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In my best Sophia Petrillo voice: Picture it: New York City, 2005.
A young girl leaves her office on a cold, rainy evening in October. She’s already angry and frustrated, as she often is after a day at work. Then what does she see when she sits down on the subway and looks up at the ads that line the sides? An ad for why she needs a Brazilian wax. “Goddammit!” the young woman seethes. “It’s bad enough that I have to put up with insane beauty standards that make me feel guilty about not wearing a size 2 while also carting around a 32D rack! Can’t they leave my damn crotch alone?!?!” And that’s when it strikes her: she should create a blog about this: this insane pressure women must deal with to have hot wax pouring into their vulvas so that normal hair growth can be ripped out by the root or to drag sharp razors over sensitive areas to slice off the hairs. This idea that one can’t be feminine or attractive if she looks like, well, an adult woman. That men will reject you and that you are a slovenly, smelly, embarrassment to your sex. That you are a man-hating feminist who will die alone with 27 cats (even though you are allergic to cats) and they’ll eat your face off before anyone traces the smell (since, ya know, you already stink from your gross unshaved cooter so the neighbors are used to it)…
That said, I also realized when I started blogging that it would be hard to sustain a blog that solely explores why women feel the need to remove their pubic hair from their vulvas, and noted that I’d also write about other things that annoy or amuse me. I haven't been fired up to write about unshaved snatch for a while, so thanks to Lee at Independent Business Woman for her tip that led me to this gem at Chaos Theory:
Now an Australian website, girl.com.au has a big feature about Brazilian waxes - and in case you don’t know what that is, it’s when hot wax is used to rip off every inch of hair from a woman’s private region. Every hair. And the site is read by girls in the age nine to 14 range. On top of that, the site promotes the Brazilian with this phrase: “Nobody really likes hair in their private regions and it has a childlike appeal.”
IT HAS A CHILDLIKE APPEAL?
Obviously, I am as disgusted as Sherry is about this situation. Even putting aside the disturbing notion that hairless snatch offers "childlike appeal," the idea that "nobody really likes hair in their private regions" is enough to drive me batshit. Why does no one like it? Oh, maybe because we are told that it is smelly, dirty, slovenly, disgusting, unwomanly, revolting, and offensive? And where's the proof that "Nobody" likes it? (I guess I'm "Nobody" since I prefer pubic hair to having hot wax poured into the crevices of my labia and ass so some non-gynecologist can stick scraps of paper down there to yank every hair out by the root so I can have "childlike appeal," or at best, be less "un-feminine" to men raised on photoshopped pictures of hairless adult women.)
Anna at Jezebel offered a link to a YouTube Video of women during their Brazilian wax procedure. The video was made to help convince those of us who are squeamish about the idea of having hot wax poured into our vulvas then ripped out that it isn’t so bad. (For the record, I love Jezebel because they have written several blog posts that are skeptical of snatch waxing.) The Jezebel post links to a post written over at Mob Living with more pictures of women undergoing Brazilian procedures and a cheerful reassurance that:
I think totally natural is very hot, but with my line of work I have no choice but to go 12 year old girl style. Worst part of a Brazilian is actually getting yourself to go. But once you’re there and the first strip is pulled, you’re good. Your first one is usually the most painful, but don’t be scared, it’s not that bad. Don’t ask your friends if they hurt cause they are all going to exaggerate. I don’t know why some women tell there friends its so painful.
