Ladies: In what pattern did your pubic hair develop?

I know that today many ladies prefer to either trim; partially remove of have a clean shaved genital area. As I am of a certain age I remember when most ladies had a full bush of pubic hair and that it was really something to set eyes on a new partners curly nether regions, let alone have the first feel of the soft hair inside her panties.

It has always fascinated me how everyone has different pubic hair patterns (without any trimming or removal), and even more so how the pattern develops over the years. Back in the late 1970's I was dating a young lady 22 years of age who had a beautiful little bush of dark blonde/ginger hair which was not formed in the traditional triangle shape but had a neat curved pattern on the pubic mound. She most certainly did not shave or trim to get it that shape it was completely natural.

Some years later when she was about 28/9 years old we met up again and her pubic hair then had formed into a more defined triangle. In hindsight I am somewhat surprised that at 22 she still had such a small patch and it wasn't because she was late developing as she was very much in full bloom.

Do any ladies here remember how their pubic hair pattern developed over the years?

If you allow the fashion to manage you, everything can be changed. To trim, shave, wax or leave natural pubic hair, must be a personal choice but the most of people effects from television, internet, magazine etc.

@Dove

That wasn't the point of my OP. The question was about how a woman's pubic hair pattern developed over the years, should she have had one or still have natural pubic hair.

It was just a matter of personal interest into that subject, not if or how a woman trims or removes her pubic hair, which I know seems to be very popular at this time.

@Doctor_Jack: As I am of a certain age I remember when most ladies had a full bush of pubic hair and that it was really something to set eyes on a new partners curly nether regions, let alone have the first feel of the soft hair inside her panties.......

Being in my mid-70's I'm of the age you mentioned and oh yes! that first time feeling the soft hair inside a gal's panties - wow! Something else, seeing the shadow of a bush beneath or around the crotch panel of a pantie or girdle is something else I really enjoy. I didn't see much of this back in the 1950's because of censorship - so when I finally did see it, it was very exciting.

Funny, my husband actually asked me a very similar question when we were new to each other. Boys are weird haha.

To answer: I started developing hair on my labia around age 11/12. By 14 it covered my mons. Dark blonde/light brown. Eventually it spread further out towards my hips - I noticed I had to start trimming the sides or it would show out the leg openings of my bathing suit. That was the early 80s when high leg openings were in fashion. It was pretty regular in shape - your basic inverted triangle. It was full but not super full, I’m not very hairy. It didn’t come up very far. I never had a ‘happy trail’ even when pregnant. I never had hair around my bum. I’ve never had much leg or underarm hair for that matter and what’s there is very light in color.

For grooming I trimmed so it wouldn’t show past the openings of bathing suits/panties but that was it until the 90’s when I noticed in porn more and more women going totally bare. My first husband was bugging me to try it so I did. Decided I didn’t like the labia bare as it itched but I liked it clean in front. Been that way since with the occasional foray to totally bare.

@Nurse_Phillips

Thank you indeed, that is just what i was looking for and a great explanation.

"Boys are weird" absolutely, we never grow up 😉 . I always seemed to be tempted towards blonde ladies in my life and one of my little weird things was to always ask the lady what colour she was "down there", that is before we actually became physically intimate. Funnily enough they all were quite happy to tell me.

By the way i like shaved also, with fully and with a neat bit of topiary.

Seeing all that hair when she was 15 and I was 16 was quite a surprise. The last pussy I had seen was about 10 and hairless. I had no idea a 15 YO girl could have a couple inches sticking out both sides of her bathing suit. She was "man sitting" on top of the boat house and I was standing on the walkway so my face was staring right into her "V". And I was too stupid to do anything more than try not to look. Thinking back I'm sure she would have loved to have me play with that fur and pull on it and pull her suit aside to play with other parts too.

@reddevil

Being in my mid-70's I'm of the age you mentioned and oh yes! that first time feeling the soft hair inside a gal's panties - wow! Something else, seeing the shadow of a bush beneath or around the crotch panel of a pantie or girdle is something else I really enjoy. I didn't see much of this back in the 1950's because of censorship - so when I finally did see it, it was very exciting.

I am in my late 60's and you are absolutely correct about the feel of the bush for the first time down inside the panties, one of the all time great sensations. In my youth I used to look very hard at photos of girls in bikini bottoms or knickers and try to make out if I could see the pubic patch.

Also what a great sight seeing a young lady with her panties pulled down ever so slightly and some pubic hair just popping out above the line.

