Pubic Hair Removal Injuries

Grooming Your Pubic Hair
Most adults in the U.S. shave, wax or groom their pubic hair. But the practice is leading to a surprising number of injuries, according to the latest study on the subject.


Cuts, burns and infections are reported more than a quarter of the time, according to the online survey of more than 7,500 U.S. adults.

In a new survey reported in JAMA Dermatology, researchers found that 76% of adults in the U.S. said they groomed their pubic hair. About a quarter of them reported injuries related to grooming.

The survey was conducted by a team of urologists at the University of California San Francisco after they noticed that about 3% of their emergency room patients were there because of pubic hair grooming-related injuries. The doctors were not surprised that their survey revealed that people who experienced these injuries also groom more frequently and extensively removing all of their pubic hair than their uninjured peers.


 “One lesson to take from this is that if you have had significant grooming injuries, or keep getting injured, you should reconsider the areas you groom, how frequently you do it, and the extent to which you do it,” Breyer says.


About 60% of the injuries reported on the survey were cuts, leading the researchers to determine that razors are probably the riskiest way of trimming down under. Other common injuries were rashes and burns.


Pubic area injuries could make people more susceptible to sexually transmitted diseases, but Breyer said that “infections from grooming injuries are rare.” He plans on studying the correlation between grooming nicks and cuts and sexually transmitted infections to see if there’s any real connection. In the meantime, a slower, more careful flick of the razor is advised.




Source: TIME health