Womens pussy hair showing from under shorts

A nationally representative study out of the University of California, San Francisco found that nearly 84 percent of the 3, women surveyed had groomed their pubic hair, and 62 percent had removed it all at least once. Shaving with a nonelectric razor was the most popular method of grooming, followed by trimming with scissors and shaving with an electric razor. Even the current natural-is-beautiful, pro-body-hair movement is a cultural product and one that tends to focus on the hair of cis white women , at that. Women and femmes are far from a monolith, however. Beauty standards interact with gender identity, race, sexuality, relationships, and, yes, simple convenience to influence how we approach our pubes.

After 10 years of constant shaving, I decided to let my bush grow freely, and realized some things in the process. It had never occurred to me that I was supposed to groom my pubic hair until fooling around in the back of a Ford Focus with a particularly unwoke boyfriend at age Before that, Dr. My mother, who carefully instructed me on the art of shaving my legs, never explicitly told me it was something I needed to do elsewhere.

Skip navigation! Story from Beauty. Perhaps you've already heard: The bush is back. Yes, claiming that a body part is "in" or "out" of fashion is still inherently problematic, yet many have noted that a fuller-bodied pubic hairstyle is being celebrated in the public eye in in a way it hasn't been for quite some time.

Shaving is a mark of higher civilisation. In the old days women used scissors to trim their pubic hair, mostly for reasons of hygiene. This procedure had absolutely nothing to do with modern pubic shaving. According to a poll by NIVEA, four out of five women under the age of thirty now shave their genitals. The problem is, pubic hair is almost twice as thick as the hair on arms or legs, and grows back much faster.