Hah! Possibly because you're blonde, dear. Often blondes have less body hair in general. As someone who has, ahem, seen, several...yes, most have more than that. And some of us are on the hairier end of the spectrum, and what with society being on the "ew hair, gross" kick right now....

Yeah.

I hadn't realize until, I dunno, college maybe, how little hair a lot of women have, not just in the cooter region, but on their legs. I hate to shave (takes forever), so I epilate the lower legs and only do anything to the uppers if I'm going to be swimming, which is rare. All my hair is thick and curly, except for the hair on the top of my head, which is thick and only slightly wavy. (Seriously: even my eyebrows are curly. And yet? I didn't get the curly hair, my sister did. Yet her eyebrows are straight, and I suspect she could have gotten away with never shaving. Me, on the other hand, I swear, I got all the fucking body hair my brother was supposed to get.)

Seriously, how on EARTH can a little bit of hair make sex feel NOT good? I can accept a lot of things in fiction (if not in real life), but you have to make me believe it. And I most emphatically do not believe that a woman's pubic hair makes sex feel less good than it could. Feh.

Dude. Trust me. It can. Too much can get in the way in ways that are NOT comfortable. But you don't need to shave it all off to fix THAT.

Me, on the other hand, I swear, I got all the fucking body hair my brother was supposed to get.)

Both of my kids are hairy, although Nate's fair and Abby's dark.

But what really got me was some second grader telling MY daughter that if she didn't do something about her brows, she was going to wind up with a unibrow.

When Abby told me that, it was all I could do not to turn the car around and go after the little twit, but it's probably bad to go postal on a seven year-old.

Lillian is going to curse us for her hair. She has all this thick, fine blonde hair on her shoulders. When she was born, I thought it was the sort that falls out, but nope. Girl looks like she's part werewolf.

For me, sex does feel different hairless. I'm not talking fully hairless everywhere, but Brazillian hairless. Makes your skin more sensitive. Still not worth the initial pain as far as I'm concerned, but I can see the appeal. But again, I have no issue with what women choose to do--I have an issue with women being expected to do these things in order to be considered sexy. I mean, seriously, how much more stressful would your first time have been if you thought you had to wax everything first? Ack!

She has all this thick, fine blonde hair on her shoulders

Hubby's first nephew had thick brown hair down his face, shoulders, and back. Yes, think baby chimp. It's all gone now, but was startling.

Persey got through surgery OK. I can pick her up at 3:30.

I went back and reread what I wrote about the reasoning within novels and realized I wasn't quite as precise as I should've been. When I said "ostensibly" it wasn't because it doesn't feel better or at least different, but more as the reasoning for the guy to suggest it-- as a major reason he uses to convince the heroine to do it. Then as the story goes on, it becomes clear it's something he wants or requires.

Which is the part that annoys me. Wax/shave or don't, makes no never mind to me, but don't tell me it's something I have to do as a requirement. Feh.

Can you tell that romance has been annoying me as of late?

And yay, Persey! You must feel so relieved, Laga.

Seriously, how on EARTH can a little bit of hair make sex feel NOT good? I can accept a lot of things in fiction (if not in real life), but you have to make me believe it. And I most emphatically do not believe that a woman's pubic hair makes sex feel less good than it could. Feh.

The bad kind of friction in the wrong kind of places? But what Plei said about the remedy - it certainly doesn't require baldness.

Which is the part that annoys me. Wax/shave or don't, makes no never mind to me, but don't tell me it's something I have to do as a requirement. Feh.

This, definitely. And I'm with Steph on this - I think it's one more element of a grown woman's body becoming redefined as icky and unfeminine.

(I wondered, earlier, but didn't go back to check - did this topic come up in relation to the botox thing? Because they're definitely related in my mind.)