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Heading South

by | 3rd, September 2003

‘FORGET Brazilians. The latest trend could be towards South Koreans.

We’re taking of course about pubic hair and the news that in South Korea the trend is not towards depilation but reforestation.

Pubic hair is apparently a sign of fertility to Koreans and women are paying as much as £1,700 to have hair transplanted from their heads to their crotches.

‘The structure of head and pubic hair on Asians is quite similar – the implanted hair isn’t long and rarely falls out,’ says surgeon Afschin Fatemi.

The operation is conducted under local anaesthetic and bandaging can be removed after just one day.’



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