What's wrong with female body hair?

Question

Why do men have a problem with female body hair? To witness some men's reaction to it, you'd think it was like excrement! And yet, those same men have (even more) hair in all the same places. The revulsion used to be just to legs, then in the 80s, underarm hair became taboo. Now women's pubic hair is also a source of revulsion. We are constantly told that men are more visual than women, so why do they reject this potent visual sign of adult female fertility?

Answer 1

There's nothing wrong with it. I encouraged both of my wives to let it all grow. I'll take downy legs and a nice bush over sandpaper legs and genitals any day.

But you are right. Somehow the media seems determined to put most men off of it, make it seem gross, unfeminine, and make them uncomfortable with the rare and precious women that are not uncomfortable with being the way they were made. And that's a shame. I swear to god it is.

There's nothing about hair that makes you dirty, smelly or any other damn thing. I spent three months with my first wife in the woods in Alaska (Brooks Range). Well, she didn't bring a razor. We took our baths in creeks flush with freezing snowmelt. And she never smelled bad.

This bald barbie doll bullshit is just that. Bullshit. Once the media gets on a kick - which is for now - skinny, hairless, brainless and bleached blond women, it seems that every male just falls into line.

Yeah well, I don't. Didn't. Never will. I like hairy women.

Maybe it's because the mindset I've been describing sure as hell wasn't dominant when I was a teenager. Explicit magazines seemed to be deliberately trying to hunt down furry models, and now you can scarcely find a nude photo where the woman isn't shaved everywhere but her head.

I find it kind of revolting, that being turned on by shaved women is sort of similar in it's substructure to pedophilia. But women should just stop putting up with it, refuse en masse to put up with hassle of shaving, plucking, spending fortunes on waxing, electrolysis, etc.

Men would get used to the hair again. They were for thousands of years.

And like just about everything - from this idiotic war in Iraq, trying to sell people a different machine for every concievable exercise and a different machine for every operation in the kitchen - removal of female body hair is a multi- billion dollar a year business and the people involved in it have a shitload riding on convincing you need to pay them half your paycheck to be attractive.

Isn't it about time we all stopped buying it? All of it?

Run out and buy a bowflex and pay a Mexican to mow your lawn? Drive 20 miles to run around in circles and drool at over-arobicized women that probably just puked up a pizza and don't have enough fat on their body to menstruate? Be convinced that hair on a man is sexy and it's gross on a woman? What if the next thing they convince us of is that a MAN has to shave EVERYTHING? Who reading this would want to mess with that?

Or whatever damn thing they think up next?

Ladies, you aren't our personal playthings, and you're beautiful just the way you are. A man that doesn't see that - feel that - isn't worth your time in the first place. He'll bang you a few times and run off the first time you get cranky from PMS or have bad breath in the morning.

Grown women have pubic hair, and I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would find it objectionable.


I'm dead serious about this. This country is decadent and devoted to dollar worship, and we are ALL being manipulated, and falling into line like sheep being hustled into a feedlot.

Trying to make people unhappy with their bodies - in any way, no matter how ridiculous, is just the latest and perhaps the worst manifestation of greed - because it's basically an attempt to market mechanisms for body alteration and foster misery born of the realization that you'll NEVER be what you want to be.

They'll always be something. My ankles are too big. I have a pimple on my butt. Whatever.

I dunno. If you love somebody, none of that matters.

I hope at least a few of you get what I'm trying to say.

finish with a couple phony quotes

"Americans would march into concentration camps for free cable TV and a DSL connection.

===Commodore Leon "Hootie" Skunkers

"The higher a monkey climbs, the more you can see of his butt."

===Judge Weinerdogg



E-mail me if you want to talk more.

Answer 2

I don't shave my arms, arm pits, pubic hair, and sometimes I'm to lazy to shave my legs. I used to religiously but I'm lazy now I guess, plus I love my arm pit hair (why, I will never know, I just do)! However, other people do not lol. I've had friends who have thought this was weird that I didn't shave religiously like they do. But, all that matters is, do you feel comfortable being hairy? Because other people can be rude and mean, even though naturally humans are supposed to be somewhat hairy if you think about it. Our society has placed many "social norms" on us and shaving the body (esp. for women) is one of them. But, like I said, do you feel comfortable with your hair as is?

Answer 3

It could be that body hair, or at least excessive amounts, is associated with masculinity, hence a truly hairy female possibly seems less feminine in the eyes of many men. However, as long as the hair is of normal growth level, and in the normal places, then it should not put off (most) men. Indeed, in some cultures, armpit hair is considered attractive. Regarding pubic hair, as long as it does not run up over the abdomen, or down the insides of the thighs (in which case it is easily trimmed), I can't see why men should be too bothered.
Actually, just to be in a position in which to judge a woman's 'hirsuteness' is the average male's yearned for privilege - so don't let the current 'clean shaven' trend vex you too much.

Answer 4

Its the texture the feel of a smooth hair free body with sleek soft supple sexy slightly cooler skin is so hot to me.

Many men would have no problem sensously shaving or giving there woman a pedicure. Have your boyfriend do that for you.
I have had girlfriends shave my body.

There are men who like hirasut women out there if you dont want to shave or be shaven but thast the exception not the norm .

Answer 5

Don't understand it myself, then again I'm pretty hairy.
All that fuss when Julia Roberts waved a few years ago! So what.
And I quite like a big bush, those silly little vertical eyebrows are daft.
Then again, modern men seem to be waxing and shaving as much as women these days.
So I could ask you, why do some women have a problem with male body hair?

Answer 6

There have been a few mature and sensible replies to this question that I feel are at least encouraging.

I think that men (and women) need to look at some of the rational behind removing body hair from the adult female body.

To remove adult female body hair in fact infantises the female i.e. it makes her look more child like. Children do not have secondary sexual characteristic body hair - grown men and women do. Maybe some people need to examine why the normal adult female form is not so readily accepted. Do we need to look like porn stars or infants to be accepted as worthwhile by patriarchal standards?

Answer 7

this is an interesting question - i have actually not had sex because i did not feel i was "properly waxed" & now feel that i have become a slave to waxing - i usually get a bikini wax, but not a brazilian, because i thought that being totally hairless makes you look like a child, but now feel pressure to go completely naked down there because so many men feel it is repulsive if you have even a little bit of hair - i know from waxing i sometimes develop red bumps, that to me look more unattractive than some hair down there - i keep myself very clean and can remember years ago when i first became sexually active it wasn't even a consideration to shave and/or wax, no less to even trim the pubic area - i have had male friends say to me that they wouldn't even consider going down "there" if the woman was not completely shaved or waxed - they said women should be considerate of their partners when it comes to keeping that area bald - times have certainly changed.

Answer 8

Men have problems with it because to have body hair is a manly trait. The idea of being feminine is to be hairless. Atleast our legs and underarm anyway. The shaving of the pubic area is a personal choice. Some people prefer being shaved.

Answer 9

I'm afraid the attitudes you're describing have become part of Western culture and there's no going back or fighting it.
It came as a surprise to me to see women with untouched underarm hair in Scandinavia but it didn't revile me. I'm happy to accept whatever the norms are in any countries I visit.

Answer 10

I understand the leg and armpit hair revulsion, but pubic hair? First, if any man doesn't like it, he first needs to have his waxed or shaved to see how it feels doing it and how it feels growing in. I think most men are tolerant of pubes.