It's never been easy being a woman, especially when looking back at the gender's history of conforming to hair-removal standards. The history of women removing their body hair is steeped in misogyny. Fact: Cavewomen had to shave their body hair for safety.
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A new study reports that a 62% of women shave off their pubic hair entirely, while 84% opt for other forms of down-there grooming. But perhaps what's even more troubling than the prevalence of pubic hair removal is why women say they're doing it in the first place.
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Women are talking about their pubic hair, and the many totally acceptable options for what to do with it. In doing so, they're bringing about this idea that having it or not having it shouldn't really be that big of a deal at all.
Compare Girls and Broad City to Sex and the City, a show where Carrie Bradshaw regularly talked about her bikini waxes — and we even got to see her get one. Just 12 years later, the idea of Girls or Broad City characters shelling out cold hard cash to get their pubes ripped out seems wildly against character.
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