Well I don't know about you, but I have been noticing many of my peers shaving various body parts. e.g. males shaving armpits, legs, arms and etc. Just because I used males in my example doesn't mean I don't see females doing it too. This goes to both sides. Is this just some Highschool Trend? Another teen thing? or do you see adults doing it too? Do you see this as bad thing, a good thing? Post your views and options about this topic, Share your experiences but try to keep it clean please. If I missed anything, point it out.

Just one thing to note. Women who shave their well *ahem* are definately on to something right about body shaving.

I would'nt shave my armpits and there is no way ANYTHING with a blade is going down there.

It's all about personal hygiene. Armpits and "dwonstairs" can get pretty gross and smelly. So if it works for you then go ahead...

Is doesn't get smelly if you wash it regularly, like in every day. :D

So I guess you guys have never tried to wear pantyhose or tights over hairy legs? God, does that ever ITCH!

Shaving of other body parts is largely an American cultural quirk. I'm accustomed to seeing smooth legs and armpits on women, and I prefer the feeling of smooth skin on myself. What I do with other parts is between me, Velcro, and my bathing suit. ;)

In professional cycling, racers will often shave their legs. This isn't so much to lessen wind resistance as to make road rash from the inevitable crash easier to heal.

What I do with other parts is between me, Velcro, and my bathing suit. Oh to be a bathing suit ;) j/k :spin:

Seriously, shaving is getting more common. As America gets more vain more trends like this will catch on.

Its common for muscular men to shave their arms and torso, so as to better show-off their muscles.

Some other men will take a pair of scissors "down-there" to trim back the jungle a bit. Gives a cleaner look, and if the hair looks smaller other things tend to look larger (just read an article about this in Men's Health).

Sheesh, I can't believe we're talking about this!

Mathetais,

I think you may have tarnished your halo a bit on this one! :eek: :p

I may be a holy man, but I'm still a man! :holy:

If you're a man with hair enough to cause a problem I could understand that. But shaving your armpits? Some new guy who came into the army after me did that, and it didn't take long till people thought him a gay. Whatever my opinion of that is, I do agree that there's something out of place with a male who shaves his armpits or anything else for that matter.

With females on the otherhand I've accepted the common fashion of liking shaved females the best. I'm not speaking of the nether regions, just the legs and armpits. No supersilky skin is required of course. But I find women who neglect to shave their mustache absolutely abhorring. If I can so much as see a twitch of a short hair on a woman's face I already consider her as a man. And as I'm not a man's man, you could definitely call that a major turnoff.

Hair is an annoyance. It traps smells. If a person wants to get rid of any hair on his/her body, they should go for it. Women should stay well waxed, and men should do something if they look like gorillas.

My two cents.

If I can so much as see a twitch of a short hair on a woman's face I already consider her as a man. And as I'm not a man's man, you could definitely call that a major turnoff.OMG that was written in a humorous way. :hahaerr:

Sticking with the mentionable parts of the body, I can't stand to go without shaving my legs. Maybe a couple of days, at the most. And it may just be a cultural thing, or something I've gotten used to, but it just feels weird and unnatural for me. Same as with under the arms, though that is also an odor thing, as others have mentioned.
I'm going to stick with Rallymama's general idea about any other body part.

In case of men I agree with LKD: they should definitely do something about their hair when they begin to look like gorillas. It can be awful... But so long as they aren't overhaired, it's their own problem, I don't care.

With women things are different. I agree with Foradasthar about facial hair. And well, if it's an American quirk for women to shave legs, hands and armpits then praise US! At least this one time ;) In my case hairy legs, hands or armpits aren't a major turn off, though. They're simply a complete turn off. No way. Physically. Like a dead trout.

My wife doesn't shave her legs all winter. She's blonde, so you really can't tell though.

Not talking about anything else!

A lady friend of mine recently made me an offer I couldn't refuse; specifically "if I can shave yours you can shave mine" ;) :D Not something I'd have thought to be my cup of tea, but it was very sexy! Highly recommended foreplay!

(BTW: Shaving foam tastes bad... ;) )

Extremely interesting. Tell us all about your future exploits as well. ;)

Not quite a lady of that friend of yours, but who am I to babble... :rolleyes:

Funny, how almost noone yet has actualy admitted or said they have shaved "something" . Most of the posts are generally speaking, or about someone esle.

Well I do shave my moustache and beard. And the occational single long hair that somehow grows on my shoulder.

Only face and neck in my case. But it's only because I think twenty year olds don't look well with mustache or beard and because no one likes the touch of itching skin.

LOL -- there are very few people willing to share that much about their lives (I was going to say "no people" but then I saw the post from the the Foreplay Shaver!)

Your Lordship shouldn't laugh. It's a serious condition called 'exhibitionism' :shake:

Well, one doesn't have to shave the groin area, you can cut the hairs short as well. But, as with normal shaving, this takes some skill, which you only get by practicing. :grin:

I occasionally shave my armpits as well. Perhaps it's a trend, perhaps not. I know I prefer both on my SO's.

I've noticed that TAL hasn't responded to this thread yet.

Not that I want to know what a Sorcerer Shaves ... I'm just shocked that this is an Alley topic and not a Whatnots.

Maybe we should start a new forum called "Un-Mentionables" ... and you have to be over 18 to enter! ;)

I only shave my face. And that not often enough.
The only other shaving that I can see a man doing:
1. for sports (swimming, cycling) or
2. because they want to do it to make things appear larger (as Mat pointed out).

