Here’s another way to think about it: While women are becoming increasingly vocal in fighting the various stigmas attached to sexuality – rape, abortion, orientation and identity – they still endure quiet shame about their basic anatomy. The prospect of more oral sex could mitigate the undercurrent of judgment beneath much external pressure to undergo regular depilation, though there’s no escaping the troubling sexual politics of an unspoken quid pro quo: “I will pleasure you if you modify your natural bodily state to suit my desires”.
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“I can’t tell you how often women apologise, ‘I didn’t have time to groom, ‘ ” Streicher said. A major factor as to why women groom their pubic hair is for partner preference.
A sizable percentage of American women are trimming their hair down under – but they’re doing it for all the wrong reasons, a new study reports. Moreover, those accidents happen primarily to teenagers and young women; one-half of patients were between 19 and 28 years old and more than a quarter were 18 and younger.
If women do groom their pubic hair for the pleasure and approval of men, it may be in part because there’s a tangible reward system in place. “Waxing, you can burn yourself”.
“The modern trend of pubic hair removal likely originated in South America, hence the term Brazilian as slang for complete pubic hair removal”, the study states.
If women want to style their pubic hair and avoid these risks, Rowen suggests using scissors to clip it without getting too close to the skin. Removing the hair around or above the vagina was most common followed by trimming the hair on the inner thighs. But this “Barbie doll look”, as Dr. Iglesia, a professor of obstetrics-gynecology and urology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, told the Times she calls the hairless fad, hasn’t always been popular.
But it was this study’s finding that women associate grooming with health and hygiene – many said they groomed before a visit to a health care provider – that disturbs many gynecologists.
“Future direction for research include understanding the cultural differences as they relate to pubic hair grooming and the role of the health care professional in influencing women’s grooming habits”, the study concludes. Obese women are particularly prone to injury during pubic hair grooming, which is important to any practitioners who address gynecologic health.
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“Every single gynaecologist has their own anecdotal feel for how many patients are grooming”, Streicher said. Rowen mentioned that if women have been experiencing problems owing to grooming then ca=n look out for options. “I think we need to start talking about not just complications, but also the time, expense and pain that many of these practices result in”.
