{"id":1197,"date":"2013-01-23T10:08:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T10:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.better2know.co.uk\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2024-02-23T11:04:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T11:04:16","slug":"does-the-bikini-wax-mean-the-end-of-the-pubic-louse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/does-the-bikini-wax-mean-the-end-of-the-pubic-louse\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the Bikini Wax mean the end of the pubic louse?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Pubic lice (or crabs) &#8211; similar to head lice, except living in the pubic hair of men and women &#8211; are not as common as they used to be.\u00a0 They are small insects that breed rapidly to cause itching and in some cases infection.\u00a0 They are passed on by contact &#8211; literally walking from pubic hair to the next\u00a0 when two pubic regions rub together, so it can be a sexually transmitted infestation, not a classic STD or STI!\u00a0 Infection rates used to be as high as 10%, but the pubic louse has a new enemy: bikini waxing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/smiling-doctor-1-1024x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7654\" width=\"768\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/smiling-doctor-1-1024x518.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/smiling-doctor-1-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/smiling-doctor-1-768x388.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/smiling-doctor-1-1536x777.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/smiling-doctor-1-2048x1036.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Removing the louse&#8217;s habitat (hair) means that it has nowhere to go, so even if your partner has it, they won&#8217;t walk across to you.&nbsp; Effectively waxing is destroying their habitat and making the louse an endangered species.&nbsp; Waxing has grown in popularity since the 1960&#8217;s with 80% of students saying their remove some or all of their hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The female pubic louse only needs to mate once to be able to lay eggs every day for the rest of her life, the young lice feed off blood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pubic lice (or crabs) &#8211; similar to head lice, except living in the pubic hair of men and women &#8211; are not as common as they used to be.\u00a0 They are small insects that breed rapidly to cause itching and in some cases infection.\u00a0 They are passed on by contact &#8211; literally walking from pubic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[608],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7930,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/7930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}