For those of you who don’t know what he means – and why would you? Jim was discussing the rise and rise of the female Brazilian bikini wax – which, depending on who you talk to, is the removal of all hair in the bikini area. It’s a worrying trend for women with high pain thresholds, and it’s taking over Los Angeles like a Malibu bush fire.
According to Jim, the eight-year-old girl look is a winner for men due to the fact that “It’s easier to find things down there.”
Really? How lazy do these boys want to be?
Having hair down in your nether regions hardly prevents men from finding or indeed figuring out how the more sensitive parts of the female anatomy work. Or is this just a handy excuse for a male who doesn’t want to admit they are attracted to a vagina which resembles a child’s?
Not all waxers agree it’s a good thing to go totally bald, despite making big bucks from the trend. Ukrainian Lara, bemused by hairless un-European look, told me she was shocked when her 16-year-old son and his friends said they wouldn’t date a girl with “hair down there.”
Wow. At 16, teenage boys have already decided that along with perfectly hairless arms, legs, armpits, upper lips, nipples and toes, they expect a girl to dilapidate her vagina to the smooth gaping welcome of a porn star. If she chooses not to, she will be reduced to the shameful high school status of un-dateable pariah.
Then, waxer Michelle from Oregon told me with a shudder that she had been taught growing up that “having hair down there was unattractive.” She added that “men should keep it trim too.”
It’s true Hollywood males seem more meticulous than their UK counterparts when it comes to grooming, and I’ve heard there are a high percentage who won’t let their pubes get anywhere near the state of a redwood forest. In fact, I know at least a couple of men who get rid of it all, although I’m not sure why. Perhaps it’s becoming de-rigueur for men too, to begin disposing of body hair, although I don’t think I know any ladies who wouldn’t date a man because he had a few pubes.
Which brings me to my final point – what next? If ladies’ hair reduction has now reached an area where the sun don’t shine, could it be that in the future, men, porn or society dictates that ALL bodily hair, head hair included, should be disposed of?
As I ponder this, I get a vision of the 22nd century woman resembling a hairless, smooth, soft baby. Her face botoxed of all wrinkles; her teeth white, filed down, small and childlike, and her body lipo-sucked to within an inch of its adult skeleton, like some kind of terrifying Monty Python sketch. Will we all end up walking around looking like children? If so, I’m not sure we will be better for it…
I'm pretty sure I wouldn't fit in in LA for about a million reasons, this particular reason didn't occur to me, but thanks for pointing it out!
ReplyDeleteAs much as it pains me, I guess I'll just keep my pale, lardy arse in West Molesey, and eat cake with my crooked teeth!
Deal breaker. If they're bald, I bail. If they want bald, I bail. Ew. And I'm from LA.
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I'm with you on this one. I do remember the Independent writer Catherine Townsend writing a couple of years ago that a Brazilian made her a lot more sensitive 'down there' and that it was therefore good for her sex life. I myself wonder to what extent the porn industry is driving this trend where boys and young men who watch porn think being 'hairless' is normal and transmit these values to young women. Is the as you put it 'eight year old girl look' preferred as a way of denying female sexuality and controlling the female body? I guess it boils down to personal choice, but if people choose to wax because of the reaction of men or society in general rather than doing it for themselves something is clearly wrong there.
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