Going to a professional for any kind of grooming service feels deeply personal, but it's even more intense when they're working on your most private places. Waxers spend their time ripping hair off of genitals and rears most days, so they've surely seen everything under the sun.

Redditor u/AskinAway1993 wanted to know if the cosmetologists (and adjacent specialties) out there are ever actually shocked by someone's junk, or if all novelty has worn off by the time you start practicing on the public. Thousands of replies later, and the picture is becoming clear.

Waxers, how often are you surprised by how a clients genitals look?
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After scrolling for what seemed like weeks, we've internalized what it must really be like to yank hair for a living. It's grim. However, we saw quite a few interesting posts, so we've collected them here for your enjoyment and/or terror.

Warning: Discussion of pathology that has unpleasant symptoms.

You probably didn't expect to see hair there

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Unhealthy genitalia can be fairly surprising

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Professionals mostly just don't want you to smell

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Sometimes they make the whole room glimmer

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Remember that we're working on a spectrum, not in a binary

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Heads can be more surprising than genitals

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They mostly just want to make everything easy and reasonably fast — they're not obsessing

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Via u/AskinAway1993.

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