly it's still soft and not an issue. I'm fairly lucky with little to no hair anywhere on my body, so even with shaving I don't have to do it very often. My friends hates me because I only have to shave my legs maybe once, twice a week in the summer. I say it's a trade off for not having the bigger breasts I always wanted but never inherited (and additionally will never buy).

B-NaNa

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @HannahBethD: @Archetype: Word up. When did prepubescent become the sexy look?! I'm a grown-ass woman, a mammal. I have hair and I smell. Deal.

Check out some Playboys from the 70's. It's bush a-go-go and it don't look half bad. Lends a sense of mystery, even.

Another good reason to cultivate a muff: when a guy's going down on you, you can see what he would look like with a big fluffy moustache. :D

monsters

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @yarnmule: totally agree. if my husband wanted me bare, i would monitor his internet usage. luckily, he likes my landing strip, and thinks bare is creepy and pedophilish. sometimes i feel i married the only feminist and non backwards man on the planet, most men i know think women are naturally bare down there. thanks porn, for making our lives more painfilled.

tmmkitten

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @BeSarcastic: See, I used to be all for pubes, a delicate landing strip--then I went bald, and now I feel unkempt when it grows in. Believe me, if I could embrace the jungle down there, I would. But it's like getting Tivo! Once you go there, there's no going back!

Heather

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> coming from a more conservative country (the UK) id never had anyone who was tidying me up ask me to turn over so they could do my ass crack - first time that happened to me when i moved here i. nearly. died. - what you cant go topless on a beach but youll let a complete stranger rip hairs out of your anus? - seriously people this is crazy - luckily my fella is not a fan of the peado special, so its a case of only when absolutley necessary these days

nothanks

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> So, what have we learned here? Methinks that Russian's wielding hot wax are NOT to be trusted near the punani...

ThaKadinskyPapers

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @apollonia666: For reals. I hate 'bikini maintenance' more than any other beauty ritual. When did this become fucking essential?

The best solution I've found so far is good old Nair. But that doesn't keep it from being sensitive and scratchy the first day and when growing out and I know I'm freaking out but FUCK dealing with pubic hair!!!!! I'd rather pluck every hair on my eyebrows, legs and arms one at a time than deal with this shit.

And now I need a cigarette.

TrixieBelden

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

That is all.

Yaiiee.

katastic

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> I'm all about the Nair/Veet stuff made for the "bikini zone." Screw waxing or shaving, I don't want anything sharp or unnecessarily hot near my lady bits. As long as you follow the directions for the depilatory creams, you're good as gold (assuming you do not have a skin reaction, ergo please do the 24hr patch test beforehand). As for whether this is feminist or whatever, I do this for myself and not for my man. As long as he has access to my vadge, he's happy, regardless of whether it is furry or prepubescent.

andromache

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @apollonia666: Damn skippy! I trim & keep it neat, but I refuse to cater to some guy's twisted ideal. And I agree about the back hair thing, why is it always up to us to be "presentable" and yet we're supposed to desire them even when covered in fur & man-funk?

Your Sister-in-law's Baby Cousin Traci

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @Archetype: Wine is liquid courage.

msb2: blue balls machine

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @HannahBethD: Jinx.

Archetype

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @Smackdown: I'm with you. I do the maintaining myself, wine in hand.

I'm in the camp that going completely bald is just weird. I've done it, and it's fine. But if a guy asks me to do it, I'll pretty much assume he owns too many back-issues of Playboy and/or likes 12 year olds.

Archetype

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Well I was seriously considering having it done, but now...not so much.
Anybody out there know if you can get laser hair removal down there? That just might be a dream come true...


standyfalls

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @yarnmule: "The other reason I'll never get a brazilian; if some man wants me to look pre-pubescent, then he is a pervert, and will never get near me."

I'm also freaked out as to why men are turned on by genitals that look like they belong to a 10-year-old.

HannahBethD

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Brazillians are for special occasions and vacations. Otherwise, just get a bikini trimmer, they are fool proof.

And the the best place to get a Brazillian, is a Shohba Soho. It's sugaring not waxing, and they thread off the strays!

Style Queen

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Laser, people. It's all about the laser.

OR...

Embrace your pubes and don't look back. No partner who makes a big deal about it deserves getting in there, anyway.

BeSarcastic

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Oh. My. God. I am positive this would happen to me.

I went for a bikini/underarm/leg wax once, before my honeymoon. I figured if I was going to be in a bikini every day it would be easier than shaving.

