This is truly a case of gilding the lily. I think it looks silly and trashy and none too comfortable for either partner from a functional standpoint. I can list about a hundred ways I'd rather spend my money than transforming my snatch into and arts and crafts project. Maybe it would work for strippers, though, as a sort of accessory?

yeah, I clicked on that over at Glenn's site and went oops, not from work... but since it was too late...

Those rhinestones better be edible... and once you get all hot an bothered, you have to take them off, like mse says to keep from injuring your partner? Or is there a special preferred position where you can both show them off and not draw blood?

er, and yeah dunno how girls feel about what they see, but like a lot of expensive clothing... eventually I want to see you out of it, and au natrual.

Waxing there is a whole other issue... as long as everything is clean we are good. Besides, starting off the evening with a nice double shower makes for more fun.

guess it's better than getting a tatoo there, but still with the why?

She's a rhinestone cowgirl?

Vajazzled...classic. Thanks for the laugh today.

This actually isn't new... my cousin's ex-girlfriend was a stripper and was on an episode of the Howard Stern TV show sometime around 2001 promoting this kind of thing. Obviously it didn't catch on too much with the general population.

Reminds me of one of those true "most embarrassing" moments I read about once. A lady was called early in the morning and told her gynocologist's office had a cancellation, and since she'd been waiting for an appt, she took the opening. But she didn't have time to shower, so she ran into the bathroom and quickly wet a washrag that was laying by the sink, wiped herself down there, then threw on her clothes and went to the appt.

During the exam, the doctor paused and said, "My, I see you dressed up for me today!" She thought that was an odd thing for him to say, but she didn't think too much of it until later that day when her daughter came running out of the bathroom, crying, "Mom, where is my glitter? I left in the washrag by the sink!" Sure enough, she had glitter all over lady parts, and the doc must've thought she put it there on purpose.

I told my gyno that story, and we got a big laugh. He said he wished women would dress it up for him like that. lol So, maybe I should get "vajazzled" before my next pap smear.

Wow. Which do you think is stranger: Vajazzling, or anal bleaching?

anal vajazzling

Either utterly unnecessary or pathetically reaching, depending on the rest of the package to which the goods are attached.

All I get is a "you don't have permission to access this server" type message. Darn. Sounds funny.

Me too, M4. I can only imagine it.

As a heterosexual man my philosphy of vaginsa it the same sa it is for a 1969 Camaro convertible: keep them clean, well lubricated, and don't add any after market crap.

jeez- sorry for the typos. No sleep last night.

Sounds like a long night in the garage, buddy.

Here you go ladies - http://www.theluxuryspot.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/18.JPG

Looks like a good way to chip a tooth. Nmom-nom-nom!

You know men would never do this for us, but it might be very productive if they could make the chips out of chocolate. :)

They call this "getting Vajazzled."

"getting Vaginestoned" sounds better.

I'm getting the "403 Forbidden" too. Molo's pic worked, though.

All I can say is WHY? Why would anyone want to do this? It can't possibly be comfortable, and the whole idea of sex...um, I don't want to have to explain why my boyfriend is crying in the emergency room.

This commenter put it best and funniest in my opinion. I personally wouldn't have used the word 'snatch,' but otherwise I'm with this guy:

MEC2 on February 25th, 2010 at 2:06 pm: "A bald snatch looks prepubescent, gluing glitter on it *is* prepubescent. What’s next, gluing on gold painted dry macaroni?"

More than ever, I feel blessed to have a guy whose favorite thing is good ol' fashioned 'seventies bush.'

ER Doc: "What did you do, rub it on a cheese grater?"

mse took the threadwin in the first comment.

Props, sister.

I find it somewhat disturbing when someone says that a "bald snatch" looks like a prepubescent snatch. I have a friend whose husband often says that - "I don't want my wife's pussy to look like my daughters".

The reference to his daughter's or any other prepubescent pussy just seems wrong.

Thanks to laser hair removal, my snatch is bald, as are most porn stars and many other women's these days, but they still don't look like those of little girls. Does anyone else find that reference disturbing or is it just me?

That is about the dumbest damn thing I have seen.

> The reference to his daughter's or any other
> prepubescent pussy just seems wrong.

