POLL What % of women are fully shaved
 

It's always great to see reports of pubic hair grooming styles. This poll is to definitively capture the % of women who have no pubes.

Guidelines:
- It must be what you've actually seen, not what you prefer, not what was on TV etc.
- Recent observations i.e. last year or so
- Public locations e.g. beach, spa, changing rooms
- Adult womens pubes only, any age
- Shaved or waxed bare / bald, not including landing strips etc.
- Please add comments with any further details like locations, ages, equivalent male grooming styles, stories / experiences etc.

Most
 

We’re regular nude beach visitors, almost all women shaved. My wife is always shaved and says she sees about 50% in her changing room shaved.

I attended my college's naked library run last fall and then again this spring, so I saw dozens of cute naked college girls. I will note that it seems like college girl pubic hair styling has changed recently. By far, the most common was neatly trimmed hair. I think at least 50% of the girls had trimmed hair. Probably 10% had a full bush, and 40% were fully shaved. I was sitting in the library near one of the stairs that the people run down at the beginning and then up at the end. On the way back up at the end, there was a bit of a traffic jam, and since I was sitting, I basically was staring right up many of these girls' vaginas, just about at eye level and less than a foot away!

There was this one girl I know from around campus, extremely attractive and pretty. A year ago she was fully shaved, but this spring she had trimmed hair. As I mentioned above, I got a very lengthy and very intimate view of her as she got stuck in the traffic jam - her slit was totally bare, but she had trimmed hair on her pubic mound.

An overwhelming majority of women at my nudist resort are shaven. So much so that my wife decided to shave bald herself because she didn't want to be the only "hairy" one.

I separated from my wife a year ago and have been doing the tinder thing. I'm mid 40s and dating women my age. Of the 7 I have bedded this year, all but 1 were shaved, and that one shaved partially after meeting me.

I forgot to add women you've slept with as a category, a great way to get a feel for the trends! Being married I forgot about this, hope you're enjoying the single life.

I’ll Cho that at the nude beaches we go to it’s probably 75% maybe as high as 90%. But these are women who intend to be seen naked.


I’ve had about 15 sexual partners but been with my wife a long time. In my earlier active days I’d say it was 25%. Most had some even of trimming and only a couple I’d say had full blown bush that wasn’t manicured at all. But this was in the mid 90s to early 2000s so trends change. Most of what I see online from the younger generation is fully shaved.

Tree falling in the woods
 

Had a similar discussion with my wife before she was fully shaved. First she said its only people on Naked Attraction, then it's only 20 years olds, then only people that go to nude beaches, then half of her friends, then everyone that does spas in Germany, now her too!

My Observations
 

These are my thoughts:
1. At the nudist resort I go to most woman are shaved. The shaven woman do so because it is important to be groomed properly. My girlfriend and her friends are always smooth and would not think of going out with stuble. Although it is common now at the resort for one or two woman to have styled hair. This is because it attracts attention. Having a styled pussy enables people to discuss it. First timers are almost always smooth, as they see this as the standard uniform and they like the extra exposure.
2. At the beach I go to there are many travelers. These are frequently young woman who may go nude for the first time. In this case the instances of pubic hair is much higher. There are two reason for this. First, when they are travelling and stay in hostels, there are short showers and not time to fully shave all the time. Most of them will apologise for their lack of grooming. I normally say 'that is fine' and say that people accept you as you come. Secondly, most of them are visiting the beach on impulse and have not prepared themselves.

Shaved?
 

I frequent nudist resorts in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida. I would say at all three locations, 99% of the ladies are shaved. My wife is also shaved when we go, but at home she doesn't want to shave all the time. But she is always shaved at the resorts, because that is how I want her.

Hi Sammy15, thanks, great info. Don't forget to vote in the poll.

Looks like a few others may have also commented but not voted.

According to my wife, who started going to the gym again a year ago, it has changed a bit compared to some years ago as there are some more women who grow some pubic hair. At least in the changing rooms in her gym, in a city in The Netherlands.

