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The Embarrassing Brazilian Wax Side Effect Your Esthetician Forgot to Mention

Removing pubic hair can increase skin-on-skin contact, which may make passing gas noticeably louder after a Brazilian wax.

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Ah, yes. The Brazilian wax. For those who want to be smooth as a Barbie down there, you know it’s going to come with pain, probably some ingrown hairs, and getting on all fours while a stranger gets a good look under bright lights. What the booking confirmation doesn’t mention, though, is the flatulence situation.

A TikTok from South Carolina content creator Sarah Baus went viral this summer after she laid out the physics of the problem with commendable directness. Remove the hair from your backside, she explained, and you’ve eliminated the natural friction barrier that gives gas somewhere to go…quietly. “When you rip that out, nothing! Silent farts are not a thing,” Baus told her followers. The comments section quickly filled up with people confirming they’d learned this the hard........

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