Thanks for sharing the update and glad your wife and her friends are enjoying it. Loving the thought of them critiquing and comparing each other.

Maybe you can make the most of it by asking her to wear more revealing bikinis that she couldn't get away with when she was hairy. If she's happy to show it in the changing room, she's hopefully happy to show everyone at the beach a bit more.

Let us know if you get used to it and / or she lets it grow again.

Yes, I like that they are talking about it and giving their opinions. Her friends told her that it looked so clean and pretty, one of her friends even told her that it was a shame that such a pretty pussy was hidden under such a big bush for so long. All agreed that it looked way better now. I guess that gave my wife a big confidence boost, even though she knows I've always loved her bush.

We don't go that often to the beach or swimming pool, but she should have some more options now in case she wants to buy a new bikini or bathing suit.

Will do! For now, I do like it but at the same time I really do miss the bush as well.

I don't think my wife and her friends have ever compared, but they do talk about it and even that is a big turn on. If she ever told me they had been showing each other I think I'd have to excuse myself for an emergency wank. Also, she only tells me about the range of styles but won't link the style to the name.

An update, some six weeks after "the big shave". My wife is still very happy with her decision to shave her pussy and she still shaves everyday in the shower. She does a good job, to be honest. Since she started shaving again, I haven't really felt any stubble when having sex with her because she shaves so frequently. The first weeks, I missed the bush, but now I'm getting used to the feeling of her bare pussy and I can actually enjoy how soft and smooth her skin feels without a bush covering it. It certainly has advantages, when giving her oral sex I can just put my mouth on her pussy and don't have to worry about hairs getting in my mouth or tickling my nose, there is just smooth, soft skin. And while I loved the hairy look, I have now gotten used to her smooth pussy and that looks good as well.

Is the original poster asking for a worldwide number of adult women? the US? the western world?

How can we know beyond self-reported surveys?

I don't think any of us has seen a large enough random sample without all sorts of selection biases.

I think the answer depends on a number of factors including:

Religion - Muslims are supposed to remove all pubic hair. So the more conservative their outer garb, the more likely they are to have shaved/waxed pubes.

Among non-Muslims - I imagine that younger adult women are more likely to be depilated than older ones.

Among naturists, where women can see other women naked, there may be more unconscious fashion following and unconscious peer pressure in going with the herd. So if some women are depilated then the fashion might spread. This is the only segment where there might be enough empirical evidence to answer this question - but only for this segment.

Right. An interesting question might be: "what percentage of nudist women would not be regularly shaven - if not for participation in social nudism?" Well, my wife for example would fall in that category.

That's why shaving in the nudist world might not be representative of shaving in the "real" world.

You are right, so for the purpose of the survey, we have to go by what we have SEEN and acknowledge it is limited by that.

For example I've observed at least 75% of women as being fully shaved over the past few years at european saunas, beaches etc. (public nudity rather than naturist, hard to put a number on it but I reckon I've had the priveledge of seeing 50-100 kittys) but I hear from my wife who speaks to friends and sees women in changing rooms that it's more like 50%. But she's heard that 'no one has pubes' from a friend with daughters at uni. For the purpose of the survey, my answer would be 75% as that's what I've seen.

Comments are also great to explore the variability that gets missed by a limited survey.

I didn't ask her, but for this summer, we planned to go on a beach vacation at the Mediterranean for the first time in years. In recent years, we mainly visited cities or the mountains. My wife did some online shopping and ordered some new bikinis, as the ones she had were already several years old. Previously, she would always buy swimwear which would cover her bush, but of course, now she doesn't have a bush anymore! She has bought two really nice bikinis with high cut bikini bottoms, something she wouldn't be able to wear if she still had a bush. She showed them to me and it looks really sexy. I'm really looking forward to our vacation.

There is also another reason why I'm looking forward to it. When my wife told her friends about the beach vacation and the new bikinis she bought, one of them told her that she always takes a wax before a vacation, as she will stay smooth during all of the vacation and doesn't have to worry about shaving every day. So, my wife decided to give that a try as well. She was advised by the salon to grow it out for about three weeks for the best result, so she stopped shaving a bit more than two weeks ago and she will have her waxing appointment next week, two days before we will leave for our vacation. So, at this moment her pussy isn't smooth anymore, and she has been complaining a bit about the regrowth and itch. But she knows it's needed to get the best waxing result.

I was eating her out yesterday and she even apologized to me for being "so hairy". I laughed a bit about it and I told her that for years, until about half a year ago, I've been eating her pussy when it was way more hairy than it is now. She said: "I know! I can't believe my pussy was that hairy, and I don't think I will let it get that hairy again anytime soon."

Wow, please tell us more.

How small is the bikini and is it a thong? How does she look in it and would she ever do topless?

Hope the wax gives you the desired effect.

It's high cut, compared to the swimwear she had before it's covering much less at the front. No, it's not a thong. I believe they call it Brazilian, it covers about half of the butt. Her previous swimwear basically covered the whole butt. And never say never, but she doesn't feel comfortable going topless and I don't believe she will.

Still almost a week to go before she will have the wax. She seems to be a bit annoyed and even somewhat ashamed that she now has hair on her pussy again, which I think it's a bit ironic considering it's only half a year ago that she still had a full bush. But it seems she really embraced the smooth look. We're both very much looking forward to the wax!