@roscoe if she were sitting like that with your head there she wanted you looking. Trust me on that one haha

I think I was about 11 when I started getting some fuzz growing on my pussy. When I was between about 12 and a half and 13 years old I really started to get a lot of hair. Above my pussy it grew the thickest down the middle at first and it got thicker in a nice dark brown triangle. dark brown because I am dark. The hair was the same along my pussy lips too and I saw when I looked in a mirror when I was about 13 that I was growing dark hair between my bum cheeks too. I was a lot more developed than nearly all of my friends were, and when I was 14 I really had the body of a woman. My pubic hair was just fully adult by then and I got some hair growing right at the top of my thighs on the inside.

I like still being natural really, all I do is my bikini line so I do not have hair showing outside my bikinis or lingerie so it is made just a little bit narrower at the front and I am just tidied up at the top of my thighs but I do not take anything else off at all. I have got a nice straight natural line at the top and I do not need to touch that I think my pubic hair looks very nice because it is dark and thick and my husband loves it too.

Decided I didn’t like the labia bare as it itched

Funny experience with itching. I had bypass surgery 24 years ago and it hurt like hell having my tee shirt rub against my chest. I thought it was from rubbing against the "zipper". Just as it was becoming tolerable they called me in for a stress test. They shaved my chest to put the stickers on and that same pain was back again. It was the short hairs rubbing on the shirt.

Even though I love a smooth pussy I surely understand the itching.

I guess I was around 11-12 noticed some soft whispy hair on my mons. Light brown, I guess around 13-14 it really came in right above my clit and lips. I hate shaving , but since it's sparse in spots looks ridiculous if I don't. Waxing is much better and no itch.I have let it go wild a few times, especially in the winter little bit of a change.

@Amethyst

Excellent response thank you, just what I was looking for. You sound very like my wife in that you are both dark haired and has what sounds to be similar pubic hair patterns. She has a well defined triangle of dark brown hair that is quite compact with a clear straight upper edge and some stray hairs extending from her groin area to the upper thigh.

In our early years together my wife was very keen to trim and shape her pub's as she had never done it previously, she ended up inveigling me into doing it for her, what a terrible job to have to do 😉. After trying out many different shapes and designs I ended up shaving her completely, but only the one time.

As a matter of interest does the small area just above the clitoris hood have much stronger and thicker hair in your case? The hairs on my wife in that very small area are very strong and were a devil to shave smooth.

I was between 12 and 13 when I started getting pubic hair. It was light blonde and baby fine. It still is, It gets darker in the middle. But there isn't much no matter how it grows. But there is nothing now because of the summer.

@Tabitha32

@Wolfgirl66

Thank you both for your excellent responses and much appreciated. Two completely different scenarios and both compelling to read.

I am estimating that I was around 11 or 12 when I first noticed the first sprouts of very fine pubic hair. Ugh!! I thought!! lol. Well long story short, I have always felt part of good grooming would be to keep that hair on my legs, arm pits, and private areas clean of visible hair. My mother had a definite influence on that as well as many other things discussed here in zity. Although I can only remember a time or two, she practiced what she believed to be proper grooming for a woman including dressing up. I guess I cannot answer the question regarding pattern!! Denise

As a matter of interest does the small area just above the clitoris hood have much stronger and thicker hair in your case? The hairs on my wife in that very small area are very strong and were a devil to shave smooth.

Yes @Doctor_Jack that is the thickest place I think and it was where I grew hair at the front above my pussy most strongly at first. Some times when I was between about 19 and 22 I was asked to shave because I was modelling for lingerie sales and I got my husband to do it for me, he said it was strong there. Just for other work though like glamour I did not get shaved and some pics in pale coloured lingerie show through some times and I think that is ok.

@Denise

Thank you for your reply. Do I understand correctly that you have therefore never seen your pubic hair fully grown out?

I will put you down as a super smooth lady.

@Amethyst

Excellent.

I did buy my wife one of those little Laser Hair Removers that e intended using to remove those stubborn thick hairs, but it hasn't come out of the packaging.

As a young man I remember seeing pictures of women in panties/bikini bottoms that were thin in material and the sight of the "triangle" beneath was such a turn on back then. I also used to scour the catalogues in the lingerie section hoping to see a trace of pubic hair, little did I know back then that the ladies like yourself had to shave all of the pubic hair. My quest was in vain.

