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Bodily hair

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Some do, some don't.

What matters is what you want to do with your body.
Original post by Meduse
What matters is what you want to do with your body.


Yes, I absolutely agree but your partner is entitled to a preference and allowed to express that preference.

As a male I prefer nothing down there. Much nicer if going down. Looks better.

I personally find hairy armpits or legs an absolute turn off. Could happily have a gf with a full bush, but not hairy armpits - proper ick territory.
Original post by Apachecow
Yes, I absolutely agree but your partner is entitled to a preference and allowed to express that preference.

As a male I prefer nothing down there. Much nicer if going down. Looks better.

I personally find hairy armpits or legs an absolute turn off. Could happily have a gf with a full bush, but not hairy armpits - proper ick territory.

They are entitled to a preference, by all means, but that is all.

They aren't entitled to dictate someone's body choices, is what I mean.
Original post by Meduse
Some do, some don't.

What matters is what you want to do with your body.

I don’t mind it, but sometimes it makes me insecure.

Original post by Apachecow
Yes, I absolutely agree but your partner is entitled to a preference and allowed to express that preference.

As a male I prefer nothing down there. Much nicer if going down. Looks better.

I personally find hairy armpits or legs an absolute turn off. Could happily have a gf with a full bush, but not hairy armpits - proper ick territory.


I agree to these places only because it’s more hygienic too in my opinion but what about baby hairs on someone’s back or stomach?
The marketing is that it's more hygienic to remove pubic hair.
The reality is that it's more hygienic as per the technical definition of hygienic to leave your hair on.

It's clever marketing from Procter & Gamble and other multinational corporations to make so many people think that using their hair removal products leads to greater hygiene.

This marketing is so pervasive that the majority of men prefer shaven havens.
However, there's still enough men out there that aren't bothered or have a slight preference for natural that it's not a major issue.

Plus there's scope for any individual woman to unbrainwash individual men.

So go ahead and flick two fingers up to the Overton Window of "must remove hair" and demonstrate to a special man in your life how sexy and attractive (in multiple ways) you are.
Original post by Dunnig Kruger
The marketing is that it's more hygienic to remove pubic hair.
The reality is that it's more hygienic as per the technical definition of hygienic to leave your hair on.

It's clever marketing from Procter & Gamble and other multinational corporations to make so many people think that using their hair removal products leads to greater hygiene.

This marketing is so pervasive that the majority of men prefer shaven havens.
However, there's still enough men out there that aren't bothered or have a slight preference for natural that it's not a major issue.

Plus there's scope for any individual woman to unbrainwash individual men.

So go ahead and flick two fingers up to the Overton Window of "must remove hair" and demonstrate to a special man in your life how sexy and attractive (in multiple ways) you are.

This is such nonsense.

Women (and men) have been removing body hair since antiquity. Certainly in Egyptian times and certainly in Classical Greece. But noooo....obviously it's Proctor & Gamble.
Original post by Apachecow
Yes, I absolutely agree but your partner is entitled to a preference and allowed to express that preference.

As a male I prefer nothing down there. Much nicer if going down. Looks better.

I personally find hairy armpits or legs an absolute turn off. Could happily have a gf with a full bush, but not hairy armpits - proper ick territory.


Works both ways. Are you completely hairless everywhere down there too?

Expressing a preference on someone's body hair is no different to expressing a preference someone is thinner, wears their hair differently, wears certain clothes etc. You don't express a preference unless directly asked, if you want someone you take them as they are or look elsewhere.
Original post by Dunnig Kruger
The marketing is that it's more hygienic to remove pubic hair.
The reality is that it's more hygienic as per the technical definition of hygienic to leave your hair on.

It's clever marketing from Procter & Gamble and other multinational corporations to make so many people think that using their hair removal products leads to greater hygiene.

This marketing is so pervasive that the majority of men prefer shaven havens.
However, there's still enough men out there that aren't bothered or have a slight preference for natural that it's not a major issue.

Plus there's scope for any individual woman to unbrainwash individual men.

So go ahead and flick two fingers up to the Overton Window of "must remove hair" and demonstrate to a special man in your life how sexy and attractive (in multiple ways) you are.

I appreciate this but I fee like it’s easier said.
I just want to know if it’s off putting seeing hair hair on a women, and as I mentioned places like the back and stomach especially where the hairs are very short and thin so pointless to remove but still quite visible.

Original post by Anonymous
Works both ways. Are you completely hairless everywhere down there too?

Expressing a preference on someone's body hair is no different to expressing a preference someone is thinner, wears their hair differently, wears certain clothes etc. You don't express a preference unless directly asked, if you want someone you take them as they are or look elsewhere.

