Women, how do you prepare for your gyno appointment?

I always trim and make sure that I am clean down there (normal shower etc.) but don't use a douche etc. as that can complicate things during the exam and hide stuff. It's sort of like making sure you floss and brush your teeth well before going to the dentist 😃

Of the female play exams that I have conducted (all patients between the ages of 22-25, though not for lack of trying to find an older woman), all the patients have completely shaved prior to their exams, by choice. I think the percentage of girls under 25 that are shaving is probably quite high. I actually requested one of my patients to not shave for her next exam so that I can experience what it's like to examine a non-shaved pelvic region (she was more than happy to oblige).

My wife does her usual shaving leaving just a little bit of hair. I think someone has already mention that you want to present yourself as clean and well groomed when you are examined.

My wife always has a fresh bikini wax done just before a physical or gyno appointment. She is always bare down there and we both love it! Our PA nor any other examiner has ever said anything about it.

Depends if you;re going to a male or female doc...

when i go to male doctors i always shave

Tinyarkette I fine that interesting

depends if you;re going to a male or female doc...

when i go to male doctors i always shave

May I inquire as to the reason you only do it when you are going to a male doctor.

Hair all the way. The thought of having a razor on that sensitive area freaks me out! I have only have shaved like twice in my life. Actually - I don't shave anywhere. Not pubes, legs or armpits. I love it. I find armpit hair on women incredibly sexy. Mwahahahaha.

And I've never been to a gyno, but I would find it really unprofessional if he or she commented in any way. The GPs I have been to have never made any comments about my body hair.

The way I see it, what is going on is going on. I've gone freshly waxed and I've gone hairy. Whatever is up is up, as it were... For what it's worth I've actually felt more embarrassed and exposed with a fresh wax since everything is more visible. Pubes are sort of the last line of defense...

. . . .And I've never been to a gyno, but I would find it really unprofessional if he or she commented in any way. The GPs I have been to have never made any comments about my body hair.

Gynos never say anything about being shaved.

It's has become as common as men shaving their faces.

Chao I'm with you. I know I'm a dinosaur but I just feel that hair is there for a reason. It's an odor trap for pheromones and it's a sign of sexual maturity. However it's entirely a personal choice. So sue me!!!

Odor???? Not me.

Unless I have spent the afternoon playing tennis or some other strenuous physical activity, my pussy and panties always smells like I just got out of the shower because I believe in cleaning well in the shower.

Cleanliness leads to more oraling [one of my favorite activities because I just need to lay back and enjoy it] and clean smelling sex. No one could ever say I smelled like tuna fish.

Yeah, I am with you Susie.

I am shaved (actually had hair removed) and my wife is almost completely shaved. To me, being clean and not having any body smells creates the strongest sexual attraction. Liquidsky is right about our early evolutionary origins and how pheromones played a bigger role in sexual attraction, but I have no desire to relive my early evolutionary roots. Biologically we have not really changed much in thousands of years but our technology and access to improved personal hygiene has and I like being able to take full advantage of it.

When I was around 17 I started trying out different pubic hair styles, mostly out of boredom. I was a little weary when I went to my gynecologist and thought she would say something about being shaved but thankfully she didn't. Nowadays I could care less about what my hair looks like when I go to the doctors.

I would be interesting to talk to an OB/GYN who has been practicing for several decades to get his/her observation on the trends over the last, say, 30 years. My suspicion is that 30 years ago, it was very much an exception to see a patient that was fully shaved. I'd love to know when the trend started reversing itself. Was it 15 years ago? 10 years ago? I would think that, even today, it varies by the age of the patient.

We wondered the same thing so we asked my wife's doctor a few years ago when she was in for her apt and he said that mostly younger people are shaved.

I am bare in the summer and a strip in the winter. My doctor has seen me both ways and she never says a word. Also when I worked at an OB/GYN the doctors never said anything about any of the patients. That includes the designer patches. Some had dyed colors, some had shaved designs etc.

My GYN has remarked positively on my totally shaved private areas. I told her every year just before summer I go for a Brazilian wax where I am totally shaved in front, back and in between. I recommend she give it a try and a couple of weeks she did go for one and told me she actually loved the results.

