To shave or not to shave down there? It's usually a private question women ask, but it's one that's gotten attention this week in the wake of a recent study suggesting that those who remove all of their pubic hair are more likely to report having an STI than non-groomers.
Possible health benefits aside, pubic hair has been a part of the public discourse lately. At least when it comes to 20-somethings on TV.
Broad City's Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer certainly didn't want Ilana's character to be seen with a hairless "baby vagina," as Glazer termed it.
"I'm an adult. I have boobs, I have pubic hair," she said on Jimmy Kimmel, hence her Broad City persona's appropriately-colored blur over her genitals in a nude scene in the show's Season 2 premiere. After talking with Comedy Central, Jacobson and Glazer got the OK to change the pixels from skin-color to dark brown. ("In a way, you're not just doing a show, you're fighting for civil rights," Kimmel joked.)
On Girls, Lena Dunham's character Hannah flashed her unshaven vagina on the fifth season of the show. Dunham's one regret for that scene? "I wish that I had a fuller bush, I just think it would look better, the whole thing would work better," she said on HBO's Behind the Episode.
Off-screen, other actresses have made their grooming habits known. In her Body Book, released three years ago, Cameron Diaz has an entire chapter called "In Praise of Pubes." In it, she writes that maintaining a "lovely curtain of pubic hair that surrounds that glorious, delicate flower of yours" makes you more "enticing and mysterious."
That's a sentiment Miley Cyrus would likely agree with. A year ago, the singer proudly revealed her pink pubic hair in Instagram photos of herself (and a doll outfitted in her likeness) and in a nude Paper Magazine photo shoot. Gwyneth Paltrow has also admitted that she works "a '70s vibe" which had "everyone scrambling for a razor" when she had to go commando on the runway three years ago.
It's not just stars who are keeping hair down there. Laura Schubert, CEO of high-end pubic haircare company Fur, launched her brand last year when she saw that all Google searches of "pubic hair" led to sites about removal. Now, her company's signature Fur Oil product, $39, is sold in dozens of stores in the U.S. and abroad, to customers who have varying grooming habits.
High-end brand Fur sells pubic haircare products.
It's not necessarily that the full bush is back, Schubert says, but that pubic grooming is following the "natural" movement that has also recently influenced the braless trend and makeup-free look.
"Modern beauty is really about redefining our old standards of care (and) moving away from a world where bare is what you had to be," she says. "You get to decide what’s sexy."
Possible health benefits aside, pubic hair has been a part of the public discourse lately. At least when it comes to 20-somethings on TV.
Broad City's Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer certainly didn't want Ilana's character to be seen with a hairless "baby vagina," as Glazer termed it.
"I'm an adult. I have boobs, I have pubic hair," she said on Jimmy Kimmel, hence her Broad City persona's appropriately-colored blur over her genitals in a nude scene in the show's Season 2 premiere. After talking with Comedy Central, Jacobson and Glazer got the OK to change the pixels from skin-color to dark brown. ("In a way, you're not just doing a show, you're fighting for civil rights," Kimmel joked.)
On Girls, Lena Dunham's character Hannah flashed her unshaven vagina on the fifth season of the show. Dunham's one regret for that scene? "I wish that I had a fuller bush, I just think it would look better, the whole thing would work better," she said on HBO's Behind the Episode.
Off-screen, other actresses have made their grooming habits known. In her Body Book, released three years ago, Cameron Diaz has an entire chapter called "In Praise of Pubes." In it, she writes that maintaining a "lovely curtain of pubic hair that surrounds that glorious, delicate flower of yours" makes you more "enticing and mysterious."
That's a sentiment Miley Cyrus would likely agree with. A year ago, the singer proudly revealed her pink pubic hair in Instagram photos of herself (and a doll outfitted in her likeness) and in a nude Paper Magazine photo shoot. Gwyneth Paltrow has also admitted that she works "a '70s vibe" which had "everyone scrambling for a razor" when she had to go commando on the runway three years ago.
It's not just stars who are keeping hair down there. Laura Schubert, CEO of high-end pubic haircare company Fur, launched her brand last year when she saw that all Google searches of "pubic hair" led to sites about removal. Now, her company's signature Fur Oil product, $39, is sold in dozens of stores in the U.S. and abroad, to customers who have varying grooming habits.
High-end brand Fur sells pubic haircare products.
It's not necessarily that the full bush is back, Schubert says, but that pubic grooming is following the "natural" movement that has also recently influenced the braless trend and makeup-free look.
"Modern beauty is really about redefining our old standards of care (and) moving away from a world where bare is what you had to be," she says. "You get to decide what’s sexy."
