It's important to understand what drives women to groom their pubic hair, she and her colleagues say in new report. Increasingly, women are requesting genital cosmetic surgery, they point out, and in most cases, the women are motivated by aesthetics rather than functionality. Pubic hair grooming might have a role in this trend, "because women are able to visualize their labia more easily now than in the past and are thus more motivated to change their appearance," they say. In a nationally representative survey of 3,316 women, ages 18 to 65, about 60 percent said they groomed for hygiene and… Read more