Still, the majority is shaved or waxed bare, she would say about 70%. She has a full bush, there are few other women around her age with a (trimmed or full) bush, but most women with a bush are 50 or older. Maximum 10% with a bush. The remaining 20% has some pubic hair, like a triangle or landing strip.

If it would be only women below 30, it is still 90% bare, according to my wife. There is only one woman below 30 in her gym which she sees sometimes, and which has a bush. All others are bare, and a few have a tiny landing strip or patch. For women of her age (mid-30s), she isn't the only one with a bush, there are a couple more, and also landing strips seem to be more common for women in their 30s and 40s.

Although she has a bush for the last thirteen years, she recently talked about the idea if she should shave it into a landing strip again, as she likes how it looks on some of the women she knows from the gym. So, maybe it will change.

Sounds good to me, and it can always grow back. Please let us know what she decides and whether you're happy with the change

Depends on my mood / seasons.., usually just trimmed. less hair in summer more in winter..

to 'keep warm'.. lolz

So far, nothing happened and she still has a bush. If anything changes, I'll let it know!

Results Update
 

RESULTS UPDATE: according to the weighted average of OCC voters, 60.8% of women are fully shaved.

That means, if you look at 10 of your coworkers or people on the street, and imagine them naked, 6 of them would be totally smooth.


Some observations:
-There are a wide range of votes, suggesting that either we all see things differently or there are genuine variations based on where the observations have been made, age of women etc.
-The most popular 10% banding is 70-80%, followed by 60-70%.
-Annecdotal comments suggest all locations have a high amount of shaving but younger women and nudist resort visitors do more shaving than those in changing rooms where 50/50 had been reported
-The vote was based on fully shaved and excluded anything else, so when other exposed styles like landing strip, postage stamp etc. are taken into account, % would be even higher
-Several comments suggest seasonal shaving or shaving when pussy will be on show
-The vote was based on observations: it's likely that a significant number of women who haven't been observed don't shave. However the saying 'if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it make a sound?' may apply

Please keep voting and commenting

Results Update part 2
 

15.5‰ say less that half
25.0% say about half
59.5% day more than half

Results Update part 3
 

And 41% have observed that around 3/4 of women or more are fully shaved.

Ive had a drink, so ignore most of my ramble. Post found from mixed Euro sauna's.

Doing a poll with a 0-10, 11-20 etc or even 0-20, 21-40 etc would have probably yielded a more accurate result. you have 40% of the answer in just one vote, 20% of an answer in another and just 10% in each of the remaining 4 votes.

Just glancing at the 60.8% weighted average may explain your observations.

You have the first 40% ("hairy" - Option 1) having 23 votes, the last 40% ("shaven" - Option 3,4,5 & 6) having 91 votes. You could dismiss option 2 as its exactly equal both ways. Your result should be around 75% are shaven.

Swingers club
 

During our last visit at the swingers club I would say that out of the 50 or so women we saw nude at least 45 were fully shaved or wax and the other 5 had small landing strips or little patch.

Just an observation here.
Looking at the thread title - What % of women are fully shaved suggests it's global, but the guidelines say "What you have actually seen"

So my main source is nude beaches and campsites which is probably about 50% where I go.

My thinking is that this is skewed by the more conservative or prudish women who are never seen naked by anyone other their than their husbands, or medic. What about Nuns or spinsters who've never had a man?
I'd guess women is this category are less likely to shave so globally the figure is probably much lower.

Agreed.

I also think one of the main factors her will also be the age of the voter and thus the age of the seen pool.

Personally, I believe younger fannies are more likely to be shaven/trimmed than older fannies.

I'll reply on the calculation method seperately.

Yes I agree. Even girls that 'go out' shaved often let it grow when they know their fannies won't be on show.

Even though I voted higher based on what I've seen, my wife says she reckons it's now 50/50 based on her friends and what she has seen in changing rooms.


Definitely, if the survey had been under 30s for example, we could have been talking an average above 80%

Good to hear the word fanny in use!

But of course even single sex changing rooms contain women who are willing to be seen naked, so even that could be over-called

this days most women are shaved in one way or another.

