While Friend was visiting, we were chatting about our long history together. (Our 20th anniversary of friendship is this fall!) She told me that had I continued on to confirmation class with her, I probably would have enjoyed it immensely, despite some of the obnoxious kids who also were in the class. The group took a trip to New York, and since most of the suburban parents were too nervous to let their kids come to the big bad City, it was a nice small group of people.
One of the places that the class visited was a mikva in Brooklyn, which I currently suspect is the Museum of the Mikva and is something I have been meaning to see for myself, although her story makes me wonder if it is only open to Jewish groups. Anyway, while they were there, she learned that before a woman enters the ritual bath, she must comb through all of her pubic hair with a fine tooth comb to remove all the stragglers. I find this creepy.
Even creepier, a little old woman then inspects you to be sure that there really are no loose hairs. So if you plan to visit a mikva, this is really about the only time it makes sense to have a full snatch wax. At least it will last a long time and not much genital combing and prodding will ensue. On the other hand, you can just be offended by the concept of a mikva (which allows women to cleanse our unpure bodies after menstruating so as to not pollute our godly husbands) like I am, and avoid it like the plague it is.
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I would love to go back in history and find who made up these rules and say "Ahem? What?"
ReplyDeleteOr maybe it was just the lady who was sick of cleaning the pubes out of the bath...
I had something ridiculously intelligent to say...and then I read suebob's comment about the bath cleaner.
ReplyDeleteWell, I can't speak for all mikveh ladies having only been twice myself, but the loose hairs they look for are the long ones that come from your head. You are expected to check your front, and the mikveh lady checks your back. No one checks your pubes and no one that I know of combs their pubes pre-dip. You are expected to be clean, so every woman showers and washes thoroughly before entering the mikveh. I think most mikveh ladies never see their "client's" fronts.
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