Pubic shaving actually came from ancient Egypt and Greece, when prostitutes were demanded to shave for hygienic reasons and as a clear sign of their profession.
Although female body shaving was created as the rule between 1915 and 1945, pubic hair removal did not raise attraction until the 1980s.
However, a new study shows that 60% of women deals with at least one health complication from pubic hair removal, most commonly epidermal abrasion (invisible cuts in the skin) and ingrown hairs. It causes terrible skin irritation, infections, and increases the spread and transmission of STIs.
These are the real reasons why you shouldn’t shave your pubic hair:
Pubic hair helps balance body temperature.
We all know that hair helps control body temperature, but how exactly? Hair follicles promotes sweating.
In each hair follicle, there is a sebaceous gland that delivers oil onto the hair, which in turn allows it to rise to the skin’s surface. When this oil vanishes, it cools the skin because of its latent heat.
Pubic hair actually protects you.
Pubic hair protects you from diseases and skin problems. It avoids foreign particles such as dust and pathogenic bacteria from entering your body.
Pubic hair consists of pheromones.
Scientists believe that pubic hair absorbs secretions called pheromones. This is what attracts us. The body delivers more pheromones when we sweat, and these secretions are absorbed in the pubic hair area.
Increased risk of genital warts.
Genital warts are existed near or on intimate areas. They appear as bumps or growths. They are usually whitish or flesh-colored. A person with genital warts doesn’t know they have them. Removing pubic hair develops the risk of developing genital warts.
Molluscum contagiosum (viral infection).
Shaving or waxing pubic hair boosts the risk of contracting a viral infection. Research has found that a lack of genital hair can promote the risk of s3xually transmitted diseases, such as molluscum contagiosum, with shaving having the strongest association.
Molluscum contagiosum is easily spread, and it has been recommended that the virus may have expand primarily through autoinfections caused by scratching irritated skin from shaving.
It causes skin problems in your intimate area.
Pubic hair removal naturally stings hair follicles, leaving microscopic open wounds. Frequent hair removal is crucial to keep smoothness, which causes regular irritation in the shaved or waxed area.
Many doctors say it’s popular to find patients with boils and abscesses on the genitals due to shaving, as well as cellulitis, an infection of the scrotum. Because they happen in the private parts, these skin problems become more uncomfortable than in other parts of the body.
Hair removal is more alarming for overweight women.
The new US study has shown that complications were twice as likely for overweight or obese women, and three times more likely if all pubic hair was deleted because, in larger women, their skin will be more closely packed.
