@Klobasa, Esq: Hah! I think I was the one that said this to you.

cellophane

I just joined Jezebel and it's threads like these that make me love all of you (even though I don't know a single one of you) so damn much.

I feel 100% better about myself and I have decided I am done with shaving because it hurts and it makes me feel like crap. AND THAT'S OKAY because fuck all!

the_pest

The whole patriarchy/prepubescent thing is such a load of crap... Do the same people who make this argument praise some men's admiration for large, womanly breasts? No, they do not.

I have a beard. I happen to like having a beard, and I would not shave it for any woman. It's who I am. But many women prefer men who are clean-shaven. Is this because they secretly lust after little boys? Or because they have tastes and opinions and preferences of their own, and get to choose what they like? Hmm?

Personally, I like to be able to see the vulva, and I like not getting hair in my teeth.

My wonderful girlfriend goes natural, but we've talked about waxing, and she's curious to try sometime. If so, great, if she decides against it, that's fine too. If she decides she wants to me to do something she thinks is sexy, she'll ask me. It's called having an grown-up conversation.

Shave, don't shave, be yourself, love your cooch however you love it; but insulting people for having preferences that differ from yours and implying that most men are closet pedophiles is stupid and immature.

Mumps

does anyone know who tommy tiernan is? he's a comedian from ireland and tho he usually offends he did a really funny bit about how as a man he wants a woman with a full bush, something to nuzzle into.

pubic hair please make a come-back!

MiseAmiee

@CorreLola: How much do you think it costs to get your ass-hair cornrowed? Public hair? I think it would be real painful, normal cornrows kind of burn...

dakardame

I got a bikini wax yesterday and I'm sore. I've had brazilians before and just... ow. A whole world of ow. I love the idea of a Hollywood and love the way it feels but it does make me feel vaguely like a kid.

I'm in college right now and I took a dude back to mine not so long ago and the look on his face when we got going! Everything was neatly trimmed unlike the jungle under his pants! I'm there spitting out pubes and he's the one looking dissapointed!

I think unless a guy is sporting a hairless model then he has no right to expect one - he doesn't have right to hope for one. Where's the equality?

Bedroom Pirate

Oh Jezebel readers, sometimes you are the best. My pubic hair thanks you.

germane

They should add this headline: "Sexy Hairstyles- For Down There!"

...and change "Not for Girls Who Blush Easily" to "Not for Girls Prone to Nausea."

aimy

@CaptainHangNail:

that is pretty much the most amazing thing i've hear all day. will there be acrobatics and detacheable nipples too?

astralgravy

@tscheese: I bought it--the pink one!--and I'm trying to grow a powerbush so that I can actually use it.

I like being bald--less itchy when I work out--but I'm fine with shaving. I was waxed once. And only once. At some point, I screamed out loud, "I THINK YOU JUST RIPPED OFF MY BUTTHOLE!".

Nobody would look at me when I left the salon.

Sr. 'Zinha manscapes, and I am appreciative.

Cafezinha

Cosmo is trying to ease us into their next big trend, "Sexy Horse Sex".

rubalicious

Brazilianing is the infantilization of women. Pubes are pretty!

purplejesus

@It'stheRooo: BWAHAHAHHAHAH! I just images Steve Carel and the guys from 40you virgin prancing and dancing in the meadow...

ceejeemcbeegee is not here

@deadbeat old lady: What about hotrod flames :D Gives a whole nother meaning to my privates are on fire XD

cde

@LaFemme: I cannot even imagine that in my mind...wait..I can..oh.

beastybeatsy

@Devonna: @tscheese: @shewar: Wow, thanks so much for the overshare (seriously). Between the ripping, the chapping, and the leaking, I can't really choose, so I'm going with cost-effective Fur Bikini right now (thanks, Holly Madison!).

@cde: Racing stripes would be *awesome*. VROOOOM!

ali is a cranky whiner

@videogoddess: Can't get over 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' leaked sex scenes...

beastybeatsy

@deadbeat old lady: Hey, she could have suggested a dollar sign or 2 hotrod racing stripes (or a nazi swastika, if there's room for godwin's law in this thread :P)

cde

@TruculentandUnreliable: The lady who did my very first-ever bikini wax asked if I wanted to create some sort of shape with the remaining hair. I was horrified. She suggested a heart. I politely declined.

@bria: Not just you. Hairless is definitely more sensitive.

ali is a cranky whiner

(With apologies to the Age of Aquarius)

When the neeeee-ocons have all the dough

And the ruuuuu-lers are all rubes

Then size zeeeee-ro will be deemed too big

And haaaair is deemed nauseous on the pubes

*chorus*

This is the dawning of the Age of Internet Porn

The Age of Internet Pooo-orrrn ...

Everybody sing!

Rooo sez BISH PLZ

@thenwemadeout: there's a band in portland named "finger bang city". quality.

dokuchan

Man fuck that. I mean once in a while it's nice but most of the time I'm too lazy to do fuck with it.

amowls

@ionu:

You can certainly question a man who prefers a hairless vulva, but have you thought about the fact that with less hair, it's easier for men to, so to say, navigate the clitoris et al.? Especially for younger teenagers/men, women's genitalia can be overwhelming-covering it in hair makes it a little tougher. I just don't think preferring less hair on the vulva = pedophile or man with little girl fetish. Less hair can mean other things too... less in the way for cunnilingus, for example.

Younger men have also been brought up with pornography that, recently, prefers little to no hair. If that's what they are used to seeing, it's more understandable.

bria

All this "only little girls are bare down there, that's so sick" talk. Only little girls are bare in their armpits, too, dontchaknow.

beercheck

@cde: Will you marry me?

ceejeemcbeegee is not here

@blackbirdfly: You're welcome!

I mean really, because of my skin color and texture of my hair, a Brazilian just makes it look worse. Ingrowns are not cute. I prefer a "playboy" or "landing strip": keep it contained within the borders of my drawers.

ceejeemcbeegee is not here

A male ex-roommate of mine used to go on and on about his complicated routine of Veet-ing his ass, complete with a demonstration of the pose he was in (legs splayed in the air behind his head)when his sister walked in on him one time mid-removal. I guess he he liked to keep things tidy around the back end. I remember him recounting an "awesome" hook-up to some of the other guys in the flat and one of the details was how he was pleasantly surprised by the fact that she was completely bare. So I guess he didn't expect her to be clean-shaven. Basically the point of this comment was to share the visual of my old roommate, legs akimbo, Veet-ing his ass. Enjoy.

elle_oh_elle

i think to imply that women who choose to wax somehow are not embracing their natural womanliness or want to look like little girls is bs.

we remove hair from every other part of our bodies, why not down there? i was very late to the brazilian game and was shocked that most women i knew do it.

it hurts like hell, but it's nice to feel smooth down there. even when it grows out it still feels softer than trimming. i am surprised there is so much negativity on here for something that i thought was common! maybe just here in nyc.

xina

@kitschenette:

Yes, this is most definately a youth-based thing. I am fairly certain that the Brazilian didn't even exist when I was in college.

yarnmule

For me, hair removal does not mean smooth skin. Shaving means blotchy, irritated stubble. Waxing means blood, then stubble. Depilatory cream means a stench, a rash, then stubble. Beside all that, WTF is so unattractive about hair?

Dulcinea

The GF is super-self conscious and doesn't want her vadge toyed with without a full shave... but I'll tell you something (and maybe this is just because I've got a hairy chest with skin too sensitive to wax myself) - if a guy has a hang-up about where you have and don't have hair, he doesn't love you for who you are. The end.

actorpull

It was our 7th year anniversary. We had dirty plans for a sweet hotel room. I decided to add to the surprise by getting a full Brazilian.

OW OW OW MOTHERFUCKIN OW!!!!

The guy liked it well enough that about a year later he casually slipped it into conversation. "Soooo...you know that waxing thing you did....?"

I lost it. "What are you, some kinda sadist!!! I told you how bad that hurt! Go wax your ballsack and we'll talk, dammit. Fuck that, I'm not even using a new razor next time I shave it."

Seriously, it was the only time I've felt like I had to console my kitten.

JaneBadall

@desertbloom79: I remove hair, but not for my boyfriend. I did it before I met him. It's just comfortable to me. Sometimes I let it grow just to do something different. I think it's just whatever a woman feels like doing.

Flackette Goes Retro

@SarahMC: Yep. It's a little 'personal groomer' thingy, too. Works wonders!

I know a lot of girls around here get their stuff lasered. I would be tempted to do the bikini line but NOT the whole thing! But I'm very fair-skinned and regularly combat razor burn, no matter what I do to avoid it. I just keep everything neat and trim, NOT bald.

allora

@hamburgerhotdog: Your old ladies/hobos analogy is pure genius.

La Madrugada

@Trixie from Toronto: This is very true. My boyfriend is 37, and has no preconceived notions about hair. The mid-twenties guys I dated just a few years ago were totally about girls going bare - however it did not apply to them. Apparently it's ok for girls to get hair stuck in our teeth.

Flackette Goes Retro

Dingleberries? I seriously doubt anyone's butthair can grow out that long, clearly she is exaggerating. Right? Right?!

jewess

I don't get the idea that bare skin equals some sort of pedophilic kink. The logical extension of that argument would be to similarly associate shaved armpits and legs with a kiddy fetish.

I prefer shaved guys, too. The reason is the same: our genitals are fun to look at and play with. In my opinion, hair gets in the way, smooth is cuter and it's much more sensitive to stimulation.

YMMV.

TigerTail

@videogoddess: My thoughts exactly!

KittensMcgee

@Katxyz: ive heard a "french" is bare. but maybe thats canadian?

pink_orchid_martini

that fug dress Veronica Mars has on gave me vertigo.

And what's wrong with letting the Backwoods in Arkansas grow?

TexasCrude

As my friend once said: I don't want to look like I'm 12 years old.

And I agree. No brazilian for me.

Klobasa, Esq

There is NOTHING I love better than a big ol' pubic hair conversation on the internet!

I think I 'm in the minority in that I think I would actually prefer to shave because I like the way it feels... for the short amount of time before my skin down there holds a full scale epidermal rebellion. Since I dig the shaved feeling, I don't really associate having no pubes with a prepubescent body. I mean, children don't have pubic hair, but they definitely don't have womanly hips and boobs either! Pubic hair isn't the only visual sign of sexual maturity...

I do understand why people bring up the prepubescent argument, though, especially when a growing number of (probably young) men are insisting or even expecting that their gfs shave or wax.

RubyStanwyck

I'm 23, and while most of the guys I've been with don't say anything about pubic hair at all, a few have expressed surprise and pleasure that I shave-- so I don't think all guys in my age range expect it. I've also gotten waxed twice-- I would do it regularly if it didn't cost so much, and if i didn't have to let it grow in. I just don't like having hair down there, especially when its period time.

inabook

@sympathyforthedevil: actually bacteria etc gets through underwear-the hair still serves a purpose of keeping everything inside cleaner (um-i actually saw a documentary on the subject). Having said that-whatever floats your boat...

info*ninja

"Long enough to braid"? Uh, I call total bullshit on that. Body hair doesn't continue to grow throughout your life, like the hair on your head. It only gets so long, and that's it. Have you ever seen men with chest hair that could be braided? Women in old porn with braided pubes?

Cosmo is so fucking ridiculous.

louveciennes

I've always shaved down there, not for any sexual reason, just because I hate the way it feels. I was so weirded out when I was with some dude in high school and he was like "Oh, you shaved! Well that was nice" and I was like umm excuse me this isn't for you bitch and why is that so hot? I think its truly disturbing that men are turned on by the CHILD LIKE nature of a hairless vagina. My boyfriend actually asked me to grow it out because he's into the 70s hahaha. But I couldn't do it! I've always thought a little hair was sexy though. If I watch porn and I see a hairy one, I get super excited because it's so rare these days. Sad world we live in

AnnaWintwhore

TMI: What I find fustrating about this is that it makes the area way too delicate and dry if it's shaved. So it's like a chastity device that limits the amount of friction you can have.

Phalene

@SarahMC: Sorry for the misnomer. But all the outer stuff is the vulva (as opposed to the vagina), and and that can be bare, bushy, or anywhere in between.

A hairy vagina would actually be icredibly gross, and now that image is gonna haunt me. I'll be careful with my word choice from now on and just use something non-technical. Like twat. One of my fave words.

sympathyforthebasementcat

Both the waxers I have used are kind of anal and insist that a "Brazilian" is when you wax almost everything (labia, edges, back) but leave a patch or landing strip and a "Sphinx" is when you go completely bare. Has anyone else heard of this?

Katxyz

@gold_gato: There are usually two camps as to the purpose of pubic hair. The first is that it functions sort of like eyelashes - keeping dirt and germs out of a sensitive area. If you wear underwear and proper clothing (unlike Britney Spears), then you don't really need the pubic hair for that.

The second theory is that pubes trap in pheromones, and therefore make you more alluring down there. I guess this reason wouldn't be completely combatted by wearing underwear, but I figure once a guy peels the panties off and gets down to that level, he's already allured enough and doesn't need the extra pheromone boost.

So there's that. There's no real health benefits/negative effects either way, so it's really to each her own.

sympathyforthebasementcat

@shewar: That's both absolutely hilarious and terrifying at the same time.

cde

@tscheese: Same deal here. The last time I got a brazilian wax I felt weird and leaky. I had sex with some guy and (here comes the fun TMI part) he got weirded out after because a bunch of "stuff" had accumulated in his butt crack while I was on top.

Haven't been back to the waxer since.

shewar

@pumpkinsoup: I'm also a straight, married woman and I totally understand what you're saying. To me, it just looks unnatural to see a naked person with no hair down there.

galaxina

interesting how the whole pubic hair thing relates back to what Tatiana said yesterday, about how we're expected to maintain our 14-year-old bodies in every way. wtf people?

my BFF was asking a guy friend about waxing, and the following conversation ensued:

BFF: Who would want to f*ck a plucked chicken?

Guy: Depends on the chicken...

Ultraprison!

@Devonna: This may be WAYYYYY too much info, but I kinda have the opposite experience. If I have no hair (sometimes I do shave that sucker clean), I get, I dunno, that weird Chapsticked-feeling around my bare "lips."

Like...okay, this is gross, but my pubes catch the extra lube without feeling icky. Instead, it is like walking around with a nice soft natural towel down there. If I don't have that "towel" I kinda feel like my nether regions are drooling uncontrollably.

WAY overshare. I know. I am gross.

Pubes: They are nature's oversized Red Lobster bib.

tscheese

OMG.... i like waxing. i am brazilian, i grew up with it being something natural to do and not sex related, its more about being hairless during the summer, on the beach without stubble growing the next day :-/

Anyway...

the bit about the tail.... please...no a** hair grows that long....

cosmo gets worse and worse every issue.

Venus Muffinpants

This is TMI, so you have been forewarned... as someone who has abundant natural lubrication on a regular basis, I have found that if I do not remove the hair around the labia, the natural lubrication dries and sticks to said hair which leads to a very uncomfortable RIIIIP!!!! every time I go to the bathroom. So I remove the hair, via waxing bc then I don't have to worry about those hairs getting caught up.

And this is also why underwear makes pubic hair less necessary. Undies catch the dribbles and also keep your nether regions warm.

Devonna

@kitschenette: Its ok, you just need to meet new men and do what feels good for you. Trust, *they* are not all like that

info*ninja

i will never sex a guy who shaves his pubes. it's like fucking a porcupine.

msAnthrope

Ugh, I'm infuriated. Banishing the brazilian like it is some evil form of male tyranny, yet then being brutal about the femmetache? Not all of us have blonde wisp-like pubes, naturally coiffed to perfection. Everyone is different down there, some like the braz, some don't. Some shave, some wax, some grow. woop-de-do.

Personally I like it bare. However, there will be periods when I will go retro (poverty, nostalgia, braiding). But quit the hirsutism bashing, yo (why do girls even do that?). There are people out there that had shitty boyfriends giving them hair complexes at the tender age of 16 with condescending remarks such as "it's a bit European, don't you think?".

Thank fuck cosmo wasn't also raining hard on my adolescence waving its pussy propaganda in my face.

msenidcoleslaw

Well, not to be selfish, but generally, i want things to feel good for ME. and full disclosure, I like my hair down there! i like the way it feels. the follicles are sensitive and it feels good when it's touched.

If any guy said he "preferred shaved" i would be seriously disappointed. so far, this hasn't happened but I'm only 26, still got a lot of years left...

Dear Blond Diary

It's true! Every single guy I know says that he would be sooo grossed out if a girl had any pubes at all. I've never met a guy who's actually comfortable with it! I dunno if this is just a college thing or what, but it's lame.

kitschenette

@Screwvenir: Thank you! Every waxing experience I have had has left me with a crotch that looks like it just got out of a boxing match. The actual ripping out has never even been that painful, my skin just gets very bruised looking a few hours later. Bruised labia is HOT!

So I trim and shave when I feel like it and my guy rarely seems to notice one way or the other.

ladyisatramp

As a happily married husband, I can definitely state that I love my wife with or without hair. However, without hair=more skin on skin= more sensation for all. Smoothies are fun.

Just for info, I was trained and now I wax my wife

Also, she has waxed me so I know what it feels like

LuvRnettr

Any guys who expect/demand my stuff to be bare might as well just go fuck a blow-up doll. That way it doesn't matter if they come too fast.

lalaland13

And more to the point, some people get off on seeing a full bush.

Personally, as long as I can see through it and its nice and neat, i.e. trimmed (maybe shaped) to like a quarter inch in height.

But I also follow the same. Trimmed down. I doubt girls like curlies in their teeth any more then most guys do.

cde

@sympathyforthedevil: I don't think peeps are down on bare vulvas; personally, I am down on the *expectation* that vulvas be bare or else they're disgusting and foul.

SarahMC

@layladylan: Pussy power! And if you squirt, it's like you're having a power surge!

wolf biter

I think it comes down to choice (as several people have mentioned) but true choice means that the outcomes have similar consequences (do i drink orange or grapefruit juice?). In a very short period of time women's choices about their hair have become political (shaving came in around the same time as bikinis), in that it takes bravery to make certain choices. I have several friends who have said to me that they do not want to shave under their arms any more but they are too embarrassed (full grown women-not teenage girls)-is this a real choice? There has been a lot of bad mouthing of under arm hair on Jez, something that has saddened me-i can have a hairy bush or armpits and perform my feminity through my long ass bright pink nails or however i choose to in that moment. Also-those dudes dissing pussy should not be getting any more play

info*ninja

ew. nothing could be less sexy than the words "like a baby' or "Hitler moustache"

barf.

mynameisrio

@Neon.Wonder: One time I waxed my legs. Then I decided that hot wax would never again touch my bare skin, even in some sort of kinky way. Never waxed my vadge, never will... sry if it's TMI but I think that the ones who don't read this nonsense try to stick together, otherwise if we just take Cosmo for granted, who knows where we're headed.

engelfluglen

@ceejeemcbeegee: Straight and to the point. Perfect :D

It's kinda the same. If a girl would go down on my, why should I go down on here. Not that I wouldn't anyway..... >_>

cde

Eh, I prefer myself mostly smooth. I did full bare for a long time, and decided I like a little patch up front better. So does my 23 year old boyfriend; I kind of don't believe that all young guys are strict about shaving since he's never been and actually prefers some hair/some bare.

I wish we would finally have a post about male pubic habits, since it always comes up on these posts and is potentially more interesting.

Katxyz

Here I thought the Brazilian was in reference to some actual Brazilian person :P

cde

@sympathyforthedevil: I can understand letting people do as they please in their personal decision to shave or not shave, but I cannot get on board with the idea that having natural pubic hair became obsolete with the invention of underwear. Unless you can explain why we have hair there and how my pretty little panties conquered this.

gold_gato

He can expect all he wants, but he's gettin' what he gets. Men have nothing to say about how I fix any part of my body, especially that part. It's mine, and I'll do what I want with it. If you want a piece of it, you'll like it. The end.

Centaurea

@videogoddess: I am so with you. I tear up at the thought of my VMars on the cover of Cosmo.

LadyPants

I don't know why people are so down on shaved vaginas. It's really a matter of personal preference, and there's no right or wrong. There was a reason we had hair down there, but that reason became obsolete when underwear was invented. Now we've got a choice whether to keep it or not.

I personally hate pubic hair; I know it's natural and all that, but I always have hated it. When I found out you could shave it. I dived right in, and now I love my area down there. And shouldn't every girl love her vagina? Yeah, Cosmo is full of shit, but that doesn't mean every girl who shaves or waxes down there is Cosmo girl or a Britney-wannabe.

sympathyforthebasementcat

@SarahMC: I once saw a Jenna Jameson-branded one on TV. It was called "Jenna's Hot Trimmer" and it came with stencils you could use as a guide. I believe that one was a lightning bolt.

Come on, you know you want it!

layladylan

@ineffable.me:

I totally agree with you.The only people with hairless vaginas are little girls, which I am not.I cannot help but to question a man who only wants you to be bare down there. Sorry.

ionu

@MomoMcgee: I think I do know what you mean, and Lord do ads clog up my spam in-box!

gold_gato

I think its porn's fault. If all those damn porn stars weren't flawlessly bare down there we wouldn't have to deal with such stupid demands, since porn is practically main stream (I mean seriously, who doesnt watch porn these days?). Maybe we shouldstart demanding that guys appear more like male porn stars, ifyaknowhaddamean.

MomoMcgee

@kinamoto:
Judgemental much? Helping support three siblings, paying off my own huge college debt, and having never accepted a dime from my father since I turned 18 reminds me enough of my adulthood. Isn't feminism about choice? I like it, that's all I'm saying. Jeez.

@kinamoto:
Yeah, when I was sleeping on my sister's couch in Texas a a few years ago (more rough times), I couldn't afford it, but I got my shit together and moved to NYC. It's hella cheap here in NYC, if you find the right place.

desertbloom79

Just because someone expects something doesn't mean you have to do it. Plus I don't think anyone is really going to say no once you've got to the point when you see respective areas. I mean really, like, 'Hmmm, liked you up to this point but I expect a certain level of hairlessness, sorry.'

JCake

@hortense: this should win comment of the day, hands down.

zahava

How could you even bend well enough to braid it? Reading some of these comments about how do some chick's butt hair get long enough to braid made me think of butt hair extensions... ew...

tawnyowl

@Yasume: It's from the extremely high cut bikinis that originated there. You really have to take everything of it will stick out.

brookidy

When I was in high school I wanted to subscribe to Cosmo so bad, but my mom said it was too trashy, and then I went to college and was old enough to subscribe without the fear of my mother getting it from the mailbox. Sadly, or fortunately, by that time I found it highly childish and trashy myself. All I know of Cosmo is what I learn from Jezebel... sounds even trashier now.

BlueJeanBaby19

@SarahMC: @lastsinglestanding: And I should say that I think there are still plenty of men out there who value woman parts for what they are - part of a woman.

God, I miss Texas boys (and girls)!

oeditrix

@kansasgirl:
a) you stole me comment.
b) and my name!

AndYourLittleDogToo

Men don't care. As long as it is clean and smells good!!

On a side note, it is something how the Brazilians are stereotyped for this. I wonder if it is popular there.

Yasume

@SarahMC: I use my boyfriend's trimmer. Wonderful and painless!

EvieB

@TigerTail: Word. My wife doesn't keep it completely bare down there, but fairly trim. I appreciate having extra surface area to please, but if she wanted to grow it longer, that'd be fine. She sometimes suggests that I may want to shy away because she hasn't shaved in a few days, which is always laughable, because I'm always in the mood to, ahem, dine in. Nonetheless, I would imagine that for some, a powerbush will rarely make guys disinterested in sex, per se, but may lessen the desire to go down.

diosdeguerra

@wolf biter: That sounds very strange, I am trying to visualize it- no hair in front with an arrow and everything left underneath.

I would never get off that table if the underside hadnt been touched. Having someone get all of that is why I pay the 50-70 dollars- because I can't get to that myself. The front? Whatever, I can manage that.

"Protestant wx" is a great term for the Classic Bikini wax.

LaFemme

@ Nistha

I totally agree w/ the reciprical thing. I get waxed (not completely, but you know) so he has an easier time doing his thing, then he gets waxed as well. He needs to know the pain.

ladyprof

@SarahMC: This is the trimmer I have. It works great.

[www.amazon.com]

wolf biter

@oeditrix: No, that was all spot on!

lastsinglestanding

@SarahMC: Remington Trim & Shape Bikini Trimmer. Everyone I know uses this, from friends to the various places I've been to to get waxed. I used to use a boyfriend's beard trimmer too, but I like my own better because it is smaller and more precise.

SPARKLE

@oeditrix: Don't be sorry; I enjoyed it and I agree.

Thanks for the trimmer tips, gals!

SarahMC

@ edgyspice: It is already a bit of a fetishist thing. There are specific (according to my ex-boyfriend) websites that cater to the guy who prefers the "natural" look.

I shave sometimes, depending on my mood. I don't mind the look, but would be turned off if someone expects me to shave 24/7. It's just not something I prioritize. But I do the Hollywood, which means you remove all the hair.

Brazillians are lame. LOL

Tarah_Sweeney

@LaFemme: Something like that happened to one of my girlfriends a few years ago, though not by design.

She wanted to get a more aggressive wax than her usual "a little off the top and the sides" wax (I call it the Protestant wax). She wanted a patch in the front and the lips bare, but the waxer misunderstood her and took too much off the sides and left the lips untouched. After we polished off a bottle of champagne, she showed us the results--it was like her pussy had an arrow pointing to it.

wolf biter

@SarahMC: Here it is: [www.amazon.com]

lastsinglestanding

For those women who like having a bare crotch, fine. Apparently oral sex with no hair is pretty nice for both parties.

But in terms of rude men who think it should be the norm, it's
pretty obviously about reactionary gender politics. To wit: I had a
jerky male classmate who brought up women's pubes at the pub one night,
totally unprovoked, to everyone's discomfort. I must have rolled my
eyes or something, because he instantly leaned toward me and leered, "I
can tell you probably have a big old powerbush because you're a
manhating lesbian." As a matter of fact I don't shave regularly, just
when and where I feel like it. And as for manhating, I certainly hated him.

My point is, insecure men experience women's body hair as some sort
of aggressive statement against their manhood. And Cosmo is pitched
toward the insecure women who are trying to capture said insecure men.
Sorry for long post.

oeditrix

I shave bare because the vulva is an erogenous zone, which means being able to touch it really enhances the sensations. Sex with a full bush is like playing the piano while wearing gloves.

TigerTail

@info*ninja: Didn't want to disappoint you.

And, obviously, I have no idea who started that trend, but I find it ridiculous.

BAngieB

@SarahMC: I have a purple one, so I'm assuming it's for girls, but I think the women's trimmer just costs more, really. I'd recommend one that's on the skinny side.

lastsinglestanding

@SarahMC: ive used this one for about 4 years without issues [www.amazon.com] runs on a AAA battery i have never had to change.

pink_orchid_martini

@brookidy: I figure it can't be anyworse than getting waxed or getting my armpits lasered. I am going to keep my "pie" in front. I've always been uncomfortable with the whole shabang.

SPARKLE

@LaFemme: "Hitler mustache". God, that's funny

lastsinglestanding

@Macloserboy (Who Is Finally On Facebook For You Bitches): YAY! I was actually hoping that one of the Jezeboys was going to pipe up.

I do not judge you for your depilatory procedures. I think it is kind of rad. I don't want to be judged for my massive auburn 70's porno muff either, so I think we're all in the same boat.

Also I think we can all agree that Velcro Nads are nobody's friend.

tscheese

@Macloserboy (Who Is Finally On Facebook For You Bitches): (chugs tequila from the bottle, avoids eye contact, giggles)

hamburgerhotdog

@Macloserboy (Who Is Finally On Facebook For You Bitches): ah yes SBS - sweaty Ball Syndrome. my male friends bitch about this in summer. but they arent the type to think of hair removal because it would make them "less manly". *eye roll*

as long as a penis doesnt have mutton chops im ok with hair there.

pink_orchid_martini

Does anyone have a specific brand of trimmer they prefer? Because I don't recall ever seeing a "lady trimmer," just the men's beard trimmers.

SarahMC

@desertbloom79: I used to wax religiously too, but have been in quite the dry spell so havent in awhile, though I think I will start again once it is summer. I really don't like pubic hair on the underside of your vagina. Sometimes I would have the waxer do all of the underside and back and then leave a somewhat natural looking triangle in the front, like what a regular bikini wax looks like. I thought bald was weird too, but did it once because I went to a shitty waxer who didnt get my "natural look" request and gave me the pubic hair equivalent of a Hitler mustache. Better to take it all off I thought. It was super weird for awhile, but once I adjusted to it visually, I really liked it.

If only it werent so expensive.

LaFemme

@samethingwedoeverynightpinky: No, they are not turning down sex. I can't imagine that. No guy has EVER said ANYTHING to me about hair down there.

lastsinglestanding

@tscheese: Well, in the summer, com combat funk, I will take the hair off the ballsack. But I don't shave. Oh, god no. I dipilatory, which is probably all kinds of bad for my sperm but what the hell. My hair is oddly very soft, so when it grows back in there's no itching.

Of course this now means I can never attend another Jezebel event again.

Macloserboy

@Style Queen: Ooh yay I get to share! I've only done full Brazilian a couple of times but opted not to laser all of it off because a) there's some spots where that would really hurt, and b) I'm going to be old one day and may not want to be totally bare. So, I opted for landing strip and occasionally I'll take that off as well.

SO: It cost about $1000 and took 6 treatments, each about a month apart. You sahev everything off first so the laser won't burn your hair. The laser feels like getting popped with a rubber band. Some spots are worse than others, like right between your leg and cooch. You are supposed to update once a year and that is an additional cost. It really works! No growth, and if they miss a spot it's very evident. I'm really particular so I still shave sometimes, but I never, ever get razor burn anymore.

Side note, I'm due for my update, but the woman who did it has been replaced by a guy. A guy that I know. I'm working up the courage to spread eagle for him knowing full well that I may see him in a bar a couple of days later.

brookidy

@marybanjo: I was being facetious. But this is a girl who is single and not looking for any NSA action. It just didn't make sense to me. Most of my mid-20s friends use the trimmer. It's quick, convenient and cheap. And it really gets the job done! I highly recommend it.

lastsinglestanding

If men of a certain age expect me to be bald then they should recipricate. And not shaving either. Brazillian style.

ELovejoy925

@pink_orchid_martini: BAHHAHAHAHAHAH! Let me know where you find the teeny vagina top hat because I guess I need one too. I bet I'm not alone either.

blackbirdfly

@samethingwedoeverynightpinky: i know dudes who won't go down on girls because they're not nekkid, and i have a friend who was told by a guy that he wouldn't sleep with her again if she wasn't nekkid down there. yeah, he was a jerk.

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

@brookidy: Okay, this thread has made my whole fucking week.

@samethingwedoeverynightpinky: See, that's a good point. Ain't nobody ever turned down any sexy time with me due to unshaved nether regions. And anyone who has a problem with it can find their way to the nearest exit real quick like.

blackbirdfly

@Jezebabe...is a stern and angry midget!!!!: That's what I think about, too: Time and Money. Is there some magical land where waxing is free?

rachelrob

@blackbirdfly: i hadnt gotten that far in my plans. i guess i will just get a teeny vagina top hat to hide the regrowth?

pink_orchid_martini

OK, I gather that young men prefer/expect brazilians (thanks porn!), but are they really turning down sex that comes with pubic hair? I trim/ nair (I can't believe this is the second time in two days I've talked about my pubic maintenance on the internet), but my friends who do get brazilians tend to do it once in a while as a special occasion type thing. I mean, even people who get brazilians have to let that bizness grow out a bit before they can do it again. Do people in regular relationships with hair free girls refuse sex while the hair's growing back?

samethingwedoeverynightpinky

So far, reading this thread has forced me to fake 6 coughing fits to cover up the giggles.

On topic: I'm disturbed by the idea that there are so many turned on by a child-like cooter. Seriously disturbed.

Nevertheless, to each her own.

Personally, I have extremely sensitive skin which is not nearly as wonderful as the tv ads make it sound. Therefore, there is no method, whether shaving, waxing, sugaring or depilitating which will allow the hair on my cooch to be removed without leaving a festering field of rash and ingrown hairs. No matter what your preference that is NOT a sexy sight. Also: brandishing my festering pubic region at professionals who have claimed that it could be done and I was just doing it wrong is not an enjoyable pass-time. Shut Up Cosmo!

BadHairLife

@ceejeemcbeegee: Ding ding ding! We have a winner! Comment of the Day!!!

Hamsterpants

@desertbloom79: You have pubic hair as a sign of adulthood. You can save time and money by coming to terms with this fact.

kinamoto

@tscheese: That's pretty much how it is. And any guy who shaves or trims it immediately wants a blow job as your way of saying thanks for mowing the lawn. Then you get to go to work with gonad razor burn on your cheeks and chin. Good times.

brookidy

@tscheese: We dyed them for swim team when I was in high school. School colors and everything. Bleached 'em first. Left that hotel room a holy mess.

murderofcrows

I feel like I'm the only one here who still waxes...

I just like it. I don't really know why. I got it done at a salon a few times and the woman who did it was so nice and gentle and it didn't hurt AT ALL. I popped 4 ibuprofen about a half hour before and had very little pain during/after the waxiig. Not nearly as bad as I thought.

