The Evolution of How Women Style Their Pubic Hair Is Endlessly Fascinating
Just as hair trends make their way in and out of pop culture, our habits with the hair we have down there are constantly in flux. Yeah, we’re talking about pubic hair. Maybe it’s because everything’s under wraps, but exactly what everyone else is doing with their pubes has always held a special grill-your-closest-friends-about-it fascination. When something gets its own Sex and the City subplot, you know it used to be mildly taboo—and everyone wants to talk about it.
Fortunately, in the years since that episode aired, the discussion’s become more transparent. (Thank you, SATC, and thank you, waxing menus.) Our collective outlook on what you do with your body has become a “You do you” situation. But it hasn’t always been so: The history of pubic hair styles is incredibly weird, and it also tells us a lot about how the times—and myths about women’s health—have changed. From the bare babes of ancient Egypt, where they used stones (stones!!!) as razors, to the painfully famous Brazilian wax, the evolution of pubic hair will make you glad it’s 2017.
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