Legs first, no problem. Not even really painful. Bikini line, OWW, but no tragedy. I did end up with the awful red bumpy nasty later though. Then the armpits; I kinda emerged with only one left. Lots of skin, lots of blood, and had that been on my vadge ohmygod.

The other reason I'll never get a brazilian; if some man wants me to look pre-pubescent, then he is a pervert, and will never get near me.

yarnmule

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Well, that will teach me to stop catching up on Jezebel posts while eating lunch.

Antiheroine

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @captainoats: where in LA is that?

tunamelt

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Please for the love of GOD do not get a Brazilian at Randy Elaine in the West Village. Went there for my first one. Pulled off my pants and laid down on the table. Russian lady spread scalding wax on my crotch. Table spontaneously collapsed beneath me all 130 pounds of me. Russian lady put a paper towel between my legs, instructed me to put my pants back on, and led me upstairs. I waited 20 minutes for a room to open up. When one finally did, the wax had cooled, and when the paper towel came off my crotch, so did a patch of skin. "You hyave boyfriend?" she asked. "You tyell him eet eez my fault."

nyuser

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @msb2: Me too! Then I walked into my roommate's bedroom and said, "Um, I just did something really dumb..."
Luckily, they were just teeny tiny nail scissors.

TheGintheCity

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Umm, when every man starts waxing I will laugh at them and still not do it.

Catty Is Cumbersome

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> The thing about Brazilians? Trying sprinting for a cab with no shrubbage down there. Yowwwww. Pantyburn.

CatOTO

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Trimming is just fine by me and, maybe more importantly, fine by my man. I thank whatever gods may exist for that! I tried waxing my eyebrows once and ended up bruised for a week. I can't imagine someone, a "Nazi" no less, waxing off my labia. Eeeewwww.

I gotta love a website where were are allowed to openly discuss our labias!

msbeer

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> My horror has subsided now (after ten minutes of whimpering) and now I just have one question:

Isn't this the perfect place for a "do not want" lolcat?

Nunya B

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @Heather: For anyone in LA I just have to let you in on the amazingness that is Eve at Thibiant Spa. She makes the "procedure" as pain free as it gets and is most importantly QUICK . Apparently (and I know this bc I have asked) the key is pulling the skin taught in the right places and also never going within a week of your period when your skin is at its most sensitive.

That concludes this public (pubic?) service announcement.

captainoats

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> To clarify, I am not even blaming all this ON men...on their requests, comments, etc.

I DO know that some actually have said to friends of mine..."why don't you do that? I'd love it if you did that."

BUT...I know women... not even directly or indirectly coerced into it with words or gestures...who do it because they THINK (based on what...media? porn? friends? the Internets?) they if they do it...when they do get a guy in bed, he'll love it so much that he'll stay forever.

Which is crazy.

botoxtastic

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> If I have been OK with NOT waxing myself back to my prepuberty days all my life...why exactly should I do it now?

Because that damn show about shoes and sex made the MEN and women of flyover states even aware of the man-induced vanity mutiliation that is the brazillian wax?

I know too many guys who have the top of their back beards popping out the top of the collars of their shirts...

and say beyond assinine things like "That's a crime against God" when they hear that women get breast reductions because...OH, THE SHAME OF THE CRIME...sometimes big boobs hurt!

When men evolve and care as much about how THEY look in their nethers as they care about how I DO....MAYBE then I will care enough to CONSIDER that exercise in grooming futility to be something other than the male fantasy driven product of an unhealthy preoccupation with prepubescent vadges...

OR just yet another way women are driven to hate ourselves and our beautiful, natural bodies so much that we would endure physical pain and bleeding in the hope that some stupid man (with hair wherever he pleases to grow it with abandon) will look upon us in our naked hairless glory and say, "Wow...that's hot."

Isn't the monthly bleeding and bloating enough people? Don't we suffer enough?

Leave it alone.

What's wrong with a nice, trimmed, clean vadge, people?

Stop the madness.

botoxtastic

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @Smackdown: That's pretty much what I did after reading this post. Vicarious twat-torture, DO. NOT. WANT.

Damn. I'll trim the bushes, but no deforestation.

beppolina1

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @Smackdown: That cute mental image is helping to wipe away this horror enough so that I may possibly eat something at lunch. Thanks.

No waxy for me. Ever. When all men do it, too, then I'll do it.

BiscuitDoughJones

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @myself: Just noting that I do realize that the "nowadays" bit made me sound ridonkulously old. Fuckit.

apollonia666

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @Aut0mat1c: Word.