Now, the hair is about one third as thick as it was (and I have THICK hair) and I wax it once a month or so and that keeps it fine for me/the boyfriend. I feel like the sensations are more sensitive when it's bare/barish, but maybe that's just me?

bria

@lastsinglestanding: I don't get it, why is getting a personal trimmer being a grown up?

marybanjo

@summerwheatley: One of my coworkers was just bitching about some lady at the gym who has a full bush. I clammed up, and now I'm all paranoid that ladies at my gym are talking behind my back about my bush. I mean, of all the things to get bitchy about, another woman's choice of pubic hair length? Seriously?

LadyNo Fondles Sweaters

@brookidy: I've been getting brazillians for years. I'm going to take it to the next level with laser. Tell me all about it!

SPARKLE

@BAngieB: oh right, the go to answer for most of my similar queries

info*ninja

@original_lynne: I have to ask though: how do you stop the shave itch??

gold_gato

I am in my 40's, love my trimmer for up front and have regular butt waxing. Post divorce I had a relationship with a deliciously kinky man, who came with me for the full wax. Off the charts sexy time followed - vag so sensitive, but I weirded out at the the prepubescent look and nixed that in favor of trimmer . And then there was the torture of the grow back, but as for the rear, I offer no excuses........cleaner and much more sensitive.

BeachLover

@SarahMC: [raises hand]

I don't shave or wax my bizness, but I trim everything really short. Keeps everything tidy.

Although I am strangely curious about having my ass waxed...

wolf biter

This is all news to me. Me and most of my friends do not go bare, and I'm not just hangin with feminist-types either.

gold_gato

@original_lynne: i was a competitive swimmer too, but i think it made me just the opposite- we wouldn't shave for weeks at a time (well, the legs. the cooch was always trimmed up). when you're training with tights, you don't care so much what your legs look like. now that i'm not a swimmer, i'm even more lazy. i blame it once again of being out here in colorado where natural is much more accepted. i've decided that i'm not going to date a dude that i can't be totally my grungy self around. so liberating.

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

@blackbirdfly: hahahahahahhahaha!! for some reason that joke made my day. silly boobs.

sleepyhead

I can't believe there is only one other comment on here from a woman who does it. I'm not saying it's as widespread as Cosmo says, but it's still intensely popular. I'm 28, and almost all my friends do it. But beyond that- I've been doing it so long that I actually intensely dislike having a bunch of hair down there. My boyfriend couldn't care less, but I realized a long time ago that I do it for me. I waxed the whole time even during that nearly two year dry spell- (yeah, rough times), because it makes me feel better about myself. Like getting manicures.

As for shaving- no way. I never shave, that hurts like hell and always gives me ingrown hair.

desertbloom79

@ceejeemcbeegee: Coke all over mah keyboard. "Nappy dugout." HA!

blackbirdfly

A bare vajayjay, for the the eradication of pubic lice, and the good of all mankind.

ToUnfoldThem

The "67 New Sex Tricks" makes me believe that Cosmo is now supporting prostitution... or magic.

curglaff

@weedie: What do you mean? Is that who I think it is?

Trixie from Toronto

@tscheese: Ha ha ha ha!!! Well, he uses a trimmer, actually, so it's not completely bare and there's really not a lot of stubble.

TruculentandUnreliable

If he can't handle my nappy dugout, then he can't bang my black ass.

ceejeemcbeegee is not here

oh, i just realized this issue is "not for girls who blush easily."

guess i won't be picking it up then, drat.

RemoteCommander

@pink_orchid_martini: My vag is usually at her fanciest when she has nowhere to go, too!

lastsinglestanding

In middle school, I used to hang out in coffee shops poring over back issues of Cosmo. Thank god none of their idiot sex tips stuck. May no 13-year-old try to grow herself a "tail" after reading this.

SheilsBabe

@SarahMC: Yeah, totally. I use my b'f's beard trimmer. Works great.

YouCan'tDealWithMyInfiniteNature

@pink_orchid_martini: Yeah, but what about when it starts to grow back? Because I don't know about y'all, but at that point, I can't shave it or wax it again. It's painful to even THINK about that. I really don't understand what you do at that point. I'm 31 years old and I still don't get it.

blackbirdfly

@katastic: She FRENCH braided it and put beads on the end.

hamburgerhotdog

@BAngieB: Vulgar!

ineffable.me

@tscheese: "Also I'm kinda imagining what it would be like to get it on with a dude whose balls are all stubbly. It'd be like getting flogged with a hedgehog, right?"

- I nearly choked to death on my tea. That was the best thing I've read all day.

SammyKitty

@crunkjuice: Bartholin's Gland. Yeah, definitely possible. But when you shave you create tiny nicks in the skin. Your skin is inhabited by resident flora that's normally "good" (it's like a bus stop bench where old ladies are sitting--if they get up and move, hobos will take it over, so if anyone is gonna sit there you'd rather have it be old ladies). But things like S. aureus or can enter those tiny nicks and cause problems, especially in a warm, moist area.

hamburgerhotdog

i did an at home bikini wax last night with the Parissa strips you warm in your hands. it is so smooth and easy. no burns or bruising. i was prepared for voilent, painful failure but this was easy. A quick trim with the beard trimmer and voila... my vagine is ready to party. too bad she hasnt been invited out. S'ok she enjoys a stag evening in all dressed up.

pink_orchid_martini

@TruculentandUnreliable: Nope. Adorable. Ur a bunnee!!

andBegorrah

Can I nominate a thread of the day? There are waaaaay too many comments of the day here to choose from!

squirrelcop

@TruculentandUnreliable: If this isn't way too much overshare, can I ask how the boy feels about having the stubble growing back IN to his balls? Like, isn't that completely and totally awful for a dude?

Also I'm kinda imagining what it would be like to get it on with a dude whose balls are all stubbly. It'd be like getting flogged with a hedgehog, right?

tscheese

i was competitive swimmer for close to two decades. shaving was just part of the culture, and even though i dont' swim anymore, i still shave everyday, i can't stand hairy legs. I ony shaved my bikini lines (reilgiously). And then I got to college, and just started shaving everything. it ws a personal preference, the sex was better for me that way (after years of swimming i guess i just hated any patch of hair not on my head). I only got it professionally waxed once. It was expensive, painful (though doable) and a little wierd. I didn't like the idea of having to wait and get stubble. eeeeeeewww. So i just shave. Almost everyday. I don't judge people who shave/wax/or not...its their vadge and their biz. everyone is different.

but hoorah for the lack of pubic lice~ one more evil of society down the drain thanks to the hard work of cosmo.

original_lynne

Ummm....I just....did she actually braid it? she didn't actually braid it, did she?

katastic

@and Begorrah: Really? I don't find it that adorable, but the term is hilarious to me. It's weird, because I'm really not that hairy, but there's this little tuft of hair...

TruculentandUnreliable

@tscheese: oh man, my roommate slept with a mutual friend a while back and reported that his were GREEN. so many LOLs.

RemoteCommander

@weedie: It's okay. I shave, too, when the mood strikes me. (My guy shaves his balls when the mood strikes him, too).

TruculentandUnreliable

@info*ninja: I think we all know the answer to that question: a creepy dude.

BAngieB

Kristen Bell looks absolutely stunning on the cover. I miss Veronica Mars :-(.

KittenFluff

I realize I am a prude and all, but all shaved creeps me out, such as.

@BritneyCanadaWhore: You are vulgar. Now, take that tie off...

BAngieB

Also the Neutrogena Wave is the wussiest vibe ever, but you could probably have some fun with it on a boring afternoon.

After taxes are done and I can once again justify really ridiculous expenses, I may just get some Fun Betty, take my cheeto pubes and dye 'em pink for y'all. You guys know by now I have no shame. No pictures, though. I do have SOME decency.

tscheese

@summerwheatley: Oh, those salty tears!

hortense

@tscheese: I'm definitely going to try the pink one for the summertime. I'll report back to you ladies on what the boytoy thinks!

dirtybee

@edgyspice: Pube Rannaissance! I'm onboard for that!

monaflambe

@hamburgerhotdog: That happened to me. The most painful/humiliating experience ever. Except I didn't have insurance so I had to go to my school's infirmary and drop my drawers. But they told me it was a clogged Barthlow (or something???) gland? They didn't say anything about bacteria??? And how the fuck does that happen anyway?
K. Have sufficiently grossed myself out for the day.

crunkjuice

@Ipomoea: i'm doing surveillance outside the stylist's home. someone definitely committed a crime here.

RemoteCommander

@hortense: A little bit? I shouldn't be mean though, Daisy seems like a reallllly classy chick.

