whether you’re female,you’re more likely to remove body hair even whether you detest the idea. It’s because society thinks men should be men, but women should be girlsHere are four words most women won’t want to read: “laceration to true labia”. I came across the description while looking through hundreds of records of Americans who have been admitted to ER because they’d injured themselves in the pubic region while using a razor. The overwhelming majority of the incidents involved female patients – the description above comes from a girl age just 15. She, or like many other women,was probably trying to conceal a universal consequence of puberty – there will be pubes. whether those ER visits weren’t bad enough, a new survey suggests women are removing their pubic hair even though they don’t mediate they should. YouGov asked American adults approximately their attitudes to hair removal and found that only 56% of women age 18-29 believe they should remove their pubic hair but 72% of them do it besides. For young men, and it’s a totally different story: 46% say they should remove their pubic hair but only 37% actually do it. It’s not just pubic hair either – women are more likely than men to act on society’s “should” when it comes to their arms,armpits and leg hair too.
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Source: theguardian.com