With all the talk of women being shamed for their body hair, it's truly a gift when celebs actually get candid about their personal grooming rituals. When a team of researchers from George Washington University took a closer look at Playboy 's representations of women's genitalia throughout the years, they found that in issues dating from the magazine's inception in up through the s and '80s, more than 95 percent of the centerfolds and naked models sported full, apparently natural pubic hair. So what does it all mean? They think that this must be what men want, so they groom themselves accordingly. Earlier this year, even Vogue noted a return to more hair down there — a trend likened by waxer Pat Stark to the "return to thicker brows. We're not so embarrassed by our bush If embarrassment is ever felt for fuzz, it appears we're pretty unphased about our vaginas.
While this whipsaw between extremes seems unprecedented — how can we go from no pubes to full pubes in three years? Who had killed thick female pubic hair , the trusted wiry protector of our lady bits? Herbenick recalls one encounter in which a popular, well-liked college student in a class she taught openly professed that he had never hooked up with a girl who had pubic hair, and would frankly be disgusted to undress a woman and discover a veil of genital fur. He said, "It's been a lifelong battle for me personally. Comments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed here. In my early tween years when I first started growing pubic hair, I was so ashamed of it, I would shave every week.