@honeybunchesofoats: 6 months from now you'll wake up and realize you haven't purchased a girly mag since you started reading Jez and it will feel AMAZING!

stacyinbean

@hamburgerhotdog: maybe you could partner with Scott Tenorman in your pubes donation efforts.

summerwheatley

@tscheese: That is totally the type of thing I might just do, if not for the new boy...I can't quite imagine how to explain why I was hot pink. He knows about Jezebel, but not sure he should know how far I'd go for it (just yet at least).

london_calling

@info*ninja: Who's idea? The itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini's.

queenofsomething

@Trixie from Toronto: I think I can count on one hand the number of waxed/shaved women I've seen at the locker room of my all-female gym. It's really not as common as porn or Cosmo make it out to be.

kinamoto

@TruculentandUnreliable: That's adorable. Seriously. Do you hop around naked? 'Cause I totally would. If only the freak out the pup.

andBegorrah

@tscheese: Oh it is ON. I'm ordering it right now. Question is, when it's over, do I just offer up a description? Surely y'all don't want to see. Although, it is nice and neat, thanks to laser hair removal.

brookidy

@tscheese: I have seen it at a beauty store near my office. Or something like it. I don't understand why pink and lime green are appealing colors for pube hair dye. Especially lime green. Or any green.

blackbirdfly

@and Begorrah: haha. im sure your mom loved it.

ineffable.me

i like body hair on my lady friends.

a lot.

inchworm

Oh yeah, anyone (everyone?) who's seen Paris Hilton's gaping maw knows the grandpa-without-his-dentures look is teh sexy. But really, do it or don't. Who the fuck cares? And anyone who protests is just helping you weed him out of your sexpool.

Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!

@tscheese: Ha! My husband and I were joking about this kind of thing the other day. I've decided I'm going to shave my pubic hair into shapes and dye it for various holidays. I was going to do an American flag for Memorial Day, but Mother's Day is coming up, so I thought I'd do a portrait of my mom.

TruculentandUnreliable

@stacyinbean: A butt-hair wig would class that show up a little bit, don't you think?

hortense

@Trixie from Toronto: Oh man, I knew this topic would come up again. Can I be bothered scrolling through and reading all the "pre-pubescent" vs "I'm a woman" comments? Or just take a nap and let it roll. Each to their fucking own. Amen.

weedie

@Le Kangourou de Kataroo...TRY IT!: amen to that! I have been uber lazy with shaving lately and I have gotten it twice without shaving! Now that's the power of love!

hugslut

Funny thing, my boyfriend doesn't mind my pubic hair, like at all. It doesn't turn him off or anything. So my theory is that it's just the assholes who aren't sexually comfortable enough with themselves to accept a women who doesn't look like a porn star.

murielmercurial

@dictator4life1: Just a TMI for you, I have a 'stache (I'm Italian) and I do not have braidable ass hair. I really don't think this ass braid thing is true.
ps - don't hate on us 'stache-havin' ladies. (I wax/pluck/bleach to keep my 'stache under control.)Ain't my fault my skin is the color of paste yet my hair insists on being 2 shades away from Blackest Midnight Black.

Sev

Also why is it Britney's responsibility to stop people taking photos of her crotch? Bigger picture, Cosmo. Bigger picture. What happened there did not originate between Ms Spears and her waxer.

bowleserised

I'm actually curious to see what our Jezemen have to say about the matter....

dirtybee

@info*ninja: nothing kills a lady boner like that phrase.

ineffable.me

@ineffable.me: To quote a message I left on my mom's voicemail last month when I had just gotten back from an OB/GYN appt. with a scraped cervix and a fridge without beer:
"Gawd, mom, why'd you have to go and give me this thing? Christ, what, do you hate me? Did I do something to you? No! I was just minding my own damn embryonic business and you had to go and give this high-maintenance shit to deal with for the rest of my goddamn life. Thanks. Love you, call me later."

andBegorrah

can I just say how much I love Jezebel? I'm fairly new to this site, and I used to read these awful Cosmo type magazines and feel less feminine because I refused to wear tons of make-up, clothes I can't afford, and put hot wax anywhere near my genitals, but now, thanks to you enlightened ladies, I realize I can be both feminine and hairy. Much appreciated.

honeybunchesofoats

@hortense: As moderator will you start a collection? I'm sure many of us would be willing to chip in for the promise of seeing Bret Michaels in a butt hair wig.

stacyinbean

@Emily: actually, your mom is right. I work in the ER twice a week and we have at least one or two women coming in with a dx of "groin cyst/abcess" every night--we have to pop them open and culture them to see exactly what kind of bacteria is growing in there (because MRSA is such a threat now), then leave it open to ooze and heal. Use a fresh razor every time if you're gonna shave and use tend skin or an antiseptic.

hamburgerhotdog

Also, has anybody seen this? Fun Betty? It's dye for your pubes! I saw it in the Duane Reade the other day and nearly freaked! Does someone wanna take one for the team and try it and tell us how it goes?

I took one for the team by buying that Neutrogena Vibe to supplement my vibrator collection. Come on, SOMEONE has to be down for dyeing their pubes electric pink.

tscheese

@Archetype: one of my exs was a virgin, and since all his exposure about sex was porn, he really thought it was all about dirty talk and spanking and let's see how rough we can get. it was a biiiig problem in our relationship, and he didn't understand that sex was more than what you see on the internet. and he was 23. i'm all for a little kink in the bedroom, but it's sad when guys don't understand that sex is more than just fucking.

/tmi

but yeah. i'm resisting the bald is beautiful movement. i'll keep mine nice and trimmed if the guy returns the favor.

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

you can BRAID it!? this reminds me a little of the snl parody about seasonale where one of the side effects was growing a 'leathery tail'

couldbebopeep

@and Begorrah: It's just a little tuft of buttcrack hair at the top of my crack.

TruculentandUnreliable

@Neon.Wonder: It's all boy shorts all the time over here. I'm seriously considering an underwear line up now, just to see if the bf can identify which are mine. The thought makes me giggle.

lastsinglestanding

@Ipomoea:

Why must she continue to shit on our love?

Twilly

@hamburgerhotdog: They had a brazilian episode, when they visited LA. It was clear that the ladies were not used to it. Charlotte was married to Trey at the time...the Hampton's episode was when Carrie first met Burger. Was that pre or post Trey?

Lymed

Often boobs will call me from across the room, but when I get there act like they don't know me and the girl who has them will ask me what the fuck I'm looking at. I can hear the boobs laughing at me as I walk away. True story.

Macloserboy

@hamburgerhotdog: You are a true American hero.

hortense

Confession time. I think a bush on a woman is sexy. Sexier than a bare crotch. I'm actually a happily married woman and therefore not making a point of having sex with other woman, but if I'm looking at nude pictures of women, I vastly prefer to see hair down there.

pumpkinsoup

@Macloserboy (Who Is Finally On Facebook For You Bitches): I have already had the chat with my own teenaged girl. "Feel no pressure to get a Brazilian at any point in your life," I said. But I think the hairy poon is going the way of the hairy armpit, I really do. European girls used to laugh at North Americans for shaving their armpits. Now they're doing it.

It leaves someone like me, unexpectedly single and in my 40s, feeling like I'd just as soon stay home, thanks, then have to go to the salon every couple of weeks and have all my pubic hair ripped off in order to get someone to sleep with me.

So depressing.

Trixie from Toronto

@and Begorrah: The new single is out for Rectal Braid! Buy Today! I also like "Finger Bang" for a band. Just has a nice ring to it.

thenwemadeout

@hortense: And I'm donating mine so Spencer Pratt can get a soul patch and win Heidi back. All's he needs now is double sided tape.

hamburgerhotdog

@bananaballs: word. While cosmo may think that the Brazilian is hot and powerful, black and blue vaginas are neither.

Screwvenir

@and Begorrah: 'A Different Sort of Flavor Saver', the new album by multi-platinum-selling artists Rectal Braid now on sale at Best Buy. Get yours now!

BiscuitDoughJones

@ineffable.me: "oh it's so smooth. like a baby"=not hot. Whose idea was it anyway to pour hot wax on the most sensative area of a woman's body and rip out all of the hair from the root?

info*ninja

You know, there IS a reason we have hair down there.

...

If I'm expected to have a clean-shaven vadge, I expect him to have had his balls shaved.

N i s t h a

@Done and Done: I'm not letting anyone near the vagina that wants to cause it pain. It is conditioned to like human interaction.

Leiakat

@dictator4life1: I thought the preferred nomenclature was TREASURE trail and i have one and i am not gross. also some girls have mustaches and some choose to do something about them and some don't and they're not gross either.

