Pubic hair removal has serious consequences

Shaving your pubic hair has risks

When was war declared on pubic hair? It must have happened sometime in the last decade because the amount of time, energy, money and emotion both genders spend on abolishing every hair from their genitals is astronomical.

The genital hair removal industry, including medical professionals who advertise their specialty services to those seeking the “clean and bare” look, is exponentially growing.

But why pick on the lowly pubic hair? It has something to do with cultural trends spawned by bikinis and thongs, certain hairless celebrities and a desire to return to childhood

Is it a misguided attempt at hygiene or being more attractive to a partner? Are we so naïve as to be susceptible to fashion trends and biases?

It is a misconceived war. Long ago surgeons figured out that shaving a body part prior to surgery actually increased rather than decreased surgical site infections.

No matter what expensive and complex weapons are used [razor blades, electric shavers, tweezers, waxing, depilatories, electrolysis] pubic hair, like crab grass, always grows back and eventually wins.

In the meantime, the skin suffers the effects of the scorched battlefield.

Pubic hair removal naturally irritates and inflames the hair follicles left behind, leaving microscopic open wounds. Frequent hair removal is necessary to stay smooth. But it causes regular irritation of the shaved or waxed area.

When 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.

These include roup A streptococcus, staphylococcus aureus and its recently mutated cousin methicillin resistant staph aureus (MRSA).

There’s an increase in staph boils and abscesses. Incisions have to be made to drain the infection, resulting in scarring that can be significant. It is not at all unusual to find pustules and other hair follicle inflammation papules on shaved genitals.

Constant pubic hair removal can cause cellulitis (soft tissue bacterial infection without abscess) of the scrotum, labia and penis from the spread of bacteria from shaving or from sexual contact with strep or staph bacteria from a partner’s skin.

Some clinicians find that freshly shaved pubic areas and genitals are also more vulnerable to herpes infections due to the microscopic wounds being exposed to virus carried by mouth or genitals. There may be vulnerability to spread of other STIs as well.

Pubic hair provides a cushion against friction that can cause skin abrasion and injury. It’s the visible result of puberty. Surely something to be celebrated.

Catholic Nun Tells Vatican to Decriminalize Masturbation "Self-Pleasure"

Sister Talks Sex

It’s hard to say which is weirder. A Sister of Mercy writing about the Kama Sutra, sexual desire and “our yearnings for pleasure.”
Or the Vatican getting so hot and bothered about the academic treatise on sexuality that the pope censures it, causing it to shoot from obscurity to the top tier of Amazon’s best-seller list six years after it was published.
Just the latest chapter in the Vatican’s thuggish crusade to push nuns and all Catholic women back into moldy subservience.
Even for a church that moves glacially, this was classic. Just Love: a Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics is written by Sister Margaret Farley, published in 2006. She’s a 77-year-old professor emeritus at Yale’s Divinity School, a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and an award-winning scholar.
The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, which seems as hostile to women as the Saudi Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, spent years pondering it, then censured it March 30 but didn’t publicly release the statement until Monday.
The denunciation of Farley’s book is based on the fact that she deals with the modern world as it is. She refuses to fall in line with a Vatican rigidly clinging to an inbred, illusory world.
One where men rule with no backtalk from women, gays are deviants, the divorced can’t remarry, men and women can’t use contraception, masturbation is a grave disorder and celibacy is enshrined, even as a global pedophilia scandal rages.
In old-fashioned prose steeped in historical and global perspective, Farley’s main argument is that justice needs to govern relationships. In the interest of justice to oneself, she contends that “self-pleasuring” needs “to be moved out of the realm of taboo morality.”
Immanuel Kant, who considered masturbation below the level of animals, must give way to Alfred Kinsey. Sister Margaret Farley writes:
“It is surely the case that many women, following the ‘our bodies our selves’ movement in the fourth quarter of the twentieth century, have found great good in self-pleasuring.
“Perhaps especially in the discovery of their own possibilities for pleasure. Something many had not experienced or even known about in their ordinary sexual relations with husbands or lovers.
“In this way, it could be said that masturbation actually serves relationships rather than hindering them.”
A breath of fresh air in the stultifying church, she makes the case for same-sex relationships and remarriage after divorce.

Women Can Orgasm From Exercise

Workout Increases Fucking Pleasure

If you knew one of the side-effects of your regular fitness workout is having an orgasm, we bet you’d be spending extra time at the gym.
Certain exercises like crunches and planks set off orgasms in women. These are known as coregasms. What’s more, you don’t need to be fantasizing about sex to achieve them.
While there isn’t any one specific reason for these ‘curious climaxes,’ they occur when your abdominal muscles are being utilised, or usually during exercises that involved friction.
One theory suggests that pelvic and abdominal exercises put stimulating pressure on the clitoris. Increased blood flow to the vagina during a workout might also play a role.
So what are the specific moves that tickle your fancy? When it comes to achieving an Exercise Induced Orgasm (EIO), the main ones that help achieve this phenomenon are abdominal exercises, climbing ropes or poles, and weight lifting.
As for Exercise Induced Sexual Pleasure (EISP), biking, aerobics and yoga amongst other exercises were the causes. If you want to experience a core-induced climax, we suggest you tune your body to the following exercises:

Hanging straight-leg raise

Hang from a pull-up bar with your hands shoulder-width apart and your hips centered under your body, so that there‘s a straight line from your hands to the bottom of your hips.
Keeping your legs and back straight and using a slow, controlled motion, raise your legs until they’re parallel to the floor.
Slowly lower your legs. Do four to six reps. As you raise your legs, don‘t swing them or let momentum do the work. Concentrate on keeping your butt down, as if you’re sitting on a chair.

Hanging side crunches

Hang from the bar, holding it with your palms facing forward, and bring your knees up so that your thighs and torso form a 90-degree angle.
Next, pinch at your left side, curling your left hip up toward your left shoulder. Use your core to keep yourself from swinging, and repeat to the right. Continue alternating sides for 20 reps. This strengthens your entire core.

Single-leg plank

Lie on your back with your knees bent and your feet flat on the floor. Cross your arms over your chest and raise the lower half of your right leg until it’s in line with your left thigh.
Press your left foot into the floor and contract your glutes as you lift your torso so it’s in line with your thighs. Hold. Rest for one minute, then repeat, raising the opposite leg.

Arm pull over straight-leg crunch

Grab a pair of dumbbells weighing four-five kgs and lie on your back with your arms behind you. Extend your legs at a 45-degree angle.
Bring your arms up over your chest and lift your shoulders off the mat while raising your legs until they’re perpendicular to the floor. Return to start (don’t let your legs touch the floor).
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