الأربعاء، 1 يوليو 2015

Childbirth can't be prettied or manicured – and women shouldn't have to try | Jennifer Gerson Uffalussy

If there is one time in in a woman’s life that she should feel totally justified in not living up to social expectations of beauty, it’s childbirth. And yet ...

Google the phrase “wax before”, and an unwitting internet user will find herself amid the disturbing, troubling world of pregnancy message boards in which women across the world discuss what they believe to be the irrefutable merits – nay, necessity – of waxing bare their nether-regions before giving birth to their beloved children.

“I got a Brazilian and a pedicure before both of my babies were born,” wrote one Rebecca Eckler. “I know obstetricians and nurses have seen every type, shape and amount of hair down there, and that no woman should be embarrassed if her lady bits aren’t neat and tidy, but I’m just so used to being groomed.”

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from Pregnancy | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1GNdkJT

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