I have to disagree with the others. First, unless you know you never want the hair back, don't wax. I waxed my underarms and the hair grows in uneven and mangey looking now. Thankfully, it didn't seem to mess my crotch up too badly, but if I did it enough, I'd say it wouldn't grow in normally at all and I always liked having hair there soemtimes, so that is NOT for me. Too permanant of a change eventually. With that said, painwise, I have had a tattoo, and several piercings including two that are considered pretty darn painful by most people. To me, waxing part of my crotch (did it myself and did NOT finish) was worse than any of the piercings except maybe the worst two, and even then, I'd rather have had the most painful piercings done than to self wax. It didn't just sting, it was irritating, took forever, AND it made me sick when I touched the skin afterwords because it was that sensitive and irritated that touching it made my stomach roll over. Ugh. And it is a MESS. Never again. And P.S. that numbing stuff they give you to rub over it first for the at home kits, burns, and doesn't numb you for *****!