Sorry— I'm still giving the Grand Prize to mce for her two roundhouse punches ("gilding the lily" and "arts and crafts"). First prize goes to the guy who said "What's next, gluing on gold painted dry macaroni?" There is no second prize.

The prize-winning comments convincingly link these fashion choices with regression to a childhood of carefree safety and silliness.... When for most people, childhood isn't like that anyway. Fashion-heads, whose lives aren't always about adult themes, have done things like this before: I remember how in about 1999 or so, there was a two-week trend of teenage girls trying to wear pajamas as sportswear in public. The fad didn't last. I was dating a woman with a teenage daughter at the time, and she was pleased that she only had to have that fight once.

Your discomfort is part of the problem. (OK, maybe this behavior isn't a problem, but its a telling weirdness.) Are grown men supposed to speak as though cooters just pop into existence as a woman's freaky undercarriage on her 18th birthday, and that theretofore, everyone's a Barbie doll?

During a discussion of Polanski on this blog last year, someone said "I find it quite creepy how you seem to get off on describing the dirty parts." Given the context, which was ALL "dirty parts", I was "quite" fucking appalled at the comment: A 43-year-old visitor to our country fed a 13-year-old drugs and alcohol in order to anally rape her. Following conviction, he skipped bail, and for the next thirty years, lived in wealth and freedom. And people still wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt! And I think the reason they wanted to give him that space was that thinking of his crime was just too upsetting to their prissy little souls. Talking plainly about it was so distressing that they couldn't muster the fortitude for prosecution... They wouldn't want to be what BOTU calls a "potty-mouth"... Easier just to go along with the fiction that he's a very nice man.

Is this like that? Can we not mention that these fashions are, in fact, infantile? Are you THAT terrified about threats to the sexuality of children, including from the men who love them most dearly? If you truly are that paralyzed in this kind of discussion, your probably shouldn't take part, because I think you're drifting into sharia territory. Ask anyone: That which is forbidden carries extra eroticism.

Ambrose Bierce had good reasons to recommend that we "Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths."

If we're going to get into (hmm, maybe not the best choice of words) the styling aspect, I'd like to note that the first time I saw a "landing strip," there was an emergency and I had to foam the runway.

Cuz Jennifer Love Hewitt does it!!!!

(In perhaps one of the strangest talk show interviews of an actress...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnUloWnKjg4

lovelysoul, I think your argument goes along with the last few posts of Amy's last column about breast implants. It is your body, but men are allowed to not like the changes you make. As growing pubic hair is part of becoming a woman, I can see how men might find the lack of it disconcerting. Especially since you acquired it and voluntarily removed it. Thinking of it as prepubescent does not show an unnatural obsession with little girl's vaginas (and why does my spellcheck highlight that one? Weird.); it shows a natural association. I am not saying that being bald is bad, or that all men dislike it (obviously that's not the case), but to villify the men for making the association is wrong. Wanting your woman to look like a woman is not a bad thing.

Crid, do you ever read Irvine Welsh? Great book of his called Crime that deals with pedophiles and a Scottish detective that deals with them.

and why does my spellcheck highlight that one? Weird.

Living up to my handle: Because it should have been a plural possessive - girls'

Actually, I was referring to the "vaginas," but thanks for catching that one as well. The change of possessive didn't affect the spellcheck. The dictionary(.com) lists the plural as both -nas and -nae, so it is right. I'm usually much better on my apostrophes, as their misuse is a pet peeve of mine. My spellcheck had me all kerfluffled.

> Living up to my handle: Because it should have
> been a plural possessive - girls'

You people scare me. At any moment, you might turn your powers to the service of the Dark Side of the Force, and us commonfolk would be doomed. (See "its a telling weirdness", above.)

I have pledged to use my powers only for good. Unless of course the Dark Side offered commensurate motivation. And just to prove I am on the right side, I won't even point out the lack of apostrophe up there. Or the use of "us" instead of "we." Oops...

whatchoo talkin' 'bout willis?

"As a heterosexual man my philosphy of vaginsa it the same sa it is for a 1969 Camaro convertible: keep them clean, well lubricated, and don't add any after market crap."

Eric: brilliantly funny statement. My husband is a gear-head and we both loved that comment.

So guys,

Make sure you aren't using the really sticky chewing gum, when you are, uh, playing Thighmaster.

