Have you had carpet removed from your teA room? I need advice!

[radiobrain]

This again, like so many things, may be climate related. Those of us in the hot south know that hair on the back of your neck traps the humidity and just feels awful. So we wear ponytails. Carpet on your tea room does the same to an extent.

 

I'm sorry, but this made me immediately think of someone putting their carpet in pigtails. Now how's that for an image or new fashion trend.

 

:smilielol5::blink:

[Veritaserum]

I had no idea that hair growth could get so wild. :eek: As a very fair-skinned blonde with fine hair, I can get away with shaving legs/pits once a week and have just enough carpet to cover the floor of the room. If had a thicker rug, I'd get it removed/thinned. ;) Dh's sisters are hairy and dark (facial hair and such), so dh has already told me that he'll pay for laser hair removal for our darker dds if they want it.

[Ginevra]

I had no idea that hair growth could get so wild. :eek: As a very fair-skinned blonde with fine hair, I can get away with shaving legs/pits once a week and have just enough carpet to cover the floor of the room. If had a thicker rug, I'd get it removed/thinned. ;) Dh's sisters are hairy and dark (facial hair and such), so dh has already told me that he'll pay for laser hair removal for our darker dds if they want it.

 

 

Lucky. :glare::)

 

I'm from the dark/thick/coarse end of the spectrum, where it would not be hard for Darwin to make the leap.

[hana]

Oh goodness, this thread has me cracking up.

 

All I'm going to say is I do maintenance on the carpet but prefer an in between. Don't like the extreme of shaggy carpeting or hardwood (and does that word not crack ya'll up?).

 

And you people need to discover Magic Shave. :D

 

Oh my... :auto:

 

I sense a spin-off. :bigear:

 

:lol:

 

I was wondering when the Magic Shave would come up, my friend!

[DianeW88]

Well, I have a friend who's a labor and delivery nurse and the things she's seen in the way of carpet fashion would make pigtails seem tame. :blink:

[EmilyinND]

You girls are hysterical...I've thoroughly enjoyed this thread. Entertaining!!:lol:

[EmilyinND]

Hopefully this story is ok to share;) Someone sent me this story and it is very funny (and it is not me):D:

 

 

All hair removal methods have tricked women with their promises of easy, painless removal - The Epilady, scissors, razors, Nair and now...the wax.

 

Read on.........

 

My night began as any other normal weeknight. Come home, fix dinner, play with the kids. I then had the thought that would ring painfully in my mind for the next few hours: "Maybe I should pull the waxing kit out of the medicine cabinet."

 

So I headed to the site of my demise: the bathroom. It was one of those "cold wax" kits. No melting a clump of hot wax, you just rub the strips together in your hand, they get warm and you peel them apart and press them to your leg (or wherever else) and you pull the hair right off. No muss, no fuss. How hard can it be? I mean, I'm not a genius, but I am mechanically inclined enough to figure this out. (YA THINK!?!)

 

So I pull one of the thin strips out. Its two strips facing each other stuck together. Instead of rubbing them together, my genius kicks in so I get out the hair dryer and heat it to 1000 degrees. ("Cold wax," yeah...right!) I lay the strip across my thigh. Hold the skin around it tight and pull. It works!

 

OK, so it wasn't the best feeling, but it wasn't too bad. I can do this!

 

Hair removal no longer eludes me! I am She-rah, fighter of all wayward body hair and maker of smooth skin extraordinaire.

 

With my next wax strip I move north. After checking on the kids, I sneak back into the bathroom, for the ultimate hair fighting championship. I drop my panties and place one foot on the toilet.

 

Using the same procedure, I apply the wax strip across the right side of my bikini line, covering the right half of my hoo-ha and stretching down to the inside of my butt cheek (it was a long strip)

 

I inhale deeply and brace myself....RRRRRRIIIIPPP!!!!

 

I'm blind!!! Blinded from pain!!!!...

 

OH MY GAWD!!!!!!!!!

 

Vision returning, I notice that I've only managed to pull off half the strip. CRAP! Another deep breath and RIPP! Everything is spinning and spotted. I think I may pass out...must stay conscious...must stay conscious. Do I hear crashing drums??? Breathe, breathe.................. OK, back to normal.