I used to scour the pages of Hustler magazine looking for fully shaved split beavers. Those are plentiful now but very rare 40 - 50 years ago.

Ugh!! I thought!! lol. Well long story short, I have always felt part of good grooming would be to keep that hair on my legs, arm pits, and private areas clean of visible hair...Denise

Interesting! Your experience was very different than my own. I was actually pretty pleased when I started getting pubes as it meant I was ‘grown up’. Now the PERIOD I could have done without but pubes and boobs were welcome. It actually was a big part of my initial reluctance to shave it. I was like ‘why does he want me to look like a little girl, WTF?’ Seeing that it was becoming a trend in porn made me more inclined to try it. I like being bare now but it was odd for me at first. My current husband is a fan of bare as well. I asked him why and he gave a decent explication: to his way of thinking body hair is a masculine trait (his ancestry is Italian and he’s delightfully furry). This was reinforced by his being an adolescent in the 70’s with the whole chest-hair thing. If hirsuteness is masculine than hairless should be feminine so lack of body hair = feminine.

Given that women DO have body hair this is kinda weird but there you go.

@Doctor_Jack Sorry for misunderstanding.

@Dove

Really not a problem, misunderstanding happen to us all at some time or other.

If you are willing maybe you could give your own personal description, but no pressure.

@Nurse_Phillips

It always annoys me when media types who are writing about sexual matters say that men only want their women shaved to make them look like young girls. In most cases this is not true at all.

I like both neatly trimmed pubic hair, and completely shaved. For me the latter is all about seeing the full beauty of a woman's genitals, surely one of the most amazing looking thing on this planet. It is also amazing to touch, so smooth and soft.

My own pubic hair started lightly coming in shaped as the 'triangle' but was thicker near my lips and hood and then thickened from there outwards. My skin is somewhat pale to begin with and my 'fire bush' became more vivid as it thickened. I was about 12 when I first noticed the very fine hair and from then on it thickened. I was always tall for my age and felt and was awkward and when in gym class and the showers, the other girls were always fascinated by my hair colour as more and more grew in. It stayed somewhat 'orange-ish' up until my first pregnancy and then it darkened a bit to where it was more truly a ginger colour. But in the right light it still takes on the orange-ish hue.

My husband loves my ginger bush and doesn't want me to shave it off because it would be a waste of 'ginger' and he loves the 'triangle'. I do sometimes trim it if I'm going to be swimming or something or during those times when our little circle of friends would gather. Those near and dear men I have the honour of having love my ginger bush and I have to say I prefer not having to be clean shaven. However it is the preference of the woman and if she allows, the man, to make and keep to their preferences. I've not had any relations with male or female who are clean shaven but if I'm given access to their centre then a bush or no bush wouldn't be of concern.

@Nurse_Phillips

It always annoys me when media types who are writing about sexual matters say that men only want their women shaved to make them look like young girls. In most cases this is not true at all.

He says something similar, but you can see how it can be interpreted that way. For at least some of us developing pubic hair was a sign of adulthood. If you developed slower than the other girls that was super stressful! You were teased as being a baby. Add in feminism and woke-ness and it becomes a symptom of oppression by the patriarchy or some such.

He says something similar, but you can see how it can be interpreted that way. For at least some of us developing pubic hair was a sign of adulthood. If you developed slower than the other girls that was super stressful! You were teased as being a baby. Add in feminism and woke-ness and it becomes a symptom of oppression by the patriarchy or some such.

It could be that such thinking is nothing more than someone being an ass hat. 😉

It could be that such thinking is nothing more than someone being an ass hat. 😉

I’ll likely get flamed for this but to my observation around 80% of ‘wokeness’ is someone being an asshat.

@Nurse_Phillips

I might also add that if one were to study the appearance of a young girl with that of a shaved adult female the similarities are not that apparent. Everything about the adult woman's body is different both in entirety and in the mid section.

Totally understandable that there would be stress with a young woman who was a "late developer" in that respect. Similarly the same with boys and facial hair. I always remember once in my early teens our games/P.E. teacher saying to us boys that beards grew at different rates dependant upon hair colouring. He annoyed me intensely by using me as an example of a late shaver as I had blonde/fair hair and compared me to another lad who was dark haired.

I had the last laugh as I don't have to shave every day if i don't wish to, ;et alone twice a day as some guys have to do.

@Ms_Lila

Great description thank you.

Classic "Fire Bush" 😃