[Patti-here]

I don't fear my body hair,, but I do shave, not my arms,, Oh yes I have eyebrows too

[FreakyChicky]

It mostly depends on the personal taste. Most man understand that woman body DO GROW HAIR, just in social event it can be uncomfortable.

[deg_dilemma]

No doubt it's a personal choice much like some women prefer hairy guys to waxed /shaven guys.

To me it seems that a fully shaved genital area has trended in the past 10 to 15 years. Prior to that the more natural but 'neat' look was all the rage.

Myself I much prefer women to keep public hair - trimmed but certainly not all gone... It's what makes us sexually attracted! (I'm also a fan of armpit hair to some extent )

[Lovcookie]

My Girl friend is comfortable without shaving or waxing and for the most part does not care what people think if they notice some hair on her legs. On the other hand her daughter 19 admits she has even more body especially leg hair then her mother and she is considering laser hair removal. The pressure she has felt because she is Asian and "they are not suppose to have much body hair" seems to bother her. She can do what she likes with her body. I think it is too bad our culture in NA women puts women under the social pressure to appear hairless.

[jns]

Where is the pressure coming from? Friends, peers, magazines, the internet, advertising? Asians have body hair. Some groups of Asians have more than others. Asia is a large continent, after all and has many countries. Would her daughter feel less pressured if she was in the country of her mother's ancestors?

[Lovcookie]

Not her mother thats for sure. My GF's mother was one that did not want my GF to shave her legs as a young teen. Telling her it would only get worse if she did etc. Maybe why she is anti shaving to some extent. Her daughter don't feel pressure from her white girl friends, but she does feel bothered because some of her Asian GF's are hairless and she is not. Some tend to give the impression it is some kind of superior thing. Her step mother is hairless gives her this impression too.

[Casiopea]

I am hairy, being half Caucasian from the real Caucasus, it is not just any hair, it is thick hair in my pubic area for sure, some in my legs.
Where I live, and my other Latinamerican side, people are pretty non-hairy, like my mother who basically has no leg or arm hair at all.
This used to make me feel really bad about myself when I was a young teen and having to wear skirts to school everyday. I started shaving my legs at 13, oh such a terrible idea where I ignored my good mom's advice. Plus, I had all sorts of ingrown hairs because of that, it was terrible for me. It crushed my self image, when actually I was rather good looking.

I think it has to do with fitting in, and mixed race children can really feel out of place when they hit puberty and nobody looks like them in the hair department, and other things maybe as well. Fortunately, I considered my looks secondary to who I was and eventually just stopped shaving or waxing my legs because it just made my skin bad. My boyfriends were ok with it, because I always told them straight on: you are dating a hairy girl and that is the way she is. hehehe!
Until I moved to Canada and people saw it as if I were dirty or something. Really mean off the bat comments from random people, with this great tone of entitlement over my body. I would get ****ed off, but oddly enough I felt I had to justify "my condition"... it sucked!

I never shave or wax my pubic area, just a little trim and pluck the random hairs that might grow outside my underwear line. NO ONE HAD EVER COMPLAINED about it ever, and I liked my full bush, I felt sexy and very womanly, until I moved to Canada. Fortunately I no longer live there and no one bugs me anymore about my legs or my bush. If I were to shave or wax it, I shiver from the pure thought of the ingrown hairs I would get and the places I would have them. I always get very good oral treatment from my couples down there and there is no problem at all. But I realize that it is because I actually don`t care about publicity and stuff like that, my body has lots of hairs and yet it is healthy, desirable and strong. So I am ok with it.

But I do see many friends, attractive ones, push themselves to the waxing place and come out with pain in their groin and in between, for wanting to have the waxed sexy look down there. I pity them, honestly, no way I am paying 30 dollars for pain and ingrown hairs al over my body, to be smooth for a couple of weeks and do it again. I'd rather buy good wine with that money, or some mezcal, something nice to wear, something yummie to eat, and have a sex marathon with my beloved.

People should not indent the idea that female hair is dirty, wrong or ugly... it hurts people's self esteem at a very early age, and remains as an insecurity for a long time. Our bodies are our bodies, we take care of them to be healthy and happy, sexy comes from there.