 

I want to see my trophy - a wax covered strip, the one that has caused me so much pain, with my hairy pelt sticking to it. I want to revel in the glory that is my triumph over body hair.

 

I hold up the strip!

 

There's no hair on it.

 

Where is the hair???

 

WHERE IS THE WAX???

 

Slowly I ease my head down, foot still perched on the toilet. I see the hair. The hair that should be on the strip...it's not! I touch. I am touching wax.

 

I run my fingers over the most sensitive part of my body, which is now covered in cold wax and matted hair. Then I make the next BIG mistake...remember my foot is still propped upon the toilet? I know I need to do something. So I put my foot down.

 

Sealed shut! My butt is sealed shut. Sealed shut!

 

I penguin walk around the bathroom trying to figure out what to do and think to myself "Please don't let me get the urge to poop. My head may pop off!" What can I do to melt the wax?

 

Hot water!! Hot water melts wax!! I'll run the hottest water I can stand into the bathtub, get in, immerse the wax-covered bits and the wax should melt and I can gently wipe it off, right???

 

*WRONG!!!!!!!*

 

I get in the tub - The water is slightly hotter than that used to torture prisoners of war or sterilize surgical equipment - I sit. Now, the only thing worse than having your nether regions glued together, is having them glued together and then glued to the bottom of the tub...in scalding hot water. Which, by the way, doesn't melt cold wax.

 

So, now I'm stuck to the bottom of the tub as though I had cemented myself to the porcelain!! God bless the man who had convinced me a few months ago to have a phone put in the bathroom!!!!! I call my friend, thinking surely she has waxed before and has some secret of how to get me undone. It's a very good conversation starter "So, my butt and hoo-ha are glued together to the bottom of the tub!"

 

There is a slight pause. She doesn't know any secret tricks for removal but she does try to hide her laughter from me. She wants to know exactly where the wax is located, "Are we talking cheeks or hole or hoo-ha?"

 

She's laughing out loud by now...I can hear her. I give her the rundown and she suggests I call the number on the side of the box.

 

YEAH!!!!! Right!!

 

I should be the joke of someone else's night. While we go through various solutions I resort to trying to scrape the wax off with a razor . Nothing feels better than to have your girlie goodies covered in hot wax, glued shut, stuck to the tub in super hot water and then dry-shaving the sticky wax off!!

 

By now the brain is not working, dignity has taken a major hike and I'm pretty sure I'm going to need Post-Traumatic Stress counseling for this event.

 

My friend is still talking with me when I finally see my saving grace....the lotion they give you to remove the excess wax.

 

What do I really have to lose at this point? I rub some on and OH MY GOD!!!!!!!

 

The scream probably woke the kids and scared the dickens out of my friend. It's sooo painful, but I really don't care.

 

"IT WORKS!!

 

It works !!" I get a hearty congratulation from my friend and she hangs up. I successfully remove the remainder of the wax and then notice to my grief and despair....

 

THE HAIR IS STILL THERE.......ALL OF IT!

 

So I recklessly shave it off. Heck, I'm numb by now. Nothing hurts.

 

I could have amputated my own leg at this point.

 

Next week I'm going to try hair color......

__________________

 

My best friend texted this one to me...we decided we'd be each other's phone calls if we ever waxed our butts to the tub! You always need a friend like that!!!:smilielol5:

[Ann@thebeach]

Thank you all for providing my evening entertainment :lol:

 

I only opened this thread because I couldn't figure out why there were 10 pages on a carpet question :001_huh: Now I know! :blush:

[KidsHappen]

:confused: I'm 40 and it would never occur to me to wear it "as is." All my SILs are over 40 and when we've discussed carpeting, they all reduce it and one has talked about going hardwood and one paid for permanent removal. My dh is 48 and this was something that was always assumed - that ladies reduce/remove at least portions. It wasn't even a question, like, "Gee honey, I'm fine with that hairy lap-dog you've got there, but I've heard of this new-fangled thing called carpet removal; would you ever consider that?" :D

 

That's weird. I am over 40 but not quite 50, hubby is 50. I had never heard of such a thing until my 19 year informed me that she had been doing it pretty much since it grew in. You are doing what!? :001_huh: I asked her where she ever got the idea to do that because she had never even had a boyfriend or been exposed to the idea through the media. Girls in school and camp had informed her that it was proper hygeine. :glare: To each their own, but I certainly didn't appreciate the peer pressure to convince my dd that it was a hygeine issue when I see it as really more of a personal preference/style issue.

