Ladies: How Many Areas On Your Body Do You Shave

Ladies: Do you like to shave your legs, armpits, pubic area, etc or only certain areas & reasons why?

 

I can't stand hair on myself lol I shave every place that you have named

 

Women with hairy legs just doesn't seem feminine unless their hairs are very light coloured.
I shaved mine once, but that was because I was going to a fancy dress party one night (work place) & I was dressed as a woman - like 2 other guys did as well.

 

That's a brave brave post on a hippy forum.....

I strongly disagree. Women should do what they want with their body hair (and with their head hair for that matter).

Femininity has nothing to do with baldness of the body.

 

I think women's legs just look a lot sexier when smooth shaven / waxed. Similiar to their pubes shaven slightly or completely. When they shave their legs etc - is it because they like the smooth look or for other reasons.

 

Dude, you are now conflating femininity with sexy. It's up to you what you find sexy, but saying women with unshaved legs aren't feminine is a different thing. And that's what you said earlier.

 

NB: I have now reworded my thread - no discrimanation was intended about feminity - sorry if it was taken that way.

 

Women dont have to shave their legs just to feel better about themselves - they find other ways to look it as well or just stay as natural looking as they want to.
Even without make up on, some look even better without it.

 

Anyone experienced the cysts that go along with shaving the bikini line? No one should shave any thing. It's not natural. Why should a woman shave for a man? Why would a man want to shave and look like a woman? It's all messed up. Go the wild within.

 

i wanted to shave and look like a woman for several years because i enjoyed having gainful employment.

 

There are any number of transsexual and transgender people who do this.

 

Understandandable. Shame it's an unspoken civil requirement. I still think "what's wrong with this picture".....but hey, I think that about the entire global state of affairs, so......anyway. Have a nice weekend. Hairless and happy

 

yeah, it was actually a spoken/written requirement where i worked at the time. luckily, i finally got out of that business.

 

I didn't read the un-edited post, but editing statements like "I feel ..... about women, femininity and shaving" to conform with PC notions of what one should feel about women and femininity doesn't advance anything.

You feel what you feel. The conglomeration of everyone's attitudes is the culture that we live in. Your attitudes contribute to that culture. Dissembling about them doesn't help us discern where the culture is, nor does it help you discern how closely your attitude matches the "average" attitude. If you think that smooth legs are more feminine, stand tall and speak your piece. Don't expect that women are going to change what they do in response to your voicing your opinion, but understanding and communication are easier if you speak your mind, rather than your speaking what you think they want to hear.

Regarding some other poster's comment that shaving isn't natural. Humans have been cutting, combing, adorning and shaving their head and body hair as long as the archeological record can be read. Its hard to call a practice practiced by all humans "unnatural".

I'm not suggesting that people need to conform to the social norms. But it seems to me that accepting that some people don't meet those norms and not judge them by the degree to which they meet norms. This includes one's self. The realization "I'm unusual" shouldn't make one uncomfortable.

The claim that something is "unnatural" is an expression of a desire for the cultural norms to change. Its a claim that "I'm what normal should be". Its not an expression that values individuality, its a re-affirmation of the value of conformity. Conformity to the "proper" standard, rather than the current standard, but conformity none the less.

Neither editing one's expression nor decrying the norm as "unnatural" ennoble individuality. They are both expression of the (also historically common) desire to fit in, to be what is normal, for that culture, at that time.

 

Well I shave my legs, pits, pubes, asshole, and toes..

I guess I do it for myself since my boyfriend could care less what is and isn't shaven. Sure he has a preference, but it won't stop him if I let it all grow out.

 

I myself shave anything that can be shaved!! It is cleaner and easier to see all parts of the body!

 

I do the same! I hate hair on my body! The Mrs loves chest hair though, so I gotta keep it! Lol

 

I shave my legs, my underarms and in summer the inner thighs so the curlies don't peep out from under my swimwear.
I don't shave anywhere else.

 

Personally, do you think it's more feminine looking not having hair in certain places ie: legs, underarms, or just your own personal preference?

 

I hate hair, but yeah, I got feminine swingin! Lol