Hairy pits

My bad! Adam shaved body hair ocassionally, mostly for a hair drug test, but I can imagine other guys not liking body hair... Although I did date a transvestite and he was always perfectly shaved!

I feel bad for guys with thick body hair who get made fun of in high school. If they shave then they get made fun of. That's lose-lose for them. Jt's not right!

Peace & Love

 

I couldnt not shave my pits - fair enough if others dont but not for me lol

 

I've known a couple of cyclists that do it. Some swimmers do it to. (Males of said sports shaving their legs I mean.)

 

I dig the girls with the hairy armpits. It's just natural and beautiful, and I'm kinda disappointed more girls don't let it grow. Smooth is ok, but it gets boring quickly. I see it as like mowing the lawn and keeping grass same length and color and density versus letting wildflowers spring up. Wink wink to the wildflowers out there.

I shaved everything buy my head for swimming. It felt kinda cool for a one-time thing, but it sucked so much...itching, sensitivity, pain in general. I say let it be.

 

that's a beautiful idea, wildflowers..
I'm feeling my confidence grow

 

That's a lovely analogy- as somebody who loves nature I've often felt same way: unshaved legs akin to a flowery meadow, shaved legs= all mown off; whilst pits/pubes probably akin to some exotic shrubbery- best left unpruned!!!

 

Amen sister!

 

I choose to shave my pits and "down there" maybe once or twice a week. I dont like to shave everyday i like to feel the fuzziness of my pits. I barely ever shave my legs i dont ever feel the need to. Maybe if i plan to wear a skirt i will shave but if not i won't.

 

My guy insists that I shave, he says he doesn't like hairy pits, but they are MY pits. I shave because I like how it feels. I honestly think it is a bore and wish hair just didn't grow there. I have entertained the idea of not shaving, but I do not like how the stubble looks and I wear a lot of tank tops. I think, especially in American (the USA) culture won't accept it as mainstream for a good while but who cares.
If you like yourself hairy or shaven, that's your thing. It doesn't mean you are dirty or conformist or non conformist. Ladies, do what YOU want.
I like my guy havinghair under his arms and I like how it looks on him.
When did it become "mandatory" that women shave, anyway??

 

I don't mean he "makes" me shave. We have discussed it and he expressed that he never wants me to have hairy armpits. I doubt he would do anything drastic if I DID have hairy armpits. If so, that's absurd.

 

From way back in this thread:
She keeps criticizing me for worrying too much about what people think...
This is funny as hell, if you think about it for just a second.

I find it odd (not really) that men can CHOOSE whether to shave or not, and, even in mainstream places, not shaving is a fashion choice. Womyn, OTOH, who choose to not shave, in most of the USA, are seen as dirty or "white trash" or just lazy.

Just an other glaringly obvious example of the double standard.

Yes, but then again, the areas that women are expected to shave (legs and underarms) are places that men are expected to keep covered up most of the time, certainly where something slightly formal is involved, and in fact most men wouldn't wear anything sleeveless ever. Nowadays any woman can wear long pants whenever she wants, even to fairly dressy offices, and nobody's forced to wear sleeveless clothes any time. Most of the time, men have to stay covered up to a greater extent than women--and the requirement for women to wear hose with skirts seems to be on its way out, which makes the imbalance that much more glaring. You might say it's a devil's bargain, stay covered or shave, but at least it's a choice. So I say that "double standard" is not necessarily in men's favor at all! But when it's a question of choices in clothing or appearance, we just accept that women are going to have them and men aren't, as though it's the most natural thing in the world.

 

Well, I've been with several Asian women, and none of them shaved their armpits or legs, as girls didn't in the countries they came from usually didn't shave those areas anyway. Of course, they didn't have much hair in those areas to begin with, for one reason because they never started shaving there, and didn't stimulate the hair to grow, and another because Asians aren't that hairy to start with (not even the men). They had little tufts of hair in their armpits that I thought was cute, and remarkably smooth, hairless legs. Yummy.

 

I have to say some Asian women can be very hairy- certainly most oriental women tend not to be hairy, but other regions such as India + I've been to Kazakhstan + seen some pretty hairy legs there on the women. As for shaving- it's an old wives tail that it makes hair thicker, bushier, etc. It may grow blunt initially but when it's grown out it will be the same as if never shaved. I guess most girls start shaving legs/pits before their full natural amount of hair has developed, so that if they later let their hair grow out, there is more of it than before they started shaving, but not because of shaving.

 

I don't think guys are expected to cover up at all. Short shorts are looked down upon, but guys can go around in shorts and topless without a problem.

 

"certianly where something slightly formal is involved", said Amontillado. Guys can't exactly rock up to most work places in shorts, and certainly not topless. Most clubs won't let men in shorts in, either.

 

Sure, but formal dress, whether or not the purpose is to hide body hair, is hardly on par with society's view of body hair on women.
I take issue with this: "the areas that women are expected to shave (legs and underarms) are places that men are expected to keep covered up most of the time,"
and this: "in fact most men wouldn't wear anything sleeveless ever."

The argument being made, as I see it, is that men are subjected to the same body hair stigma, they just cover it up more, and I disagree completely with that. That is (unforunately) not the case.

 

No, I can't say that hair is the reason that men are expected to stay covered up. A man could shave his legs or his armpits and I don't think showing those areas would be welcome unless it was a very casual situation. It's women who have the choice to shave or cover.

You're right, though, that attitudes to body hair and the amount of clothing that people are expected to wear are two different things. But what irks me is that people say "double standard" when things are to women's disadvantage, and ignore the ways in which men are the ones who are being restricted. It's as though if you're a guy, that's just part of life and never open to change or even a thing we ought to think about.

 

I don't feel restricted. A lot of people do when they shouldn't, and I think it's possible that men who feel restricted are similar to women who feel restricted because of body hair. I think most guys wear shorts and t's in the summer, and most girls choose to shave. But people don't look down on guys who walk around with shorts and short sleeves on, unless, of course, fancy dress is expected in that situation, like church or a nice restaurant or something like that. A girl growing her hair can experience many negative reactions in everyday life. So the negative aspect of breaking that restriction is less in guys, I guess is what I'm getting at. Which is why it is that much awesomer when a girl breaks free from that.