[NoPlaceLikeHome]

My best friend texted this one to me...we decided we'd be each other's phone calls if we ever waxed our butts to the tub! You always need a friend like that!!!:smilielol5:

 

That is a long text:D I only copied and pasted:tongue_smilie:

[NoPlaceLikeHome]

Thank you all for providing my evening entertainment :lol:

 

I only opened this thread because I couldn't figure out why there were 10 pages on a carpet question :001_huh: Now I know! :blush:

 

:lol: I thought it was a carpet thread too:001_huh:

[SailorMom]

There is no carpeting in my TeA room..... careful and precise use of Nair. I tried waxing, OUCH! And left horrible bumps.

[ange]

Now I'm going to have to ask my dermatologist about laser "down there"! :tongue_smilie: I've never done waxing for any area other than eyebrows (when I did the lady ripped some skin off too). So too scared to go brazil. I'm a mutt...my mom of dutch descent w/ white blond hair on her head, and just about none anywhere else, but my dad is of puerto rican descent...so I have "ethnic hair" issues. My skin is so delicate and sensitive (like mom's), so even shaving is painful. But I hate being hairy. I've been doing laser for underarms so I wonder how it could work for the other? I've got resilient Puerto Rican hair though! :glare: Would love to be hair free...you got me wondering now!! :D

[Mrs_JWM]

Wow...Best. Thread. Ever.

 

LOVE you girls!

:lol:

[LauraGB]

Wow...Best. Thread. Ever.

 

LOVE you girls!

:lol:

 

:iagree::lol:

 

I'm almost tempted to tell you all about the one time I *had* to do that - it has to do with a self attempt at a bikini wax, dripping, needing to do something, finishing the job, many hours invested, some tears, a sore back for a week...almost tempted.:D

 

But I will say something about the lasers - if you go for a laser treatment for the bikini area, the technician likely won't have an issue with zapping the top or going just a little further inside the line - you know, so you don't have any strays to worry about. From there, a safety scissors helps maintain the, uh, berber-esque look.

[Wendi]

:iagree:Same preference. Same questions.

 

Funny thread. But I don't get the whole idea. Shoot I don't even shave my legs and pits in the winter. Keeps me warmer. Doesn't seem to deter dh in the slightest.

 

 

I like your choice of words. Doesn't "deter" dh. :D

 

Wendi

[Liz CA]

what were her objections?

 

(curiosity.... not that I'm considering that.)

 

The main thing I remember was that she did not like the chemicals used in "cream" preparations that some women use. Also, evidently, she had seen a lot of infections resulting from some "home" procedures.

I don't remember at all that she mentioned anything about laser treatments.

[Carol in Cal.]

OK, I'd like to propose a new name for the General Board...

 

Euphemisms R Us

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:lol::lol:

[Liz CA]

Oh my word my eyes.....so early in the morning ladies. Sorry girls I go natural on this one. I just don't want anyone all up in my business. I did suggest to my OB/GYN that he should learn to do them while he's down there. Many women would be less uptight if he could just include it in the exam-lol.

 

I wonder how they would code this one and what the charges would be. Would it be considered "essential" by the insurance or an elective procedure? Oy, so much to think about today! :lol:

[arghmatey]

Somewhere upthread someone asked if laser is permanent. It is believed to be a permanent method of hair removal. I have had several sessions (6 plus on some areas), and I believe it is permanent.

 

I used to have VERY coarse, VERY dark hair. Like Chewbaca.

 

I have had Epilight (old school), electrolysis (somebody hold me), and laser. In high school, I sugared, used wax, all the normal stuff.

 

Electrolysis is permanent. It zaps the root of your hair, but you have to have each hair zapped ONE AT A TIME. It was worth it to me at the time. Everywhere I've had it, the hair has not returned (this was about ten years ago).

 

I *think* my laser treatments have been permanent. According to experts, it is permanent; however, the same area needs more than one treatment because not all hairs are in the same growth phase at any given time. A hair has to be in a specific stage of growth in order for the laser to kill it or whatever the jargon may be.