I think I’m just insecure about it looking unfeminine (which I don’t think is a word but I think you understand what I mean)
Original post by Trinculo
This is such nonsense and typical of millennial narcissism, thinking that everything is in the here and now.

Women (and men) have been removing body hair since antiquity. Certainly in Egyptian times and certainly in Classical Greece. But noooo....obviously it's Proctor & Gamble.



Look at pornographic magazines and films from the 1960's & 1970's. Wall to wall hairy bush.



It will be part of the P&G marketing that hair removal has been around since ancient Egyptian times.
There have been all sorts of stupid fashions that have come and gone and sometimes come back again.



Winkle picker shoes. A really stupid fashion that was big in medieval times. Went away, came back in the 1950's and 1960's.

Shaven heads and wigs from the 18th century. With enough marketing, they'd come back into fashion.

Tights for men with a codpiece. All the rage in the 15th and 16th centuries.


A historical perspective is useful for seeing when one is being manipulated / influenced.




Original post by Anonymous
I appreciate this but I fee like it’s easier said.
I just want to know if it’s off putting seeing hair hair on a women, and as I mentioned places like the back and stomach especially where the hairs are very short and thin so pointless to remove but still quite visible.


I think I’m just insecure about it looking unfeminine (which I don’t think is a word but I think you understand what I mean)

Short thin visible hairs on your back, stomach, upper legs, arms are fine - for most men that I know.

You may get the odd man with an anti-hair fetish for those areas. **** em! Not literally. Metaphorically.

Try to release worrying about stuff like this. Aim to get on with living the most incredibly rewarding / enjoyable / adventure filled life that you can.
Owning who and what you are will significantly increase how attractive you are to men. Being confident / assertive in being the real genuine you will make you more attractive to men.
Original post by Dunnig Kruger
Look at pornographic magazines and films from the 1960's & 1970's. Wall to wall hairy bush.



It will be part of the P&G marketing that hair removal has been around since ancient Egyptian times.



I'm so in love with the idea that you think that pornography from the 1960s and 1970s outweighs centuries of historical record.

I also think it's astonishing that you believe that Proctor & Gamble marketing influenced the artists and sculptors of ancient Greece and Rome. Classical nudes don't show women's body hair because it was the vogue for hundreds of years to remove it.
Some do, some don't.
Different guys often have very different attraction dealbreakers, beauty standards and relationship preferences.
A happy sexually active relationship is based on compatible dealbreakers, mutual attraction, effective communication, shared ambitions and lifestyle preferences.
It depends where it is. A moustache, for instance, is quite off-putting.
Original post by Anonymous
I don’t mind it, but sometimes it makes me insecure.



I agree to these places only because it’s more hygienic too in my opinion but what about baby hairs on someone’s back or stomach?

if it’s unhygienic on a woman why isn’t it unhygienic on a man??
Original post by Dunnig Kruger

You may get the odd man with an anti-hair fetish for those areas. **** em! Not literally. Metaphorically.

Try to release worrying about stuff like this. Aim to get on with living the most incredibly rewarding / enjoyable / adventure filled life that you can.
Owning who and what you are will significantly increase how attractive you are to men. Being confident / assertive in being the real genuine you will make you more attractive to men.

that’s a bit reassuring- thank you

Original post by londonmyst
Some do, some don't.
Different guys often have very different attraction dealbreakers, beauty standards and relationship preferences.
A happy sexually active relationship is based on compatible dealbreakers, mutual attraction, effective communication, shared ambitions and lifestyle preferences.

Thank you, I just worry if it’s a big issue or not.

Original post by gtty123
It depends where it is. A moustache, for instance, is quite off-putting.

Yes, I understand that, it’s just areas like the back and stomach I’m concerned about.

Original post by aaakkkuuu
if it’s unhygienic on a woman why isn’t it unhygienic on a man??

I’m not saying that it’s unhygienic per se, it’s just the way my mother raised me tbh, saying that pubic hair should be removed because it’s cleaner??
I personally don't care as long as her armpits are shaved.
Original post by hungrysalamander
I personally don't care as long as her armpits are shaved.

That’s good to know, quite reassuring and making me realise I'm probably worrying over nothing.
Original post by Anonymous
I agree to these places only because it’s more hygienic too in my opinion but what about baby hairs on someone’s back or stomach?



Don't mind one bit.



Original post by Anonymous
Works both ways. Are you completely hairless everywhere down there too?


No, but keep things trimmed - as is my partners preference. If she told me that she didn't like hair down there and would rather I was completely bald then I'd happily do that. I have no attachment to my pubic hair, and I'd rather keep her happy and encourage her down there.....
Original post by Apachecow
Don't mind one bit.

Even if the hair is darker and visible?
Original post by Anonymous
Even if the hair is darker and visible?

No. My partner has dark hair and eyes.

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