Childbirth can't be prettied or manicured – and women shouldn't have to try

If there is one time in in a woman’s life that she should feel totally justified in not living up to social expectations of beauty, it’s childbirth. And yet Google the phrase “wax before”, and an unwitting internet user will find herself amid the disturbing, troubling world of pregnancy message boards in which women across the world discuss what they believe to be the irrefutable merits – nay, necessity – of waxing bare their nether-regions before giving birth to their beloved children.

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