Meet the female student who has no plans to shave her body hair

This female Philosophy and Computer Science student has bravely bared her soul and her legs in a blog post, detailling how she no longer feels the need to shave.

She said "being hairy isn't scary", showing off the downy hair on her belly, legs and under her armpits.

Yasmin Gasimova, who is at the University of Reading, admitted that she only shaves her legs when she wants a one night stand.

The only hair she removes regularly is the hair on her chin, which is 'when she can be bothered'.

She still dresses fashionably, and doesn't see why she should have to remove her body hair to be acceptable to society.

The 19 year-old wrote an article about it for The Tab, where she recounted being bullied at age 10 for starting to show signs of a moustache.

She said: "Being hairy isn't scary. In a society where women are expected to shave, I'm not ashamed to admit I don't.

"I might trim my pubes if I'm going on holiday, but catch me on a normal day when my armpits are bushy and my legs furry, and you might be surprised."

She does regularly tame her eyebrows, and they do look very neat, but this is her choice.

Yasmin said that it is liberating not to have to remove all the hair on her body.

"I was trying to shave my noticeably hairy stomach," she continued. "I was never not self-conscious of my hair, but now I embrace it.

"I stopped caring when I was 11, as having naturally thick, fast-growing hair meant I'd need to waste an hour just to get prickly dots on my legs, which would grow back in a week.

"It's a huge inconvenience for me, as it never made me feel comfortable, gave me loads of ingrown hairs, and my hairless legs wouldn't match the rest of my hairy body."

Yasmin said that sadly, she has to shave her body hair sometimes because certain situations make her uncomfortable.

"If I do shave, which is very, very rare, it's for absolute necessity.

"If I'm going on a beach holiday, having swimming lessons, or if I'm trying to pull a one night stand, I'll shave.

"I still unfortunately prefer the inconvenience of shaving to the inevitable dirty looks and rejection."

She wrote the post because women should be able to look how they want without being judged. She concluded by saying:

"Although women have just as much body hair, albeit generally thinner and lighter, as a society we have decided they have to be completely hairless in order to be seen as truly feminine.

"But nothing about a woman's natural body should make her feel like less of a woman."

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