[Nell]

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but to me, a pussy has hair around it. Without the hair, it's a shaved pussy, and not really a pussy at all. It's...well, we can't even get that right, can we fellas? Then we seem to call it a 'vagina', although strictly speaking the outer genitals of the female should strictly be called the vulva, not the vagina.

And, to me, a 'pussy' got its name from being something soft and worth a bit of stroking and petting. OK, that doesn't rule out a shaved one, they're all still very, very, soft and worthy of a stroke and a pet, but I think we've lost sight of the original meaning. Fellas, I argue that a pussy MUST have hair. There is no other way it can be. And if we're going to talk about pussy, then it MUST have escaped the tyranny of the razor, to be presented in all its hirsute glory. Mmmm. I can't get enough of that!

The pornification of the pussy and the swimsuit meant women were 'forced' (well, no one made them, but they can be victims of fashion) to trim further and further back into the bikini line until not that many years ago we'd achieved 'the brazilian', a stripe so thin it was hardly worth having. And in shaving the delightful little kitty bald, porn directors were thrilled with ever more intimate footage, at -in my opinion- the loss of a little patch of fur that defined a woman as much as her curves, her breasts, her shapely legs and bottom.

If I wanted gynaecological detail I should have become a gynaecologist. No, to me it's that patch of fur that makes a pussy a pussy, that makes a kitty a kitty, and what more thrilling an experience to work your way through the thatch to encounter nirvana?

Bald? Bald is girls. Bald is...nothing! Bald is....almost a turn off. OK, I'm not going to argue that point here -to each his own, as they say- and if you prefer bald, well, knock yourself out. And presented with a bald option I'm hardly likely to turn it down, am I? No. But it would just make it a little less pleasurable and intense an experience, particularly orally.

But maybe the time has come to accept that a 'pussy' needs hair, and we should seek an alternative name to describe a shaved pubic region. A slit? A 'gash'? Both horrible words, to my mind, but you may feel differently about them and have your own names.

Happily, during my wanderings on the naturist beaches of Spain, I've observed that pubic hair is experiencing a comeback. Slowly but surely, little tufts of hair are reappearing in numbers we would not have seen 3-4 years ago. I'm not sure why this is, but I welcome it with open arms and can't wait until we arrive back at 1970s/80s full bushed glory.

So, guys, do you think that something hairless can qualify as a 'pussy'? Is it just laziness that we use the word? What words would you like to see used that better describes a hairless variant? Let me know, let us debate the issue.