And oh, BTW girls: if you're doing this for your guys, they don't really care. We may comment favorably on the baby-ass smooth ones we see on the porno, but truth be told, nothing better than coming up with a few flecks of hair in the mouth.

Well, except for this @thenwemadeout


Nabisco

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> I waxed my shit myself (with the husband's help) last weekend.

My vision went all white and I almost punched the shit out of him, but the good thing about doing it at home is that you get to leap up, stomp around like a cartoon giant, and take a giant gulp of beer.

Smackdown

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @hystericalredhead: That's about the time I would hit the waxer in the face and never return to that place of business.

I had thought about going the whole waxing route last fall but then on of my good friends had a bad wax. Almost a year later that horror had worn off. Thank you for rejuvenating my horror of a stranger possibly hot wax damaging my lady parts, so that my lady parts may never need rejuvenation because of a bad wax.

Terri Ann

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @shuffler & @sinnesloeschen:

It was hard to wear underwear with a piece of skin missing down there but it miraculously healed quite quickly. I have magical labia skin.

msb2: blue balls machine

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> This reminds me of a much worse incident I read about in another blog a few weeks ago (think it was actually an ad community blog) where a woman went in for a waxing session. Ended up getting a massive infection after she left, though she waited until she was so swollen and sore that she could barely move or touch the area before going to the ER.. ended up taking heavy doses of antibiotics to clear it up. When her ladyparts were just only slightly recovering, she decided it was time for another waxing (wtf?!?), and went back to the same place. Ended up getting infected again.

Crazy mofo.

(even worse: she was 19, and it was her first, and second, experience with waxing. That would have been enough to set me on the wilder, woolier path in her shoes)

nyobserver

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Why the fuck do women do this to themselves? And fuck the idea of doing it because it's just *expected* nowadays. If some man doesn't want to come near my vajayjay just because I don't want to bring hot wax or a razor blade in contact with it, then he doesn't DESERVE to get anywhere near it.

apollonia666

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> and that is why i go to the expensive place with nice indian ladies who have been doing this for the last 10 million years.

i am in absolute horror.

skittlbrau = baa

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> I don't even have a labia but this story made me want to cry.

Aut0mat1c

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> I've never had that area waxed, I know shaving isn't the most fun thing to do but I'll make that sacrifice. I remember being at the beach with my friends family, I must have been 11 or so, and his mother had red welts on her thighs and pubic area. I told my friend his mother had herpes and he told me to go eff myself. She later sat me down and told me that the welts were from waxing "which is something you'll know about when you get older." Because of that comment I've never done it, I'll go a long way just to prove someone wrong.

Boredinacubicle

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @thenwemadeout: Well, obviously, they are to shave their balls and trim the man-bush in solidarity with your hairless vadge.

SinisterRouge

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> The situation with my flange is reversed. It treats me badly. The only thing it and I agree on is sex. We both like sex. We'll work as a team for sex. But other than that, ever since puberty it has subjected me to an endless stream of thrush, cystitis, random urinary pain, minor swellings (one particularly painful memory springs to mind, in which one of the most beautiful men I have ever seen turned out to be the emergency gyny on nightshift at St George's Hospital. He stared in bewilderment and horror at my spread genitals for 15 minutes before saying; "I'm sorry, I have absolutely no idea what that might be.") and general constant maintenance issues.
So for me, vicious hair-removals are my revenge and hell. they are my damn right.


LipService

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Jesus Christ. I skipped over most of that as I was reading because I was getting woozy. I also don't understand the waxing. a) I have super sensitive skin and get little red bumps if I even think about it. b) I find a fully waxed vag a little too...porno, in a bad way. like, humans have hair. deal with it. c) I kind of don't want men to win on this one - if I have to lick your hairy balls, you will have to deal.

thenwemadeout

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> I needed smelling salts after reading this.

I ain't your... Masokist

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> still haven't even been brave enough to go get it waxed. hell, i don't wax my eyebrows, let alone some of the most sensitive, vascularized tissue on my body. it's just wrong. wrong, wrong, wrong. nothing should hurt that much in the name of aesthetics. barbaric.

rubyruby

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> omg noesssss

the horror

I once went to get my eyebrows waxed and I broke out in a horrible rash. Wouldn't dream of doing that to my special bits, because it would probably look like herpes.

Tweeze the eyebrows, trim the bush, and all's well.

