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Razor company Schick Japan to to promote body positivity by discarding the phrase “unwanted hair”

Schick doesn’t want you thinking about body hair as a bad thing!

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Our male reporter got hair removed from his “delicate zone”, dishes on the whole experience

Hirazi tells us all the good and bad things that resulted from removing his pubic hair. 

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Japanese women want men to get rid of their body hair, according to a recent survey

It would seem that nobody likes a hairy bod!

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Grooming industry experts say an increasing number of Japanese men are shaving their pubic hair

The butt is getting more attention too, they claim.

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Personal tastes are just that: Personal. What gets one person going is likely to leave someone else bored — and there’s nothing wrong with that of course. I’d be awfully sad if everyone liked strawberry ice cream as much as I do because then there’d be none left for me.

And nothing shows this quite as much as men and their body hair. More specifically, how Japanese women feel about body hair on certain parts of the male anatomy. We are, of course, talking about shins and armpits! (Why? What were you thinking?)

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Internet survey sheds light on how Japanese women deal with the hair ‘down there’

Different cultures have different norms regarding the acceptability of body hair. For example, in many countries of the world, women are largely expected to shave their legs and underarm hair when going out in public. But what about that other, far less public patch of hair?

The latest edition of Shogakukan’s News Post Seven teamed up with an online research agency to check up on the status quo of what Japanese women nowadays do with the ‘hair down there,’ especially now that attitudes in Japan are becoming increasingly similar to those in the West. Do they shave it? Tidy it up every so often? Leave it as is? The internet survey disclosed some revealing results.

If you’re a woman and visited a Japanese hot spring before, you may be able to guess that things are about to get a little hairy…

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