Korean Women Love Their Big Hairy Bushes

Big bushes are in again, but in Korea, some women just aren't satisfied with a healthy thatch of pubic hair. A new trend sweeping the nation is something called "bush grafting," wherein women are supplementing their pubic hair with hair from their own heads.

Refinery 29 (link below) reported on this new phenomenon, which is being fueled by that oldest of social pressures... peer pressure.

...in Korea, pubic hair is seen as a sign of sexual health and fertility. Some have even taken it one step further — with bush grafting. Yup, women are getting hair transplanted from their heads onto their lady parts. 

And, as my bath-house experience made obvious, a big reason for why some Korean women feel pressure to get this procedure isn't men — it's other women. According to a study from the Arumdaun Nara Dermatologic and Plastic Surgery Clinic in Seoul, 74% said they had gotten it done because of a “sense of inferiority to the same sex.” 

The procedure has seen an uptick of nearly 200% in just two years, but as the article points out, it's still an act of vanity, just at the other end of the spectrum.

The basic idea is still "women undergoing an expensive and painful procedure to fit a cultural norm." Maybe, instead of grafting or waxing, we could just accept our bushes (or lack thereof) for what they are, naturally, and stop making others feel self-conscious for whatever situation they have going on.

Yeah! Right on!

Via Refinery 29