If you shave or wax your pubic hair you increase your risk of catching an STD by 400%

[waynekerr]

"Sorry, but it’s true. If you shave or wax your pubic hair, you increase your risk of catching a sexually transmitted disease by 400%."

Really?? I would have thought the opposite.

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38207594

WayneK.

[kingwally]

Zero chance of getting crabs however!

[garfield]

"Sorry, but it’s true. If you shave or wax your pubic hair, you increase your risk of catching a sexually transmitted disease by 400%."

Really?? I would have thought the opposite.

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38207594

WayneK.

Basically your pores are open for disease to come in. Better with hair.

[corvus]

Just remember, correlation does not necessarily imply causation...

Ditto the above.

This is another example of click bait.

If one googles the opposite hypothesis, one will be found with a lot of articles to the contrary.

In any event , unless one lasers or waxes, there is always sub dermal residual hair which could protect the skin and pores. That article is flawed.

[Licker]

Just remember, correlation does not necessarily imply causation...

Exactly. And even in the article the doctors who've done the study note that, while that never gets to the headline :)

"the two most likely explanations for the link between grooming and STIs were micro-tears in the skin, which increased the risk of viral STIs, and groomers being more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviour with more sexual partners."