Posted on 07/27/2008 8:54:52 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin
Brazilian Grooming Trend Popular With Young Girls Last Edited: Tuesday, 22 Jul 2008, 11:41 PM EDT Created: Tuesday, 22 Jul 2008, 11:41 PM EDT
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On the scale of uncomfortable subjects, this story is off the charts, but it's extremely important for all parents to hear. Fox 8's Suzanne Stratford has news about a Brazilian grooming trend that young girls are having done.
I never really understood this trend. We have body hair - it’s part of being human - both for men and women.
While I have no issue with some sort of grooming, it seems that it’s become an almost cult-like fad these days. Especially for men, but women as well.
“Guys” are all different.
Honestly, the waxed thing doesn’t do much for me in the “Brazilian” sense...granted I’m a married man, and it would be up to my wife if she wanted to do it, but given a choice, it doesn’t do much for me.
I know an OB-GYN who is seeing a rise in stubborn bacterial infections in the groin area from shaving for those who can’t afford/don’t want to pay the money for waxing.
Perhaps this is getting too deep for FR...but even as recently as my middle and high school years (early/mid 90s) the appearance of pubic hair was a “rite of passage” for kids...boys especially but girls too.
Now, they rip it off with hot wax? Sheesh.
I must be too old fashioned (or just plain too old) but I prefer au naturale.
Otherwise I have a creepy feeling that that I'm either playing (not that I ever did that!) with a doll, or she's just plain too young to even think about, let alone touch.
Oh, the times; how they be a-changin'!
Here’s my take, as a 30-something, married woman. As a pre-teen girl, me and my friends anxiously awaited the day we hit puberty. The second we did and had anything at all to shave, we did. It had nothing at all to do with sex in our minds, it was just what women did, and we wanted to emulate women.
Did I mention I went to a Catholic school?
And Brazilians rock!
So I did.
Excuse me now.
I need to go bleach my eyes...
Bat jam gai?
One of the funniest things I’ve ever saw was an old girlfriend give herself a Brazilian. She was screaming and I was laughing past the point of tears. She got mad at my laughing and flung wax at me. She was a wild one.
Phone number, please?
The critics of this seem a tad blinkered, since they are at least equally offended by women who don't remove body hair from their underarms or lower legs. Women with the misfortune to have a little hair on their upper lip are even more looked down on. Exactly what is the moral difference between removing pubic hair and armpit hair?
That said, I think this is indeed part of the sexualization of very young children. Such young children should not be encouraged to participate in a practice that has such strong sexual connotations in our society.
In my opinion, some people have their sequence out of order.
She’d be about 40 years-old now. Last I heard she was down in Savannah...
She’s a bit young...
And probably as crazy as ever.....
Did I mention I went to a Catholic school?
And Brazilians rock!
No different than us boys who can't wait to shave our faces.
I went to high school in the 80s and it was the same back then. Teenage girls don't want to show up at the beach with a whole beard of pubes poking out of their bikini. There really isn't anything prurient about it.
No, but until recently, it wasn’t “taboo” to have some hair in the area UNDER the bikini.
I hear what you’re saying. I hit puberty at 10. I started shaving my legs, probably around 12 or so. But I didn’t have much leg hair, even being half Italian. Only had to shave my calves. And of course underarms. Haven’t had to tweeze my eyebrows since I can’t remember when, lol. Most of my hair is on my head.
Never had a brazilian but do regularly get the area waxed. Bikini wax, I think it’s called (before, I used to shave it). Not quite a Brazilian.
I prefer the minute of hot wax pain to shaving.
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