In the pubic interest

Thinking of being "scarred for life" in that area... :|

yeah was not literally scarred

the annoying thing about waxing (esp full brazilian) is that you never know what 'method' any particular place uses before you go in. i've heard horror stories like yours from friends, but the one place i used to go to in nz was fantastic - nice room, soft lighting, towels in appropriate places so you didn't feel totally naked, and a not-embarrassing method of waxing certain places. and no wall-to-wall mirrors.

Yeah the mirrors were definitely the worst part.

oh, the other thing to make sure of before booking is how ~fast~ they do it, e.g. some places do tiny little areas so that the wax takes like an hour to do, and is more painful, while other places do large areas so it's all over in about 10mins.

ok huge delayed lol @ whiney's pic

do people have any reasons other than aesthetics/visuals for doing this? I remain a little weirded out by how over the course of my life the practice of shaving the pubes has gone from something pretty rare to something that's if not expected then at least not even a little surprising.

Oh it's totally weird. I was shocked to find out how many of my friends are always completely bare. I'm pretty sure I've talked about how/why I find that whole trend disturbing on other threads.

i trim, have ever since i was a teenager -- shaved once and hated it, will never do it again

OK I'll come out and admit that I find it a little weird that some straight guys would shave and or wax. It seems less strange for a gay man to do either but I'd have some serious questions about a straight guy who was that into grooming his pubes. Maybe that's stupid of me but I can't help it.

lol at hall of mirrors gina waxing

let it grow, most prob could trim but get worried about putting anything sharp down there w/ my hereditory shakes.

To clarify, I guess I mean a more dude type straight guy. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that, say, The Situation is a waxer but I do have some serious questions about those types in general.

I'm not generally weirded out by body hair but I know that for a lot of people it's a thing. The only time I can remember being truly weirded out by it, was upon seeing the mother of some kids I used to babysit for wearing a bathing suit. Her bush came out that suit in full force and spread - no lie - halfway down her inner thighs. It was truly out of control and she didn't seem to give a shit. I wasn't sure whether I should be horrified or impressed by the size of her figurative balls.

maybe some people hate bearded privates as much as bearded faces

I once dated a guy, and on our first date he took me to see American Pie 3 at the dollar theater (I had not seen the first two). There was some stuff about how now that main curly-haired guy is hitched, he better start trimming his pubes & all, a running theme through the movie. After the movie, my date asked my opinion on the whole issue: do guys need to trim their pubes? This is not the kind of conversation to initiate on the first date, is the take home here.

"Hey, you haven't seen my genital region, but do you think I should alter it?"

xp to Kenan's first...

SHAVE YOUR SHAFT?????

Yeah was wondering that too but didn't really know if I wanted to hear the explanation. I've never been with a dude and thought, "Damn that's some hairy balls/shaft." Seems unnecessary imo.

"Damn that's some hairy balls-slash-shaft"

you know how sometimes you see some graffiti on a bathroom wall somewhere that's just the right combination of seemingly tossed-off and willfully malicious about trying to burrow its little obscene wording into your brain that it never, ever leaves you? even if you only saw it once? well, that was me and the all-caps "I <3 SHAVED COCK" graffiti I saw at some points in my life

my equivalent of that would be the wisdom etched onto the underside of a classmate's shelf at school -

"I WILL MASTURBATE
IN THE GALLERY OF YOUR BUTTOCKS"

at cambridge isn't that just called a freshmen mixer?

lollllllllllllllllllllllllllll

dying @ Jordan

my dear fellow

this is boarding school we're talking about

SHAVE YOUR SHAFT?????

It's not that crazy, you guys. Just the most proximal 1/4 inch or so. My habit of doing this goes back to the days (oh, the olden days, those halcyon days) when I wore condoms, and unrolling them could sometimes cause the kind of yank that you do not want on your penis. Specifically, you'd yank hair out of the base of your cock every time you unrolled a condom. Since then, I've incorporated the shaving of that region into my overall regimen.

Also, there's a good bit of shaft that grows hair. Some of those little curlies are downright tenacious. They'll end up an inch or more from the base of what one would call "dick," especially on the underside. There's this whole penis/scrotum grey area going on there that normal ball hair doesn't understand the boundaries of. You gotta show it who's boss.

Mostly now it's just a vanity thing, though. Evan if I had five-inch wiry hairs sprouting from halfway up my dick, I don't think that would stop her from fucking me. But maybe she would, I have no idea. I'm sure it would bother her if that were sprouting out of my chin or ears or nose or whatnot.

when you say "shave" is that a euphemism or are you literally putting a razor on the shaft of your cock

No, you're right. "Shave" is a euphemism for the nanobots that live in my underwear that destroy the hair while I sleep.

Razors are not that tricky, guys. You put one on your face every morning, right?

Frankly, I have a lot more trouble with the region right beneath my nose than I do with any part of my dick.

what about your taint

how much trouble do you have with that

I don't think I'm especially hairy there anyway. But maybe I should go get a mirror.

I remain a little weirded out by how over the course of my life the practice of shaving the pubes has gone from something pretty rare to something that's if not expected then at least not even a little surprising.

In Finland at least this happened in an even shorter time: I've noticed the same change during the 13 years I've been sexually active. These days it's not uncommon to come across a fully shaved porcelain pussy even on hippie or feminist girls, who you wouldn't expect to shave it. The only proper explanation I can think of is that porn and porn imagery has become more mainstream, and obviously shaved pussies are very common in porn. Personally I much prefer hairy vaginas, I've always found fully shaved ones a bit weird. It's not like I'm gonna run away from a shaved pussy, but I think they have a sort of a preteen vibe which makes them a bit awkward. Also, if the hair has been allowed to grow a bit after the last shave, the resulting pussy stubble can give you the same sort of red face that you get from kissing a man with a stubble.

kudos

officer, fully shaved porcelain pussy is the name of my dog!

