5 Women On Why They're Done Shaving Their Pubic Hair

"... When I first noticed hair growing in my pubic area, my instinct was to shave it all off.

Not because the sight of it frightened me Id been told to expect it from a certain age but because
something about removing my pubic hair made me feel bizarrely grown-up, despite the fact that what I was
doing was making me look less like an adult.

Knowing I had control over my own body gave me a sense of autonomy that young women so often crave..."

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I just want to be a hairy girl and for that to be OK

"... Many myths about body hair have been used against women to make them feel dirty and inferior.

Its funny when people claim that having pubes is inherently dirtier than a clean shave,
when in reality those hairs are there to protect and keep bacteria away.

There is virtually no health-related reason for women to have to remove body hair, only personal choice.

... but body hair on women has become something so taboo, that girls
as young as ten years old old feel the need to get rid of it.

I was 11 when I first shaved my arms, but it never just stops there.

As soon as you realise that theres something people hate about it,
you hate it too and you hate your body for creating it at all.

Suddenly your eyebrows look too bushy, your armpit hairs are too thick,
the little hairs on your knuckles are unfeminine. It goes on ..."

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RE:5 Women On Why They're Done Shaving Their Pubic Hair

Yes Im starting to prefer the natural look too

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