Hello again, everybody. It's me, Jade.
So, today, I wanted to talk about hairiness.
Yes, hairiness. It's a fun topic!
So, basically, around the world, different countries and cultures
have different standards for hairiness.
And what is acceptable and what is not acceptable between men and women in terms of being hairy.
So, in the UK, for guys it's normally 'whatever goes'.
If you're hairy, you're hairy.
And some men will wax because they would prefer to be hairless.
Some men don't wax because they like being hairy.
And that's fine, that's up to the men.
When I say 'wax', I mean normally chest, or back, shoulders.
As for women, in the UK it's normal for us to shave our underarms and our legs.
Although with the recent burst of feminism, some women have also gone
against that and are now refusing to shave their underarms and their legs.
Which is also fine.
But I still think as a majority, the beauty standards in the UK are: shave that.
And sometimes women will also shave their bits...
If you know what I mean.
In onsen in Japan
Onsen are Japanese hot springs where you all go and you bathe naked
with your fellow gender.
So, that was very, very awkward for me the first time I tried it.
People stare at you when you're a foreigner.
And they stare at you more when you're a naked foreigner.
But, anyway, that aside, I've seen a lot of
And, one of the beauty standards that is definitely going on here is
Like, if you've got hair anywhere on your body,
then you shave that off.
And I've seen mini razorblades for, like, facial hair
and specific razors for different body parts in Japan.
It's a whole interesting game of
But the one place that Japanese women do not shave is...
Yes, their special lady parts.
They don't shave there.
Now, when I spoke to one of my female Japanese friends about this,
actually, we were in an onsen at the time, so
it was the place to bring it up, I feel!
I asked her why Japanese women don't shave their downstairs parts,
and she said that, if a Japanese woman is to shave down there,
it is seen as being
Aaaand, Japanese guys feel like they can't trust a woman that shaves down there apparently...
is what she was saying...
Soooo, that was a bit of a shocker.
She says that, for hygiene purposes, she'd actually prefer to
shave or at least trim down there,
but she doesn't want to be possibly rejected by Japanese guys
so, she keeps it
Anyhoo, as for Asian guys, one of my ex-boyfriends had an uncommonly hairy chest
and he would shave his chest, he also shaved his arms
and he would never go to the beach because he has...
which is normal for a man, in my opinion, but
he was very, very self-conscious of the fact that he was hairier than a lot of Asian men,
or Japanese men,
I can't speak for all of Asia, I'm just in Japan.
Aaaand, so he would shave everything.
Much to my consternation.
It was intriguing.
Except of course for the downstairs area, which
men and women alike, they just leave that free and flowing and juicy...
I hope maybe not juicy actually.
But, with the humidity in Japan...
I'm just gonna stop.
So! That's all I wanted to tell you today!
If you come over to Japan and you're a foreign lady
and you wanna go and visit an onsen,
perhaps you might wanna groooow that out a little bit before you go
because people stare.
*whispering* People stare...
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Bye bye now, have a great day! Mwah!