Thanks, Crid! And props to you for "freaky undercarriage."

> I won't even point out the lack of apostrophe

Brute.

> Great book of his called Crime that
> deals with pedophiles

LS' distress to the contrary, it's not a favorite topic.

On the other hand, I mentioned this guy a few days ago, and when reading his wikipedia page, noticed that his sins with the (young) congressional page had been scrubbed from the article, so I did an edit and put them back in. And in the days since, thoughtful grammar-freaks have gone in and buffed everything up a high gloss. That's really pretty cool. There are apparently people who just really like doing "ce" (copy edit) fixes, and they're not interested in mangling other people's writing in any other way.

We all know that Wikipedia isn't reliable enough for college papers or research of anything that will be eventually used to spend money... But it's a wonderful starting point when investigating conversations like ours, and it's nice to see these Grammarian Superpowers deployed in the service of Goodness & Virtue.

Fuggin' HTML.

No thank you. I do like them hairless. I find the sensation of hair in my mouth entirely unpleasant.

Question for those of you who think men who like bald vaj is akin to liking prepubescents: Are women who like men without facial hair in the same boat?

"Wanting your woman to look like a woman is not a bad thing." Does this include armpit hair? What about the mini-mustache many women naturally have?

Does this include armpit hair? What about the mini-mustache many women naturally have?

Are you that obtuse, or just trying to pick a fight?
I am not advocating going full-on, crunch-granola Sasquatch, but for men who are into that, no, it's not a bad thing. You took my comment to the extreme. Underarm hair and facial hair exist in places everybody sees at one time or another. I would hope that one's vagina isn't available for viewing by one and all (barring members of the porn industry). We live in a society where the only really acceptable visible hair for a woman is on her head and her eyebrows/eyelashes. Pubic hair may be kept any way you like, and their are lovers of all styles. Liking your women hairless is likewise acceptable.

You'll notice that I never said that liking hairless labia is akin to liking prepubescents. What I said was that making that association is not wrong. Some men don't like their women hairless. You do, and you (I'm assuming) aren't thinking, "Man, she looks like an 11-year-old." Both positions are valid. Please stop trying to create a controversy where there wasn't one.

Crid: The book isn't really about pedophiles; it's about what going after them does to a particular cop. He is in Florida on a forced vacation due to burnout and ends up protecting a young girl, but he sees the "nonces" everywhere and in everyone. Same unflinching view of life as Trainspotting.

Well, obviously I'm not alone in liking the hairless look. I was just on the nude beach in Jamaica, and it's very rare to see any woman there with a bush. Those that have them are usually over 50, so maybe it's a generational thing.

There was only one girl in her 20s that had a thick 70s style bush, and the other women I was with were all giggling that they needed to get their "machetes out and clear that brush for her". She stood out amidst a sea of waxed or otherwise meticulously landscaped women.

And I just don't think that looks prebuscent. These women look like grown women to me, and presumably to the men they're with. The fact they care enough to shave or wax seems like good hygene.

My discomfort is probably only about this one individual who makes these comments, as he seems to stare at and make a lot of strange comments about young girls.

I just wondered how many men think a bare one looks like a little girl's, as it's my impression that this look is generally preferred these days -not just by men but by women also, and I don't think any of us are trying to appear prepuscent. We simply think it looks sexier.

Obviously, I can't spell "prepubescent" very well.

> And props to you for "freaky undercarriage."

Stole it from here.

hmmm, well LS, I'll be wondering if there isn't an evo reason going on in the background here... that hair is one of a number of indications that you are above pruberty and of age, in the evolutionary mind. It's not that the higher brain might not be able to see that it's a woman based on bodyshape...

I'm sure most guys would get over it, but there might be pause. What are you trying to look like? I could probably get used to a girl that shaves her head every day too, but why is she doing it...

I guess I'm the old pragmatic type. I ain't going to shave anywhere, so if a woman wants to? Entirely up to her... Don't put yourself out on my account. As long as we've showered we are good.

As an aside? So Scott, do i take that to mean that you are completely hairless, and keep it that way for your girlfriend?

"You cut yourself doing what now?"

"It wath an akthideht. I jutht got thnagged ah thomething dow there add I jutht jerked back..."