 

The hair that now grows on my legs and bikini area and armpits is about 10% of what it originally was. I RARELY shave now, and nobody notices, whereas in the past I couldn't go a single DAY without annoying, noticeable stubble! In fact, at one point, I dyed my hair (on my head) platinum blonde, and my dark roots were visible the NEXT day. Ugh!

 

No one in my life has ever expressed a preference for porn-style carpet. I like it thin and short and maintenance free, because I LIVE in a bikini for a large part of the year (it's hot in Texas). I also wear mostly dresses all year long. The thought of never having to shave again is very nice.

 

At this point, I'd probably never have to shave again, but I keep going back for maintenance sessions (in between pregnancies) because I want it even thinner and lighter (on my legs--I'm pretty happy with my "carpet" at this point).

 

I have had it done by one of my besties, who is a dermatologist, by a technician at my cosmetic surgeon's office, and also by the aesthetician at my OB's office. I now go only to my OB's aesthetic clinic because 1) it's at a hospital (if anything did go wrong, I find that comforting), 2) I paid for a package and never have to pay more than $200 for an area again, which is awesome, and 3) they are wonderful about privacy and creating an awesome atmosphere for women.

[DianeW88]

OK, I'd like to propose a new name for the General Board...

 

Euphemisms R Us :lol::lol:

 

I'm wondering what SWB is thinking right about now? "Wait, wasn't the topic of my book 'how to give your child a classical education at home'?? I don't EVER recall THIS topic in the manuscript." :001_huh:

 

Although I think she may have used the word "Berber" a time or two. :lol: Does that count?

[arghmatey]

What are the laser treatments like? Are they painful? Right now I only shave since I don't think I would be a good candidate for waxing (very sensitive skin and lots of thick, dark hair). The thought of not having to shave my legs (or anywhere else) ever again is very tempting.

 

They should give you either EMLA or Tri-Caine. I forgot to apply the Tri-caine one time and had to end the session in tears.

 

When I do use it, I feel just a sensation--no pain at all. I've actually fallen asleep on the table. LOL

[sagira]

Yikes! Good luck, OP! You are braver than I. Personally, I don't see any need to remove the carpet in my tea room. I take to the the shaggy 60s look ;)

[Nakia]

I must say this thread has been very entertaining!!

 

Whatever you do, don't use VEET! I tried it ONCE, and seeing that I am not the most coordinated person in the world, I ended up with chemical burns in my teA cup. It was not good at all. So not good.

[littleWMN]

I'm sorry, but this made me immediately think of someone putting their carpet in pigtails. Now how's that for an image or new fashion trend.

 

:smilielol5::blink:

 

 

:lol::lol:

[littleWMN]

Magic Shave is your friend. :D:auto::bigear:

 

:lurk5:

[Abigail4476]

I totally recommend a friend and a sedative (even if you just take an extra Advil). An area rug on the floor is nice; bare floors are a bit cold, IMO.

 

Also, laser hair removal works great [on dark carpet], but it is NOT painless, no matter what the well-meaning receptionist tells you. :tongue_smilie: And a single treatment isn't enough. Usually it takes 5-6 fairly pricey appointments to get the job done.

[Nestof3]

That's weird. I am over 40 but not quite 50, hubby is 50. I had never heard of such a thing until my 19 year informed me that she had been doing it pretty much since it grew in. You are doing what!? :001_huh: I asked her where she ever got the idea to do that because she had never even had a boyfriend or been exposed to the idea through the media. Girls in school and camp had informed her that it was proper hygeine. :glare: To each their own, but I certainly didn't appreciate the peer pressure to convince my dd that it was a hygeine issue when I see it as really more of a personal preference/style issue.

 

I honestly didn't realize non-p*rn-posing women had hair removal done there. I just always associated the two.

[Joanne]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elaine

It is much more sanitary

Based on what? I don't get this.

 

 

My tea area is multi-functional. It is used for more than one process. When my tea area is naturally carpeted, the fibers tend to attract and keep residue and some of the paper used to clean up from the other functions of my tea area.

 

I have found my tea area has a more pleasant odor when there is less carpet fiber.

 

Having a stripped tea area increased enjoyment of tea.

 

But not everyone experiences tea the way I do.

 

Enjoy your tea.

[Peela]

I honestly didn't realize non-p*rn-posing women had hair removal done there. I just always associated the two.

