Funny Gifs of Trimming Pubic Hair
Is The Bush Back For 2019?
Our lady parts are, at last, getting back to nature.
Dec 10, 2018 4:04amFive years is a very long lifespan for a fashion or beauty trend, and 17 is practically unheard of. Yet, for almost one and a half decades, the Brazilian has ruled the pubic grooming scene. There have been micro-trends surrounding it, from vajazzling to heart-shaped 'dos, but, for the most part, all-bare or a "landing strip" has dominated the landscape downstairs.
Since 2000, when Carrie on Sex And The City was stripped of every pubic hair, taking it all off hasn't been an option, it's been the option. Last year you could hardly escape the news that complete hair removal had become so popular, pubic lice were now basically extinct.
We shouldn't set up artificial habitats for homeless lice just yet though, because 2019 is the year the bush is due to grow back.
"When I realised that everyone was expected to wax, I felt kind of bummed out for women," says musician, artist and TED speaker, Amanda Palmer. "One of the things I think is so strange about the advancement of feminism is there are certain departments where we've done really well, then there are places where I look back at the '70s, and I can't believe we fucked it up so much."
Palmer became a defender of a woman's right to pubes when she released the song "Map Of Tasmania" in 2011. Upon its release, she was on the fringe but she's being joined by an increasingly loud chorus. Even American Apparel has dressed its mannequins in leotards, with thick brown thatches of hair peeking out the sides.
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The revival of pubic hair is great news for the pain-averse. Brazilians made standards of pubic grooming so exacting that women began resorting to brutal extremes to keep their vulvas "neat". A 2012 study by the University of California found that between 2002 and 2010, emergency-room admissions due to pubic grooming injuries increased five-fold.
"The problem with grooming pubic hair is that it has made the vulva and labia more visible than ever before," says Claire Moran, a researcher at the University of Queensland, who has investigated the rise of labiaplasty. "In the past there wasn't this visibility, so there wasn't such a focus on the genital region." Getting labiaplasty is like shaving your head, discovering it has funny lumps and, instead of growing it out again, deciding to stave in your skull to create a "prettier" shape.
There's a huge amount of variety when it comes to what a "normal" vulva looks like, but they have one thing in common: they're all a bit weird looking. That's where the middle ground between a bare pudenda and a full-blown power-muff comes into play.
Just like Kate Moss in Playboy editorial, many women are opting for a manicured-lawn look. Still groomed but lower maintenance and shaped to flatter. Dr Alicia Teska performs laser hair removal at Skin Temple Medi Clinic and Spa and she explains that only 10 per cent of her clients now request the "all-bare" look."
About 20 per cent will go for a tidy up across the top and sides and the rest choose to leave a small triangle of hair on top."
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Having a style you can maintain with scissors and tweezers seems practical when you consider the fact that even long-lasting hair-removal treatments aren't always permanent. "I don't know where that rumour came from," says Dr Spring Cooper, a sexual health expert at the University of Sydney, of the laser's "forever" promises. "It's a myth."
Growing your wax out completely or going DIY isn't just a hipster thing to do. A 2013 survey by British pharmacy group UKMedix revealed that women's attitudes to their short and curlies are changing. It reported that 51 per cent of women "do not style or groom their pubic hair", and 45 per cent said this was because they could "no longer be bothered to keep up the grooming." Another 62 per cent said their partners preferred them furry.
Palmer thinks the figure could be even higher: "If I actually had to do my own sexual education project, I would gather and collect and broadcast the hundreds of men I have talked to in bars, at parties, backstage, in restaurants and out of my own personal curiosity asked 'Do you care if women are shaved?' A shockingly huge proportion of them—90 per cent—do not care."
Although men might not care, women certainly do. Cooper explains that "there are a handful of studies asking why people remove their pubic hair and there are a lot of different reasons, including perceived cleanliness, or that it looks better, but, especially with young people, they're doing what their friends do. If their friends trim, or wax, or totally remove their hair, that's what they'll do."
Palmer is less restrained: "If you ask women if they care whether or not their female friends have body hair, they might be the most judgmental."
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It seems strange that refusing to have hot wax slathered on your labia is considered rebellious. But if celebrities give an indication as to where this trend is going, we'll stop the shaming soon. Cameron Diaz reportedly once took pube-policing so far that she helped pin Gwyneth "'70s-vibe" Paltrow down and trimmed her. Now, she's changed her tune. In The Body Book, Diaz says: "Your pubic hair is a mysterious, confusing, pretty, furry door to your vagina, and you should never remove it, because one day someone's going to want to get in there and they'll probably enjoy their stay more if they have to hunt around for the entrance, like they're entering a genital speakeasy."
Regardless of what Diaz says, there's nothing wrong with wanting to get rid of your pubic hair. The problem is that so many women feel that they have to. Palmer thinks that pubic hair is a lot like feminism: "It has to be about absolute choice and all options being available, otherwise you're just locking yourself in a new cage."
However you choose to wear it, hair is like any other trend: it always comes back eventually.
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Source: https://www.elle.com.au/culture/is-bush-back-2019-7815
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