Why do girls shave their pubic hair?

Yay finally another girl who agrees with me on this!

Well it really makes no difference to me and since no one sees it, it doesn't affect anyone so I figure why bother. lol.

Ha I love how I disagree with everyone else's answers and yet you put me as the best answer...from that and what you wrote in your question I'm guessing that you very much disagree with everyone else's answers too.

That's not fair and you know it!!

Ya, for one underarm is usually seen out in public - especially in the summertime of course - whereas pubic hair isn't supposed to be seen out in public....don't most people have sex in the dark anyways? therefore I don't think it should really matter what down there looks like.

The degree of hassle and sensitivity to shave your underarms is trivial to even the most delicate of bush-wacking. In Alex Comfort's book "The Joy of Sex" they actually espouse underarm hair for it's evolutionary usefulness and erogenous potential. Have you ever feather-touched your underarm area in a sexual way? The human body has 60 million years of evolutionary perfection and we are perfectly suited and specifically adorned with natural hair for the ideal reproductive success of the species.

Cheerangel- so its okay to shave areas of the body that the public sees (so you can please everyone else), but not areas that are for your eyes only (to make you happy)? that makes zero sense. and I have NEVER had sex in the dark lol

Well I mean that it's more sensible and reasonable to shave body hair [at least for a girl] that everyone else sees versus private areas.

and I don't mean just for attracting guys - on a class trip last year I remember seeing this one girl who was talking to my class and, though her legs were hairless, she had neglected her underarms and since she was wearing a tank top it was sooooo distracting that I [and maybe others] had a hard time focusing on what she was saying.

...also I never take the hair off my legs if my legs are not going to be shown - and since I've been living in Minnesota it's been from October to even now because it's still cold so I still wear pants to my ankles. I don't care if I know that my legs are very very hairy as long as nobody else knows.

Cheerangel: you sound so normal! I love it! I wish all girls thought about this like you do :-) I once lived in Denmark where standards are different: for example nude beaches were the norm. I noticed (most) girls didn't shave their armpits there and after a while you don't really notice it. Try imagining if everyone shaved their eyebrows and how "odd" it would be if someone didn't...But since having hairy eyebrows is normal, nobody makes a big deal of it (except Whoopie Goldberg!)