Women who frequently remove most or all of their pubic hair are no more likely to contract chlamydia or gonorrhea than women who don’t practise “extreme grooming.”

Previous studies have suggested that trimming or removing pubic hair is associated with sexually transmitted infections (STI), possibly because of easier transmission through broken skin or because individuals who groom more frequently might have sex more often.

US researchers studied 214 college women who received on-campus STI testing in 2017 and 2018

They defined “extreme grooming” as removal of all pubic hair at least weekly for the past year or more than six times in the past month.