To Shave or Not To Shave?

Here goes, most women have different opinions about being shaved down below. Some women prefer to be soft and smooth where as some other women prefer to have a little bit of hair growth to other women having full grown "bushes" down below.

However, when a woman shaves it can be just for their preference but it can also be for their partners benefit as well.

Shaving down below can be a painful/uncomfortable decision if you go in with a razor without really knowing what you are doing. No, it is not like shaving your legs no matter what length the hair is. Down below you need to go slow and steady...then you win the race.

Depending on the length of the hair you would need to go in first with a pair of scissors just to shorten the hair, this will help the razor not to drag on the hair too much. Once this step is completed you will need to start going in with the razor. However, you can still cut yourself like you can cut your legs whilst shaving, so it is ideal to still go slow and careful. Always shave with the hair (whichever way the hair is growing) do not shave against the growth, this will make you more prone to ingrown hairs.

However, for myself I don’t particularly mind the first process of shaving down below and the first day of being freshly shaven, but it's the next week or so which puts me off. My boyfriend loves me being shaven and smooth down there but says he doesn't mind either way (I doubt this anyway), but, the next week or so afterwards for me brings itchiness, irritation and in general discomfort for me as the hair grows back.

I've only ever shaved for my boyfriend twice so far, however I freshly shaved a couple of days ago and he might as well have turned into the Cheshire cat; he had a grin from ear to ear (don't think he knows I noticed but I did). However, it doesn't bother me that it made him happy, I'm glad to see him happy.

I think it's just where I am not used to being freshly shaven for days at a time. I prefer to have a bit of hair down there (somehow this makes me feel more comfortable).

However, sex for me freshly shaven or having a bit of hair down there doesn't change for me, it's still as great whichever way! But after a couple of days it does hurt a bit whilst the hair is growing back. This is only because whatever me and my partner are doing may be rubbing against the hairs the opposite way making them pull.

For most women they don’t find having a "bush" down below appealing. Some seem to think it's quite disgusting and horrible to have quite a bit of hair down there. I think this is just the way that social media sites and other social platforms have portrayed about having hair down below. Most women want to be like other women, they want to have the "perfect" body and all the things that they think come with a "perfect" body.

When I was 16, me and a group of girls somehow got on to the subject I am writing about today. I think it was because we were playing a truth or dare game or something. However, we were all quite close so we didn't think twice about talking about any of this. Although there were 8 of us in the group, 6 of us were truthful about either having a "full bush" down below or having some amount of hair down there. But the other 2 girls turned to look at us as if to say "why on earth have you got hair down there" one of the girls actually walked off in disgust because she all thought we were the same. Some of the girls in the group took this quite harshly and decided within the next couple of days to get rid of the hair because they didn’t feel like they "fit in" anymore, however, I wasn't going to change the bits of my body that no one else was ever going to see unless I felt comfortable enough to show them.

I think this message is, don't change your body because other people say so or don't like what you like. Your body is down to you and what you want to do.