BRING BACK PUBIC HAIR!

I believe that as parents we have a duty to inform our children that removing pubic hair is a mistake. I have written about this before – it’s a subject that becomes an issue when a middle aged woman has to confront the big wide world and get with the programme. Back in our day an untrimmed bush was the norm (I believe) and just think how much money and pain we saved ourselves.

A friend forwarded me an article yesterday written by a female doctor in America. She says that our obsession with hairless genitals must end. It’s doing our children no good to be removing all their hair. It is causing an increase in infections and isn’t, as we are led to believe, a more hygienic option.

It is the fashion, which makes it difficult to change. It’s what they’re used to, no doubt thanks to online porn and so it will have to be a collective decision made by all young women (and men) to agree to “ready, steady, grow” or it simply won’t work. Who is going to start it off? Perhaps we can introduce Muffember as well as Movember and highlight gynaecological cancers at the same time?

A friend of mine was sporting a rather alarming sweatshirt during my Pilates class this morning much to my children’s horror:-

“Do you think she knows what it means? There is an arrow actually pointing down? It might as well just say ‘PUBES'”. She bought it from Top Shop – it was designed by famed artist + designer Simeon Farrar to kick off Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month last September. Launched to support the Gynaecological Cancer Fund (GCF), the campaign is all about raising awareness about gynaecological cancers. Gynaecological cancers are known as ‘silent killers’ as they are often diagnosed too late, but can be reduced radically if we all look out for the symptoms and are brave enough to talk about our bodies more. In the UK 20,000 women are diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer, including ovarian, womb, cervical, vaginal and vulval, every year and more than 7,700 of these women will die.

Maybe we can try and tie it all in together? We would save the younger generation a fortune! They could probably afford to put a deposit down on a house instead. There’s an event on January 14 at Claridge’s which is sponsored by Chopard and organised by Gynaecological Cancer Fund committee including Tamara Beckwith and her sister Clare with celebrity guests expected including Elizabeth Hurley, Yasmin Le Bon, Joanna Lumley – maybe they could all help??

Further details on the Top Shop campaign is here:- http://insideout.topshop.com/2015/08/hows-your-lady-garden

The full article about why we should keep our pubic hair in tact is here:- http://www.alternet.org/doctor-pubic-hair-exists-reason-our-obsession-hairless-genitals-must-end-0