Summer, sun, sunshine – this is the time for swimsuit and Bikini and intimate shaves to see anywhere a hairs is. But there are a couple of risks.
Pubic hair is a barrier for foreign bodies, bacteria, pathogens, and dirt. They prevent germs from penetrating into the sensitive part of the Vagina and protect you.
You can minimize the risk of various infections and prevent it from coming during Sex to great friction and injury. All in all, pubic hair to meet so seems to be an important function for our body.
But most of the people in Germany to remove the pubic hair.
Hair removal through Waxing can be painful.
According to the magazine”fit FOR FUN” shave, 67 percent of the women in the genital area completely, 33 percent shave partially.
Men are 50 per cent, the removal of all pubic hair, and 39 percent, shaving part. Shaving is still the most popular way of pubic hair to get rid of.
A new study out of California concluded that women who shave their pubic hair regularly have a higher risk, with genital herpes, genital warts, or the dreaded papilloma virus infection.
“We know that the Human papillomavirus – the virus that can cause genital warts – occur quite frequent and more and more,” explains the dermatologist Professor Norbert Brockmeyer.
“By Removing the pubic hair, the papillomaviruses, which have settled there to be distributed, to make it easier. This is especially true for the pubic bone, and because it more then often to a flat formation of warts,” says brockmeyer.
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That other venereal diseases can be easily transmitted, is not afraid of the head of the center for sexual health in Bochum, however.
A hairy matter
The greatest danger in the removal of the pubic hair are all possible cuts that can occur with the shaver.
But when Epilating, the hair out plucking together with the root, it can lead to inflammation. New hairs can grow. For you out of the skin, but grow in the wrong direction, to the inside.
The hair grows then more often under the skin. The body responds with inflammation that can develop in the worst case, to pus-filled boils.
“That the hairs are not there, is not the big Problem, but the Removal of the hair,” says Brockmeyer. “The pathogens can lead to inflammation and Pus formation. The frequently occur on the hair shafts themselves – so where is the hair from the skin occurs. It can form pimples and inflammation with pus in the hair channels.”
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Professor Norbert Brockmeyer, the head of the centre for sexual health and medicine
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When you shave, the most important is that you do it so careful and so gentle to the skin as possible. “Then you should not apply lotion to the skin in order for it to dry. Also, you should wait for after the shave one to two days before you have sexual contact,” advises Brock Meyer.
Then, the tiny cut had closed wounds so wide that nothing could happen. “The risk, with venereal diseases to infect, if you have shaved before, I do not think it is particularly large,” concludes Brock Meyer.
Protection from nasty intruders
The shave has its advantages. Very uncomfortable, pubic lice, or pubic lice, which settle in the genital area of the people. They are not as rare as one would think. The parasites feed on the blood of the Person and form a so-called nits, i.e. eggs eggs.
The shave do it to locate aphids is difficult, if not impossible, in the genital area, says Brockmeyer. “The hair, the need lice for propagation, are simply not there. The lice is removed from the basis.” Be transmitted through close body contact, such as during intercourse.”
Sharp stones and bronze knives
Intimate shaving is not an invention of the last few years. The ancient Egyptians shaved the genital area. However, they had no disposable or electric shaver, and epilator. A few thousand years ago, people were apparently not exactly squeamish. The Egyptians depilated with a coarse bronze knife or bees wax to get smooth, hair-free skin. This was also the case for the genital area.
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So artistically it’s not a shave to
The Romans were the Egyptians in nothing. Hair-free skin was also ideal for you to beauty. Women plucked the eyebrows in shape, body hair, they rubbed with pumice stone.
And also a rather dangerous method was used. With arsenic-containing substances, the women hairy body tried to make, such as the genitals, to treat. The substances that are used for the so-called Orpiment in a similar way. This highly toxic Mineral peelin the hair and is accordingly dangerous. Although this method seems barbaric, in India, in some rural areas is still the drug of choice, to annoying hairs to get rid of spots on various parts of the body.
Several monastery books in the middle ages recommended, among other things, the following recipes for hair removal: calf urine, dog or bat’s blood, swallow bile, dog milk, or zerkochte leech.
The Cutting of the pubic hair came to the end of the 19th century. Century in fashion, especially in Europe. But then, in the seventies, the nature of beauty was ideal, so the pubic hair remained untouched. They were able to grow unhindered. In the 90s, this Trend was over, then back.
The ideal of beauty in girls and in boys is now: hair does not belong to the genitalia. And so they are removed completely or at least partially.
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