I think it was pornography that first planted the idea of shaving my pubic hair in my teenage brain. "Guys do it in porno because it makes their penises look bigger," my friend told me with fifteen year-old solemnity. I was still excited to just have pubic hair so the idea of trimming it back didn't seem intuitive at all. While shaving might make a penis look bigger, it doesn't actually make it bigger so that made even less sense. I finally started trimming back my mange in college when a new idea dawned on me: a manicured pubic lawn might make the penis seem more inviting than an overgrown junk heap of kinky brillo.
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