We all want to look hot for our partner in the pube department, especially when they’re going down on us. So what are the most attractive pubic hair styles now? Bald Eagle? Burning bush? Am I a bad feminist if I wax? And let me think….have I ever thought about what I prefer, or did I just look at the crotch-shots in porn and call it a day?
Pube trends have changed through the decades. The 70’s were replete with big huge hairy bushes, and I’ve dated several people who wished that was still the standard. In the 80’s and 90’s porn encouraged women to remove more and more hair, which led to the landing strip. This culminated in the millennial bald pussies being deemed the prettiest. This trend has hung around for quite some time, until recently.
There are several modern developments that have encouraged more pubic hair growth. The first is a new wave of feminism that says the female body isn’t just a sexual playground for men, and why should we be told that our natural body hair is unattractive? The second impetus for hair growth was lock down. Many people grew out their bush and don’t want to go back to uncomfortable waxing, shaving and ingrown hairs.
Male pubic hair too follows changing stylistic trends. While razors were originally used just for beards, more males are now shaving, trimming or waxing their pubic hair as well. I dated a guy who assumed that I would find his genitals sexier if he removed all of his hair entirely. He said his bodybuilder friend told him that women think pubic hair is gross. What his friend may not have realized was that there is no standard that will meet everyone’s preferences.
Pubes are personal. I myself like pubic hair on my partner. I find it sexy. After all, I’m getting busy with a grown man, not a prepubescent boy. Many of my friends though, would prefer no hair at all on their male partner. And it’s not fun to get it stuck in your teeth either.
We are trained by tv, magazines and porn what is beautiful. Most people don’t realize that many of their preferences were shaped by companies wanting to profit by shifting their beliefs. I read an article, for example, saying that one large razor company, after falling sales from more guys growing beards, were launching a campaign to encourage men to shave other parts of their bodies? What, you say? How would Bic and Gillette get me to shave other parts of my body without me having a say in the matter? How else? The same way companies always get people to buy beauty products; by capitalizing on our natural insecurities. If you can get guys to feel embarrassed about their own body hair then you can get them to buy products to shave it off. If you don’t believe me, let’s take a look at history.
In the 1900’s the standard for women was hairy pits and bushes. But in 1915, the first Gillette ad for women’s razors ran, calling underarm hair “unsightly” and “objectionable.”
Razor ads from 1922 Harper’s Bazaar say that a woman with underarm hair is “an embarrassment.” Later ads used the same strategies to increase revenues by getting women to shave their legs. Their ads said that women will feel “self-conscious” if they go in public with furry legs. As a result, by 1964, 98 percent of young women took measures to remove body hair. I have to admit, I still shave my pits and legs even though I know that my preference was crafted and handed to me by razor companies. I tried for a couple years growing it out, but at this point it’s the way I feel most comfortable.
The bottom line is that we like what we like, weather we had any say in the matter or not. But you don’t have to buy into the notion that you have to look like the people in porn, or that buying a product is going to make people want to have sex with you. Be your own person and go with what feels best for you.
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