My guess is about half though my preference is the landing strip which is what my wife has. She's had it fuller and completely shaved but this is my favorite.

It's now two days ago and it's still super smooth! It's amazing.

She never had a wax before, and she expected it to be painful. While it did some pain, she told me it was less than expected. I could have a look at it, but it was advised not to have any sex until the second day after the wax. So, to be careful, we waited.

She really loves the feel, it's so smooth and there is no stubble after a day, which she finds very easy. The downside for her is that she, after getting used to being smooth, had to let the hair grow before waxing. Although now, after this first wax, the hair should come back softer. She isn't sure if she will continue waxing, but we both like the look and feel of her waxed pussy. She can now wear her high cut bikini bottoms and enjoy the vacation without having to worry about shaving.

We frequent naturist beaches and naturist spas, so my firsthand experience is that 90% of those women shave completely, including my wife. But my wife says that from her experience in the changing rooms, only 50% are completely shaved. I also shave my pubis and balls completely.

I’ll have what he’s having!
 

I would agree, I’m thinking bald may actually be past it’s peak. my partner is pretty fair and min hair anyway but she had been bald for past 7 years and has let it grow in….
On the beaches landing strips seem popular now. The little strip or patch is my preference.
Cute little tuft and clean where we eat! 😆
(toonzilla - dang! She is one lovely creature.
count your blessings sir…, Daily)

My sister is a gynecologist's nurse, she says way less than half, although the younger the more likely, but still not half.

My wife was always shaved, but before her physical she grew it back. so your sister may not be completely accurate.

A small update. Due to the wax, she remained smooth during our whole vacation without having to shave. Not long after we were back home, the first fine hairs started to grow again. As she didn't want to grow out the hairs again in order to wax, she has gone back to the daily shaving.

Another factor is swimwear. If you watch programmes like Love Island (UK) this year you'll see swimsuits that don't have room for pubic hair!
Programmes like these often set the trends and sure enough you are seeing more of these in real life.
To me it's an indication that shaving is getting more, rather than less common.
I've seen lots of women at the pool, beach or waterpark where there must have been major hair removal (of course, a small landing strip could have been left).

The original survey was about actual observations (e.g.at nude beach, spas etc.), but it is interesting to discuss what the true number would be too.

Dating Naked UK
 

If anyone has missed the excellent Dating Naked UK, the stats so far are 5 totally bare and 1 lightly trimmed. The 5 have a very smooth and clean look so are most likely waxed and maybe lasered.

Harder to tell with the men. They've all had back, crack and sack but a couple are more stubbly.

Clearly not representative of society, but it sets the trend for those watching.

Bald is best!

do you have link?

I remember when the wife was pregnant and got me to shave her as she obviously couldn’t reach… was terrifying! Especially as I was filming it at the same time, my god it was bomb disposal tense to not cut her,

There's a thread and it has links

https://forum.oneclickchicks.com/sho...d.php?t=264690

Nude beach view
 

We are back from our vacation. We've been to several nude beaches in germany. Most of the women are bold shaved (>50%) even the older ones. Then trimmed / groomed 20%, landing strip 20%, full bush <10%
That's what I saw.

How did the ratios change for the younger women, say under 40s? And what about the men?

Views
 

The men were approx 50 % bush, 30 % bold and 20 % trimmed. No landing strips.
But I have to admit I didn't pay so much attention to the men. Many younger women had landing strips or were bold.

We haven't been to the beach for 5 years. Back then, very few women were shaved or partially shaved. My wife was no exception. She was completely unshaven. Now and again she would go with the scissors. For a few months now she has been going to a gym to train. Afterwards she goes to the sauna with the other women and was the only one with a full bush. The other women were all trimmed. She started doing it that way and then her hair got less and less. Then she shaved completely and I was very surprised but then I enjoyed it. After several visits she told me that now half of the women are also smooth. Then she wished that I would shave completely too. On the last 2 visits there was also a man who was completely shaved and you could see a lot more and that turned her on. So now we are both smooth and it is great fun!

