The folly of people never ends.

Or do you just think they're more likely to be careless?

--imm

So I've heard... or something. Never mind

'Crabs' Now Endangered Thanks to Bikini Waxing (80% of US college students remove pub hair)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022197396

old and nature depilates you.

true...

Pubies. Legs. Underarms. Scalp.

Hair stops growing there and gets diverted to upper lip and chin.

There are a lot of blood vessels down there, dontcha' know?

"don't shave while under the influence of drugs or alcohol." haha

Years ago I wanted to try leg waxing. I'd been reading about how wonderful it was to be able to go for up to a month without needing to shave and it seemed like a good idea at the time...

All excited at how cosmopolitan I was, I bought a leg waxing kit and proceeded to slather a big wad of that wax down the shin of one leg. I ripped that sucker off and took the entire top layer of skin off along with all the hair. Left me with a big raw-meat looking stripe up my shin. Hurt like a bitch.

In my infinite wisdom, I decided I needed liquid pain killer so I went out to my favorite watering hole for Happy Hour. Several adult beverages later, and somewhat judgment impaired, I found myself back at home in the bathroom looking at that stupid waxing kit. I decided that I'd surely done something wrong the first time, so I applied a big slop of that wax down the other shin and proceeded to rip that puppy off. Hurt just as bad--in spite of all the liquid pain killer--and it still ripped off the top layer of skin.

I had matching raw stripes up each shin, and a hangover the next day. Took forever for it to heal up, and I was too embarrassed to wear shorts out of the house.

You can only be that stupid when you are young or drunk--or both!


Laura

I'm curled up in the fetal position from reading your story.

unfortunately i have hair follicles from hell. a month? try a week. and 2 or 3 hairs grew back, but i never 'waxed' my legs. i got a electric plucker. extend that pain! but it wasn't as bad. and then the ingrown hairs.....at least my head hair is nice.

and no mustache.

of the area shaved every day would soften up the skin enough to allow the hairs to grow straight through the skin instead of curling up and becoming ingrown.......

Hmmmmmmmm.

'mustache' and ripped -- omg, the pain was incredible. I didn't strip skin off like you did, but jesus, I thought my face was torn off. I threw that kit right in the trash.

I'm sorry.... I am laughing my ass off... I know I shouldn't be... omg ...hahaha

(I swear that sounds exactly like something I would do)

Funny.

listed on the side of cold-remedy packaging?

What are men doing "down there" these days??

I don't really want to know.

and, not to get too graphic, let's just say my wife very much appreciates when I shave down there and I am inclined to indulge her.


She's even mentioned maybe trying some of that laser hair removal but all I can think of is James Bond so I get a little skeered

I think we'll just keep it au naturale here-no muss, no fuss.

parts.

I am so glad for the shaving craze. In college 30-40 years ago I got real tired of the ol' mouthful of pubic hair when, well, use your imagination.

Amazon review for Veet for Men Hair Removal Gel Creme:

After having been told my danglies looked like an elderly rastafarian I decided to take the plunge and buy some of this as previous shaving attempts had only been mildly successful and I nearly put my back out trying to reach the more difficult bits. Being a bit of a romantic I thought I would do the deed on the missus's birthday as a bit of a treat.

I ordered it well in advance and working in the North sea I considered myself a bit above some of the characters writing the previous reviews and wrote them off as soft office types...oh my fellow sufferers how wrong I was. I waited until the other half was tucked up in bed and after giving some vague hints about a special surprise I went down to the bathroom. Initially all went well and I applied the gel and stood waiting for something to happen.

I didn't have long to wait. At first there was a gentle warmth which in a matter of seconds was replaced by an intense burning and a feeling I can only describe as like being given a barbed wire wedgie by two people intent on hitting the ceiling with my head. Religion hadn't featured much in my life until that night but I suddenly became willing to convert to any religion to stop the violent burning around the turd tunnel and what seemed like the destruction of the meat and two veg. Struggling to not bite through my bottom lip I tried to wash the gel of in the sink and only succeeded in blocking the plughole with a mat of hair. Through the haze of tears I struggled out of the bathroom across the hall into the kitchen by this time walking was not really possible and I crawled the final yard to the fridge in the hope of some form of cold relief. I yanked the freezer drawer out and found a tub of ice cream, tore the lid of and positioned it under me.

