Most Americans get rid of their pubes – almost 67% of men and just over 85% of women.
It’s hard not to look at a waiter walking gingerly and imagine the carnival of destruction behind his fliesĪnyway that’s not even one of the revelations. I will keep it in quotation marks so that I can have it all, the discomfort, the distance, and the semi-joke. And all the dandruff-like flakes of titillation that come with a headline that is genital-adjacent, and all that hair, drifting down toilets to clothe a fatberg, all that hair, matting itself into a jolly throw, for a winter in the sewer. Why did I write that? It must have been to distance myself from the subject which, even in 2017, makes me feel slightly uncomfortable, the idea of all these people spending all this time removing all this hair. “So to speak.” I’m sorry for the “so to speak”, which is something one says instead of a winky emoji, isn’t it? Or in case the person you’re talking to might have missed your half-joke about the lawn. Perhaps you too keep a pube-free home, and pride yourself on a paved front lawn, so to speak. Evict it, extract it, uproot it, remove it. Perhaps it’s no surprise to you that 76% of people get rid of their pubic hair. T he revelations in a new American report on pubic grooming just keep on coming.