June 2nd, 2009
Today as I am internetting I keep accidentally encountering porn – it’s just one of those days I guess. In any case, can someone please explain to me this trend for shaven men – What’s it all about? All feel free to answer but Joe I’m looking at you.
What I think Joe would say:
When there’s no underbrush, the tree looks taller.
http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2009/05/gillette-video-teaches-art-of-genital-shaving.html
Also, specifically regarding porn, you know that shot they love to get with the little handheld camera where they go between the guy’s legs to show the really up-close doggie style action? Ass crack/ball hair tends to get in the way of that kind of thing.
It’s explained in the great movie “Orgazmo”.
“All actors shave their balls. Makes the ol’ Johnson look bigger.”
Also, less collection of sweat and stink, and of course less hair getting in the way when someone’s… uh… being generous to you.
But if you’re not on film, why does looking bigger matter? It can look every which way to sunday and it’ll still *feel* the same!
…or is this your way of telling us you have a secret career in porn?
Disagree on sweat issue – daily bathing takes care of that to the extent it needs to be taken care of, ie, men smell like men and this is a good thing. As for the euphemistically described “being generous,” I take the position that a tidy trim is what is required. You don’t want to choke on a stray but you lose something essentially manly when you take it any farther than this.
Also, stubble is icky.
I suppose that’s true. I guess shaving for the cinema has some things going for it.
Agreed. The really dark side of stubble is ingrown hairs. They don’t happen on large smooth places like faces or legs, but when it comes to down there, both sexes are taking a huge risk, and it ain’t pleasant.
Holy smokes! I am watching the series of videos for man-shaving and I am HORRIFIED. I long ago realized there is nothing to be done for women – but men? This is RUINING men. “Scultping around nipples”? Tragedy! Someone needs to start a petition.
Eeeeee!
You know this guy doesn’t shave his balls
(ps – found the image from a google search of “manly”)
The way I see it, if men want women to shave down there, they should do it themselves.
I’m still kind ticked off that the Brazilian went from being something so weird that even the women on “Sex in the City” were put off by it to being almost expected in such a short period of time.
Yeah, how did that happen? I can’t shake the creepy sense that fully shaven women look like children. It trips my incest/child molestation sensors even when the woman in question is clearly old enough.
I prefer the “landing strip” on women for that reason. Enough there to say “I am an adult” but most of it gone to add “and sex is important enough that I keep my body ready and clean for it”.
Also, I would put Gerard Butler’s shaven/unshaven odds at 50:50.
Blogo’s hair-man preference is common knowledge. I’d put that it might actually be your fetish.
Men shave “down there” for the same reason they shave their faces. And kissing is less important to us than what our private parts are used for.
What is the same reason? I thought facial hair shave/not shave was just a fashion consideration?
And – she says with some shock – you think women with pubic hair are unclean as a result?!
I wouldn’t go as far as “unclean”, but “less clean”, yes.
Also, going down on an unshaven woman? UUUHGH. At least you guys are only concentrating on the area *near* our big patch of hair.
Aside from aesthetics (and ingrown hairs, which I’ve never had a problem with) there’s really no reason not to, and plenty of great reasons to do it. I’d list more, but I’m not sure what rating you want your blog at.
Also – by definition finding men as they come in the state of nature attractive cannot be a fetish. Psychiatrically speaking. And, dare I say it, evolutionarily speaking? I imagine it is quite natural to enjoy men when they are exhibiting the characteristic attributes of their gender.
Reasons not to… preference, of course – I agree a woolly thatch requires some basic grooming but not all men agree that bare is best, probably for reasons similar to mine above related to men. Again, stubble – particularly crotch stubble but also nipple and armpit stubble – is gross. Waxing avoids this but then you are in serious ingrown hair risk territory.
I call it a matter of taste.
Less clean because hair traps sweat? Because that same sweat is still there on a bare groin, just on the skin instead. The hair itself doesn’t produce anything – oils come from the skin.
Though I accept your stated preference for not getting a mouth full of hair on the grounds of personal taste.
If the only thing making the woman look like an adult is pubic hair, something is dreadfully wrong.