It is a shame that image obsession has crept into our most intimate areas.
I think a lot of it is to do with the internet and even now on tv which especially on satelite channels are getting more and more overtly sexual and you dont see all different bodies, just the hairless, perfect everything in order,tight ones.
As a waxer we are obviously very aware of the different shapes, sizes and looks people have in that area and probably like you all, i often have to reasure people that what they have isn't an exception and they are perfectly normal.
No we shouldn't be worried about what we look like down there but surely that is what part of the reason for having brazillians/hollywoods is all about maybe we as beauty therapists play a part in offering the service.
If it wasn't available most women would still have a bit of hair there and wouldnt be able to see their bits so readily I hear younger and younger women/girls hating their hair on an area that should have hair on it, are we offering a service that is yet another thing to fuel a womens insecurities.
I can fully understand why women are conscious of this part of their anatomy...its very private and personal however because they have nothing to compare it with they become insecure that theirs must be bigger than every other women in the universe..the reality is that there really isn't that much of a significant difference at all...
Indeed men also suffer from a similar form of insecurity much in a similar way but about there penis size..."OMG mines so small im never gonna find a woman who wants to spend the rest of her life with me:cry:"kind of thing..well how do you know ..have you actually compared it to your best mates at a rugby match kind of thing??.
I totally agree Gillian although I for one,as many therapists must also be,are delighted that image obsession has crept into our private parts....if it hadn't then there would be no call for waxing these areas :hug:
In so far as offering a service to fuel a women's insecurities...this is a difficult one...I rather suspect all we are doing really is doing a job that we are asked for and paid to do by women.. not forgetting of course more and more men :hug: