I can understand the reaction a lot of BBers have had to reading this thread.
Regardless of how you feel about pubic hair, the OP is a waxer and was asking those who do wax how they have experienced waxing to be closer to term. So, the people who have responded about their experiences are bound to be in favour of waxing in general for themselves :)
No, I don't think it's tactful to say that having pubic hair where it is supposed to grow is 'yuck' (and I don't actually believe this myself), and I think it's ok to have a discussion about what our waxing experiences in late pregnancy have been and our reasons for going the wax (beyond personal 'yuck' factor!). I've already explained my own partiality and don't wish to justify it any further.
I use a Mooncup and I like to talk about it (he he - it's fun to just 'drop it in' there!), and I don't become offended when others scrunch up their faces trying to imagine this way of acknowledging femininity, I just let the notion sink in and do what it's going to do. I've come to think of using disposable pads as disconnected (no to mention bad for the environment!), yet I completely understand the power of social conditioning.
It's neither natural nor unnatural to remove body hair, pubic or otherwise. It's preference and in most instances in our society, it's expected. For me it has become preference (like I've said, for horse-riding and how I feel when I'm in water) and I'd rather let my underarm and leg hairs grow as they wish and still get my brazilian! I'm not one for pandering to the aesthetics of others so as to conform to an ideal and mortified my partner two summers ago by not touching my underarm hair and insisting on wearing boob tubes (it was so amusing to see his reaction every time!). I'm also one who has a good smattering of white hair in my dark brown head of hair that can be quite visible...and have not succumbed to dyeing it for the sake of dyeing the white hair (it's white, not grey - it's a genetic thing on my dad's side) out. Everyone else I know would dye and that's fine. If I decide I want to change my shade, in general, then I"ll do it and meanwhile, my white hairs remain. See? Just my preference and not a judgment on those who dye or don't dye :)
So, I value the input of those who have posted about their hairy comfort, those who 'trim and tidy' (according to their own ideas of 'tidy', as they may be) and those who prefer nothing there as a maintained state of being epilated.
What I'd be sad to see is posts to justify a position and suggest that one state is 'better' than another for aesthetic or principled reasons, either way. And I seriously do not believe that this is what the OP intended to ask for, even though some responses reflected this, initially.
My name is Mayaness and I'm a brazilian waxer :p
