We are both completely smooth. My preference for smooth or landing strip above for partners when I have the choice. Both looks and feels better, to touch and for oral sex. We are both nudists, I see and meet both nudist and non-nudist women, no-one has a natural bush anymore, most are either smooth or very very trimmed to a small triangle or landing strip, the few others just trim to their bikini line.
Your last line "I see and meet both nudist and non-nudist women" jarred my memory of seeing a woman these days who isn't bare or at least trimmed close. And I've seen and enjoyed many a woman in these last few years.
I'm 78, wife is 68. We broom each others genitals about every to weeks to our liking. My wife shaves my balls and removes any errant hairs from my shaft while trimming my bush to a half inch or so. My wife has a large dense pubic bush. I trim her labia area to about a half inch so my tongue doesn't have to fight its way through the jungle but I let her bush grow wild. She is a small woman (4'11", 100 pounds) but has more pubic hair than any woman I have ever seen. Couple her small stature with her large (c/d) sagging breasts and huge pubic triangle you have one sexually erotic woman!
I shave it smooth. my wife keeps a full bush. Over the years it has thinned. I finally can see her slit. At a nude beach, she seems to generally be the only one with a full bush. In some ways I like it…guys are bound to take a good look at her pussy. Guys looking at her pussy always makes my day!
A lot of us who are now in our 50's are Gen X'ers that grew up in the 80's when the girls started trimming or having landing strips, as the swimsuits of the day were narrower in front and required some sort of trimming or more. Guess that we also embraced the bare/smooth look when that came into style. I had a couple of GF's in the past that let things grow naturally, but the majority of them did some degree of trimming or more, and they liked the same for me too. I've been trimmed or bare since the late 80's and prefer it that way.
55 have it bare now feels so good and I feel sexier that way. I’m bi so I do it for the guys I’m with makes me feel good being bare for them
I'm 42 and haven't seen a woman over 55 nude IRL aside from my mother and one of my aunts. Both of whom have thick dark pubes. So can't speak from experience, per se. But in general, and based on having seen women over 55 shaved in photographs, I always prefer completely shaved no matter the woman's age. I even prefer it on men. However, that's not to say I don't like some pubic hair. But even then it's sexier when it's light colored and not super thick so I can still see their labia fold. Honestly, the only thing that is a bit of a turn-off is when it's shaped. Like a landing strip or fully grown but shaved into a neater smaller triangle. I think it's because it looks overtly unnatural to me to the point of looking silly. Especially because, given the order of my preferences, shaping it but not shaving it down at all seems silly to me. I don't get what's achieved by that aside from keeping stray pubes from sticking out from their bathing suits. So, sure, for the woman, makes some sense to me but still seems like if you're shaving back the hairline that you may as well also thin it out a bit overall.
Some images proving how wonderfully sexy a woman is with a nice bush. And I've changed my avatar for a while - thanks for the compliments on the photo
I'll eat anything but, I'm partial to a landing strip or bare. I'm fairly hairy and shave my balls so that they will get more love.
For the record, all the girls in high school and college had vintage bush. Most were untamed. The first shaved bush I enjoyed first hand belonged to my wife and I shaved it (circa 1990s). It wasn't until we split up that I started seeing all these shaved and coifed mounds.