Manscaping: Acceptable or Disgrace?

[downtown]

Poll Coming.

(Note: Let's try to be adults here, so this thread doesn't get closed)

Most of us here are dudes. Most of us also shave our face, at least sometimes. However, dudes have hair in other places. Do any of you shave/trim/remove other hair? (eyebrows, nose, back, chest, armpit, pubic, other) Outside of for competitive sport, is this ever acceptable, or does it make you...less of a man? Would you shave body hair that you don't already if a girlfriend asked you to?

WHAT SAY YE ON THIS SUBJECT?

 

[bhsup]

Okay, well first off my face. I grow a winter beard. I figure of God gave me the ability to naturally produce a wind breaker for my face, why not take advantage of it.

Now moving on to the more personal. Just as a lark once I shaved my pits. You know what? It felt freaking awesome, so that's a norm for me now. Obviously have to trim my nose and eyebrows occasionally (who doesn't???), and as I'm getting older, I find this disgusting ear hair crap that occasionally pops up and immediately deal with that icky stuff.

No way in hell is a pair of scissors or razor blade or trimmers ever coming anywhere near my family jewels.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

LOL you shave your armpits

I pull stray hairs from my nostrils but that's it.

 

[bhsup]

Don't knock it til you've tried it

 

[Luckymoose]

I don't even know what this is.

 

[Bugfatty300]

The only reason I shave my face is because my boss nags me to death about it.

Other than that I'm all natural manbeast.

 

[Moonbat]

I shave and trim my unibrow and I don't feel like less of a man.
Lucky I'm blonde and my unibrow is really lightly coloured. I'd look like some dirty rapist with my huge eyebrows if I had dark hair.

E: Oh, I forgot about my ears. I'm 21 and I've got to regurarly trim my ears inside and on the outside. I have freaking hair growing on my earlobes! Can't imagine what it's like when I'm over 50. Obviously I have to trim my nose hair too.

 

[Communisto]

I trim the southern hemisphere mostly for comfort but also to create favorable optical illusions.

I also voted on nose hair cause if that gets outta hand its just plain gross

 

[warpus]

I'm not very hairy at all and only have hair where it's supposed to be. As such I only ever shave my face and do the optical illusion thing as described above

 

[illram]

Nose, eyebrows (uni-brow shaving is a-OK, other reasons are questionable), nether regions for occasional fun.

If you're an abnormally hairy person maybe shave your back, since that's kind of gross, but otherwise I don't think any other region needs it.

 

[Lone Wolf]

None None: If God wanted us to not have hair somewhere he wouldn't have put hair there

Old Believers FTW.

 

[Ayatollah So]

I pull stray hairs from my nostrils but that's it.

Same here. Well, ear hair too; same principle. I'm just fine with my unibrow. And if you don't like my hairy back, don't swim behind me.

That said, if for some unfathomable reason some guy wants to shave elsewhere, more power to him.

 

[Mise]

I would trim most regions if a girl wanted me to, but I don't really see a reason to shave my arms or even my legs.

 

[GhostWriter16]

I shave whatever hurts Obama politically

 

[Squonk]

Nothing's wrong in shaving wherever someone likes. Although legs look better with hair, and so does muscled chest, with a bit of that.

 

[bombshoo]

I do about everything. Nose hair, unibrow, face, neck. I even manscape my legs and armpits. I don't shave them. Just trim the hair to be shorter as mine grows abnormally long. Fortunately I don't have to do the chest, arms or back.

How would you even shave your back?

 

[Mango Elephant]

You can do whatever you want. I don't really care if you shave your legs or your chest or whatever.

 

[Leonel]

I don't even know what this is.

I don't always disagree with a thread.

But when I do, I always insult the OP.

Stay thirsty, my friends

 

[Theige]

I shave my face, trim my pubic region, and buzz the 5 hairs that show up around each nipple.

Other than that, I'm almost completely hairless

 

[BuckyRea]

I voted nose, back, and pubes for potentially contradictory reasons.

I shave only my face and throat (and really don't have to do that more than once weekly, tho that leaves me looking kinda scraggly toward the end of the week). But after I turned 40 I found I started getting the occasional wild nostril hair thinking that life inside my nose was like East Germany and it had the right to defect, or at least peek "over" the wall whenever it wanted. I gave my tweezers shoot-to-kill orders, tho it hurts me more than it hurts them.

However there are some hairy dudes out there who, quite simply are EdAsneresque enough that they can only attract women with beastiality issues. I say, let the poor bastids get their wings waxed. Shaving one's chest or pits is just idiotic--the moral equivalent of wearing a toupee. But some parts of nature need the trimming and the male back numbers among those parts.

These are entirely social norms and, thus, necessarily morally relative. Therefor I judge that which I do not do myself to be morally repugnant. And yet, and yet...

And yet I say if a dude wants to scorch his nether forest, let him be. It's something that concerns me not at all, as I am not in the pubic business. Though it's creepy and weird, it's none of my beeswax (literally!). Wherever what is permissible to be shaved enters the public domain, I say shave only that which socially accepted. But where other peoples' private parts are concerned, I ask only that they keep such matters private.

If you're different from me, you're wrong. But sometimes you have the right to be wrong.