So, for about a dozen years, I kept those parts of my anatomy shaved clean and relatively smooth. I always imagined that, if I'd stop maintaining that routine, the hair would just grow back and within a few months or so, it would be the curly, springy, thick bushy thatch that I remembered.
Somewhere over the course of the last year and a half, I stopped shaving the pubic hair. There was simply no reason to keep it up. I finally understood that I could shave it or not shave it -- whatever suited me; and that was all of it. Really, no one in the entire world cares about the state of my pubic hair-do. Thus it has slowly grown back...
It is nothing at all like what I remembered. It is thin, fine, straight, and sparse. Apparently, the hormonal changes of menopause cause changes in hair growth. Everywhere. Thinner on the head. Thinner on the pubes. Heavier on the face. Right. One more curveball. Not a crisis. Not even a problem. Just one of those places where the way things turn out seems -- I don't know: perverse? Yeah. That.
Sue (swan)
Its funny isnt how there does seem to be a connection with subs being bare down below, i wander if it is actually a common trait?
ReplyDeleteIm clean shaven as my Master insists on it, it is his preference but if im honest i dont like it at all, its something i find a chore and i have tried to get him to budge but he wont.
tori
I have shaved off and on for over 25 years, now I do it all the time mostly because it is getting gray. I can handle the gray on my head, doesn't bother me at all, but down there not so much.
ReplyDeleteExactly faerie -- gray pubic hair? Sigh.
DeleteSue (swan)
Lol!I know of what you speak. The hair migration. On women it migrates up, I have more peach fuzz than a 15 year old boy. Happens to men too. My husbands hair has migrated from his head to his butt.
ReplyDeleteI keep trying to tell my body that we are in this together, but it seems to want to go in an entirely different direction than the rest of me (?).
ReplyDeleteL
Growing olderer is such a bitch...not for the weak...mind says your still in you 30's/40's...body says otherwise...regardless of how you try to tell it differently.
ReplyDeleteJoyce
Ugh. I concur with all that you wrote. I now have a mustache and hair growing on my EYELIDS! Straight and sparse below... and the hair on my head never fully returned after going through chemo. SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteConcur...
DeleteHow is it that we cannot get our bodies to concur with our internal perceptions?
I know this is not the way I see myself -- or ever did. What the heck?
Glad to see you here :-)
Hugs,
Sue (swan)
A friend turned 50 this week, and a large group had a girlfriend lunch with her. This is just one of the little tidbits we told her was coming for her. It was a hoot!
ReplyDeleteAmusing. Probably will fall on deaf ears. No matter how I try to sound the warning for those following behind me on the trail to crone-hood, it seems that there is not one younger woman who can hear me. Imagine that!
DeleteSue (swan)