Vicki, are you talking about issues related to their interactions with other people or issues related to the fact that they have problems to get rid of so many hair? Or both?
I can see how some girls might have bigger issues related to hair than others, but if they feel bad about it, they should just do something. I remember the first time I wanted to shave my legs, my mom kept repeating me the hair would re-grow thicker and darker if I did that, but where does that even come from? It’s a big lie and I heard it so many times from girls here I don’t understand why. Maybe that’s why a lot of them don’t get rid of their mustache.
I’m pretty sure I should shave my legs. I’m seriously hairy down there.
But yeah, girls with leg hair are icky, girls with arm hair…are alright if it’s not massive, and girls with facial hair are just weird. Like, staring-at weird. As for t’other, blah-blah-control-blah.
That comes from medieval France and England now. People wouldn’t bath daily. They would at best bath once a week, at worst once a year (traditionally in May, but that’s another looong story). And yes, the excuse was exactly that… That if you kept poking at the dirty over your skin, instead of removing it, you’d just be accumulating more dirtiness. Somewhere in history the legend evolved to include leg hair - you remove it, it regrows worse.
I suffer from too much damn hair, too. Hell, I got an award for having the hairiest legs in my entire high school! Hooray for Nordic blood, I guess. But anyway.
I prefer women without body hair as well, but I’d also want the same with men, including me. I have a metric fuckton of OCD, and on the few times when I need to touch another person or thing, or even parts of my own body like my arms or legs (which i do disturbingly often, to remind myself that yes, I’m still here), the hair feels… wrong to me. Like it shouldn’t be there. Or something. I dunno, I suck at explaining what I mean.
I suppose that’s a very trying experience to go through in life, as much as living (and struggling) with things such as acne, or crooked teeth or whatever teenagers and young adults have to go through these days. It makes me feel sorry for women who have to live with it. I agree.
Oh my god, that scared me out of shaving for the first time for years. My mother did NOT want me to do it, and told me that my hair was blonde on my legs and that it wasn’t noticable and that I didn’t NEED to. But by golly, as soon as I turned 13 (the beginning of the freedome era in which I know live in) I sat down and shaved from my ankles to my knees and clogged the damn drain. I will never EVER listen to my mother whenever it comes to shaving, again
And please, persons of the male gender do NOT consider shaving your legs. Ugh. Nothing as icky as rubbing your hand up the side of a man’s thigh softer and sleeker than yours.
That’s your personal preference I wouldn’t mind knowing how a guy’s smooth legs feel. I don’t mind a guy’s hairiness cause it is the “norm” usually, but it’s nice to see some guys that do shave, even though it’s a pain to do. DOn’t think I’m really attracted to guys with a lot of hair, facial hair anyhow. But I do shave regularly, i hate my legs feeling that way and my armpits as well. The only places i don’t shave are yes down there since there’s not much interest to see it so why bother? Sure I would shave down there if a guy that I was involved with wanted me too though. My arms wil not be shaven, think i tried to once but it just looked odd. I might have a bit of sideburns but stubble would look weirder I think, so I don’t shave there. I do shave above my upper lip cause I’m afraid that i might have a very faint bit of hair there. And this concludes gsm’s bit of too much information for this post at least, sorry.
Suppose hairy women(me included i guess) are here to remind you and be thankful for the shaved or hairless girls.
I knew guys on the swim team in HS who shaved their legs.
I wonder if wether or not that helps. Perhaps having stubble would break up your boundary layer and help you go faster (<I>a la</i> Gray’s Paradox)
Further, I wonder if psychology has identified any grooming disorders, similar to anorexia and bulimia. Like, a version of anorexia but for body hair, where you have very little hair but see yourself as being like Sasquatch or a Wookie or something.
I guess the whole shaving question boils down to taste. Going all natural may work for some girls. Heck, if there’s any truth to human pheremone theory (and I haven’t checked lately so I wouldn’t know) then body hair may actually capture dried sweat particles, leading the lady in question with a more…how to say it…alluring scent than someone who shaves.
I suffer from too much damn hair, too. Hell, I got an award for having the hairiest legs in my entire high school! Hooray for Nordic blood, I guess. But anyway.
Thanks Eva, you made my day!
And What about if we grow beards?
“She had a Beard, and it felt weird.” - I love my Lips - Veggietales/Stevenson