It may also be linked to partner preference or desire, with data showing roughly 20% of women and men report pubic hair ...

Women have been removing hair from their bodies since ancient times when the first razor was invented, but the removal of pubic hair has only become fashion-forward in the past few decades.

Pubic hair. We've all got it ... the impact of permanent hair removal combined with gravity. “Women undergoing laser hair removal on all of their lady bits," she writes in The Body Book.

Then, the RCM says, "shaving the hairs around the pubic region is sometimes offered to women if the hair growth around that area is likely to interfere with the surgical incision." Even then, though, ...

Many women wonder whether ... nothing dirty or unclean about pubic hair and there are no medical reasons to remove it, and the pressure associated with hair removal comes from a belief entrenched ...