As long as it is cleaned and neat, who cares? I mean, sex. Are you complaining?

tunamelt

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> I once had an (inexberienced? bad? masochistic?)waxer inform me after a particularly wince-inducing section that, "C'mon all those boys in Iraq are suffering EVERY DAY, this is nothing."

hystericalredhead

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> I'm afraid of all of it! I hate trimming because I've got butterfingers and I don't want to accidentally have sex with little scissors. I hate waxing because it hurts. I hate shaving because it grows back so quick. But I hate having a hairy vadge. Waxing is the most acceptable of all, IMO, but that lady's story made my vadge pulsate and recoil in horror!

SinisterRouge

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> THIS is the exact reason I've been a real wuss about the thought of someone coming at my lady bits with hot wax, I have a hard enough time psyching myself for an eyebrow wax. Never liked going down there with a razor blade either, I did find this nifty little "Finishing Touch" trimmer at CVS for 10 bucks in the section that sells all that stuff you see on TV. I swear by it!

kgibbs

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> You know, ever since moving to LA, I've felt backward about my pubic hair (which is neatly trimmed and clean, not full on hippy-girl musk bush). And every time I've gotten to the point where I'm ready to start asking around about getting waxed, Jezebel posts something like this.
My labia thank-you, Jezebel, for helping us stay strong.

jessaleigh

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @HookerfaceAnon: And on Fleshbot.

SarahHeartburn

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Yep, Maya at Eve! She'll even pluck out ingrowns from the most festering of wounds.

Heather

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @msb2:
Oh Jesus Christ.


Also, welcome, Heather! and Heather's labiae!

numbersix

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> @msb2: Oh god, just saw what you wrote after I posted. I can only imagine.

Catty Is Cumbersome

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> I have this tiny pair of scissors. I trim the hair (unless I shave it, which occasionally I do) and I am good to go. Waxing is a BAD idea. Then again, who knows when I am going to cut my inner labia in half.

Catty Is Cumbersome

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> maya at eve on bleecker? love her. love.

helen

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> I cut my labia once with a pair of scissors while trimming.

That wasn't fun.

msb2: blue balls machine

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Holy mother of OUCH, Batman! You know, when I started tending to the down-there parts, it was en vogue to shave it all off. One dude actually asked if he could shave it FOR me. I thought this was a fun novelty, so I went for it. This was followed by very uncomfortable, itchy jogging. And being told by my friend Hanna, the consummate hippie, that she would never remove the down-there hair for any dude.

Four years later, most guys prefer "the strip," easily accomplished by shaving the hair that would have to be removed anyway during bikini season. It's great to find that my man doesn't mind the fuzzies, so long as they're trimmed and maintained with my friendly Venus Vibrance. Ahh, life without bikini wax or full shave every 4 days is good.

ForeverBlueGirl

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Do us all a huge favor and post this on Deadspin.

Thanks.

HookerfaceAnon

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Umm...I know I will be in the minority here but here is my one an only experience with waxing: It hurt. It was red and bumpy so I still couldn't wear a bikini. Then the hair grew back. What is the point exactly?

I am all for just keeping the hedges trimmed. The BF was allowed to shave me once in the shower. But after he shaved sideways slicing me open, (Dumbass, doesn't he do his own face every day?!?!) his privileges were revoked.


nycbaby

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Thanks, Jezebel. I was thinking of sucking it up popping that cherry FINALLY and then I read that.

You know what? Until the men I know start regularly waxing their back hair, I'm not doing it either. So there!

vivresavie17

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> So wait... she doesn't know exactly what part of her body was mutilated? Did this lady rip the whole majora off? Is that possible?

ClatieK

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Sweet fancy Moses. This is why -- and maybe I am just fooling myself -- I spend twice the average cost (which I don't really have, since I'm an academic) and go to the superluxe place for the ladyflower deforestation. I mean, if the waxers are going practically to be sticking their thumbs up my twat for leverage, I need that place to be nicer than my gynecologist's office.

oudemia

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> *eww* backwax.

The rest I can handle!

Handeluzia

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> I feel lightheaded after reading that.
You know that phantom pain guys get when they see another guy get kicked in the balls? I think I'm experiencing that for the first time.


BiscuitDoughJones

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Um. I am not sure that I understand exactly what happened here, but I'm not sure whether I actually want to.

Truc

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> I am happy to say that I don't have my own stories!

f-words

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Folisan does what??

ClatieK

]]> <![CDATA[An Open Apology to Our Labia]]> Wait, Cosmo's confessions are made up? There's nothing left to believe in.

p.s. this story makes me hurt too much to be able to come up with a decent comment on it.

PinkSoxHat

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