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Hey Dr Sue — Do Guys Care If A Girl Has Pubic Hair?

Sue Milstein
3 min readAug 28, 2023

This is so subjective because it really depends on the guy!

Some guys love a lot of pubic hair, some guys don’t. Some don’t mind it, as long as it’s trimmed and tidy. Some love it when it’s as wild as can be.

Some guys just like pubic hair. Some may find that it turns them on — either the look or the feel of it, or both. There’s a theory that the pheromones that a woman secrets stays longer in her pubic hair so maybe that has something to do with it?

Some guys don’t like pubic hair for a lot of reasons. Maybe they don’t like the look, or the feel. Or maybe they’re not used to seeing it because past partners have removed it or the women in they porn they watch don’t have pubic hair. (This reminds me a lot of the post I did about women being uncomfortable with uncircumcised men).

What I find sometimes when we have conversations about women and their pubic hair, is that we often don’t ask the women what they like.

The majority of women (somewhere in the 80% range) do some kind of upkeep on their pubic hair, whether its trimming, shaving or waxing. Interestingly, the rate of men who are grooming their pubic hair has been increasing.

Some women really do like the results of waxing/shaving/trimming and do it as much for themselves as…

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Sue Milstein
Sue Milstein

Written by Sue Milstein

Dr. Sue Milstein has a PhD in Human Sexuality Education and is the co-author of the 7th edition of "Human Sexuality: Making informed decisions."

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