Recent
 

Are you in Europe? I have similar recollection that, even though shaving became 'fashionable' earlier, it's only really the last 5-10 years where going totally bald has become mainstream with 'normal' people, for example in spas.

Great to hear of your and your wife's journey, me and my wife seem to have a lot more fun now we're smooth too!

Yes, initially it would be a shock to see entire families completely shaved at a Spa, now it is somewhat normal.

Yes, in Central Europe and yes, we have more fun with sex! I think it starts with friends. Just like my wife started in a relatively small group and now there are imitators. It could be similar on nudist beaches. My wife told me which women are now bare. Among them is our neighbor's wife, who is 10 years younger than me. What a thrill do you think it gives me when I greet her in the morning or evening and chat to her, knowing that she has a bare pussy!!

This is a nice story and it reminds me very much of how it went with my wife. She started going to the gym some two years ago. And initially, she kept her full bush. But her friends in the gym were all shaved. My wife had shaved in the past, but the last time was thirteen years ago. But with all her friends spotting bare pussies, she decided to give shaving a try again. Since January, she's keeping it bare again and I love it, she only did let it grow a bit before our summer vacation as she wanted to try a wax. After that, she has continued shaving again and still keeps it smooth. She loves it. For me, it took some time to get used to it as I always liked the bush. At first I found the shaved look a bit boring, to me, her bush made her pussy more unique. And during the first months I actually missed her bush. But after some time I started to appreciate her soft, smooth pussy, and now I love it. I asked her last week if she, now summer is ending, has any plans to grow out her bush again, but actually I was quite happy to hear that she was adamant to keep it smooth.

When did shaving become common?
 

Anybody old enough to remember when all women had hair?

I'm wondering when the memo went out telling women to shave.

My memory is one day every woman had hair. The next day, no woman did.

I do.

Shaving seemed to "take off" sometime in the 90's. Some say it started with porn, and women shaving to show "more."

My ex was one of the first women to go bald at our resort (mid-90's). Needless to say she made an impression back then. These days she'd just blend in with everyone else.

The first time
 

The first partner I had that shaved was a woman I worked with and was having an affair with in 1997 - at that time I really only saw Penthouse pets and Hugh’s bunnies would be bald from time to time…

One afternoon when we connected and she says. “I got something to show you and I hope you don’t think it’s weird…. “

She was wearing a little tennis skirt as we sat in the car and she lifted one knee and revealed a bald little pussy peaking out beneath the micro skirt… I about shit with joy…

The only thing more exciting was when she described her and her girlfriend having wine in the bathtub the night before and decided they would shave each other for fun….

The story was very detailed and the fun had only started with the shaving of each others pussies. I almost came just hearing the details of the game and wished I had been invited to the main event!

Now a days the majority are bald or trimmed I like a little patch above the best!

I think shaving became a thing in the 90s and certainly being shaved or trimmed to some extent has been normal for some time. Also nudist communities have been way ahead of the curve.

But my feeling is that it's been much more recently that there has been a tipping point where totally hairless has become the majority everywhere. I think it's the last 10 years.

I became sexually active in the early 2000s and that was the time that, at least in Europe where I lived, women around my age started to shave. My first partner had a trimmed bush but during our relationship she decided to start shaving, so 2002 was the first time I saw a bald pussy. According to her, out of her friends group of 6 or 7 girls, only 1 other girl shaved at that moment.

During that era, it was a bit of a mix what I encountered with other women. Some were shaved bare, others kept a bush. An ex-girlfriend once offered me that she was willing to shave her bush, but I liked it so I declined. Our relationship didn't last that long, so I never got the chance again to see her without a bush.

My wife was shaved when I met her, experimented with different styles in the first years of our relationship, then kept a full bush for 13 years, and ultimately went back to shaving since the beginning of this year.

