'Crabs' Now Endangered Thanks to Bikini Waxing (80% of US college students remove pub hair)

[Liberal_in_LA]

'Crabs' Now Endangered Thanks to Bikini Waxing

(Newser) – Will we soon see a "Save the Pubic Lice" campaign? The groin-dwelling insects, more commonly known as "crabs" because of their shape, are now basically an endangered species—and doctors think the popularity of bikini waxing may be to blame (er, thank). In Australia, no women have been seen with crabs at Sydney's main sexual health clinic since 2008, and male cases have fallen 80% over the past 10 years. "Pubic grooming has led to a severe depletion of crab louse populations," says a medical entomologist. "You can see an environmental disaster in the making for this species."

Of course, no one's really mourning the loss. Another medical entomologist notes that, in this case, "habitat destruction is a good thing." So-called Brazilian waxes, in particular, are seen as contributing to the downfall of pubic lice, since nearly all the pubic hair—the habitat, in this case—is removed in that procedure. All in all, more than 80% of US college students remove some or all of their pubic hair these days, Bloomberg reports. It's arguably a nicer way of dealing with the crabs problem, since the typical treatment is a topical insecticide.

http://www.newser.com/story/160893/crabs-now-endangered-thanks-to-bikini-waxing.html

[Xipe Totec]

1. I doubt that humans are the only hosts. nt

[Viva_La_Revolution]

46. we are actually

check this out
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070316-gorilla-lice.html

[Xipe Totec]

47. Interesting!

Though if the transfer occurred before, it can occur again.

Life finds a way.

[Coyotl]

75. More like the advent of clothing can be dated by lice genetics

seems that keeping them warm helped their evolution and adaptation to humans

[Xipe Totec]

77. That is an interesting premise

It makes sense conceptually.

I wonder if there have been studies supporting that hypothesis.

If not, I think they would be worth while.

[Coyotl]

86. And it has been studied, on the genetic front.

The 'Eve' of Crabs can be dated by mutation rate of the genome, to about when clothing appears.

[Enrique]

2. i call B.S.

looks like they are trying to turn an optional grooming choice into a health necessity.

[Shivering Jemmy]

3. Who's the "they"

That are trying to do this? The researchers? The media? The Justice League of America.

[Enrique]

6. Procter and Gamble

and Reckitt-Benckiser, according to the article.

[theKed]

38. Are they

the ones that make the topical insecticide, too?

[The Second Stone]

9. They!

The people who secretly get the Illuminati to control the Bilderbergs. They is them! Pubic lice. Pubic lice run the world.

[RKP5637]

26. Along with the cock-roaches! Errr, Koch Brothers I meant. n/t

[Hassin Bin Sober]

42. You are just finding this out?

[SWTORFanatic]

5. Tinfoil hat much?

[snooper2]

13. Let me know where to sign up to be an agent to randomly search people

to ensure they are complying

[RKP5637]

28. I want to hand-pick mine to search. n/t

[name not needed]

65. Be sure to go through them with a fine-toothed comb.

[RKP5637]

67. OK

[Eleanors38]

79. This OP ain't nothin' but fluff.

[adieu]

35. I shave

and I use the same razor that I use for my face. They're not earning any more money from me.

[Renew Deal]

48. lol

[alarimer]

41. I think the authors are just going for the clicks, myself.

A salacious headline based on an extremely shoddy study, which doesn't actually show what it's purported to show, if anyone here if bothered to read it.

Shitty, shitty journalism even without the obvious tie-ins with P&G.

[Xipe Totec]

80. If anything this article would turn muffs into environmentally protected areas

Which is contrary to Proctor & Gamble's interests.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. This song is already dated; now it's practically obsolete

Put on that old Blue Ointment
To the crabs' disappointment.
Rub it in three or four times a day.
Oh, my Lordy how it itches,
But it kills those sons-of-bitches
In the good, old-fashioned way!
--Unknown; sung to the tune of "Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet"

[hay rick]

55. Haven't heard that song in a while. A long while.

About 48 years. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the OP and then I scrolled down to your post. The version I heard was similar:

Put on that old blue ointment
To the crabs' disappointment
Going to get those bastards today
Oh it burns and itches
But it kills those sons a bitches
Get your old blue ointment today.

