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Originally Posted by shower1000
As far back as I can remember, my mom and most of her friends groomed their pubes in one way or another. Mostly they combed out and trimmed the longer maverick hairs and shaved their "sideburns", the stray hairs in the inner thighs, the anus, and the top corners of the pubis. By the early 70's many started to shave their labia and trim the hair on the pubis mons.
It wasn't until the late 80's that the fully shaved look became more popular and widly accepted. Before that it was thaught that the fully shaved look was mostly used by models and loose women.
My sister, my wife and sister in law all shifted from the 1970's groomed pubis and shaved labia style to fully shaved by the late 80's. They rationalized that why should they neatly trim and groom their head hair, shave their legs and underarms, and neglect their pubic hair. Why should they be looking like the Duck Dynasty crew when they prefered clean shaven the Mark Harmon look.
Personally, because I grew up with the look, I liked the nicely trimmed look. But as time went on I grew to appreciate and now prefer the fully shaved look.
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Probably the US or at least areas like Southern California were way ahead of Europe when it comes to this. From what I know, the full bush was pretty much the norm in Europe during the 1970s and the early 1980s. During the 1980s, trimming became more popular, as well as shaving the bikini line, but not more than that. Only during the first half of the 1990s, landing strips and small triangles gained popularity. The fully shaved look became popular in Western Europe only around 2000, when all of a sudden thongs became popular as underwear, something that wasn't common in Europe before that. I think the peak was around 2005-2010, when shaving was pretty much the norm for all women of 30 and younger, and you'd be frowned upon if you even had a little bit of hair. I'd say the shaved look is still the most popular for women below 30-35, although many older women are fine with trimming and keeping a small triangle or landing strip. There are definitely also many women between 35 and 50 who are shaved, but it's less common than with younger women. Again, this is how it is in Western Europe.