Why do women claim that because their body hair is “natural,” that somehow means it isn’t gross?

[Anonymous]

Plenty of things are completely natural, but people still expect you to wash, trim, wipe, shave, or otherwise manage them. Sweat and body odour are natural, but people still expect you to shower and use deodorant. Bad breath is natural, but people expect you to brush your teeth. Earwax, mucus, dandruff, greasy hair, long dirty fingernails, and excessive facial or body hair are all natural too, yet most people still have grooming standards around them. So simply saying that something is “natural” doesn’t automatically mean everyone has to find it clean, pleasant, or attractive. Personal grooming preferences are still preferences, regardless of whether the thing being groomed grows naturally.

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

I believe it's natural in the sense that body hair is natural, not that we should be going unshowered so the comparisons are not apt.

It's a pain in the ass to keep up with shaving legs at times. I am getting my body hair lasered off so I won't have to worry about it but I am certainly OK if other women choose not to shave theirs just to appease the male gaze. It doesn't matter if you or others dont like it. Someone more mature will be fine with it and understand that it isn't that important in the grand scheme of things.

[Barry88]

Preferences differ. Hair in itself isn't unhygienic as long as you wash it regularly. Some people don't like hair at certain places. That's fair, but basically it isn't any different than preferring long hair or short hair, or beard, mustache, or clean shaven.

There are plenty of people that like body hair on others, or can't care that much about it. Shaving legs and underarms for women became popular only about 100 years ago in the US, and only after WW2 in Europe, shaving the pubic area became a thing only in the 1990s/2000s. And still many people opt not to follow the trend.

[slatyb]

Because it is natural, and there's nothing gross about the hair that grows naturally on a woman's body. The fashion of shaved legs and armpits is just a fashion.

[Nikki1989]

You just need to wash. Hair is meant to be there.

[Iron_Man]

Woman are not supposed to have hair on their butts legs or armpits and face And breast

[Abbycado]

Wtf. XD

[Asker]

Great argument