Dear H&B,
I'm 26 and have been with a few women sexually who always shave their parts pretty nicely. All the porns I've seen always have women who do the same thing, but now I'm dating a girl who lets her bush grow out. It kind of turns me off. What do I do?
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
Dear HTGT,
Looking backward in the porn time machine (and basically looking at any nude female images predating the late ’90s) the female bush was a bastion of untouched trimming. Think rain forest before the big machines rendered the verdant veld a field of nubs. Did the men of yore—the Lincolns, the Edisons, the Mansons—approach their partners’ hirsute privates with a sense of dread and a bolt of dental floss? Of course not. But that was then. You’ve been indoctrinated to shaved vaginas, which pop culture tells us are the norm—from porn to, well, just go to the beach and look around. Ask your Ms. Natural if she wouldn’t mind taking a shave or letting you wield the Lady Bic, which can in itself be immensely erotic. Either that, or respect her preference and get used to the old-school look downstairs. It was good enough for your grandpappy, by gum.
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