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Fears that young girls pressured to look like porn stars
GIRLS as young as 14 are getting Brazilian waxes, a trend experts have labelled ''pornification'' ofteenagers.
Intimate beauty treatments are becoming popular with girls as boyfriends demand they look like porn stars, the experts say.
Leading child protection advocate Hetty Johnston said the trend was ''scary'' and called for legislation to stop it.
While you must be 18 to get a tattoo in Queensland, as well as some types of intimate body piercings, there is no age limit on waxing, although many salons require
parental permission for under-16s.
With the formal season about to start and Schoolies just around the corner, beauticians are seeing an increase in girls grooming for the big events.
Author Melinda Tankard-Reist said the ''pornification'' of youth culture was having a diabolical effect on young girls' body image.
''Their boyfriends are putting pressure on them to have the pre-pubescent porn star look,'' Ms Tankard-Reist said.
''They've come to despise their natural bodies,'' she said.
Ms Johnston said it was impossible to not make the connection between young girls getting Brazilians and the increased sexualisation of children.
''Everything they are watching, seeing, doing is about sex. They're growing up in an R-rated society,'' she said.
Ms Johnston said banning treatments on under-16s would at least encourage self-regulation.
Mt Gravatt Brazilian Beauty manager Avril Radford said the youngest girl to get a Brazilian at her salon was only 14.
''Personally I think any girl under 16 getting a Brazilian is a bit young,'' she said. Ms Radford said the store required girls under 16 to get parental consent before
intimate treatments.
Brazilian Beauty in Brisbane has also received requests from early teens wanting a full Brazilian wax.
''Mostly it is girls around 16 but we do occasionally get younger girls in, but they must have a parent with them,'' the store manager said.
Brazilian World owner Ligia Taylor said under 16 was too young to get bikini waxes.
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Permalink Reply by Meg on -
I think 16 is too young, and what about the issue of any adult doing this to under-age girls anyway?!
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Permalink Reply by Concerned mother on -
The whole concept of Brazilian waxes makes me shudder - why would a 'lover' want you to look like a hairless child? So yes I agree 16 is too young but I also feel that 16 is too old!! I wish we could just get over this 'trend' altogether, the motives behind it really worry me.
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Permalink Reply by Lynette Williams on
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I find the whole thing creepy also. I am a grown women, why do I want to look like a pre pubescent girl.? The thought of young girls feeling pressure to groom and "enhance"every inch of themselves from eyelash extensions to brazillians leads me to dispair.
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Permalink Reply by Meg on
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Concerned mother said:The whole concept of Brazilian waxes makes me shudder - why would a 'lover' want you to look like a hairless child? So yes I agree 16 is too young but I also feel that 16 is too old!! I wish we could just get over this 'trend' altogether, the motives behind it really worry me.
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Permalink Reply by Meg on
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"......must have a parent with them?"....... what kind of parent....????????
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Permalink Reply by Meg on
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Yes, the motive is clear................
Meg said:
Concerned mother said:The whole concept of Brazilian waxes makes me shudder - why would a 'lover' want you to look like a hairless child? So yes I agree 16 is too young but I also feel that 16 is too old!! I wish we could just get over this 'trend' altogether, the motives behind it really worry me.
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Permalink Reply by LS on
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Hi,
Not to play devil's advocate, but in defense of pubic waxing, some woman chose to wax certain parts of their genitalia not for their male or female partners but for themselves, as bare skin there is more sensitive during sexual activities. The same is true for men.
I agree with this.
More-over I also think it's probably the only valid reason to have such an area waxed. Safe to say, I do not agree with girl's being waxed completely bare, for obvious reasons.
However, it's not exactly surprising is it? The mother's of these girls remove hair they deem unsightly. Leg, arm, back, face... I come from an Italian background, so the girl's in my family all wax quite often and often, shamefully... we do it to conform to societies standards of beauty.
My public wax is more for me than shaving my legs is and yet, I shave my legs more often and there is a greater expectation for me to do so. Leg hair is natural and yet... it isn't sexy. So again, I ask, really is the pubic waxing in young girl's all that surprising? Are these girl's already shaving their underarms and legs?
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