My wife is a redhead and thus there's little difference between the two. As we've aged, there's less and she's gone blonde down there. I have to admit, coming of age in the late '60s and early '70s, and used to furry ones, I've developed a strong liking for the smooth look. Or at least neatly trimmed.
My vote is for the natural look. Most of my experiences with multiple women was in college, when men and women were experimenting with their sexuality. I found that women who disrobed revealing abundant pubic hair and even underarm hair were a real turn on for me, resulting in an erection that you could hang a coat on. On about my fifth encounter with a willing lady, who had her pubic area shaved, I felt that I was about to make love to an adolescent. I looked like she had been cut with a knife. It took her a lot to foreplay to get me ready. I was tempted to jokingly ask her to produce an ID.
I asked my wife to shave herself bald for me, she no problem. However she said if I do it, you have to do it too. I’ve been smooth shaved since then.
Shaved clean for both of us. The nude resorts we have gone to are about 98% shaved clean. We like our playmates to be clean shaven as well,
I grew up during those years and I remember the luxuriant crop of pubic hair my first gf had. I gotta say it’s much neater to be a smoothie for oral sex, I no longer cough up a hairball afterward,lol. Plus, I like seeing all the pretty bits!
Now when you say well maintained do you mean like landing strip or a triangle or just trimmed right down?