"I double-dawg dare you to do it again!"

lovelysoul, I just reread your earlier post and you mention that this guy says stuff like this "often." It does sound like he may have a fixation of some sort, but please do not equate him with other men who make the same statements.

So Scott, do i take that to mean that you are completely hairless, and keep it that way for your girlfriend?
Props to you, SwissArmyD, because I forgot to make that point in my post earlier. I was wondering the same thing.

Thanks, #6. I won't. I actually hadn't heard anyone other than him make such comments until this thread, so that's why I asked.

And I feel it's considerate when a guy at least "manscapes".

The trend in the last few years has really leaned towards less pubic hair, for men and women. I'm in my mid 40s, and I can still recall when you'd see bushes in porn, but now, you rarely do. Most of the girls are bare, or have very small "landing strips". I suspect men younger than me are probably not used to seeing much hair down there, certainly not like the 70s. It's sort of a generational thing.

My bf doesn't have much visible hair because he's blond, but what little he has, he shaves, and I personally think it's nicer that way. I don't equate that with him being boyish or immature. To me, it's much more appealing than a lot of hair in the way. And I've never heard a woman complain that she wishes her man was hairier - down there, at least. Some women do prefer a lot of chest hair, but I suspect most of us would appreciate some manscaping in the lower regions. If you've never done it, you might at least try a trim. Plus, it does have the added benefit of making you look larger. :)

"So Scott, do i take that to mean that you are completely hairless, and keep it that way for your girlfriend?"

I keep it how she likes it, as she does for me.

"Are you that obtuse, or just trying to pick a fight?"

I was trying to make a point. I don't know why you got so defensive.

As my Jeff Foxworthy says, "If you trim the bush it makes the deck look bigger."

I don't know why you got so defensive.
Not defensive, just annoyed. I know you were trying to make a point, a point at the expense of my argument. You knew very well that was not what I was saying (you just admitted that), and yet you set me up to make your point anyway. So what, in fact, was the point?

Steamer: I am all for however you want to manicure your lawn, topiary and all, but isn't it a bit hard to navigate around there?

"If you trim the bush it makes the deck look bigger." - steamer

heh, yeah? Looks ain't what counts... unless you think she'll be arching in pleasure from seeing that alien thing... :shrug:

seems like one of those "this is trendy for no other reason but to be trendy". I suppose as a middle aged guy it looks like putting chrome spinner rims on a rusted out ford. If you have something TO show off, that might be different. If I can accept the cellulite, I can accept that you don't shave in unusual places.

> Same unflinching view of life as Trainspotting.

I walked outta that one! It was at the point where the friends made him shoot up again to test stuff. I just don't like depictions of people in pain.

Re: That guy's earlier film... Someone told me Shallow Grave was a comedy. Turns out it wasn't.

Wasn't bad for what it was, though...

Someone told me Shallow Grave was a comedy.
It's a comedy sort of in the same way that Tarantino's films are comedies, in my opinion. You know, horrible, violent scenes undercut with funny bits. That's why I love them and Danny Boyle (not exactly horrible and violent, but not daisies and puppies, either). Except for The Beach. I took points off for that one.

And I was referring to the book Trainspotting, if that makes any difference (not actually having to watch the pain). Great book, but it is quite heavy on the pain quotient.

From PZ Myers on the topic:

"...I am weirded out by this new fad of vajazzling, or the gluing of shiny little rhinestones to women's crotches. I think the problem is that I'm a biologist, so I find skin quite pleasant as it is; this must be something to appeal to geologists, who think it can't be sexy unless it is mineralized.

Jill mentions that it only seems to be an adornment for women, which does seem a little bit unfair. Or maybe it's a good thing — I grew up in the 1970s, and really, disco balls have no appeal at all for me.

There. Now your morning is wrecked with a horrifying mental image, too."

Swiss, I've read somewhere that there is in fact a lingering evolutionary preference for hair, for that very reason: it marks (more or less) who is capable of reproduction and who is not. Keep in mind, too, that in days when nutrition wasn't nearly as good as it is now, teenagers entered puberty later. I'll have to find the reference, but I've seen a paper that prior to the 19th century, very few women got pregnant or had their first period prior to the age of 16.

And going back to the original topic: It seems like it would make sitting awfully uncomfortable. And what if one of those pops loose and winds up someplace where it isn't supposed to be?