 

I didnt realise it was so common either- but a thread here a few years ago informed me it was quite common :)

I also associated it with porn, and with child porn in particular- (because it seems to me that if a man wanted a hairless woman what he might really want was a child rather than a woman) but i am sure that thought would horrify many.

As a natural blonde with minimal body hair, I am obviously ignorant. I don't dye, I shave my legs once a month, and I never touch- as in thin- my carpet! But I don't know what I would do if I was more luxuriously endowed!

[caitlinsmom]

:rofl: This is just what I needed tonight!

[sassyscrapperinid]

I know...I am choking back laughter so my dh won't ask what on earth I'm reading...

 

Are you kidding ladies?? My dh and I are sharing a few of these posts together, and we havent laughed so hard in I cant tell you when!! Thanks!! :lol::lol::lol:

[KidsHappen]

I honestly didn't realize non-p*rn-posing women had hair removal done there. I just always associated the two.

 

Me too which is why I was so concerned when my dd first told me. My 18 year old also experiemented with this and decided it wasn't worth it. So far the youngers have had no need for this as they are either blond or still in the very fine hair stage but I will try to discourage it until they are older.

[KidsHappen]

I also associated it with porn, and with child porn in particular- (because it seems to me that if a man wanted a hairless woman what he might really want was a child rather than a woman)

 

I have to admit that this is a very large concern of mine. Even if I was convinced of every other advantage of going carpetless, I am pretty sure that this issue would hold me back. I intellectually understand that men are very visual and actually seeing the teA room would be arousing to them, emotionally I just can't get past the idea that perhaps they are just interested, maybe even subconsciously, in a pre-pubesent look. I find the possibility alone incredibly alarming.

[Ginevra]

I didnt realise it was so common either- but a thread here a few years ago informed me it was quite common :)

I also associated it with porn, and with child porn in particular- (because it seems to me that if a man wanted a hairless woman what he might really want was a child rather than a woman) but i am sure that thought would horrify many.

As a natural blonde with minimal body hair, I am obviously ignorant. I don't dye, I shave my legs once a month, and I never touch- as in thin- my carpet! But I don't know what I would do if I was more luxuriously endowed!

 

See, I felt that way about it, too, when dh said he would like hardwood (I retain an area rug; I'm not totally bare), but he doesn't see it in that light at all. He's taking in the entire picture and assures me that there is nothing that looks like I might be 10 years old. I still don't wish to go hardwood; too painful and not worth it to me. Tightly trimmed area rug is good IMO.

[Ginevra]

Me too which is why I was so concerned when my dd first told me. My 18 year old also experiemented with this and decided it wasn't worth it. So far the youngers have had no need for this as they are either blond or still in the very fine hair stage but I will try to discourage it until they are older.

 

That's an interesting perspective, because I am waiting for the day when dd says a razor is not working out for her and if she wanted to try wax, I'd actually encourage it. I was in misery trying to maintain the carpet when I was about 15 - 19, just for the sake of swimsuits. When I was 19, I discovered wax (hip California chic in my office) and never looked back. I wish I had known this was an option when I was 15; I vividly remember that summer being the most miserable with bathing suits; I also tried Nair, which gave me chemical burns. In Ocean City with my best friend. :glare:

[annandatje]

Hair removal has been a custom in various cultures for various reasons over the centuries. The *current* American tradition of hair removal is rooted in pornography but has gone mainstream. Other body modification practices, such as tattooing, have moved from counterculture to mainstream. I suspect that those who support body mod practices overestimate benefits while underestimating risks while those who oppose them do opposite. My position is that each person should do what they want with their body as long as they are of age of reason as long as it is legal. That includes refusing medical treatment that is popularly (and scientifically) accepted as appropriate.

[Sun]

A Brazillian revival.......

 

so this would be me, but until someone would give me the blow by blow details of what to expect during such an appointment I can't find enough courage to do it. KWIM?

 

If I know what to expect in an outline format I will be OK. Kind of like getting a massage for the first time, do you take it all of or leave some? Socks? Chat? :D

 

I can't imagine chatting during a waxing but still. I do have my eyebrows done. Courage for other parts is lacking. I'm willing to do the next layer down -- armpits but I'd have to know where to put the bookshelves.

 

So. Setting the pain level aside, details on the step by step. Waxing, Laser, or other.

