The great body hair debate.
Au naturale is having a comeback. People are protesting the porn norm of shaved pussies and are growing a bush. Some folks claim it’s anti feminist to shave. Some folks bash the look as being prepubescent and foul.
And, ya know, I tend to be pretty vocal about things like genital surgeries to give everyone tiny labia and anal bleaching to give everyone a pretty pink ass and bad boob jobs and the idea that only skinny, modified, unnatural bodies are attractive.
But I can’t join in when it comes to shaving.
I happen to like bare pussy. Bare underarms and legs, too.
I happen to dislike body hair.
In fact, I hate it.
Now that’s not to say I’d turn someone down because they have body hair. Or that I don’t find people with body hair attractive at all. Or that I hate them because they have body hair. I tend to like people for who they are and not what they look like. I believe in personal choice, believe in doing what feels and looks good to us as individuals.
But, for myself? I’ll keep shaving, thanks.
I like looking down and seeing the individual parts of my pussy without hair in the way. I like the way my skin glistens when it’s wet or full of lube. I like the petal soft feeling of freshly shaved or waxed pussy. I like to look down when my guy has his tongue on my clit and be able to see my clit and his tongue.
I like the look of soft, smooth skin.
And it has nothing to do with the porn norm. I’ve been shaving longer than the girls in porn have.
It has nothing to do with a youthful look. Seriously. Bare, shaved pussy doesn’t look young to me. I’ve seen enough bald old ones to have lost that notion a LONG time ago. (Anyone who has worked up close and personal with the elderly can tell you… we lose our pubic hair as we age. And an old bald pussy doesn’t look young. It just looks like an old bald pussy. Just like mine looks like a bald 40 year old pussy and not a prepubescent pedophiles dream. In fact, I’d wager most people who like a bare cootch like it for reasons that have nothing to do with youth, teens or pedophilia. But that’s another topic for another time…) It just looks sleek and smooth and pretty to my eyes.
Personal preference, man. And mine is for shaved legs and armpits and a hairless pussy I can admire every time I look between my legs. I hate body hair.
Maybe I’ve just bought into the hype. Maybe it’s been the norm so long that it’s what seems “right” to me. Who knows? Hell, I don’t even mind the work and effort and occasional pain that goes along with smooth, hairless skin. That almost has to be a conditioned response, eh?
I’ve been nicking and cutting and tweezing and pulling and tearing and waxing and sugaring for more than half my life. Not because some man told me to or because some model or porn star looks a certain way but because the results give me skin I like to touch.
How about you? Hate it? Love it? Why?





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Eliot
For me, I’m really partial to being smooth. I did enjoy my au naturale phase, but it got annoying after a time. You shave for the exact same reasons I shave. And I love that you addressed the bare pussy equals prepubescence and pedophilia angle. That nonsense gets me so pissed. lol
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Kayla
For me, I really don’t have much of a preference. I definitely don’t think shaving makes you pubescent, though.
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Beautiful Dreamer
I’ve been hair free… since birth I guess. I started shaving my pubic region before I had pubic hair because I was so disgusted by the thought of it (my mother thought that I’d lost my mind at 12).
Turns out, my brother (who’s 2 years younger than me) ended up having the same fear/disgust and we found out about 3 years ago that we’ve both been shaving forever. And now I have my parner Aidan shaving his pubic hair as well. So simply put I am against body hair, especially pubic.
All three of us are rather hairless. They have no chest, stomach, or back hair. Neither one of them has gone to shaving their armpits or legs, but they’re rather smooth. All three of us have blonde whisps on our arms that you can only see in the sunlight.
Me, personally, I could never hook up with someone who has a lot of body hair. I won’t apologize for it- it’s a personal preference.
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Beautiful Dreamer
Haha. I just realized how my comment could be taken. I’ve never hooken up with, nor ever will hook up with, my brother. We just both have this weird phobia that we never knew the other had for 7 years.
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Laurel
I’m not really in favor or not in favor of body hair, tho I do tend to prefer less on women and maybe more on men.
What I don’t get is the whole “shaving is not feminist” thing. No, seriously, can someone explain why my desire to shave is some how political?
And while I sorta, kinda see where the pedophilia linkage comes in, it’s rather an insulting leap, especially when you consider what Carrie Ann said about getting old. Where are all the people up in arms because we are shaving pussies to look like old ladies and feed our grandma fetishes?
When you couch the practice in the context of a culture that spends billions in surgery and cosmetics to turn back time and look as young as possible, it could be argued that the whole damn world wants to look like and have sex with child-like folks.
SleepingDreamer
Shaving became popular in porn because with all that bush, people couldn’t really see what was going on! It’s all about the details!
I like to shave but I don’t do it enough, recently my razor is only called into play when my pubic hair gets so long it gets pulled into my vagina when my husband penetrates me. Yikes!!!
On men though, I love body hair. It just makes them look so virile, masculine, but I’ll tell ya- pulling out a pube from between your teeth is DISGUSTING!!! I remember reading in Cosmo (what? it burns well in the wood stove!) that women are attracted to really hairy men when they’re on their period. I guess that’s why I love men like Jeffrey Dean Morgan/Javier Bardem/and Gerade Butler so much!
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