Comments on: Saudi Culture and Shaving http://americanbedu.com/2008/07/15/saudi-culture-and-shaving/ Experiences and observations of a former American diplomat now married to a Saudi and living in KSA... Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:48:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dustbury.com » Strange search-engine queries (182) http://americanbedu.com/2008/07/15/saudi-culture-and-shaving/#comment-26832 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:45:50 +0000 http://delhi4cats.wordpress.com/?p=882#comment-26832 [...] use of epilator islam:  I suspect it would be approved. [...]

]]> By: American Bedu http://americanbedu.com/2008/07/15/saudi-culture-and-shaving/#comment-16991 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:58:22 +0000 http://delhi4cats.wordpress.com/?p=882#comment-16991 It just occurred to me here is a classic example of western openness – no shyness or fear or embarrassment in speaking about natural functions and processes. Yet I think the Eastern woman may be more reticent to engage in such a discussion since this is a topic viewed with great sensitivity and modesty.

]]> By: Sparky http://americanbedu.com/2008/07/15/saudi-culture-and-shaving/#comment-16972 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:18:32 +0000 http://delhi4cats.wordpress.com/?p=882#comment-16972 American Bedu- I thought I was doing what I was supposed to… (the right thing) by waxing it. I think I did one side and then was like how can I wash this gooey mess out. It ended up on a sticky mess.

After that experience, I was like to hell with what anyone else said it was merely trimming and shaving from that moment on. Bad advice from evil sister in laws what can I say…I was young and naive.

Chiara- I never experienced razor burn and infection. I have coochy spray. LOL Seriously though it is cleaner…IMO

Aafke- Extinction of the crabs (aka. pubic lice)…see there is a purpose for everything

coolred38- LOL yep brain hairs…lost quite a few of em in Saudi

]]> By: Aafke http://americanbedu.com/2008/07/15/saudi-culture-and-shaving/#comment-16970 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:24:51 +0000 http://delhi4cats.wordpress.com/?p=882#comment-16970 Ehm you throw every chemical at men and the roaches keep coming back…
Yeah, it’s nature.
It’s because you are so irresitibly feisty, funny, and couragious!

]]> By: coolred38 http://americanbedu.com/2008/07/15/saudi-culture-and-shaving/#comment-16968 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:06:27 +0000 http://delhi4cats.wordpress.com/?p=882#comment-16968 Ok…so we can apparently trim and wax a bug species out of exitence…but we throw every chemical known to man at our houses and those damn roaches just keep coming back. Nature is funny like that.

]]> By: Aafke http://americanbedu.com/2008/07/15/saudi-culture-and-shaving/#comment-16961 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:45:46 +0000 http://delhi4cats.wordpress.com/?p=882#comment-16961 Sparky, where is this blog going to? How do we get on these subjects?
Anyway, I heard on the news that when some natural history museum in the Netherlands wanted a few lice, the kind which live ”down there”, and couldn’t get them! Apparently due to all the grooming, trimming and waxing, these particular lice have become extinct without anybody noticing!

]]> By: coolred38 http://americanbedu.com/2008/07/15/saudi-culture-and-shaving/#comment-16958 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:51:14 +0000 http://delhi4cats.wordpress.com/?p=882#comment-16958 Damn…if I tried waxing my nether regions I dare say Id be saying more than Good Lord!! (brain hairs…lol)

A Bahraini friend of mine says that most Arabs believe most American women dont care too much about keeping “it” all nice and tidy the way Arab women do. She was quite shocked to realize we were into “personal” grooming just like them…lol.

btw Im a trimmer myself…anything else is just way toooo irritating (ignore the extremely personal nature of this post…lol)

]]> By: Chiara http://americanbedu.com/2008/07/15/saudi-culture-and-shaving/#comment-16955 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:42:36 +0000 http://delhi4cats.wordpress.com/?p=882#comment-16955 Cross cultural gestures are at least as fraught as verbal language!

A “bikini wax” or a “brazilian wax” are least painful if
done by an excellent esthetician on a relaxed client. Proper technique should not lead to sagging as the same hand support that reduces pain, and facilitates removal, should prevent pulling the skin.

Now shaving the labia majora to newborn hairlessness, in my gynecological experience of examining Western converts, results in razor burn, prickly uncomfortable regrowth, and potentially infected ingrowths.

Chiara
once contemplated leaving medicine for life as a professional bikini beach bunny (and that’s all I’m saying) :)

]]> By: American Bedu http://americanbedu.com/2008/07/15/saudi-culture-and-shaving/#comment-16952 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:27:51 +0000 http://delhi4cats.wordpress.com/?p=882#comment-16952 smokey – saudis in particular have this unique way of pressing the thumb and two fingers together with a gesture that appears rude as if one is angry but actually indicates ” do not interrupt me.” In my experience at least, I’ve never seen anyone give a “third finger salute” here in Saudi in spite of some drivers getting pretty irate and laying on their horns.

Sparky: Waxing in the most personal and sensitive area – could not imagine that!

]]> By: Sparky http://americanbedu.com/2008/07/15/saudi-culture-and-shaving/#comment-16943 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:51:32 +0000 http://delhi4cats.wordpress.com/?p=882#comment-16943 I have heard or been taught that shaving and trimming pubic hair is appropriate not plucking. Furthermore, the Arabic translation was trimming and shaving…from what I was told.

I am guessing continual plucking or waxing in that area might cause it to sag or lose sensitivity. Seriously I wonder how many severe saggers there are out there. Ripping wax off the leg is quite different from ripping it off down there. Trust me I tried it once and thought to myself, “Good Lord Almighty in Heaven Above…” I felt like I was pricking brain hairs…that is how far the pain traveled.

Trimming and shaving are good and necessary hygienic practices IMO :-)

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