Question for the Elder Gays

I feel like when I was growing up in the 1980s, bush was used more to describe a woman's area.

You sir are an uneducated boob.

Pubes.

Bush was the 41nd president of the USA

It's been called bush all my life.

Pubes. OP, you're an idiot or a troll. Bush is a woman's pubes.

FOREST

R2- IT'S MA'AM!

IT'S MA'AM!

Pubes.

I always referred to my velvet mound as a bush.

At my house we usually called it carpet. Dad called it his bristle.

I've known some that could have an eye out.

I think it was called minge or horsehair in the early 20th century.

Bush is for birds, ya poof

I think it was pubes or pubic hair in my day.

The short and curlies?

Grass on the field.

It was called trim by my dad and uncle, both in the Navy in the 1940s and 1950s, which is where I assumed they picked the term up.

Trim = Pussy.

Trim is slang for female genitalia. In the blues, it's usually used by a man to express a need or an intention, as in “I'm gonna get me some trim tonight.” This usage has been around since the 1920s. This meaning for trim is still in use today.

r10

r19

All these years and I thought trim meant pubes, r19. Well, I guess that just goes to show you how often I talk about lady bits.

r22 well as trim morphed into beef curtains... trim became the catchall for the various trimmed pubic hair styles.

it gets more interesting when you get out of the U.S... some are limited to gestures, like what more would recognize when people tightly clasp their hands together to make 'fart' noises, there are a couple south of the border islands where this is a common gesture for vaginas instead while hands pushed together like praying and then flipped from side to side is to represent lesbians.

Pubic hairs. "Pubes" was a vulgarism.

OP, you'll have to look that last word up, I'm sure. Or just look at a mirror face-on.

OP, this is just for you...the year was 1978.

What is pubic hair? I'm only nine.

R26, pubic hair is one of the great joys of life. Stay tuned.

Just FYI, bush is NOT used solely for women's pubes. Men refer to their pubic hair as bush all the time.

OP is one of those people who think nothing happened in the world before he was born and nobody had words for things.

I called mine Karastan.

When Andy Warhol asked to paint Liza nude, she asked, "How will you hide my fuzzy?"

Forest clump.

My friend in college called his the hedge.

I once heard it described as the leaves of the weeping willow.

[quote] Dad called it his bristle.

Just how often did your father find the need to mention his pubic hair to you?

Back in my day we called it "down there fur."

Not “down there hair”?

Oooh, you did it wrong.

R37, some people have fur in other places on their bodies.

carpet

In the 70s and 80s, we called them pubes. We were proud to have them, too, the bigger amount the better.

We referred to it as our groin area's "hoarfrost," OP.

For the DLers who think bush only refers to a woman's pubic hair, you are wrong. I read articles all the time that instruct men on how to properly clean their bushes.

True, r42. But OP was asking about "back in the day."

R43, read R6

There was a redheaded guy on my dorm who had no problem walking the hallways nude. He knew he was good-looking, and he was muscular. He called his plentiful pubes his "burning bush".

I was a freshman at the time, too scared to broach touching him. (Now I'm sure it would not have been a problem for him, as long as I did all the sucking.) He quit school after that first semester to work on a barge going up and down the Mississippi. By my senior year, it would not have been a problem for me.

Ah, my youth - 'twas spent in the flat singed wilderness that was Calumet City.

The fellows and I referred to our pubic regions as our "forest glen". Everyone was skinny - due to lead and amphetamines in the water supply.

I do remember Mrs. Roothroff pulling older boys by a their glens to a secluded spot behind her above ground pool. She was missing teeth and sported black eyes.

Bristle is a great word for pubic hair. I'm going to work it into my daily vocabulary.

We called it the devil’s garland.

My secret garden

As an 80's kid, dickweed for guys, bush for girls.

R49, we saw it crawling out on all sides of your bikini bottoms, and what you had was no secret.

[quote] You sir are an uneducated boob.

Brought to you by R2…the uneducated boob who has yet to master commas

That's what dickweed means? Now it all makes sense.

Crotch nest

“Bush” since at least ‘78

"pubes" was always thought lewd and creepy.

My mother called it her nose cozy, and my grandmother referred to it as her mussy tassels.

OP 'Bush' has been used for over 500 years at the very least.

Erotic female Welsh poet Gwerful Mechain used the term in the 15th/16th Century.

[BOLD] [ITALIC] Probably the most famous part of her work today is her erotic poetry, especially Cywydd y Cedor ("Poem to the Vagina"), a poem praising the vulva. In it, she upbraids male poets for celebrating so many parts of a woman's body but ignoring "the middle." "Let songs about the quim circulate," she adjures her readers. "Lovely bush, God save it." [/ITALIC] [/BOLD].

I'm pretty sure that I remember examples of it being used in Ancient Greek and Latin, but it's late here in the UK, I'll dig around tomorrow.

I refer to it as "my brown thicket."

When I was 7 a man on bike approached me and handed me a note before riding off. The note was several pages long and asked me to sneak out to a neighborhood spot known to kids and meet him. Inside the note were several paper towels folded up. Inside the towels was a ton of pubic hair which I didn't really know at the time. Really a creepy experience.

My nether jungle.

Are you self-conscious about your bush, is it too big or too small?

I call it the thorny crown

Pubes was the preferred term in my upbringing…but in Dallas, we never spoke about those things.

(But at 14, my friends and I Ll dropped trou and pulled our underwear to compare.(no dick, mind you.)

I won, and have been weed-whacking it ever since.

Our "sagebrush."