I don't need to shave for reason #1, because I don't participate in sports that would make it desirable.
I don't need to shave for reason #2, because I don't need to shave for reason #2. ;)

Mathetais, Yeah maybe your write about the Whatnots.

but about being over 18 to enter, then we would have to wait 7 more days. Till my 18th Birthday. :D

Ekhm, just write '18+ only' and no other section will attract as many teens :rolleyes:

Ah, and they will be babbling about their sizes and hairiness all the time :p

o.k. i'll fess up. my wife not only talked me into shaving "somewhere", she did it herself. bad, bad idea the regrowth stubble was unbearable for both of us and you don't even want to know what an ingrown hair feels like "down there". i wasn't gonna' share that but SoCo asked kinda' asked for it.

I agree with Greenlion I did it once and I'll never do it again :p

Not to mention that I kinda cut myself :doh:

Greenlion, I didn't specifically ask for "that", but all views are welcome. :D

From Reading All the posts. It seems more people are "Con" bodyshaving then "pro" it. Which I assumed it would turn out to be.

I shave my beard and my girlfriend's... :evil:

OK, funny story about body hair. I was dating a very nice girl who was VERY feminine except for the fact that had very thick, dark brown hair, and so the hair that almost all people have on their upper lip was visible. I was at my University, getting ready for the class to start (English 305 -- The English Novel) and I asked my friend for a pen. She wouldn't give me one, and she asked where my pens were (she was being a pain). I told her (truthfully) that I'd left my stuff at my girlfriend's house the night before. Well, everyone in the 5 or 6 desks surrounding us started teasing me ("what was a good Mormon boy doing at his girlfriend's house? "Give us the kindky details" "you still a virgin, little buddy?" etc.) I finally snapped.

Now, they say that every 7 minutes there is a lull in a conversation. That lull hit just as I said, fairly loudly "Look, I never touched her, all right? She has more hair on her face than i do on my entire body!"

Well, everyone stared, including the prof. An old lady (65 or so) who was there because her husband was dead and she had nothing else to do, she started tittering her fool head off. For the rest of the year I got questions and comments like "did you go visit her family at the zoo?" "There's a discount on body waxing at my salon" and tons of others. It sucked. I should learn to shut up, but that's not too likely :cool:

Con body shaving? you bet. Body hair is a force of nature and i guess we shouldn't mess with it too much, except in the case of his Lordship K.D.
Dude, when you kissed her did it tickle :shake: ?

No, Greenlion, you goofball, it didn't tickle :eek:

She had no more than any woman, really, it's just that it was so dark it was visible.She should have gone for waxing, but she was naive and foolish (which was why she was dating me, some would say :p )

Naa, you wouldn't shave something like that. It would just grow back even worse. Even more so since its on the Face.

Looking around at my school at leasy 8 out of 10 people shave something. Counting me. (SoCo has no underarm hair) :p

Picked up a new Muscle & Fitness magazine today. There is a half-page add for "Nair for Men" ... chemical hair remover.

Reminds me of that time we put Nair in that guy's shampoo during Swim practice ... :evil:

Hair-remover into shampoo? No offense, but if that's for real, I wonder what kind of a wuss he was as you're still alive. Destroying one's hair is the same as inflicting a very visible scar on their face. And depending on the hair length (or wether the person is balding or not) it can take years to heal from that scar.

Definitely not something to be toyed with.

It was the swim team. We kept the hair to less than a 1/2 inch, and shaved bald for big meets.

I wouldn't do that to a Brad Pitt type ... really.

(Plus, I was the only guy on both the football team and the swim team ... I was safe!)

You were the only guy on the football team? ;)

Remember, this is the AoDA forum... serious discussion.

I don't know about anyone else, but when I shave *anywhere* I get an incredible itch and a rash....

I just hate the evil shaving machine.

My friend in college dated this girl who he said had a nice, thick, dark treasure trail. We went out the next night looking for women! lol
I tried "trimming" some hair somewhere before, when I was younger and stupider. Man, itch, itch itch. And you can't always scratch there in public either.

I didn't read every post in this thread so forgive me if someone touched on this already, but the fascination with shaving is widely considered to be a "safe" channeling of the pedophilia feelings in men...and face it, its a mans world. Men establish laws, norms and customs far more than women, but that is a different topic.

The reason women shave their bodies is because men like little girls and shaving gives an appearance closer so. The reason men shave their bodies is because men like little boys and shaving gives an appearance closer so.

the fascination with shaving is widely considered to be a "safe" channeling of the pedophilia feelings in men Um...I don't know about widely considered, and I certainly disagree (though I suppose it's a theory with some merit). I like shaving because I personally prefer soft, smooth skin to fur. Unless, of course, the object in question is to be walked or thrown a frisbee (hairless dogs scare me).

When my girlfriend shaves her legs, I don't think "mmmmm...I'd like to teach HER the ABC's..." Blegch. Being sexually attracted to a young, fit - and hairless - body and being sexually attracted to children are two very, very, very different things and shouldn't be lumped together. I won't speak for everyone, but I happen to find women with waifish, prepubescent features to be very unnatractive, and by extenstion girls in their early teens. A pretty face can't evershadow a 12-year old's body. You can keep your Kate Moss and Gwyneth Paltrow...I'll take a real woman, thanks. Most men on my continent would probably agree.

Why else do I prefer shaving? Well...let's just say I don't like getting hair stuck in my teeth. :D (boy, I'm gonna get it for that one :evil: )

I agree with the rabbit -- I do not want little girls or little boys. My reason for liking my wife to shave is that I do NOT like bears or wolves ;) In some instances a sicko might have such views on the hair issue, but the vast majority of us do not. Too Freudian for my tastes.

Count me in with the bunny, too. Emaciated anorexic models with no curves and legs thinner than my arms give me the creeps. Halle Berry, now, is certainly another matter.