Is Shaving Hygienic?

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Removing body hair has been popular, especially for women, for a long time, and removing pubic hair has increased massively in the last 15 years or so. A commonly cited reason for shaving body hair (almost always in women) is that it’s more hygienic. A survey carried out in the US in 2016 and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 83% of women surveyed performed pubic hair grooming and 59% of those women do so for…