My preference when it comes to female pubic hair has changed from time to time, but currently I love it that my wife keeps it smooth, and she loves it as well. I don't think she will go back to growing out a full bush anytime soon.

In 2004, I became sexually active shortly after my senior year of high school and was involved with a few women short term up through marriage.

Carm, my first girlfriend after graduating HS kept a full, untouched bush. Initially she also didn't shave her arm pits; she had previously did a foreign exchange program in France and the daughters of the family she loved with teased her for shaving. Her bush was incredibly dense; enough to fully cover and hide her lips, but it didn't spread to her belly or thighs. I was in Heaven the time we were together. We never had sex, but I spent most of the summer before college with my head buried between her legs and my tongue on her hairy lips.

We broke up a month or two into my freshman year of college. Nothing malicious, we just wanted to enjoy our college experiences. We linked up through web camera a few times during my junior year of college. She was in a sorority at the point but I was ecstatic to see she still had the same hairy pussy then as she did when we dated.

My sophomore year of college, I began dating a lady, Jen, a couple of years older than me, long term. She was Italian and like my first girlfriend, had an exceptionally dense and thick brown bush. She was the girl to whom I lost my virginity and I distinctly remember her bush giving my cock a bit of trouble as I tried to penetrate her, missionary. I remember having to pull out, lubricate my condom a bit and then ease in slowly.

We had a great relationship and fucked regularly but about a year in, we took a break for a few months. During that break was when I experienced my first bald pussy. I visited my best friend at his college and hour away from mine. While there, I met this curvier/bbw blonde girl, Liz. Nothing happened when I was there, but we began chatting over AIM and a month or so later, I went back to visit her directly. As we were making out in her bed, I pulled her pants and thong down and was surprised to see a completely bald pussy, save for a tiny bit of stubble.

Eating her was an amazing feeling - the lack of hair caused her wetness to land squarely on my face, even if the stubble was a bit itchy at first. Sex was amazing and there were no issues easing into her. We fooled around for a other month before the distance took its toll on us and I began dating Jen again.

Once Jen and I got back together, I started mentioning trimming to her. It took awhile, but a few months after we got back together, she said she had a surprise for me. As we were getting down to business, she undressed to her thong and bra and laid on my bed. The thing was sheer and I was able to see her bush was significantly less dense. After making out, I pulled her thong down and saw that she REALLY knocked the hair back. It was still wide, but her lips were now very visible beneath the hair that was left. She was far from bald, but nowhere near as thick as it was. She even mentioned that when she exited the shower after trimming it, her mother saw it and asked her what happened to all of her hair.

My second go-around with Jen lasted about a year before we ultimately called it quits for good. A short while after that, I met Adie,who is now my wife. When we hooked up, she was fully shaved, like Liz. By that time, the bald look didn't bother me, despite my preference still being full bush. The thing I immediately noticed when she got on my bed and leaned over doggiestyle, was that despite having a bald pussy, her taint, ass crack and cheeks were substantially furry. That was a wonderful sight to behold the first time we fucked.

Over time, I got her to grow her bush in for me, which wasn't nearly as dense as Carm or Jen's. However, Adie's bush covered her mound and went a little bit down her thighs and up her belly, which I honestly thought was hotter. We've been together over a decade now and while she still prefers to shave, she will occasionally grow her bush back and she leaves her ass hair alone.

I'm not sure if it's just my demographic or not, but at least half the women I've seen have at least some pubic hair.

Would be good to get some more information. What's your demographic? And where and how many women have you seen?

Fully Shaved.
 

Joanne you have a beautiful smooth pussy and it does look nice shaved and silky.

