the third sex

A member emailed me during the week, asking why so few ladyboys on the main site shaved off their pubic hair.

Now personally I like pubic hair, and I usually feel a little disappointed when I do get a model who has shaved hers off. But the lack of shaved models on the site has nothing to do with me: it is simply that few ladyboys actually do this.

The Thais are not hairy people. When it comes to body hair, few Thais – male, female, third sex – have very much of it. Most ladyboys that I see have only a modest covering of pubic hair on the pubis, with very little or none between the legs or on the bottom.

Thais are immensely clean, bathing at least twice a day and using talcum powder rather than deodorants to keep cool and fresh. And as anybody who has bedded any one of the three sexes will know well enough, a thorough shower before getting down to it is the rule.


So, if any extra personal hygiene were needed, I have no doubt that the pubic hair would be shaved off. But clearly, it isn’t. And when I have found a model who has shaved, and I have asked her about it, I have usually had the reply that a customer had asked her to do it.

But having shaved off the hair, it has to be kept shaved, because as it grows back it becomes very itchy, even if left for only a day. And besides, there is nothing very sexy about a ladyboy with pubic stubble.

So, unless there is a very good reason to whisk out the razor (say, 2,000 baht), no ladyboy is going to go to the bother of shaving her pubic hair off in the first place.