 

OH Yes, HOW do you choose the technician?! This person will be in the same category as the obgyn in my mind so ......

 

Thanks. DH would thank you too but only after I get the courage to go lower.

 

CalicoKat, I found this website http://alphamom.com/your-life/beauty-style/bikini-waxing-101/ which had some fairly detailed explanations on it. As for how to choose a technician, I found a place that had more than 100 reviews on Yelp but still had about an average rating of about 4.8 stars. Then I read a lot of those reviews. I chose a technician somewhat at random from among the several names people had mentioned in their reviews. We'll see how it works out in a little bit.

[melissel]

:001_huh:

 

I totally thought this thread was about bedroom acoustics and noise levels if you went to hardwood flooring :lol::lol::lol::lol:

 

Words cannot express how much I love this board!

[Abigail4476]

I'm not a fan of bare floors, and I share the anxiety about it being a bit abnormal, however--a lot of factors go into what one person finds attractive or doesn't, and it isn't so simple as writing them all off as pedophiles. Our culture has presented carpet-free or nearly carpet-free (referring to the whole house here--not just the tea room) as the norm for beauty for many years, and no, it isn't limited to "porn stars." It seems to be even more prevalent among the younger generation. I might add that, according to statistics, a great number of them have been exposed to porn, in which adult women are shown with no carpet. Ergo, their attraction to an adult woman includes the visual of hardwoods. It isn't necessarily associated with prepubescence.

 

My advice to my daughters (which has been limited so far, since they're only 15 & 13) is: Keep everything squeaky clean and trimmed. That's mainly to control odor issues. If they want to have things trimmed up a little more, that will be their decision to make once they're adults. I'm not going to recommend anything more than that, unless the carpet is excessive.

[Janie Grace]

Our culture has presented carpet-free or nearly carpet-free (referring to the whole house here--not just the tea room) as the norm for beauty for many years

 

I think this is why it has never occurred to us. There is no context in which I would even KNOW this is the "norm for beauty." I don't ever see other naked women -- IRL, on movies, internet, anywhere. Neither does dh. The last "porn" he saw was a Playboy passed around in high school (which, since it was in the 80s, probably had women with all of their "grown-up hair"!). So I guess we're sort of "out of the loop" on that... which is fine with us. He thinks I'm s*xy with what the good Lord gave me in the tearoom department! I shower every day and there are no issues of odor/cleanliness holding him back (I promise!).

[KidsHappen]

That's an interesting perspective, because I am waiting for the day when dd says a razor is not working out for her and if she wanted to try wax, I'd actually encourage it. I was in misery trying to maintain the carpet when I was about 15 - 19, just for the sake of swimsuits. When I was 19, I discovered wax (hip California chic in my office) and never looked back. I wish I had known this was an option when I was 15; I vividly remember that summer being the most miserable with bathing suits; I also tried Nair, which gave me chemical burns. In Ocean City with my best friend. :glare:

 

Well, these two girls are blessed in this dept. 14 year old is fair skinned, blond and lightly carpeted and very modest in choice of swimwear. Usually at least a boyshort or skirted style. Then youngest is still at the very fine, highly contained stage and also wears moedst swim clothes. They don't have problems with more carpet than coverage and no one else is looking so I plan to stay the same course until things change. When the time comes where they need a little trim to keep everything contained with in the proscibed space, I will certainly introduce them to the electric bikini razor which is perfect for trim the edges. Of course, I won't be doing spot check so once they get older, it really will be their own choice.

[Abigail4476]

I think this is why it has never occurred to us. There is no context in which I would even KNOW this is the "norm for beauty." I don't ever see other naked women -- IRL, on movies, internet, anywhere. Neither does dh. The last "porn" he saw was a Playboy passed around in high school (which, since it was in the 80s, probably had women with all of their "grown-up hair"!). So I guess we're sort of "out of the loop" on that... which is fine with us. He thinks I'm s*xy with what the good Lord gave me in the tearoom department! I shower every day and there are no issues of odor/cleanliness holding him back (I promise!).

 

I don't view porn, either--at least, not on purpose. I've been *accidentally* exposed due to visitors in my house accessing it on my computer, and a couple of unfortunate Google images searches :001_huh:. Also, if you look at women's magazines, most women are pretty much hairless all the way down to their bikini lines and most of my friends have had most or everything removed. When you see women in skimpy bathing suits, thongs, etc., is isn't like they have shag hanging out everywhere, so it's obvious that they've had some trim-work done at the very least. My point is that I think men, especially younger men, are going to perceive that as the norm for adult women, especially if they've been exposed to pornography.