I have to say that over 50 % are Smooth now~
 

There are so many things to take into consideration when talking about this part of their body!
If women are exposed to conditions like a Nude Beach or Adult Resort, I would say they would be going with the latest trend and would be All smooth at any of those places!
But if the woman isn't around any GF's that talk about the girl stuff, she wouldn't know and at least would be somewhat trimmed just so her pubes aren't hanging out past her Bikini or Undies!
I found out some of this from the 1st time my wife talked my bit younger sister into doing some Naughty posing with her! I think the surprise came from both sides, my sister seeing my wife all smooth and also me & my wife seeing my sister with a full Bushy one that was trimmed off on the sides!
The next time my sister was over, she was as smooth as a baby's Ass and it was exciting to be able to view her lips now! I wanted to ask her if her hubby had seen it yet and what he asked her or why she went smooth? But I never did ask!
When I was single and young, I got to view all my GF's with a full Bush and it was wonderful except for getting those tiny hairs in your mouth! lol
But I also noticed only in pics cause we haven't been to any of the Nude Adult bike rides, that there is a mixture of both full Bush women and others that are smooth and maybe get around more as compared to any home body girls!

I live the middle of the Midwest. Most woman I’m referring to are late teens to mid 40s.

The females in my family have no qualms about changing or being nude in front of each other. Same with most of my friends. I realize this is completely different with guys, but I believe it’s pretty common with females.

I’d say the overwhelming percentage is closely trimmed (60%), full bush (15%), shaved with some sort of strip or triangle (15%), and completely baby bald (10%)

As well as all the trimming and shaving, my wife went through a phase of dyeing her pubic hair. It was a good look, with the dark colour contrasting against her natural skin tone. Now I think about it, that was around the time she stopped wearing knickers. Perhaps at some level, she hoped to discretely flash pussy every once in a while. She may have got a thrill from just taking the risk of some guy getting an upskirt glimpse.

When I was in High School (Sep67-Jun71), NONE of the females shaved and most barely trimmed their bushes.
But then in college, I dated a girl when she pledged a sorority. I found out that the sorority shaved all of their pledges during hellweek.
My gf was willing to keep herself clean-shaven until Thanksgiving, then she had to let her bush grow again before going home for a month-long winter break. She was afraid of what her mom & sisters would say/think about her with a hairless pussy.

It was not hellweek, but heavenweek. I would like to see it.

Hi good morning
We are a couple from Luxemburg in Europe. We are going to the naturist resort of Cap d'Agde in South of France for 15 years now, every summer the first 2 weeks in August. As you mentioned the actual pubic hair 'trend' over the last 5 summers we noticed that the vast majority of the women are shaven, what surprised as is that middle-aged women (+40) are fully shaven or waxed including the pubic mound, whilst the younger ones often a keep a smaller or larger strip which is often shorn very short. In August 2021 my wife had her nearly full bush waxed in a beauty salon inside the resort The esthetician at first had clipped with an electric razor her pubic hair to stubble and then applied warm wax, after the waxing my wife has to get used to her smooth pubic area and her esthtician told her that this is quite normal for all clients removing the pubic hair for a first time, in her opinion removing the pubic hair completely is the only way to show themselves really fully naked as pubic hair is covering the intimate parts and without pubic hair a woman accepts to show the vulva, outer lips and clitoral hood. Around the pool of our hotel at Cap d'Agde we also saw some women lying on the the sunchairs with their clitoral hood retraced. We spoke to a german woman who explained us that the prefers her clitoris exposed and retracts the hood several times a day. Kind regards, Christian and Joelle

Bush is back baby !
 

I watch my fair share of porn and say 15 to 20 yrs ago they were all shaved 85% anyway. Now 2025 the bush is making a nice trimmed comeback. I couldn’t be happier with the current selection or compromise if you will. Nice trimmed bush up top and shaved down were the action is. Ty ladies everyone should be happy. I know I am it’s the best of both worlds.

Nudebeach
 

I was visited biggest nude beach in the Czech Republic again.
I spent whole day there, I spotted 4-5 landing strips (one was really tiny), one full bush and rest completelly shaved. Great day. :)

CZ beach
 

what is the name of this lake or beach?

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