Explanation
 

In hindsight it would have been simpler to have equal groupings but I don't think it significantly affects the outcome. To explain the calculation, I assumed each response was in the middle of the group, so if someone put 0-40, I counted that as 20; if someone put 80-90, I counted that as 85.

I've just redone the numbers and the average is coming out at 61.1%. If I group all of the latter groups together, so that there are three groups: 0-40 (20%), 40-60 (50%) and 60-100 (80%), the average comes out a little higher at 63.8%.

I think that, even though over 85% are saying saying half or more women are shaved, there are a lot of people saying 'about half' and that is anchoring the average where it is.

Sorry for the technical explanation when all we want to talk about is pussy, be it smooth or stubbly.

At nudist venues, there is also a bit of a "peer-pressure" effect when it comes to shaving.

My wife's initial preference was a light trim; but after a being around a prevalence of completely shaven women at our resort, she decided to go bald. It was more "well everyone else is doing it" rather than "I actually like my pussy shaven." Obviously if all the other women were slightly trim, she would have kept hers the same.
Outside of nudism she still keeps a light trim; but right before going to the resort she'll shave it all off. I've noticed that she does in fact seem more comfortable with her pussy looking the "same" as all the other women - even if it does means there is "more to see" when people look at her naked.

I'm sure that's actually common practice, which makes it hard to determine who actually stays shaven at all times.

Agreed, it was certainly the case with my wife. When I first brought up the topic of shaving if off she said there was no way she was ever going to do that. Then, over the course of a few years, she took off more and more until eventually it was all gone.

Each reduction seemed to happen just before or just after a visit to a nude location.

The first time we went to a nude spa we didn't realise it was mandatory nude and it was during a skiing holiday, so she was very unkempt as all she did back then was an occasional going over with a pair of scissors. I did even less and had a rainforest covering my junk. Between us we probably blocked the filters in the jacuzzi! It was still common to see some hair back then but the transition had started and most were heavily trimmed so we were both a bit embarrassed. But equally, the few fully hairless people, particularly the men, stood out too and the request to my wife to go that far did not go down well. But, when we got home she moved to high bikini wax and we bought a shared trimmer. Then it went to a French wax, then string bikini wax, then brazilian with a tiny bit of bush then full hollywood. The trimmer is now gathering dust. The other day we came across an old sex tape and she said she couldnt believe how hairy she was just a few years ago, don't think she would ever go back.

In terms of others, she does talk to her friends about it and I don't think any of those are regularly naked in public, but many are shaved, so I think the real numbers will be lower than the observations but still very high.

She finally decided to shave, two weeks ago!

Initially, she wanted to have a landing strip. But as she had an untrimmed bush, she first had to trim it. She didn't have an electric trimmer anymore, so she tried it with scissors but that didn't really work well. So, she decided to shave everything off so she could grow a landing strip. But she liked the feeling and look of her bare pussy, and some of her friends in the gym complimented her with it. So she decided to keep it like that. Now, every day in the shower she shaves to remove any stubble. Her pussy looks so different, I hadn't seen it shaved in thirteen years! And it feels so smooth: just soft skin and no hair. I have to admit, I miss the bush though. The look of it and the feeling of the hair. The shaved look is a bit plain, as so many women have it. To me, her bush made her unique. Now she keeps it like the vast majority of women her age. So I have some mixed feelings about it. But she likes it, she is very happy with it. She likes the look, the feeling, she has made comparisons to how much different it feels when she wears underwear, when she fingers herself, when she wipes herself after a pee. She understands that I miss the bush, and she told me that she will probably grow it out again in the future, but now now. She wants to keep it shaved for a longer time (according to her, at least all the way through summer) and she hopes I will get used to it.

Trends
 

I concur with the posters above who say shaving is very high at nudist resorts, probably 80% or more. However, I've noticed on nude beaches that younger women are now starting to leave some hair on.

The last time I saw a completely full bush was at a nudist resort about 5 years ago. I have to say it was so unique (and full) that it sort of turned me on. As though the woman left it unshaved to call attention to herself, like being fully shaved did back in the "old days."

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!