It was a late night drinking song- sung to the same tune.

[Raine]

66. Years ago saw this little ditty on the wall of a bathroom stall "No need to stand upon the seat

the crabs in here jump 50ft."

[zappaman]

7. Had them once

Picked it up from a hotel in Vegas( I swear!).

More gross than hazardous.
And they just don't hit your crotch...had to shave the pits as well!

Goodbye and good riddance!

[Hugabear]

11. Must have been fun explaining that one to your partner

I've actually picked them up from a hotel as well. Getting rid of those buggers is a pain in the neck!

[zappaman]

12. No one ever believes me!

Fortunately, I wasn't with anyone at the time.
Little know fact: you can pick them up from the beach as well!

[RKP5637]

31. Yep, some beaches are notorious for picking them up! n/t

[mythology]

59. Fortunately those are easy to avoid

If you see Snooki, find a different beach.

[Beacool]

62. Really????

I'm never laying on the sand again. Gross!!

[zappaman]

71. True!

But they hate salt water...oh, the irony.

[Warren Stupidity]

16. I had a similar experience.

I worked at a community center in NYC that allowed "street people" to hang out, and I sat in a chair in the public area and starting scratching about an hour later. It can actually happen.

[barbiegeek]

8. In Ancient Eygpt they shaved everything including their heads to kill lice

Even the women shaved their heads, that is why they had those weird wigs

[physioex]

10. There have been soo many articles on this topic....

The Atlantic had one, "Is pubic hair extinct". On a personal note, to each his own.

[Blue_Tires]

20. here it is...

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/12/the-new-full-frontal-has-pubic-hair-in-america-gone-extinct/249798/

a world without pubic hair is not one i want to live in

[babylonsister]

32. Bwhahaha!

Now we know.

[Eleanors38]

81. You got that right. What ever happened with attention to detail?

[tarheelsunc]

14. I know this is probably satire, but is that 80% figure true?

Seems to be an extremely high number, I've never even considered it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. Bloomberg says it comes from a scientific paper

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11199-010-9922-z?LI=true#
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-13/brazilian-bikini-waxes-make-crab-lice-endangered-species-health.html

[robinlynne]

29. how old are you? Therein lies the answer to your question.

[tarheelsunc]

63. 22. I'm one of the other 20% of college students.

[robinlynne]

68. oh, thought you might be older like me..... glad to be wrong.

[Control-Z]

17. Yes, but their evil cousins, head lice

are making a killing in elementary schools. When I was a kid no one ever got lice. We thought they were myth. Now with kids they're a living nightmare.

[kestrel91316]

18. One of many reasons I prefer myself and my partner well-groomed.

[Blue_Tires]

23. You can be "well groomed" and still have a thick, robust forest undergrowth...

[kestrel91316]

44. Well-groomed = no forest at all in my book.

[shanti]

45. indeed.

[leftynyc]

72. So you and your partner are

both shaved clean? Are you man/woman?

[madinmaryland]

19. Crabs are making a comeback in the Chesapeake Bay. I had a really good crabcake a couple of weeks

ago.

Oh wait. Nevermind. Wrong type of crabs!!

[Doctor Who]

25. I perfer softshells myself.

Kaiser roll, tarter sauce, lettuce and tomato. Yum!

[RKP5637]

33. LOL

Growing up near there we always had crabs!

[A HERETIC I AM]

83. The little guys are really hard to pick the meat out of.

And it takes a bunch to make a cake.

Don't ask me how I know this.

[LeftInTX]

21. My grandparents came from a "different" part of the world

It was third world. Very, very third world

The women had to spend their evenings picking lice off of the men.
(They weren't pubic lice, but yeah)

[appal_jack]

22. Dubya asks, "How many is a Brazilian?"

Do Brazilian Soldiers Get Brazilians?

Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."

"OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"

His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.

Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"



-app

[galileoreloaded]

24. 37 and have never seen hair "down there". Think about that for a moment. Never.

I'd say probably 50 girls? Maybe 55.

[Buzz Clik]

30. tmi, dude.

