{"id":36132,"date":"2013-05-25T13:59:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T12:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/5-unintended-consequences-of-americas-war-on-pubic-hair\/36132\/"},"modified":"2013-05-25T13:59:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T12:59:44","slug":"5-unintended-consequences-of-americas-war-on-pubic-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/5-unintended-consequences-of-americas-war-on-pubic-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Unintended Consequences of America's War on Pubic Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"

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America’s merciless war on pubic hair continues, with hair removal — a trim or totally bald — growing in popularity across gender and age groups, especially among the young: a recent study by the Center for Sexual Health Promotion<\/a> at Indiana University found that the younger the woman the more likely she was to wax or shave all of her pubic hair.\u00a0Meanwhile, alarmed health providers and researchers have launched a counter-offensive, publicizing the wide variety of nasty health effects.\u00a0Here are 5 unintended consequences of our battle against pubes. <\/p>\n

1)The Spread of STI\u2019s: <\/strong>The universe has decided humans need more ways to exchange diseases during sex. Earlier this year, <\/a>a\u00a0French m\u00c3\u00a9decin observed a surge of pube-less patients bespotted with the Molluscum contagiousm virus (MVC). The dermatologist concluded the MCV was spread amongst people who had shorn their pubic hair with razors carrying the virus (from a different part of their body), and\/or bumped hairless uglies with MCV carriers. \u201cLong ago, surgeons figured out that shaving a body part prior to surgery actually increased rather than decreased surgical site infections\u201d, wrote<\/a> Emily Gibson M.D. <\/p>\n

Skin, especially the soft epidermis of your nether regions, is made vulnerable when hair is yanked out, or burned, slashed, or pruned off. \u201cWhen that irritation is combined with the warm moist environment of the genitals, it becomes a happy culture media for some of the nastiest of bacterial pathogens, namely group A streptococcus, staphylococcus aureus and its recently mutated cousin methicillin resistant staph aureus (MRSA)\u201d, as well as herpes. <\/p>\n

2) Injuries: <\/strong>Recently, the journal Urology reported <\/a>that pubic hair removal injuries increased fivefold between 2002 and 2010! A bit of unsolicited advice- when wielding blades around your genitals avoid going all Edward Scissorhands on yourself; 83% of those wounds were suffered from shaving (and only 56.7% of those reported injuries came from ladies). The study cites lacerations as the most common injury, with rashes coming in second. The report also describes \u201c… the use of the shaving cream lid to control bleeding from a vaginal cut, self-circumcision with scissors, slip and fall on a razor with external genital injury, use of a razor to incise genital lesions, razor handle assault by another person, ritualistic genital cutting, and shaving skin over a spider bite\u201d as some of the anomalous injuries sustained from hacking at the hedges. The study advises self-groomers \u201cdon\u2019t shave while under the influence of drugs or alcohol.\u201d Where\u2019s the fun in that? Booooo. Also, do not shave and drive. Like this<\/a> Floridian (of course) woman. <\/p>\n

Severe infections have been hospitalizing the hairless as well: after two separate incidents of women being rushed to the ER due to infections from their Brazilian waxes, the state of New Jersey considered banning the service<\/a> in 2009. A diabetic woman in Australia nearly died<\/a> from the life threatening bacterial infection incurred by her Brazilian wax. <\/p>\n

3) The expense: In its comprehensive piece about the fiscal cost of being a lady with lady problems and lady expenses, Jezebel<\/a> wrote that waxes are a conservative $35 (plus tip). I found they were typically between $45-$65, or more<\/a>. For those that prefer to mow their labia lawn the old fashioned way, $15.95 a month is the estimated cost of shaving supplies, in addition to \u201csoothing gels\u201d and ingrown hair\/razor burns solutions. Don\u2019t worry dudes! When enjoying your Dr. Pepper Ten or sipping on Pepsi Max, you too can spend your money on genital vanity. Brands once solely associated with women\u2019s grooming have created<\/a> products for men. \u201cWho wears short shorts?\u201d You do, bro. Salons are eager to manicure<\/a> your manhood, offering services like Bliss Spa\u2019s \u201cthe Ultimate He-Wax\u201d (!) for a mere $125 (for the record, I think it\u2019s masochistic to seek a brazilian wax from a place called \u201cBliss\u201d). <\/p>\n

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