 

Fortunately, my husband is like yours--I don't have to do much of anything, except be nice and clean and available. :tongue_smilie: I have a friend, though, whose husband couldn't even get turned on if she had [any] carpet. (They're divorced now). :glare:

 

My first introduction to the idea of hair removal anywhere except my legs and eyebrows was by my first (obviously crass and clueless) obstetrician. I've always had a little line of hair from my navel to my *ahem.* It wasn't very obvious until I got pregnant, and then it got darker. My husband never mentioned it or seemed bothered by it, and I had never felt self-conscious about it. Anyway, when I went for my first prenatal exam, the doctor laughed OUT LOUD when he saw my tummy and said, "Is that a recent occurrence?" I didn't even know what he was talking about at first, and then he followed up with, "The hair..." I turned beet red, lied a quick "yes" and promptly went home and waxed it all off. My point being, little things happen in our life and culture that give us impressions of what is acceptable and what isn't, and it influences what we view as attractive or unattractive. It isn't quite so simple as "men who are secretly in to little girls want their wives to have carpet-free tea rooms."

 

I guess I'm just trying to give men the benefit of the doubt (a little bit, at least) and acknowledge the complexity of our over-sexualized culture. As a culture, we are obsessed with physical beauty and perfection, sex is everywhere, and it bleeds over into our marriages and personal hygiene and behavior and affects our daughters' self-esteem and our sons' ideas of what is attractive and our husbands' views of bedroom behavior--whew--it wears me out just thinking about it. Simplicity is something I covet. :001_smile:

[Janie Grace]

I don't view porn, either--at least, not on purpose. I've been *accidentally* exposed due to visitors in my house accessing it on my computer, and a couple of unfortunate Google images searches :001_huh:. Also, if you look at women's magazines, most women are pretty much hairless all the way down to their bikini lines and most of my friends have had most or everything removed. When you see women in skimpy bathing suits, thongs, etc., is isn't like they have shag hanging out everywhere, so it's obvious that they've had some trim-work done at the very least. My point is that I think men, especially younger men, are going to perceive that as the norm for adult women, especially if they've been exposed to pornography.

 

Fortunately, my husband is like yours--I don't have to do much of anything, except be nice and clean and available. :tongue_smilie: I have a friend, though, whose husband couldn't even get turned on if she had [any] carpet. (They're divorced now). :glare:

 

My first introduction to the idea of hair removal anywhere except my legs and eyebrows was by my first (obviously crass and clueless) obstetrician. I've always had a little line of hair from my navel to my *ahem.* It wasn't very obvious until I got pregnant, and then it got darker. My husband never mentioned it or seemed bothered by it, and I had never felt self-conscious about it. Anyway, when I went for my first prenatal exam, the doctor laughed OUT LOUD when he saw my tummy and said, "Is that a recent occurrence?" I didn't even know what he was talking about at first, and then he followed up with, "The hair..." I turned beet red, lied a quick "yes" and promptly went home and waxed it all off. My point being, little things happen in our life and culture that give us impressions of what is acceptable and what isn't, and it influences what we view as attractive or unattractive. It isn't quite so simple as "men who are secretly in to little girls want their wives to have carpet-free tea rooms."

 

I guess I'm just trying to give men the benefit of the doubt (a little bit, at least) and acknowledge the complexity of our over-sexualized culture. As a culture, we are obsessed with physical beauty and perfection, sex is everywhere, and it bleeds over into our marriages and personal hygiene and behavior and affects our daughters' self-esteem and our sons' ideas of what is attractive and our husbands' views of bedroom behavior--whew--it wears me out just thinking about it. Simplicity is something I covet. :001_smile:

 

Great post. I'm sure you're right (sex is everywhere and bleeds over into what we see as attractive).

 

About your OB... WHAT A JERK!!! You'd think "do not laugh at a patient's physical features" would be part of Doctoring 101. I am so steamed just thinking about that.

[Abigail4476]

Great post. I'm sure you're right (sex is everywhere and bleeds over into what we see as attractive).

