Pubic hair. Everyone has it, but not everyone agrees what to do with it. Beach season is here, and lots of teens will be answering the big question: What do I do with the hair down there? There are so many options! Should you trim, shave, wax or leave it natural?

We recently asked Sexetc.org users what they thought about grooming or not grooming pubic hair. People were pretty evenly split between those that like to shave or wax everything off and those that just trim or keep everything natural.

Some of our users think that removing pubic hair is somehow cleaner or more hygienic than having a natural bush. But there’s a reason to have hair down there. Pubic hair catches dirt and germs and keeps them away from your genitals. So although it may look “cleaner” to remove pubic hair, not having it actually makes you more vulnerable to infection. Plus, waxing or shaving pubic hair can leave the skin irritated. And watch out when it grows back. It’s super itchy, and you can get ingrown hairs. Just keep that in mind if you decide to go bare.

One user said it’s OK for guys to have pubic hair, but not OK for girls. What’s up with the double standard? Where do you think teens get the message that girls shouldn’t have pubic hair? Porn maybe? It makes sense that porn would influence our ideas about what to do with pubic hair, since the top viewers of Internet porn are 12-to 17-year-olds, according to Family Safe Media. Porn is a fantasy. But teens who watch porn think that their sex lives and bodies should resemble these made-up, manicured and hairless fantasies.

Whether you keep or get rid of your bush, just make sure you know the facts. Check out our FAQ on shaving pubic hair.

According to the modeling industry, the winner of America’s Next Top Model (ANTM) is (drumroll, please) “full-figured.”

Whitney Thompson, the twenty-year-old winner of ANTM, is 5 feet 10 inches tall and wears a size 10. In the real world, her size is completely healthy. But in the cutthroat world of modeling, she’s considered fat, full-figured or plus-sized.

The average American woman is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 163 pounds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That means average adult women might be size 12 to 14. Whitney Thompson wears a smaller size than the average woman, but she’s certainly bigger than runway models, who are estimated to be 5 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 11 inches tall and weigh 110 to 125 pounds. Which would you want to be—a healthy size 10 or borderline anorexic?

It’s great to see Whitney win ANTM. We’ll hopefully start to see more healthy, average-sized women modeling in the future. You go, girl!

It’s no secret that women’s bodies are used to sell everything under the sun. But did you realize that photos of women in ads are airbrushed and edited on a computer before they get published? It’s impossible to look like the women featured in most ads, unless you were digitally edited too. Teens are constantly exposed to ads featuring barely clothed women that have soft smooth skin, perfect makeup, zero blemishes and—no nipples. That’s right: Some ads even go so far as to digitally erase women’s body parts like nipples or belly buttons just to sell a product!

Take a look at Heidi Klum in this ad for Jordache jeans. Where did her nipples go?

Hayden Panettiere, star of Heroes, looks like a shiny alien with a missing belly button in this Dooney & Bourke ad:

It’s one thing to remove a blemish here and there in a photo, but editing out a woman’s nipples or belly button? Get real! Deleting body parts in ads just to sell stuff is creepy. And it really twists people’s ideas of what real bodies look like and what it means to be beautiful. The next time you see an ad, keep in mind that most companies don’t use real beauty to sell products, and look to see if the model has ALL her body parts.

Take a look at Dove’s short film Evolution. It shows the process of turning an ordinary person into a computer-edited beauty queen.