My wife always keeps a clean shave and to my knowledge nobody has ever said anything, except for a young ER doctor who examined her after she accidentally squatted down in the office and caught the corner of an open file drawer from a metal filing cabinet right in the crotch.... She cut herself pretty badly and once I got her to the ER she spent a long time in the stirrups and he spent a LOT of time just staring at her crotch... He asked her if she regularly shaved her crotch and how long she had been doing it. I think he was under the mistaken impression that she had cut herself shaving...

I always keep myself trimmed. I once asked the ultrasound tech when I was pregnant with my first. She said that nothing really phases the tech/nurse/doctor unless it's something completely ridiculous. She said something like a pubic hair die job (she saw a lady died pink, blue, and purple), a crazy amount of piercings, or a particularly precise pubic hair cut in shapes or patterns are what actually get them all chatting. Otherwise going in trimmed, shaved, or au natural doesn't get much of a eye-raise from any of them.

Well I can say from my observations at the plant that it's much more common than it used to be. It varies from one ethnic group to another. As I've said previously ad nauseum I don't find it one bit attractive. Especially when the shaving has produced florid folliculitis complicated with secondary cellulitis. Yech! I view pubic hair as nice decoration. We've been through that before though. Besides it's not my place to be judgemental about any patient.

^^^^^ waxing baby, waxing!

I'm smooth as I was as a child, but with juicier mature labia! 😁 😁

Waxing hurts the most the first time. Subsequent wax jobs aren't so bad since the hairs and their roots are less developed. No bumps and if done regularly no folliculitis because the roots are so small after only several millimeters of growth.

Smooth just feels sooooo good, and my husband doesn't get hairballs when he goes down on me. The sensation of his tongue on my pussy feels much better than having hair interposed. You can only lick so much of it out of the way.

I'm always clean and shaved! I think it is healthier!

I'm always clean and shaved! I think it is healthier!

What's healthier about it?

I totally understand the various preferences (I don't have a strong one, and enjoy all varieties). However, I tend to develop chafe and low-grade infections when I shave around my scrotum...

While the scrotum and labia majora have the same embryologic origin, the skin of the labia major tends to be tighter and much less movable than that of the scrotum. Shaving the labia is much easier than shaving the scrotum. I'll add that thorough washing will prevent or cure just about all skin irritational infections.

Shave my scrotum? You've got to be kidding! I wouldn't be caught dead with a shaved scrotum! Wax it? That would probably just pull it off. No thanks.

You shave the scrotum by pulling the skin tight and shaving. It isn't difficult.

Waxing the scrotum also requires holding the skin taught when pulling off the wax.

I will say that the first time I was waxed, I did have several bleeding follicles. Likewise, the first time we waxed my husband, so did he.

I agree, shaving the scrotum is easy. I started doing it when I was 18, and it was already easy back then. You know how 18 year olds are, as Alice Cooper said, they get confused every day. And yet I still knew enough at that age to shave my scrotum and without any difficulty whatsoever. With a cock and balls and a scrotum, the space between the legs is crowded enough without also having hair all over the old nut sack.

I quite like the feeling of having a shaved scrotum, but I normally find it too much of a hassle to keep it shaved (my hair grows very fast, so I'd have to do it fairly often). I did shave before my second testicular ultrasound though - I hated the feeling of the ultrasound gel all gummed up in my hair, it was much less unpleasant when shaved.

I tried shaving my scrotum about twenty years ago . Loved the way it looked and felt for the first weekmor so after that the itching all but drove me insane. Next I tried using hair remover creams, not a good idea as the skin was sore and burning. For the next few years I concentrated on just keeping my pubes trimmed short and tweezing just the scrotum. That was to much work so I tried waxing , got good results but had sore skin on my scrotum for several days afterwards. The clean up afterwards was a hassle. Lastly this year I discovered warm sugaring and I'm hooked on it. It has all the pluses and none of the negatives I had with the other methodes, clean up well just a quick shower.

I have found that an electric shaver does a very good job on the scrotum with no after effects for me.