It's good to know things haven't changed much around here. The level of discussion is as deep as ever.
I used to shave my entire legs, but the thigh hair is so light and thin, I quite. I still shave my lower legs, but not as much during the winter (cold = pants, who sees your hairy legs?)
It's relatively common for even women to grow some longer hair around their nipples or down the middle of their chests. Just imagine men's chest hair growth (around nipples, along the breastbone, around and under the navel, etc.) and the same applies to women, just less of it usually.
It's relatively common for even women to grow some longer hair around their nipples or down the middle of their chests. Just imagine men's chest hair growth (around nipples, along the breastbone, around and under the navel, etc.) and the same applies to women, just less of it usually.
I was unaware of this, but apparently there is a trend of men shaving pubes. Check out what Dan Savage said this week to a doctor who has been noticing the recent trend:
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Women have long felt it necessary to shave their legs, pits, forearms, wrists, backs, shins, and ankles, PUBIC. Then about 10 years ago stylish women began having their pubic hairs ripped out at the roots. Surely you've heard of the Brazilian bikini wax, Doc? The pubeless look was popularized, in my opinion, by several cultural trends: the mainstreaming of pornography; teeny-tiny bathing suits; and awful, unflattering low-rise jeans. Naturally bushy women went from trimming to li'l Hitler mustaches to complete deforestation in under a decade.
At the same time deforestation was becoming the beauty ideal for women, PUBIC, male homosexuals were taking over American cultural life. That our culture is now thoroughly dominated by gay men is not some paranoid Christian conservative's fantasy, PUBIC, but a fact of life. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy confirmed something everyone already knows: Outside of rap and hiphop culture, stylish gay men--not all gay men, mind you, just the stylish ones--are the only tastemakers. And gay men weren't content to just setting tastes in jackets and hair products and cowhide accent chairs. Hardly. We were, however subtly, setting sexual tastes as well. Out went the virile man (So long, Burt Reynolds!) and in came the vulnerable boy (Hello, Ashton Kutcher!). Soon the kind of guys most gay men want to [fiznuck] became the kind of guys most straight women want to [fiznuck], the male beauty ideal every bit as hairless as its female counterpart.
The funny thing about declaring smooth, hairless skin sexy, PUBIC, is that once you start stigmatizing some body hair--back hair, chest hair, ass hair--it's only a matter of time before all body hair is deemed unattractive. Women started having their pubes yanked out because body hair on women had long been seen as unattractive and unfeminine; once they were required to wear outfits that basically exposed everything but their vulvas, off came the pubic hair. Men began shaving off their chest hair in response to a gay-dictated male beauty ideal and gradually bought into the idea that body hair--including pubic hair--was just as unattractive on males as it was on females. And you're seeing the results of this cultural shift every time one of your 16-year-old male patients drops his drawers.
For the record, I'm not endorsing any of this. While I'm a longtime supporter of the reigning beauty ideal--I like 'em lean and hairless, always have, so I've got no complaints about the current beauty ideals, thank you very much--I know there are people out there who feel differently. Indeed, a pro-hair backlash is already under way.
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I used to shave my entire legs, but the thigh hair is so light and thin, I quite. I still shave my lower legs, but not as much during the winter (cold = pants, who sees your hairy legs?)
you obviously missed my analysis!!
a friend of mine once dated a girl with hair on her breast. he liked her alot but he couldn't deal with the hair, so he broke up with her
Originally posted by burningwheel
how about chicks with hairy boobs?
a friend of mine once dated a girl with hair on her breast. he liked her alot but he couldn't deal with the hair, so he broke up with her
That's gross...
Originally posted by Luca Rescigno
Was the hair on her nipples or actually on her chest or something?
nipples
Originally posted by BuonRotto
It's relatively common for even women to grow some longer hair around their nipples or down the middle of their chests. Just imagine men's chest hair growth (around nipples, along the breastbone, around and under the navel, etc.) and the same applies to women, just less of it usually.
true. i've seen this as well, i just remembered..
Women have long felt it necessary to shave their legs, pits, forearms, wrists, backs, shins, and ankles, PUBIC. Then about 10 years ago stylish women began having their pubic hairs ripped out at the roots. Surely you've heard of the Brazilian bikini wax, Doc? The pubeless look was popularized, in my opinion, by several cultural trends: the mainstreaming of pornography; teeny-tiny bathing suits; and awful, unflattering low-rise jeans. Naturally bushy women went from trimming to li'l Hitler mustaches to complete deforestation in under a decade.
At the same time deforestation was becoming the beauty ideal for women, PUBIC, male homosexuals were taking over American cultural life. That our culture is now thoroughly dominated by gay men is not some paranoid Christian conservative's fantasy, PUBIC, but a fact of life. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy confirmed something everyone already knows: Outside of rap and hiphop culture, stylish gay men--not all gay men, mind you, just the stylish ones--are the only tastemakers. And gay men weren't content to just setting tastes in jackets and hair products and cowhide accent chairs. Hardly. We were, however subtly, setting sexual tastes as well. Out went the virile man (So long, Burt Reynolds!) and in came the vulnerable boy (Hello, Ashton Kutcher!). Soon the kind of guys most gay men want to [fiznuck] became the kind of guys most straight women want to [fiznuck], the male beauty ideal every bit as hairless as its female counterpart.
The funny thing about declaring smooth, hairless skin sexy, PUBIC, is that once you start stigmatizing some body hair--back hair, chest hair, ass hair--it's only a matter of time before all body hair is deemed unattractive. Women started having their pubes yanked out because body hair on women had long been seen as unattractive and unfeminine; once they were required to wear outfits that basically exposed everything but their vulvas, off came the pubic hair. Men began shaving off their chest hair in response to a gay-dictated male beauty ideal and gradually bought into the idea that body hair--including pubic hair--was just as unattractive on males as it was on females. And you're seeing the results of this cultural shift every time one of your 16-year-old male patients drops his drawers.
For the record, I'm not endorsing any of this. While I'm a longtime supporter of the reigning beauty ideal--I like 'em lean and hairless, always have, so I've got no complaints about the current beauty ideals, thank you very much--I know there are people out there who feel differently. Indeed, a pro-hair backlash is already under way.