“I’ve actually been joking that I’m going to write a book called Where Has All the Pubic Hair Gone?” Janice Hillman, a doctor in the Penn Health System at Radnor who specializes in adolescent medicine, tells me. “It’s such a rarity to find it these days in 10- and 12-year-old girls, and older girls. I need to check for it at that age — it’s an indicator of puberty and development, how much there is, where it’s growing. And now, I need to ask girls, if it’s not there, ‘Do you wax? Do you shave?’ Because so many of them do.”
A rarity? Really? Who are this doctor’s patients? I get the whole interviewing the ultra rich spa treatment peeps for this story, but a doctor in adolescent medicine saying it’s a rarity makes me wonder where the hell she’s working.
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This is scary and weird beyond belief.
Comment by BuffaloJenn April 19, 2008 @ 10:45 pm[...] Jump to Comments Just when I thought the well had run dry for Sexography topics, Jen mentioned this article. I won’t say a lot about it b/c H has fluids coming out both ends this weekend [...]
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Comment by Jen14221 April 21, 2008 @ 7:59 pmI guess pre-teen girls in Philly are very cosompolitan.