THAT said, the second girl i ever slept with at the tender age of 17 was shaved down there, but not smooth - at least not that day. and i didn't know it until i reached down there in the heat of the moment and HELL-O! traumatizing. obvs i kept my cool though and did not let my surprise show. (but it didn't help that she also had super long outer labia and i was like, wow girl vagine, how i barely know ye). And here we are today.

BritneyCanadaWhore

@Jezebabe...is a stern and angry midget!!!!: Like, what do these guys say?? My boys has never made a negative remark about my privates so I just can't imagine (though I know it happens).

SarahMC

@wee ninjette: Specifically I meant "appear on the cover of Cosmo." But since Veronica Mars would never do such a thing, yes.

videogoddess

@lastsinglestanding:
haha, yeah, I stopped getting fancy underwear a while ago. Unless I want it because it makes ME feel like I look nice... because my boyfriend, seriously probably wouldn't reconize any of my trunks if he had to. He whips those suckers off in two seconds and doesn't look back. haha.

Neon.Wonder

I'm sorry if you got that "tail" quote you'd run with it. I don't care who you are. That is HILARIOUS (and disgusting, but whatever floats their boat).

On a personal note, Britney's vagina is not guiding any decisions I make about my "bikini line". I would actually think that there's been a Brazilian backlash because of all of the naked v-jays being photographed by the paparazzi.

freestylewalker

@SarahMC: Yes, and it works like a gem! I just trim, no more shaving for me!

Emily

@SarahMC: Absolutely. And when I was pregnant and couldn't see my cooch anymore, I made my ex-husband do it. Of course, he loved it. Freak.

brookidy

@Hamsterpants: I hate it too. I don't have a problem with keeping things tidy but for the love of crap, I'm not waxing all of it ever. Ever again, that is.

@SarahMC: And, yes, the beard trimmer kind of rocks for keeping things neat. But if things have gotten to the braiding stage, I'd say scissors are the smart bet.

blackbirdfly

I remember when my mom (a nurse practitioner) first starting working at a college health center, where she spent much of her time doing GYN exams. She simply could not understand why anyone would shave their pubic hair. Did I explain? No. I did not.

Also, she said a lot of girls get infections from putting their razors down in the dorm shower, then shaving their naughty bits. Ew!!

Emily

Kristen Bell, Veronica Mars is in the girls' bathroom with Wallace right now, making snarky comments on that dress. For shame!

Ipomoea

Just this weekend my left tit soaked my last pair of clean undies in water then put them in the freezer.

SarahMC

@anniehall: Cosmo loves making stuff up and exaggerating things, it's their specialty!!!

Jezebabe

Clearly they meant to say "cornrow" the hair on her ass, but they didn't dare.

CorreLola

@sweetbeans:
I feel weird because I think I am one of the only women I know who doesn't! Most of my gal pals get it waxed all off... makes me feel ... weird, like maybe I should be? For some odd reason...what to do 'down there' has always been an issue for me. I once had a dream about it! I'm self conscious but I don't know why, because no one has ever said anything! It's like one of the few things I am self concious about. Is that not weird? I think it's weird.

Neon.Wonder

@kinamoto: or "men who've never seen a woman naked on a regular basis" because honestly, who can keep that up?

I've gone overboard shaving my bikini line, and not having hair at all down there makes me look weird and unbalanced.

Has anyone ever actually been turned down by a guy for having pubic hair? Ever? Hefner doesn't count.

Fiji

@hortense: I almost choked on a grape. A GRAPE

thanks a LOT.

ineffable.me

@SarahMC: I use an electric. The thought of a blade nicking down there....no.

Leiakat

@blackbirdfly: That's where I went first too...though I imagined them starting to pick little fights...

london_calling

Does't anyone else have a problem with getting up on all fours to let some eastern european crazy get up in their steeds?

I should confess that I tried give myself a brazilian but the wax was too hot and I ended up with a half-waxed, black-and-blue vagina.

TurtleFace

@and Begorrah: ugh and i was with MY MOM so it was even worse cause i felt like she could tell and it was just the worse thing ever.

ineffable.me

Does the tail wag, though? That's what I want to know.

zivah

@Le Kangourou de Kataroo...TRY IT!: I also think it's porn. Boys need to be watching more of that 70's porn with natural boobies and intact hair.

Penny

@lastsinglestanding: Most def - I love my trimmer. Id rather have a nicely trimmed powerbush than look like an 11 year old!

dirtybee

@videogoddess: By "do this to me" do you mean "stop being Veronica Mars"? Because if so, I agree. I can't even read the rest of the post because I'm saddened to distraction from thinking about VMars.

wee ninjette

i got a brazilian once and it was absolute hell. aside from from feeling completely violated, i couldn't wear jeans for 3 days, and my pelvis looked like a sad, laying down homer simpson beard. i will never do it again. too much information.

bananaballs

@SarahMC: I brought this up yesterday, I use a girly beard trimmer! I believe it's called a 'personal groomer'! Keeps the fluff down, plus I waxed so many times when I was in college, my hair is basically straight down there which is not so hot when it's long. Sorry for the TMI!

stacyinbean

When I started going out with guys I was flabbergasted at how they just expected me to be completely hairless. That shit takes a lot of time and money, and is completely unnecessary. Such an unnecessary burden to put on the ladies!! Those dudes were all douchebags, anyway...I still can't believe people "expect" that now. The guy I am dating now is not like that, but he's really been the only one who's been okay with pubes. Okay, this is way TMI, move along...

Jezebabe

I don't care what Cosmo says. I'm getting extensions and hilights for my nether region.

STICKSnSCONES

@sweetbeans: right? I should clarify that these are the friends that are in the phase-out part of my life...and basically think women's magazines (such as Cosmo) are the bible of life.

@lastsinglestanding: maybe that's what they'll get for their birthdays!

summerwheatley

So, the consensus is that Cosmo just made up the ass-hair thing as a way of freaking people out, and bullying them into their fascist pylopubocracy?

braak

Whatever. I'm growing my butt-hair tail to donate to Locks of Rock of Love. Bret Michaels can't hide under that bandanna forever.

hortense

@stacyinbean: No way. That is a classic made up Cosmo blurb.

brookidy

@SarahMC: I have a small one, like a personal trimmer. It cost $10 and no more razor burn. It Is Magical!

lastsinglestanding

@TruculentandUnreliable: A bunny tail?? A bunny tail??!??!! Please explain.

andBegorrah

@theloudcorral: How is that not "like, some sort of social commentary"? What are you trying to comment on, if not a social trend? And what's wrong with social commentary anyway?

MsDirector

@ilikenoise is Queen of Su Dokus: [en.wikipedia.org]

ilikenoise

@dirtybee: OOPS

I was gonna say that "that has GOT to be the best comment of the day!"

dirtybee

I will never go hairless. Some people look good bald, others don't.

sinbad20

@dirtybee: High fives all around!

lastsinglestanding

@blackbirdfly: Hey, my left tit keeps prank calling me in the middle of the night. Why can't it be like the right, and make me tea.

If a guy is close enough to your ass to see hair, he is already one lucky guy.

Leiakat

@Hamsterpants: Oh man, that has

dirtybee

You know what's also powerful and can cause change and have an impact? VOTING.

JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!

I dunno, maybe when the majority of ladies are waxed, pubic hair will start to seem weird and exotic and therefore fetishy and sexy, and then there'll be a pube renaissance. It could happen!

edgyspice

Yay! Thanks porn.

Does anyone use a beard trimmer down there though?

SarahMC

@lastsinglestanding: Amen!

dirtybee

@ineffable.me: Holy fuck I hate that. I trimmed too much once and felt like I had a camel toe that was visible from space.

@BDJ-Team feat. Panda T: "Rectal Braid" would be such an awesome band name. First single: "Dual merkins, broken hearts."

andBegorrah

I call bullshit on the tail. Since 99% of us male and female don't get butt waxed then we should all have it only we don't. But if she does have one and a man who loves it who the fuck has any right to say anything about it!?! She's not putting it in your face.

@Trixie from Toronto: It is truly sad. When that little Disney girl tried to get out of her contract by "accidentially" having her nude shots released (oh, come on, that's what she was trying to do and I give her nothing but props for it) she actually had pubic hair and I kept seeing comments on how she needed to shave. She was a teenager. She just got the fucking hair yesterday.

Macloserboy

am staging personal protest to the g.d. expensive and painful Brazilian. and guess what? DUDES DON'T CARE. they get to walk around with ironic facial hair, so g.d. it why can't my peach share in the wit of it all?

(butt-hair tail? wtf.)

dblgoldens

@blackbirdfly: Not to echochamber here, but this made me laugh out loud. And then fart in my office.

Nice.

