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The female university student whose unshaven photos went viral has been inundated with friend requests on Facebook from men.

Brave Yasmin Gasimova showed off her body yesterday, revealing hairy legs, armpits and belly hair as she told student newspaper The Tab: "Being hairy isn't scary."

Since then the 19-year-old Liverpool University student's photos were widely shared on social media, and she revealed that men are now trying to land a hot date with her.

She told her Twitter followers that she had received more than one hundred friend requests on Facebook, adding: "Why the hell am I getting so many friend requests from men?"

And women have been telling her that they find her bravery in writing about female body hair inspirational.

In a blog post yesterday she wrote: "In a society where women are expected to shave, I'm not ashamed to admit I don't.

"I might trim my pubes if I'm going on holiday, but catch me on a normal day when my armpits are bushy and my legs furry, and you might be surprised."

She recalled being bullied at school when moustache hairs started to sprout on her upper lip when she was just 10-years-old.

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"I was trying to shave my noticeably hairy stomach," she continued. "I was never not self-conscious of my hair, but now I embrace it.

"I stopped caring when I was 11, as having naturally thick, fast-growing hair meant I'd need to waste an hour just to get prickly dots on my legs, which would grow back in a week.

"It's a huge inconvenience for me, as it never made me feel comfortable, gave me loads of ingrown hairs, and my hairless legs wouldn't match the rest of my hairy body."

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She added: "Although women have just as much body hair, albeit generally thinner and lighter, as a society we have decided they have to be completely hairless in order to be seen as truly feminine.

"But nothing about a woman's natural body should make her feel like less of a woman."

"There is also nothing dirty or unclean about body hair," she continued.

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"Besides, we shouldn't hold women to a higher standard of cleanliness than men.

"This is the reality of a woman's body, and it shouldn't be hidden away."