Oops, sorry - in Finnish "porcelain" is a slang term for a completely shaved pussy, but I guess it doesn't make much sense in English.

haah okay I'm gonna check all my porcelain mugs to see if they've started growing hairs

in Finnish "porcelain" is a slang term for a completely shaved pussy

And a damn fine one, at that.

so basically you were saying "a fully shaved completely shaved pussy"?

btw I think I deserve kudos for not immediately GISing "porcelain pussy"

ok can we change the name of this board to I Always Think I Love TMI But Then I Just End Up Convulsing With Grief

I Love Convulsions is the best compromise.

"grief" is the weirdest slang term for orgasm I've encountered so far

la petite mort ;_;

bahahaha thanks thread

http://www.hippy.com/php/roots/celebratethesun1926.jpg

OK I'll come out and admit that I find it a little weird that some straight guys would shave and or wax

it's a hygiene thing, not a vanity thing, tbh. thicket isn't the easiest thing to keep clean and fresh

okay I just properly read Kenan's first post and now I am visualizing this:

http://www.hji.co.uk/hjimages/images/qhs1657/hji/medium/1987-men-lines.jpg

... only in pubic hair.

little-known fact stateside, that guy was the singer from Hairhouse, whose Kajagoogoo-inspired single "...Only In Public Hair" reached #3 on the Finnish singles chart IIRC

interestingly enough "public hair" and "pubic hair" are synonyms in Finnish

FYI this is what happens when Kenan shaves his face

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/4776230807_f231f65d4a.jpg

xpost to hi dere - that's not an "l," it's a hair on your screen

I thought it was on this thread but I guess not. I hate vajayjay so so much. A girl I was in grad school with used it all the time in class and we were studying women's health. It used to piss me off so much and I can't believe none of the professors ever called her out on it although you could see some of them cringe. It also doesn't help that when I read it I hear it inside my head in an Oprah voice. That said, her "My vajayjay is paining me" thing was pretty funny at the time.

"I'm just going to Tar-jay..."
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/HyacinthBucket.jpg

Being in the upper midwest, we've had Target since I was a small child and a number of Target stores, nicknamed by side of town:

Tar-jay
Targhetto
Targentino

Now there are a few Super Target stores in the suburbs and I have no idea wtf to call them

That said, her "My vajayjay is paining me" thing was pretty funny at the time.

this is why the word "vajayjay" will be funny to me for the rest of my life

"I'm stopping at the Super Va-Jay-Jay on my way home from work. Anyone need anything?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVxm-SO6Vdo

FOREVER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO89J6ouwgE

kind of undeniable once it gets going

Super Va-Jay-Jay

Sounds like a 16 bit games console.

Or a video game, 'Super Va-Jay-Jay Bros.'

Martha Quinn: Groundbreaking Va-Jay-Jay

that must hurt

"Stuffin' Martha's Va-Jay-Jay"

kind of undeniable once it gets going

otm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu7JeCGALcg

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/physician-calls-for-an-end-to-bikini-waxing-8008628.html

“It is time to declare a truce in the war on pubic hair and allow it to stay right where it belongs.”

that is not actually a truce tbh

truce would be shaving one side

that article is hair-raising!

can't believe ilx user tmi_friday no longer exists in the database

The Comment Section for Every Article Ever Written About Intimate Grooming

I am female and I do the landing strip thing 0
I am female and I shave/wax the lot 0

http://25.media.tumblr.com/b38666fe18a651c629984706177def67/tumblr_mnm0u2PRia1rhua56o1_500.gif

3. If you have hair in your vagina, you should see a doctor. The word is “vulva.”

4. Stop trying to make “vulva” happen. “Vulva” is never going to happen.

23. Oh, excuse me, I didn’t know there was a High Council Meeting about what I was allowed to do with my pubic hair. When do we get to take off our wigs and pointy shoes and learn how to poison children?

lmfao

In the pubic interest, so that others can avoid my mistake:

DIY brazilian decidedly NOT a good idea.

let's have a look.

tmi_friday is a great username

xp dude!

In about 75% unrelated news, I started shaving my head again this weekend and got to wondering whether it would be easier just to wax my scalp. Youtube has convinced me otherwise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EeOJzHj302Y

the real answer is to never get a haircut

http://renresearch.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/did-renaissance-women-remove-their-body-hair/

sorry about yr cookie xps

this too shall pass. not without much hilarity from spouse, mind you.

For the record I think a basic bikini wax is a reasonable DIY objective for the waxing-experienced, of which I am one. News flash: legs do not equal labia.

too true

Eeek.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si2nJSFvzss

recently, I've let things go to a point that the thick dark hairs have reached down towards the testicles in a way I haven't experienced for 20 years. Looks good in the mirror.

I don't have a youtube like the one above, so you'll have to just imagine my protective groin wings.

I’m not sure if this is an appropriate tweet but In the sixties some of the models shaved their minges. I always thought it was a turn off I always liked women to look ‘au naturel’

— Dave Davies (@davedavieskinks) December 2, 2021

I was talking about *what* upthread? In public?

And I'd do it all again. In public.

a huge ever growing pulsating vadge that rules from the centre of the undergrowth

― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:04 (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

what was I. what were we all

It was a hornier time.

create 'i love pubes' board & make me tha mod