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Today I discovered that xl% of men have asked their partners to change their pubic hair – and for a moment, I was outraged.

Howcartelthey tell a woman what to do with their body, I seethed. How can men do zip but trim their pubes, nonetheless look women to be perfectly waxed and buffed?

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Then I became conflicted.

We'd never tell someone off for having a sexual preference, or a item hairstyle they find more bonny.

If someone said they like bluish eyes or brown hair, we might say they're a little superficial. Just it'd be unlikely we'd take the same rage reserved for those who declare that they adopt a woman with a clean shaven undercarriage.

Perhaps that'southward because of the connotations of being pilus-complimentary – a rejection of adult womanhood, a hatred of something that'due south entirely natural, and a preference for porn-ready Barbie dolls.

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Or mayhap it becomes an issue when menexpectwomen to meet their pubic hair preferences, and would either actually ask their partner to change something or would terminate dating them equally a result.

Information technology's tricky, because we should all be gratis to talk over our sexual preferences, and to choose non to remain in a relationship if our sexual needs aren't met (and if that outweighs all the other stuff in a partnership), but at the same time, asking someone to change their body to fit your preferences feels unacceptable.

At the end of the twenty-four hour period, if shaving or waxing makes sexual activity meliorate in a relationship (because the other partner is more into it), surely it's non a terrible thing to ask?

'Information technology's definitely okay to ask and to float the idea,' Alan, 23, told metro.co.uk.

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'If it'd make you more than inclined to put your mouth over that area and create an even playing field in the oral sexual activity stakes and then that's surely a good affair, right?'

Anna, 26, reckons that considering your partner'southward pubic pilus preferences is a nice gesture of consideration.

'When I outset sleeping with someone I usually ask their preference,' she explains, 'considering they're the i who spends the nigh time down there, and within reason I'm happy to take their lead (no sequins).

'I've also tentatively suggested that boyfriends might want to shave.'

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Using the hope of oral sex as a justification for requesting a pube style alter seems pretty common, and, frankly, fairly reasonable.

Going down boondocks with stubble can terminate up giving you a rash along your chin and nose (which isn't fun, trust me), and, while hair doesn't take to prohibit oral, tin can you actually get pissed off with someone if they'd rather not get pubes in and around their oral fissure?

Others cite reasons such as hygiene (nosotros'd like to add together that actually, keeping your pubes is often safer and more aseptic than ridding yourself of information technology entirely), lumping in pubes along with requests such as 'I'd quite similar information technology if you had recently showered before oral' or 'yeah, I'k non going down on you correct subsequently you've taken a sh*t'.

What it comes down to, I reckon, is whether you're gently requesting, or demanding, expecting, and judging.

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'I don't think information technology'southward the other person's business concern to alter the method you groom your pubes and it's definitely not okay to criticise, be judgmental or strength any change,' says Alan, while Anna clarifies that while it's 'nice to offer the other person a say, it should probably exist offered rather than asked.'

Having a preference is fine, substantially. Merely believing that pubic hair is inherently 'wrong', 'dirty', or 'gross' isn't. Because it'southward not – and it's there for a reason.

And then if your sexual activity life would be amend and you lot'd exist happier if your partner had unlike pubic hair, sure, go alee and gently ask.

But you demand to make certain you lot're request without criticising or making your partner feel self-conscious for something entirely natural – and retrieve that if they refuse, that'due south entirely their option.

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Retrieve that your partner's body is theirs, and that they're choosing to share it with yous.

If they don't listen switching up their pubes to make you happy, great. If they'd rather not, that's fine too – and I'1000 afraid you'll only have to deal with it or move on to someone who shares your specific body hair preferences.

Oh, and if you are keen on your partner changing their pilus, exist open to changing yours, too. If y'all remember your partner should go through a monthly wax while y'all pass up to even trim, yous're being a dick. A hairy one, at that.

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