Most women still shave their pubic hair entirely – and there’s nothing wrong with that

Despite a growing movement to embrace a natural bush, most women still keep their pubic hair cleanly shaven, new statistics have found. The research came from babe’s sexual attitudes survey which uncovered that 44 per cent of us shave our pubic hair entirely.

Trimmed was the second most popular option for 32 per cent of women, while keeping your pubic hair natural trailed in third place with just seven per cent.

Babe’s sexual attitude survey was taken by thousands of young women all over the world, and is an honest portrayal of how girls feel about their bodies and sex lives in 2016. Most of the women who answered the survey though, didn’t feel particularly militant one way or the other on how we should look after our pubic hair. In fact, most of them seemed to not give a fuck at all.

One woman wrote: “I trim in summer and for specific occasions, otherwise though, I can’t really be bothered.”

It was a similar story across the board; “I shave it all off when I can be bothered, in between those days I’m just prickly”, said one woman. Another contributed: “I shave the labia and trim the top. I used to shave more but razor burn just isn’t worth it. It looks worse than the hair.”

“Whatever the hell I feel like – sometimes I shave, sometimes I do nothing.”

“It’s not to please a man or anything, I just find my pubes itchy when they get long, so I like to keep them pretty short.”

The general sentiment was that women aren’t keen to keep their pubes in line with partner’s wishes or shave it, but nor are they likely to let it grow for political reasons. The vibes weren’t belligerent, it was more that we just don’t give a fuck.

The noughties style of waxing completely have become less fashionable, and just six per cent of women who answered the survey favoured it as a style. Brazilian was the least popular though, at just five per cent.

However we are becoming more chill about the concept of pubic hair as a whole. Babe’s sexual attitude survey polled nearly 6,000 women, and a massive 79 per cent of them said that not having shaved their pubic hair or legs wouldn’t stop them having sex.

Shaving, waxing, even trimming are laborious processes. They can often be expensive or painful, but clearly the diktat that we should grow our body hair out for the cause isn’t landing with normal women anymore than the idea we should shave it all off to look like dated porn stars. Despite the pressure from all sides we’ve managed to stay fairly lackadaisical about whatever we do down below.

Basically, we’re just doing whatever the fuck we want with our own bodies, and that can only be a good thing.

@rosielanners