Bare - Down there, ?

I assure you, I do not get this knowledge from consuming it.

I don't have those sort of politics, I'm afraid, fashionable as they have become.

Well I am 55 and have waxed down there since I was 30s as I think hairs all over are unnatracrive but that’s just my view of me nothing to do with porn or my dh.

I think it’s just part of the trend now days to have beauty treatments and online trends rather than porn.

Young Man tend to twim wax and shave too.

Not sure it’s that sinister it’s just fashion.

Mind you seems funny to me that lady gardens and men’s gardens are waxed and clipped while it’s the trend for men to have beards and girls to have huge slug eyebrows!

My teenage day it was pencil thin eyebrows and clean shaven men.

It’s still body hair but redistribution ‘

Well, Gnet informative as usual! Who knew?

I'm in awe at muffin's knowledge of how porn films are shot!

Thank you Iam64, I find the normalisation of porn to our young people very worrying .
Whilst working at a school I was shocked that it was virtually impossible for staff to block porn from popping up on screen, purely because they could not keep up with the ever advancing technology

Any man that made those kind of demands would be shown the door quick sharp.

I remember when I had my first baby in hospital and was shaved 'down there'. The other mothers complained that they looked like a plucked chicken! Hard to believe that women are now doing it because it's expected of them. I thought we were supposed to be more liberated these days.

Thanks for starting this thread Bridgeit. I find it disturbing that porn is so easily available and influential in influencing boys and girls expectations. I m disgusted that men seem to want their partners to look like pre pubescent girls.
My first child was born in 1972 when a full shave was the norm when you arrived in hospital in labour. It was said to be for reasons of hygiene, I hated being shaved and loathed the itchy mess as the hair grew back. I’ve never shaved I’d had a bikini wax since then, no problem with ordinary women’s hair.
The other thing about porn is the expectation young girls will engage in sexual activities they may find unpleasant, scary or painful.

One of the major concerns with shaving or waxing down there is the risk of infection. Pubic hair is designed to have a protective function. If you're removing that, you're getting less protection. Not to mention that shaving or waxing can cause injuries to delicate parts of the body. They may not be obvious at first, but even a tiny scratch can be the start of a nasty cellulitis, or soft tissue infection.

Interesting article in Guardian a couple of weeks ago
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2019/feb/13/neat-pubic-hair-pregnant-women-pressured-to-get-brazilian
It refers to a GCSE biology textbook which illustrates (drawing) of pregnant woman with only a "landing strip" . (link in middle of article if you want to see it). If this is what school students are seeing as "normal" it's a worrying trend. Publishers have since apologised.

Yes I agree BlueBelle a worrying trend. Some women shave for reasons of hygiene which I don't think necessary. Others are particularly hirsute and like to keep the area tidy when wearing swimsuits.

Muffin the Moo, and Stella, I applaud your disparagement of porn for the reasons you say. I do hope that this view as you state it is taught in schools.

You guys seem to know a lot about porn!

A lot of guys trim very closely because it makes the total length look longer.

Bridgit: there's plenty of free stuff and the professional guys are often shaven.

I think it’s to do with looking virginal and young ! Which is a dodgy way of looking at a WOMAN and I d be very concerned with a man who felt he ‘needed’ his girlfriend wife to look like a pre pubescent girl

I don’t honestly know, but generally speaking the interest , commercially at least seems to be for the female form!
Woman don’t appear to have as much appetite for paying good money to look at men’s dangly bits hairy or not! ?

Do male porn stars shave themselves too then? If so is it also young men who are shaving themselves 'down there'?

Yes, it's porn unfortunately. Young men expect everything to be "bare down there" and so young women are going along with it, for fear of being rejected if they are not as expected.

It concerns me - not so much the hair situation, but the fact that these young people are growing up thinking that the activities on porn are "the norm", that everyone wants sex all the time and that nobody ever says "no". I really feel sorry for the kids who are influenced this way.

Yeah, it comes from porn. There is now an expectation that women in person should look like women in porn because most kids/young lads are getting their first sexual exposure that way and so are very taken aback by something unexpected. They have also conditioned their sexual responses/tastes via the medium of porn so they often require particular things to start their engine, so to speak.

Porn is shot in HD now so the 'style' requires very meticulous grooming etc. The obvious reason for porn requiring the performers to be hairless is for a better view of the... mechanics, especially in close-up shots.

There is also a strong association between hairlessness and extreme youth in girls, and many mainstream 'men's interest' websites/magazines praise the look explicitly for that reason.