That's working from the assumption that women are managing their pubic hair for the sake of men, I think that comes across androcentric.
Can't a woman decide for herself, independent of a partner (who might not even be male), if she prefers her body hair to be one way or another?
Damn straight! 🙂 Maybe I've been single too long, but I realised that I have to look at my body way more than anyone else, so whatever I do to it, is inevitably more for me than anyone else.
We do almost everything for the sake of the opposite sex, and sex, so I don't really buy it that in some westernized countries, where the men prefer that area shaved, just happen to have women who also prefer shaving it; while in the majority of the world, where men don't give a hoot if it's shaved or not, the women don't care either. Coincidence?
And I find it strange that you do acknowledge what I said to be true about men desiring it because of man's desire for youth, and then agree with what Devilot said. It's a very recent cultural phenomenon for women to shave there, and it just happens to coincide in a society where men started to prefer "shaved"?
It's sort of like men preferring large breasts, and women getting breast implants. Some women may have gotten breast enhancement because it makes them more confident, but if big breasts wasn't somewhat linked to men's desires, I doubt it'd be an issue for women at all.
Or maybe I'm wrong and some women started shaving down there, which then became a desirable trait that men looked for and preferred. I don't think so, but we'll never know, I guess.