Hailing from a country commonly mis-perceived as the last bastion of hairy women, it puzzles me that all those unshaven, scraggly-haired ladies I encounter in pool changing rooms apparently fly under the average English guy's radar undetected.

Are they all lesbians? Single? Married to guys who watch shaven-pussies porn but unwilling to ask their wives to do the same (to their muffs, that is, not to other guys)?

Having got used to my own bare lips and small strip of hair on top, large triangles of primeveal forest on women under 60 often surprise me.
I guess that guys faced with a pussy, any pussy, just get on with it and use their tongue to separate that forest to get at the goods -or go home and wank. It reassures me that there are natural, hairy and apparently happy women out there who don't all subscribe to that Lindsay Lohan, "my-face-looks-20-but-my-vagina-looks-5" philosophy.

Ok, mostly it's not so bad: Their thatch of pussy hair is often quite light and looks short enough to get tucked into their bikini bottoms in its entirety, but more often than not, one encounters a fellow naked woman with a thick, bouncy clump of hair between her legs that looks like a small guy with an afro is permanently going down on her.

Or one sees wet strands of hair spreading onto thighs and stomachs, or forming a small funnel between their legs, making it look like they are peeing in the shower.

Do I try not to look? Not really- I am far too curious for that, and intrigued by big bushes- but I pretend I am washing my face or something, and peer out between my fingers.

Occasionally, a lady lifts her arms to wash her (scalp) hair, and displays two small forests of pit hair for all to see. Again: aren't we as Germans supposed to have the monopoly on that? Or the stereotypical French woman?

Truth be told, in German saunas and pools I encounter mostly completely shaven or Brazilian-waxed women, who wouldn't know an armpit hair if it landed in their tea.

I blame 1970's porn films. After all, isn't that where most teenage boys of my generation first encountered nude German women?
We can safely discount the naked hippies on the beaches of Europe: everyone knows that hippies just like to be hairy, without regards to their nationality.