00:00I feel like it's one of those things that you kind of know everyone does and everyone has but you
00:05just don't talk about it.
00:07Today we're talking about all of our hair down there.
00:10I feel some type of way about my pubic hair.
00:14I think pubic hair is gross because I think all hair is gross.
00:19The carpet definitely doesn't match the drapes.
00:21I'm still finding how I feel about pubic hair.
00:26It's kind of gross, not gonna lie. It's kind of very gross.
00:29It's a question all people face, especially during those lazy, long winter months.
00:34To shave or not to shave? That is the question.
00:38I've shaved my pubes off more times than I can count.
00:42I have bled in more places than are natural because of it.
00:47I like to trim it. I think it looks messy when it's too unkept.
00:52I'm about that groom life, not that completely shaving everything off life.
00:56I have my pubic hair lasered. It was very painful and some days I miss it. Is that weird?
01:05I don't do a full on wax or shave. I definitely trim.
01:10I think that does help because in my opinion it can get pretty hairy down there.
01:14I grow a lot of hair and so if I don't take care of it, it's gonna get crazy.
01:19It's gonna get bad. It's gonna get upsetting.
01:22According to a study published in JAMA Dorbitology, 85% of women ages 18 to 65 reported some sort of
01:29pubic grooming.
01:30It's changed a lot in the 70s. I never had a conversation with my mom of what to do with
01:35my pubic hair or what not to do.
01:37But after spending my late teens and my early 20s in Miami, I quickly realized that the best thing to
01:42do was just go bald eagle.
01:45Reality of dating and pubic hair in your mid 40s is like a whole other conversation.
01:50I'm 46. I'm competing with women in their 30s. You know, it's like does it really come down to what
01:56your pubes look like?
01:58I took both of my daughters to be waxed. I just felt like in today's world you've got to be
02:04cleaned up down there.
02:06I felt like yeah, they needed that clean, what do you call it, bush type of situation.
02:12So your mom told us that she took you and your sister to get it waxed or shaved off.
02:17You know, we have a very open family.
02:19I definitely think there is pressure to shave your pubic hair right now.
02:23I think a lot of societal pressure of women like not showing a lot of pubic hair or being bare
02:29comes, definitely comes from porn.
02:32From porn.
02:33It was probably porn.
02:34And porn, women never have any pubic hair.
02:37It's a stigma. It's again, we're somehow not fitting into this mold of what's female, of what a woman is
02:44supposed to be.
02:45And it's obviously BS, but it gets in your head.
02:50It's something weird that's happened where we now in society think that once you hit puberty, girls should be worried
02:56about being absolutely hairless in every way.
02:59Except for your eyebrows and your head, which is creepy.
03:02Like no one cares, you know, like I am not the hair on my body.
03:08I feel bad for you guys. It's just an extra thing you have to do.
03:13So I feel like it's one added burden. There's so many burdens for women.
03:18I feel like my relationship with my whole body is going to change as I get older.
03:23I don't know. I would like to try to get a bikini wax, although it's ugh.
03:28I guess being older, it's just kind of freeing not to have to wax it, not to have to worry
03:35about it.
03:3630% of men reported that a partner's pubic hair would make them reconsider a relationship.
03:41That's whack.
03:42Like men love to claim that they will only interact with the vagina if it is shaven.
03:47But listen ladies, that is false.
03:49I think one time I met one guy who was like, oh I'm so glad that you waxed because this
03:56grosses me out.
03:57And I was just kind of like, literally no one asked you.
04:00Like, this is my body, my choice. I don't care.
04:03You shouldn't be with someone who is so disgusted by your body as it naturally is,
04:08that you have to get rid of absolutely everything.
04:10I think pubic hair is a very personal thing and it's a personal choice.
04:14And if you're going to do it, if you're going to wax it off, you're going to do a bald
04:16eagle, a landing strip,
04:17or no matter what you do, you do it because that's what feels good to you.
04:22Not because you're doing it for someone else.
04:24The whole point of pubic hair is to protect our anatomy and to keep things working properly.
04:32And when you remove that, you're literally, you know, it's like you're taking away a protective layer.
04:37If you have pubic hair, if you want it long, if you want it short,
04:41if you want to get those little cute designs, if you want to bedazzle it,
04:44do what makes you comfortable.
04:45Don't worry about what other people are thinking.
04:47It's your pubic hair, do what you want with it.
04:49No matter what your age is or your preferences are,
04:52don't let the pressures of society or a partner dictate how you handle your body.
04:57See you next time.
