Posted by figleaf
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Sat, 2009-07-04 23:26
It used to really annoy me when a partner (or employer!) told me I had to shave my beard and moustache and so I really don’t think anyone should tell someone else to shave his or her pubic hair. That said, While I’ve never kissed anyone with a beard so I can’t really compare it to kissing someone’s vulva who hasn’t shaved. But I have been kissed both with and without a beard and there’s… just… so much more sensation when someone kisses my face when I’ve shaved it than when I’ve had a beard. So while I probably wouldn’t shave my face because someone else told me I had to I do shave my face for me.
Submitted by 3048 (not verified) on Sun, 2009-07-05 01:53.
you meant "me" in the first sentence, right?
Submitted by 3048 (not verified) on Sun, 2009-07-05 04:41.
hmmmm, but what about shaving your own bits for "you?" when i'm with a man who does shave (ok, once) it opens up a whole new world of possibilities. but i wouldn't pressure a partner to do that or suggest that their choice not to do so was invalid (not to suggest that you did this, but it very often is done).
so often the conversation about shaving genitalia seems to assume that it's something only women do and that only benefits oral sex performed on a woman.
i read in TONY - i guess last year, they had a sex issue - several statements of how gross and disgusting it was for a woman to not shave. absolutely no one suggested that it was gross for a man not to shave. absolutely no one suggested that if a woman chose not to shave ... it was her decision.
Submitted by 3048 (not verified) on Sun, 2009-07-05 08:26.
I really think you have to be careful comparing genitals to faces.
Pubic hair isn't often the same as the hair on male faces. Plus, the skin on and around the vulva is far more sensitive than the skin on your face is, with or without hair (and sometimes extra sensitivity post-shaving isn't so awesome: the genital area is much more inclined to ingrown hairs, rawness and redness post-shaving, discomfort with grow-back, the works). And our most sensitive parts of the vulva don't have hair on them, anyway.
I'm not sure why or how it's useful, but as someone who has kissed around or inside both kinds of beards (:P), I don't think you can compare them very well. Pubic hair is often much softer, for starters.