When The Going Gets Tufted
I'm not a very hairy guy -- except in the armpit area. I've seen articles recently saying men should shave their armpit hair. Really? Do women go for this, or (sorry!) do they maybe think you're gay?
--Fur Pits
Your body hair should not tell a story -- like that Fidel Castro and Osama bin Laden actually aren't dead; they're hiding out in your armpits.
Body hair removal for men has actually gone pretty mainstream. Psychologist Gareth Terry, in a 2016 paper exploring attitudes about male body hair removal, found that gay, straight, and bisexual men and women saw male body hair as masculine and "natural"...to a point -- the point at which they found it "excessive" and thus disgusting. For example, as one bisexual dude, 24, put it: "If you have a rug on your torso or back, then try not to display it in public."
In the armpit hair arena, when psychologist Michael S. Boroughs surveyed 18-to-44-year-old American men, he found that 40 percent did some manscaping. Of these men, 62 percent just "reduced" the hair, and 38 percent removed it. (He didn't separate out sexual preference, but I would guess a good chunk of those balding their pits were gay men.)
Sure, some women might be into the Mr. Gorilla Pits thing. But trimmed hair grows back. Disgust is hard to reverse. So grab an electric beard clipper. Prune the hair down to an inch or half-inch or so (making it look short and neat but not like you went to some armpit coiffure place). As a guideline, there's this: If you're taking a woman to a forested area, it should require a trip by car or at least on foot, not just lifting one of your arms.
I am not currently single but I have to say, I would not give a @#$
NicoleK at July 19, 2018 10:18 AM
Good grief, WTH is wrong with people??? The feminizing and gaying of America continues. I'm taking testosterone for low T, and one of the side effect seems to be more body hair. Is there any psychologically healthy woman out there -- I mean probably not where I live, on the East Coast -- but somewhere in the US who doesn't mind a normal complement of body hair on a man???
mpetrie98 at July 21, 2018 8:49 AM
Some years ago, my youngest son, then about 45, complained that he had too much hair on his chest and back and women complained about it. I told him *I* liked copious hair on a man's body. He sighed and slowly said, "Over three BILLION women in the world and the only one who likes a man being very hairy is....my mother".
elizabeth at July 21, 2018 9:27 AM
I've seen articles recently saying men should shave their armpit hair. Really? Do women go for this, or (sorry!) do they maybe think you're gay?
If a guy shaves his armpit hair while having sex with another guy, then women may think he's gay.
JD at July 21, 2018 1:35 PM
Although I rather like body hair on a guy, even I have limits.
So long as he doesn't need a hairbrush to read his wristwatch, I'm good.
Tracy at August 3, 2018 12:45 PM
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