I'm not trying to make a OMG! SEX!11! thread. That's not my style

But I was up the pub the other night, and we were swapping stories from school, and one of my mates recounted getting into the showers after rugby in Year 7, and being embarrassed because the first lad he saw had a big bush of pubes, and he didn't

Which got me thinking. I cannot for the life of me remember first getting pubic hair. Should I? It seems like something people should remember, but I have zero recollection of it. I know my voice didn't break especially early or anything like that, so it's not like I went through puberty aged 3

Funny things, pubes. Is there any truth in it that they're designed to help reduce friction between two people when they're bumping uglies? Or is that absurd in the extreme?