XP: Pre-teen waxing

jessicah628

I am so wildly disturbed by this that I had to share.

"Virgin" Bikini Waxing Now Popular for Pre-Teen Girls

MSNBC has a long trend-piece about how increasingly younger girls are getting bikini waxing. How young? Well, Wanda Stawczyk, who runs Wanda's European Skin Care on West 57th Street, offers discounts for clients as young as 8, and she says pre-teen business is booming, telling the Post that "in 10 years waxing children will be like taking them to the dentist or putting braces on their teeth." Her company?s website says it all:

"Virgin-waxing for children 8 years old and up who have never shaved before. Virgin hair can be waxed so successfully that growth can be permanently stopped in just 2 to 6 sessions. Save your child a lifetime of waxing... and put the money in the bank for her college education instead

And leave it to the Post to enlighten those readers ?interested in whether there's even hair to wax. Pre-puberty hair, called ?velus,? is a fine, light pigmented hair. When a child hits puberty - which these days is happening to kids as young as 9 - the hair coarsens and darkens.? And must be torn out by the roots if you don't want the other girls to laugh at you!

Of course some people, like child psychiatrist Candida Fink, think ?this is another example of how younger and younger girls are being sexualized and objectified.? And Dr. Diane Levin, co-author of the book So Sexy So Soon, tells MSNBC that ?girls are learning the worst possible lessons about body image and body hair. Keep your bodies like little girls? because that?s what men like.? Anyway, better you hear about all this here, in a safe place, instead of from your creepy co-worker. Or did we just become your creepy co-worker?

http://gothamist.com/2008/08/15/virgin_bikini_waxing_now_popular_fo.php

amy052006

So that is gross and ridiculous on many many levels.

However I will not lie.  I'm not sure as an adult I would be upset about never having to wax because someone was able to stunt my hair growth.  

But that is my choice to make.  Not some adult putting it on me.

ETA:  This cracked me up.

Save your child a lifetime of waxing... and put the money in the bank for her college education instead

I can assure you my parents never paid for a wax for me.

Jamiedoll01

I just find this....skeevy

jessicah628

It's totally vomitous. Which is not a word, but I don't care. However, I am completely with you, Amy -- having dealt with the whole hair removal process prior to puberty would have been great in theory.

jessica0602

horrifying!

stilldreaming

little girls with NO PUBIC hair are waxing? makes perfect sense.

Let's teach girls to be disgusted with their bodies at age 8. why not? 

here's another gross article. 

http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/07/28/pole_dancing_kids/index.html

 

happy friday.  

lachute

i can';t even read that, thinking of how tender little kids skin is

JenD1018

This is just so ridiculous on so many levels.

andyandyandy

Hi,

what strange and abnormal things are you talking about? Sounds a bit like child
abuse.

It sounds as if you recommend to fix my little daughter into a laser beamer-burner,
which burns off (or should I say: which kills) every hair follicle on her skin, in EVERY
region of her skin, also these regions we commonly do not speak about and then
she NEVER needs to shave or wax or epilate again when she is grown up?

The thin hair fleece which covers our body should NOT be ripped out or burned
away by Laser or chemical ways - especially not on the skin of a young child.
The skin of a young child is so thin and soft. You are NOT able to load this
responability upon your shoulders. Waxing is just painful, Laser may cause cancer
and chemicals can cause skin irritation for years. Your child would be VERY
thankful to you - I bet for this!
I underline, waxing a small girl is a certain kind of torture. This is by far NOT
acceptable for a small child or a pre-teen child. If you do this, you do not care
for your child nor do you care for the responsability you have as its PARENTS!

We all, including YOU, are by far less intelligent than mother nature is. And it takes
quite a long time until we understand, WHY mother nature does it this or that way.
I know poeple who have lost ALL of their hair. They feel, hair is a protection for our
skin. OK, we sometimes have a bit too much hair here or there, but in general, hair
has its biological (yes, it is BIO and it is LOGICAL but sometimes we do not
understand it) REASON.

Hair keeps our body warm in the cold, as all hais raise upright and make a
temperature isolating layer. Hair is a sensor! It warns you when a cold
breeze is touching your body, as you can feel it. Even pubic hair has its
good reason: It distributes our pheromones which make us attractive to
other people.

What a silly idea!

With regards

andyandyandy

Kernel14

Amy - as I was reading it I was thinking to myself "damn, I wish as an adult I could have skipped the waxing/shaving/etc if someone had stopped the hair from even growing in for me" haha.

But obviously on a real level this is totally gross and strange. I love how it says " And must be torn out by the roots if you don't want the other girls to laugh at you!" I'm pretty sure at 8 yrs old I wasn't checking out other girls and laughing at them. There was nothing to laugh at because there was no hair yet! Oy. Such a sick idea.