There is always an argument of the pros and cons of shaving the groin area.
In surgery
Surgeons figured out that shaving increases surgical site infections. No matter what expensive and complex weapons are used – razor blades, electric shavers, tweezers, waxing, depilatories, electrolysis – hair always grows back while the skin suffers the effects of bateria infection
How it cause bateria infection?
Pubic hair removal inflames the hair follicles therefore leaving microscopic open wounds - be it shaved or waxed.
Worst still, with the warm moist environment of the genitals, it becomes a happy place for bacterial pathogens (eg Group A Streptococcus + Staphylococcus aureus or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
There is an increase in staph boils and abscesses and is not unusual to find pustules and other hair-follicle inflammation papules on shaved genitals.
Other findings
1) cellulitis (soft-tissue bacterial infection without abscess) of the scrotum, labia and penis as a result of spread of bacteria from shaving or from sexual contact with strep or staph bacteria from a partner's skin.
2) Freshly shaved pubic areas and genitals are also more vulnerable to herpes infections due to the microscopic wounds being exposed to viruses carried by mouth or genitals. It follows that there may be vulnerability to spread of other STIs as well. (So NO SEX immediately after shaving ok?)
So what is the Purpose of the Pubic hair?
Pubic hair provides:
i) a cushion against friction that can cause skin abrasion and injury
ii) protection from bacteria and other unwanted pathogens
My Solution
Guess we need to take the middle path by just trimming it , right?
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