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Pubic hair (or pubes / ˈ p j uː b iː z /, / p j uː b z /) is terminal body hair that is found in the genital area and pubic region of adolescent and adult humans. The hair is located on and around the sex organs, and sometimes at the top of the inside of the thighs, even extending down the perineum, and to the anal region.
At the end of puberty, pubic hair will be coarse, curly, and fairly thick. The patch of pubic hair covering the genitals will eventually often form a triangle shape. [8] By adulthood, the outer surface of the labia majora may be darker than the surrounding skin, and may have wrinkles.
As people age, the hair in these regions begins to grow darker and more abundantly. This growth occurs during or after puberty. Men will often have more abundant, coarser hair on the arms and back, while women tend to have a less drastic change in the hair growth in these areas but do experience a significant change in thickness of hairs.
Abdominal hair is the hair that grows on the abdomen of humans and non-human mammals, in the region between the pubic area and the thorax (chest). The growth of abdominal hair follows the same pattern on nearly all mammals, vertically from the pubic area upwards and from the thorax downwards to the navel .
"It would be like calling the penis 'the scrotum' or 'testicles,'" she says. "There’s a labia majora , a labia minora, a clitoris and a vulvar vestibule that can all have different issues ...
[119] [120] Hair removal may include all, most, or some of the hair. [121] French waxing leaves a small amount of hair on either side of the labia or a strip directly above and in line with the pudendal cleft called a landing strip. [121] Islam teaching includes Muslim hygienical jurisprudence a practice of which is the removal of pubic hair. [122]
The visible portion of eutherian mammalian genitals for males consists of the penis and scrotum; for females, it consists of the vulva. In placental mammals, females have two genital orifices, the vaginal and urethral openings, while males have one genital orifice in the penis where urine and semen exit the urethra during urination and ...
In human anatomy, and in mammals in general, the mons pubis or pubic mound (also known simply as the mons / m ɒ n z /, and known specifically in females as the mons Venus or mons veneris) [1] [2] is a rounded mass of fatty tissue found over the pubic symphysis of the pubic bones.