AllThatYaz

@Neon.Wonder: It's like buying expensive underwear for a guy and then realizing he's only going to take it off in under 2 seconds without even bothering to look at it, ya know?

They don't care. And if they do care, they should be man enough to state their preference.

lastsinglestanding

what exactly are they getting done on their genitalia? i wonder what they came up that's "wrong" with it.

Mr. Mittens (né nodoubt9203)

@Archetype: Right, just because you don't wax the hair on your ass, doesn't mean it is going to grow super long. That is like saying that if you don't shave your legs you'll be shaggy like an afgan hound or Cousin It. It just stops growing, its not like the hair of your head.

hatepaperdoll

So if one has a tail "down there", I guess it is actually a femullet - cause, you know, biz in the front, partay in the back?

Just to weigh in, I hate having a shaved/waxed cooter. Itches like hell when it comes back in. I don't make Mr. Pants shave his sack, why am I expected to do mine? Er, not my sack, I'm not Ms. TraniHamPants, but y'all know what I mean. I hope.

Hamsterpants

@SammyKitty: Yeah, it sucks when you get one of those "is your refrigerator running" phone calls, you check the caller ID and find out it's your BOOBS that made the call.

blackbirdfly

@summerwheatley: I was just going to ask if anyone actually knew someone who got a brazillian. I thought that "trend" was just for celebutants.

sweetbeans

NO! NO NO NO NO. I refuse to believe that ass hair can grow that long. My ass hair has never been touched, neither by man nor by God, and there is no way that stuff is going to grow long enough to be a tail. I am horrified by these allegations of mutant ass hair.

(Note: I am not trying to be insensitive to owners of mutant ass hair.)

tscheese

How do they explain Charlotte getting crotch critters in the Hamptons (oh, the irony!) because I think Miss York MacDougal Goldenblatt was a faithful J Sister's client.

hamburgerhotdog

A 'tail?' A freakin' TAIL?! What has the world come to? Seriously?

shiningstar

@CaptainHangNail: Cosmo would not understand the allusion, but yes, I believe that's what they're going for.

videogoddess

i hate to say it though- i have to agree to a certain extent about guys of a certain age (younger) expecting next to nothing down yonder. i think a lot of it has to do with the porn at the fingertips on the interwebs thing. that, combined with lots of dirty talk. really, dude? really? can't we just make sweet sweet love?

i know a dude's quality when he doesn't care if my legs or my hoo-ha are shaved, just that i'm naked and in his bed.

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

I can't get a picture of an ass tail out of my mind. My hair in there doesn't even grow so long that it could be braided. I do like getting bare but I like leaving some shape of a patch intact... But a tail. Doesn't it get messy?

SmellyBelly

@summerwheatley: You can tell your friends what I told my Brazilian-obsessed friend - Buy a personal trimmer like a grown up.

lastsinglestanding

I have hair. Well maintained, trim hair (too much info?) though. BUT no guy I have ever been with has ever said anything or seemed to even mildly care.... still, I find myself feeling self conscious when I read things like this. What is they do care but don't say? I'm not opposed or anything, but I guess waxing it all off just isn't a habit I've started. I'm not the only one am I?

Neon.Wonder

I'm 28 and I'm used to being bald; actually perfer it. Now dating a man in his 40s who insists on allowing growth. Also he refuses to do any type of manscaping. Not even a little.
Oh well. The things you do for lurve.

crunkjuice

Oh, I've gone bare....down there. Tee hee!

And then I started puberty.

Lady Skittlehattington

There is a strain of mutant mice called nude mice, that have no thymus and no hair. Sometimes when I think about hairless vaginas, it reminds me of those mice.

No offence to those with Brazilians- I am sure they are not alike at all.

ilikenoise

Ok, so pretty soon women will be responsible for ending the threat of pubic lice by going "bare down there."

Awesome.

Screwvenir

Uh, what? I mean, I have butt crack hair and I get a bunny tail, but there's no fucking way it's long enough to be braided!!! Do humans grow pubic hair that long???

TruculentandUnreliable

@CaptainHangNail: For real. Ideally, all humans should strive to be more like Bowie.

ThePlasticMac

just because you don't wax butt hair doesn't mean it grows long enough to be considered a "tail" and braidable??? i mean the chances of that being physically feasable are so slim, and even slimmer are the chances of enjoying it (i would think?!)? and enjoyable or not aside, wouldn't it be a nuisance??

anniehall

@Archetype: you said it first. i mean, pubic hair doesn't grow like head hair. it tends to stop at a certain point. thank goodness for that!

cmg

@blackbirdfly: I know what you mean. My boobs totally froze my bra last week. :(

SammyKitty

um, i've never waxed my butt crack, and yet i still don't think you could braid that hair. that girl must also have a moustache and happy trail. gross.

Dictator for Life

I said it once and I'll say it again - POWERBUSH.

dirtybee

I think they meant to say "men of a certain age watch too much porn and need to grow up."

kinamoto

After reading that, I feel like this site is the only place I know where women don't get Brazilians. All my friends are totally on the Brazilian bandwagon and think I'm crazy for no longer getting them. And of course the fact that Cosmo dedicates an entire article to Brazilian waxing makes me want to continue my boycott that much longer.

summerwheatley

If a man ever commented on my pubic hair in any way whatsoever, he'd be getting a swift kick in the balls. I burn my girlie bits for no man.

PinkSoxHat

Bullshit. The rectal braid thing comes from Japanese "porn", wherein peeps have to wear merkins on the front AND the back b/c you can't show all the nasty bidness in Japan. Unless it's a cartoon. Then it's ON.

BiscuitDoughJones

@Archetype: This woman, like Cosmo's reader base, is a mutant.

videogoddess

I can't believe this isn't LOL-ed up yet. I love the cover story titled "when your boobs act weird." My boobs are such pranksters, ya know?

blackbirdfly

Pubic hair tail: sign of a furry, or sign of fucked up?

nnnnnnn'

Okay, why would the crack hair continue to grow? I guess this is a dumb-ish question, but there is no way your butt hair naturally grows, say, hair length, so that it can be braided. This shit can't be true and if it is, humanity is screwed.

stacyinbean

The "power" of going bare? How about the power to refuse being made to look pre-pubescent? The power of being a real woman, with a real adult body?

sweetbeans

@Trixie from Toronto: Sad to SAY, not sad to day. I am NOT sad today!

Trixie from Toronto

lolz-- love how this is the "Sexy issue" even though its the same as every month ever. Oh cover lies.

And also, seconding the vomit re: tail and braiding.

Purpled

Wait. I have never waxed near my butt cheeks and I can't braid my hair down there. Not even close. So confused!

Penny

That's true, Cosmo. If Britney would only have had a little pubic hair in her crotch shots, her dignity would have been spared.

layladylan

The tail. OMG. I just ate.

However, it is true, I am sad to day, that men 35 and under seem to expect you to be bald. This has shocked an old woman like me who has had some youngsters coming after her. I had to tell one of them to piss off, I hadn't gone bare for two husbands, and I wasn't ripping it off for him either. Good riddance.

Trixie from Toronto

trying not to be serious, but what makes me sad is that my peers (18 year old college students) read cosmo and take it seriously. like, im not trying to make some sort of social commentary, but seriously, i do think it's a problem so many teenagers read this and think "ohhh, i can't just give my boyfriend a bj, i have to rub his peen with my toes and lick it all at once." k so that is not so serious, but you get what i mean.

theloudcorral

Is her boyfriend a dog? Otherwise, I don't know what to say.

myrtlebeachbum

Ideally, all humans should be hairless, gyrating madly like a sex scene from 'The Man Who Fell to Earth'.

Private Hangnail

I love how it's called "The Sexy Issue." Cuz Cosmo NEVER talks about sex.

kansasgirl

Too much information on that last one.

One time I went all bare for a boyfriend. When he saw it he said "oh it's so smooth. like a baby" i pulled my underwear up told him to never say that again and that was the end of my "bare phase". Plus I was at the pool that summer and there was no barrier between the swimsuit and my cooter so you could just SEE my cooter and it was driving me nuts.

I am a Woman.

I have hair.

deal with it.

ineffable.me

Whew. Check pubic lice off my list of things to worry about.

ForeverBlueGirl

Retch.

Interesting that on the Sex cover, the model isn't pulling up her dress. Has Cosmo finally decided that it's sexy to leave a little something to the imagination?

petuniacat

Please excuse me while I go throw up.

Solangel

Long enough to be braided? GTF Outta here. Who pays these writers? Seriously.

GeekyChic

Oh, Veronica Mars, why would you do this to me?

videogoddess