If you don't groom your pubes, chances are you at least know someone who does. These days, it's the norm to groom your hair in someway or another. A new study unsurprisingly confirms just that: 62 percent of American women reported removing all of their pubic hair, while 84 percent said they did some grooming. The study polled a diverse group of 3, women from various racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. Researchers found that women ages 18—34 are more likely to groom their pubic hair. They also found white, college-educated women are more inclined to remove their hair.

Thanks to warped beauty standards, female body hair often comes attached to a stigma. More than 99 percent of American women reportedly remove their body hair, spending tens of thousands of dollars over the course of their lifetimes to wax, pluck, shave, epilate, thread, or laser unwanted fuzz off their bodies. Kim Kardashian.

The New York Times profiled the demise of the Brazilian bikini wax. Last year, two doctors at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Texas published research based on the survey responses of 1, women 16 to 40 years old. They found that just 8. The majority of women who had ever groomed their pubic hair said they used a razor and shaving cream 77 percent.