After surveying just over 3, American women, its authors found some surprising statistics on the state of pubic hair. Eighty-four percent of respondents reported grooming theirs, while only 16 percent never do. Younger women are significantly more likely to groom than older women, and women who groom are more likely to be white. Rowen, M. But, says Dr. Having pubic hair is not unhygienic.
Here's What 1,100 College Students Said About Their Pubic Hair
Turns Out 84 Percent Of Women Groom Their Pubic Hair | SELF
In fact, in a study in the Journal of Sexual Medicine that asked over 1, university students women and men about their down-there grooming habits, 95 percent of people said they removed it at least once in the last four weeks. Shaving was the most popular—with half of women going totally bald to feel clean, comfortable, and sexy. But not everyone is all about the hair removal. We were curious about what real women did, so we asked eight women what they do to care for their most intimate areas.
A New Survey Shows Most Women Groom Their Pubic Hair. Should We Be Concerned?
Important pube stats ahead! They gathered data from 1, college-student participants self-reported women, and self-reported men , analyzed the responses, and published their findings in a recent issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine. The study doesn't reflect how all people in the United States treat their pubes, but the findings are still pretty interesting.
I remember biking to the Korean nail salon every three weeks in high school so that a woman could sear off my film of mustache and thick eyebrows, chastising me if I waited too long. Their teasing made me feel bestial. Soon my friends and I all went to liberal colleges, where we read Simone de Beauvoir and plastered posters of Frida Kahlo to our dorm walls, her unibrow and facial mustache a symbol for her hairy resistance of the white patriarchy.