 

About your OB... WHAT A JERK!!! You'd think "do not laugh at a patient's physical features" would be part of Doctoring 101. I am so steamed just thinking about that.

 

I know. He was an idiot. :glare:

[melissel]

Great post. I'm sure you're right (sex is everywhere and bleeds over into what we see as attractive).

 

About your OB... WHAT A JERK!!! You'd think "do not laugh at a patient's physical features" would be part of Doctoring 101. I am so steamed just thinking about that.

 

:iagree: and :iagree::iagree::iagree:!!!!

[HeidiKC]

I remember being at the gym about 15 years ago and a woman in her early 20s was confidently strolling around in the buff. It was the first (and maybe only?) time I'd ever seen a woman with a missing carpet. I was kind of shocked and tried not to stare! Then I was even more surprised when she got a stick of deodorant out of her bag and applied it to her armpits...and then down below. I'd never heard of that and had certainly never seen it. Is this common as well for gals that go bare?

 

The funny thing was that for years I assumed she was a stripper or something exotic/risque. Now reading this thread, I think maybe she was just on the cutting edge! How long has this trend been around? I've only been aware of it (hardwoods) in the past 3 years or so.

[RanchGirl]

Speaking of teA room mishaps:

 

Last summer I was hugely pregnant. (I had not groomed my teA room carpet in some time, as I could not see down there.) Dh was a work and the littles were napping so I decided to take a bath. I was relaxing in the tub and was trying to scooch down in the water when I discovered that I could not move. My tush was stuck. I reached below my burgeoning belly to discover that one of my fabulous children had left GUM in the tub.

 

The doors to my magic treehouse were now glued shut with hot bubble gum and my whole derierre was adhered to the tub. I scraped the gum with my fingernails until I could extricate myself from the tub.

 

I waddled over to the commode and tried to wipe it off with tissue. Upon contact with the air, however, the gum had hardened. So now my princess parts were caked with gum and bits of toilet tissue. Nice. I couldn't even void because there was so much gum. I swear, it was like the child had deposited an entire packet of masticated Big League Chew on the bottom of my tub.

 

I had to call dh home from work to attend to things as I was terrified that I would lacerate myself if I attempted to remove the gum with scissors, what with my visibility being limited and all.

 

Gum is now banned from the house.

 

This is the funniest story ever. Even better than the waxing one. I laughed til I cried, then I laughed some more! Thanks for sharing it!

[RanchGirl]

Another vote for Magic Shave over here. I've never tried anything else. I used to shave just the bikini line and that resulted in *painful* ingrown hairs. I can't even imagine how bad waxing would hurt and having a stranger working in the magic treehouse/tea room/insert euphemism of your choice here -- no way.

 

Although I am interested to hear about the previous poster's doctor's complaints about chemicals in Magic Shave. I only use it once or twice a month but it does have a strong chemical smell. hmmmm.

[Ginevra]

I remember being at the gym about 15 years ago and a woman in her early 20s was confidently strolling around in the buff. It was the first (and maybe only?) time I'd ever seen a woman with a missing carpet. I was kind of shocked and tried not to stare! Then I was even more surprised when she got a stick of deodorant out of her bag and applied it to her armpits...and then down below. I'd never heard of that and had certainly never seen it. Is this common as well for gals that go bare?

 

The funny thing was that for years I assumed she was a stripper or something exotic/risque. Now reading this thread, I think maybe she was just on the cutting edge! How long has this trend been around? I've only been aware of it (hardwoods) in the past 3 years or so.

 

I don't know how long the hardwood trend has been going on (instinctively, I would guess probably 3,000 years or so ;)), but the first time I was ever aware of that was when I was 19, which was a fair number of years ago. :tongue_smilie: One of the secretaries I worked with said she kept things hairless. I had never heard of it, but that was also the office where I learned that the answer to my floor-maintenance issues was found in the professional wax. I was not tempted to attempt a hardwood-wax, but that was where I learned to tame the Neanderthal beast that is my tea-room carpeting. :D

 

And...she rubbed the deodorant down in the TEA ROOM?! :svengo: Just goes to show you that strange ideas abound in tea-room maintenance. If I had a notion of doing that, at least I would have separate sticks. But I don't have any notion of doing that. I'm not a big fan of introducing chemicals in that area.

Edited April 27, 2011 by Quill
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