[Liberal_in_LA]

34. +1000

[NoGOPZone]

37. are you sure you're looking in the right place? nt

[GObamaGO]

50. Did you mean girls, or did you mean women?

[riderinthestorm]

52. +1000. NT

[wellstone dem]

85. Thank you!!!

[obamanut2012]

57. uh huh

And, if you were with minors with no public hair, I certainly hope you were the same age as they were.

[Skittles]

82. so you've never been laid?

[Buzz Clik]

27. You probably think this is funny, but species extinction is serious business.

But, this really is funny.

[In_The_Wind]

36. ~ K ~

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[Liberal_in_LA]

56. lol

[alarimer]

40. The "study" they link to is pretty pathetic.

Almost no evidence to support their assertion. I really, really hate this type of shoddy popular science reporting, most of which is aimed at women.

[riderinthestorm]

53. +1. The science is pathetic. Of course no DUers are questioning THAT. And biased reporting?

"It's arguably a nicer way of dealing..... "

Yeah right. Like shaving (and dealing with the itch and the increased exposure to potential bacterial infections from denuded skin) is so much "nicer".

[supernova]

43. A topical incecticide.....

Back in the old days you would shave one side, set the other side on fire and stab them as they ran across.

j/k

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

49. SAVE THE CRABS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Snarkoleptic]

61. Looks like these folks are working to commoditize the critters.

http://crabrevenge.com/

[liberal N proud]

51. That is one extinction we should not worry about

[BlueJazz]

54. Never had them but a friend of mine did. Poured Clorox "down there", rinsed..crabs gone.

[obamanut2012]

58. Putting bleach on genitals is a very bad idea

VERY bad.

[mythology]

60. That seems rather suboptimal

Although I admit to using some alternative medicine. I once had a bad upper respiratory virus and after almost 2 months I started gargling with tequila and shortly there after my throat cleared right up.

[cherish44]

64. I dunno, why would you need to "treat" crabs?

A razor, some sudsy water and they're gone... I think they'd be a lot easier to get rid of than head lice.

[dipsydoodle]

69. I reckon I'd notice one of these

[Liberal_in_LA]

73. it that real? it's disgusting.

[X_Digger]

74. That is real. A coconut crab.

[Liberal_in_LA]

87. ewwwwwwwwwwww. couldn't touch one of those

[dlwickham]

76. one would hope

but you never know

[Skraxx]

70. Won't SOMEBODY PLEASE Think Of The Poor Crabs!!!

It's GENOCIDE!1!!!!!

[rightsideout]

78. Why did you post this? LOL!

I love Chesapeake Bay Blue Crabs.

Snacking down on a bushel of Blue Crabs will never be the same now.

[DreamGypsy]

84. Hope for the crabs: Physician calls for an end to bikini waxing

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/physician-calls-for-an-end-to-bikini-waxing-8008628.html

Emily Gibson, a family physician and head of a student health centre, called for an end to the “war on pubic hair” claiming it is increasing the risk of infection and of sexually transmitted diseases amongst young people.

<snip>

As director of the health centre at Western University in Washington State, US, she has seen the consequences. “Pubic hair removal naturally irritates and inflames the hair follicles, leaving microscopic open wounds. Frequent hair removal is necessary to stay smooth, causing regular irritation of the shaved or waxed area. When that is combined with the warm, moist environment of the genitals, it becomes a happy culture media for some of the nastiest bacterial pathogens,” she writes on the respected US medical website Kevin MD.com.

<snip>

Dr Gibson says that whatever method is used on pubic hair – razor blades, electric shavers, tweezers, waxing, depilatories, electrolysis - “hair, like crab grass, always grows back and eventually wins.”

In her practice it is not unusual to find patients with boils and abscesses on their genitals from shaving as well as cellulitis, an infection of the scrotum, labia or penis from shaving or from having sex with someone infected.

More itchy comments and advice at the link.

[jberryhill]

90. She's a paid shill for Big Louse

[Coyotl]

88. A global 90-day pubic shave-in, and crabs no more

OK who wants to organize this one, shaving every pube on the planet

[stultusporcos]

89. I say bring back merkins!