This article about a woman fearing her first bikini wax is meant to be entertaining (and it is in a way) but it really throws up how ridiculous the whole world of beauty sometimes is.

Because the writer fears she will not be sexy without undergoing the pain, embarrassment and discomfort of having a Brazilian wax.

Does she think that no one ever had good sex before we ever heard of such a thing as a bikini line waxing?

Do you think the lack of Brazilian waxing put an end to Elizabeth and Mr Darcy, Romeo and Juliet or Adam and Eve or any of those other famous pairs throughout history and literature?

Was true love ever thwarted by the lack of Brazilian waxing?

If men don’t find her sexy without her undergoing such a painful procedure, then the answer is to find other men – plenty of them around who wouldn’t have a clue what a Brazilian was ….

Update April 2011 : Unfortunately the link to the original first bikini line waxing Dear Aphrodite story on the Argonaut.net has disappeared along with the site at some point but I’m sure you get the drift of my comments. Having said that most men wouldn’t know what a Brazilian waxing was back in 2007, four years later the norms are changing and men especially the younger ones are catching on fast – at least rumor has it – probably to do with all the scantily clad (or not clad at all) beauties around in the media and on the Internet that are everywhere and give men a view of what beauty is in all its airbrushed glory.

I still say that most guys wouldn’t throw you out of bed if you display a few extra tufts of hair so it’s up to you if you want to suffer in the name of beauty. A session with pain-free depilatory cream is enough not to display unwanted hair on the beach. Maybe you should just insist that if he wants to see more bare flesh than that then he should pay the price with a back, sack and crack wax and get your own back