The relief was fantastic but only temporary as it melted fairly quickly and the fiery stabbing soon returned .Due to the shape of the ice cream tub I hadn't managed to give the starfish any treatment and I groped around in the drawer for something else as I was sure my vision was going to fail fairly soon.I grabbed a bag of what I later found out was frozen sprouts and tore it open trying to be quiet as I did so.I took a handful of them and tried in vain to clench some between the cheeks of my arse. This was not doing the trick as some of the gel had found it's way up the chutney channel and it felt like the space shuttle was running it's engines behind me. This was probably and hopefully the only time in my life I was going to wish there was a gay snowman in the kitchen which should give you some idea of the depths I was willing to sink to in order to ease the pain.

The only solution my pain crazed mind could come up with was to gently ease one of the sprouts where no veg had gone before. unfortunately, alerted by the strange grunts coming from the kitchen the other half chose that moment to come and investigate and was greeted by the sight of me, arse in the air, strawberry ice cream dripping from my bell end pushing a sprout up my arse while muttering..." Ooooh that feels good ". Understandably this was a shock to her and she let out a scream and as I hadn't heard her come in it caused an involutary spasm of shock in myself which resulted in the sprout being ejected at quite some speed in her direction. I can understand that having a sprout farted against your leg at 11 at night in the kitchen probably wasn't the special surprise she was expecting and having to explain to the kids the next day what the strange hollow in the ice cream was didn't improve my status...So to sum it up Veet removes hair, dignity and self respect...

I wonder what the instructions were on the product? An analgesic balm or ben gay should be just as fun.

Or did you write this yourself? If you did--

It sounds excruciating, but there is just so much in this story to love!

These days, some of the best creative writing can be found on Amazon, in the review section. To wit:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/AAUSVPYNJ8TDZ

Holy cow.

Great stuff!

The ensuing hilarity in the comments section after writing the scathing satire review while giving the book a five star rating really confused the Freepers and is comedy gold. The review received over 6000 comments so pack a lunch. The nimrods were incensed when it finally dawned on them the joke was at their expense.

At one point, it was removed, then put back up. I do not know the status today, and can't even locate it, but here's the original review sans the comments:

http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2009/11/she-aint-afraid-of-no-vietcong-king.html

But that's a @#$%ing riot.

Are you the General? Or an admirer?

I do enjoy good social criticism and political satire

Now some of them know what us females go through ....

It's a proven drain cleaner: Nine out of ten plumbers agree

OMG. I. Can't. Breath.

laughing, I start to giggle and it starts all over again. My ribs hurt and I am wheezing thank you

I laughed so hard, I mighta peed a little.

EVER!

Or lay in the tub.

That's sad.

Of course ER visit are full of...interesting stories from those who work in one.


Be careful you all. And if may I add, wash, no scrub your hands, if your are receiving assistance in this type of grooming, have them wash their hands as well. Nobody likes infection.

Trust me. Washing won't save you.

just wow

All I can say is, the nick was small but man did it bleed, put me out of commission for a week.

so even if they're doing it right, there can be consequences.

Personally, I find the pre pubescent look a little creepy. I'm glad I got old before that fad came in.

and one pleasant side effect of being hypothyroid is your hair thins out. I wish I had more eyebrows, but it's great not having to shave my legs (or whatever) very often.

don't need a lot of maintenance. Just peach fuzz.

The big one is just making sure to scrub the area daily, which dislodges the hair tips before they can become ingrown, but shaving in the right direction and using a good razor are also important. I can't remember the last time I had an ingrown hair.

"I find the pre pubescent look a little creepy..."

Do we apply that thought consistently to all hair? Or merely in areas surrounding naughty bits thus illustrating our bias?

For one brief, shining moment in the 60s, we got to be natural women. It was great.

Then "Deep Throat" came out and we were expected to shave everything, and I do mean everything but the tops of our heads.

I know---TMI

Seriously? It's like trying to shave a burlap sack.

about 15 years or so ago. With a tweezers. Took HOURS over a weekend and didn't last a month.

I can't believe I just admitted that on the internet.

about your confession...

One time I was smoking while sitting on the commode and went to throw the cigarette butt in the water between my legs.

Burning pubie hair sucks

Not doing things under the influence of alcohol is always great advise. If people would follow that the news would be a lot less interesting.

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"down there" over the years. I certainly never felt the need to run off to an ER about them.

Just how clueless and careless ARE these people, lol???

and I can do it without wrecking myself.

Going to need Pube barbers and stylist. Need a price list too.

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