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Bill Ralston: going bush

The average male will spend more than a month of his life shaving, so why add more work?

By Bill Ralston In Life

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12th December, 2013
Pubic hair is making a comeback, the online Sydney Morning Herald tells me. This is a bit confusing because I wasn’t aware mine had gone anywhere in the first place. Declaring “the bush is back”, the SMH cites a survey of 1870 women that found 51% do not style or groom their nether regions. Which, of course, means 49% do wax, shave or otherwise pluck their pubes. Although 62% of women surveyed said their partners preferred “the natural look”, curiously there was no mention of what men do with their hairy bits. Although if I’m anything to go by, the answer would be ...

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