Pubic Hair Grooming Injuries Have Quintupled

[lafinjack]

The Brazilian wax has been on its way out for a while. But what may be its final death throe comes, according to the Atlantic Wire, in the form of unshaved mannequins on display at American Apparel.

Feminists and women who don't like pain have reason to celebrate, but here's another group that should embrace the natural trend: doctors. American

Comments

[lady_borg]

So you bring up that there will be wank and then possibly cause it with the rest of your comment? I mean did you want shaving wank or something?

[schexyschteve]

"I'm not sure how my comment would upset anyone."

...

"However, shaving all your pubes off is just not that healthy"

[mimblexwimble]

I hope the stats for the 0-12 class are more on the 12 side than the 0...

[squeeful]

Those are the stats for all ER visits, not just pubic hair related injuries. Small children end up in the ER often.

[mimblexwimble]

oh whoops comprehension fail

[policraticus]

I hate this kind of "journalism."

"Quintupled" means nothing. Give us the baseline numbers.

Shave, don't shave, wax, braid, I don't care and neither should anyone else.

[nextdrinksonme]

Yeah, I'd kind of like to see numbers, too, as well as the nature of the injury. 20 people going into the ER isn't a huge deal to me. Nor are people going in because they just nicked themselves or have razor burn.

And even so, people do things to themselves that cause injury when not done correctly or when not paying attention all the time. This really isn't any kind of revelation that people have gone to the ER due to pubic hair accidents.

EDIT: the stats are on the paper linked at the source. "From 2002 to 2010, an observed 335 actual ED visits for GU injury related to grooming products provided an estimated 11,704 incidents (95% confidence interval 8430-15,004). The number of incidents increased fivefold during that period, amounting to an estimated increase of 247 incidents annually".

247 people a year? Yeah, that's really not something to get worked up about, I don't think. Okay, it's late and I think I read that wrong. Even so, 1400/year isn't a huge number, either. And it also didn't say the extent of the injury.

[nextdrinksonme]

Wait, now I'm a little confused from this graph:

[zinnia_rose]

CACKLING at those error bars. Oh dear.

[lafinjack]

[fenris_lorsrai]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I had to send that to friends. I can picture their faces now...

[lastrega]

Dear people with lady parts, please be more careful putting sharp things near them.

sincerely,

a fan of lady parts