Do Your Heroines Wax?
Inquiring Minds Want to Know…
SmokinghotBooks has a hilarious, laugh out loud, post on waxing - reading it actually brought tears to my eyes - tears of amusement and memories of a shared painful experience. You can read it for yourself! http://smokinhotbooks.com/blog/
Do your heroines wax? I have to say I avoid the subject altogether in my books. I guess I let the reader be the judge. I assume Mari in Captured does not as she’s trapped on an alien world. I’m betting Eva does - as part of her makeover for a night out with Gabe - in Beauty and the Feast. Grace in My Everything? Probably not as she’s a pretty pragmatic woman and she’s still in mourning but…you never know! Devlin Barre in Anytime Darlin’? No friggin’ way - she’s a farm girl, but I know for sure she shaves her pits and her legs!
The heroines of Daughters of Persephone? Seven hells no! They have other things on their minds, you know, little, insignificant things like saving the human race! Lira in my WIP? Oh yeah, she’s a princess, the heir to the throne of Zhinshu. Of course she waxes!
Waxing involves a willingness to submit yourself to torture. No kidding. All in the name of femalescaping, as opposed to manscaping which I am opposed to unless the man has hair sprouting from every single follicle on his entire body. As I commented on the above post - my esthetician does torture me, but she does it in a good way. I tell myself to think of the results…think of the results…think of the results.
Somebody who shall remain nameless, reports that waxing exposes certain soft and appealing curves in places on a woman’s body that normally lack for male attention. I kind of enjoy that gently descriptive opinion on the issue. 
What’s your take?
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April 16th, 2010 at 11:38 pm
Wax? Hell no! You think I would let someone plaster my nether lips with hot wax? Holy howdy, woman! I tried to pluck my eyebrows last week, and was weeping like a baby! I would never subject my heroines to something I can’t manage to do to my own body! LOL!
April 17th, 2010 at 12:26 am
Leah, recurring heroine of several of my stories (Flying High, Bound By Convention, Three On A Rooftop), doesn’t wax. Or shave. She prefers the natural look and if guys don’t, it’s their loss. Which is not surprising because that’s really how I feel about it. Daisy (Queen Bee) doesn’t. Rachel (Fast Friends). In fact, only one, Angela from The Wild One does, and mostly because she’s more of a slave to fashion than the others.
April 17th, 2010 at 3:49 am
As a reader I like it when they wax, or their partner shaves them, think thats kind of sexy too.
April 17th, 2010 at 4:36 am
Oh yeah, my ladies wax. In Adored, there’s a whole scene built around Danni getting smooth down there. In Lush Velvet Nights, several of the female servers at a gentlemen’s club are naked as the day they were born. The first time I read about waxing was in The Story of O. Really hit me. Sounded very naughty and sexy!
April 17th, 2010 at 7:38 am
Your responses have me grinning! I get my eyebrows waxed, Fran! I hate plucking, Fran - makes me cry!
Christine - I think it’s pretty sexy too!
Hey Tina - I can’t believe someone else read The Story of O! That was quite the erotic story! Perhaps my slippery slope?
Hey Gail - I was wondering if I could get away with the natural look - in Daughters the women just don’t have the time or place to be shaving!
April 17th, 2010 at 8:55 am
“O” was a very guilty pleasure for me, it was consuming, beautifully written, a total turn on but Sir Stephen’s prostitution of O and the self-destructive undertones such as the female doctor Annamarie sterilizing the girls at the chateau for the male client’s convenience was disturbing enough to me that I started rewriting the story in my head. Hence a side career… I know the BDSM lifestyle is not synonymous with self-destruction or self-loathing and I hate to see it presented that way.
I was so relived to read the real story behind “O” and know it was written as a gift between lovers who were married to others who didn’t understand the domination and surrender desires of BDSM. It was just for steep thrills….
As for waxing… I love body hair on men and women. I shave my legs but I wouldn’t considering waxing anything but my brows (Which I had done yesterday-man I needed it!) the Daughters of Persephone are in a sci-fi realm. They can genetically have very little body hair or a convenient plant that easily removes hair and smells like water-lilies (Lucky girls) You have so much freedom in Sci-fi!
XXOO Kat
April 17th, 2010 at 9:28 am
Katalina - very insightful post - The Story of O was a very unusual story - I always thought of it as allegorical - there is love/lust in the world and there is evil and sometimes the two meet with very unexpected outcomes - not always happy outcomes. The story is far more than erotica.
Yup! I love sci fi!!!
April 17th, 2010 at 11:50 am
First, that smokinhotbooks article was hilarious. I have thought about waxing down there, but then I ask myself why? No one would see it but me and then I wonder about the pain. As a reader, I don’t think that needs to be written into a story unless it has something really important to do with the plot - like torturing the heroine to get information.
April 17th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Let me clarify…LOL! Being silky smooth down there can be accomplished without the pain and embarrassment of having someone plaster hot wax on every itsy bitsy surface of your labia. As Christine says, there is nothing sexier than having a partner shave your heroine. And it costs far less. When I priced a full Brazilian wax job, I nearly swallowed my tongue.
April 17th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Oh Dana - ROTFLMAO! By all means, torture the heroine for information by waxing her nether regions! To tell you the truth, I think men would spill the beans faster. Women have a far higher pain tolerance!
Fran - I cannot imagine getting a full Brazilian - I don’t know my esthetician well enough for her to get that kind of eyeful!
April 17th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Julia, yes I think you can get away with the women being “all natural”. Believe it or not, there are plenty of men who still like that look-or who even prefer it over the hairless look.
April 18th, 2010 at 7:17 am
I’m sure Bella and Zoe do. The rest…probably not:)
April 20th, 2010 at 6:00 am
Have I told you how much I love you lately?! OMG, I love this post. It’s kind of like Anny Cook’s post, a long time ago, about whether or not the characters in books go to the bathroom.
My men wax. Considering the amount of anal play and cock suckage going on, they kinda haveta. But never their chests. Oh, wait, I think there have been a few who would have had chest hair but had it taken off. Yeah, seems like I’ve said that in a book or two. Hm. Girls in my books always keep tidy.
On a personal note. I once did a blog about shaving. All I can say is. Ugh.
April 20th, 2010 at 7:34 am
Analplay and cocksuckage? Two new words! So…they manscape, eh? Shaving is big no-no for me…too much stubble, which belongs only on a man’s face. Torture me with hot wax any day!