BodyGrooming

[saluki9]

My 28 year old daughter was just telling me about this "activity" the other day. Seems that men and women of that age catagory expect this type of grooming in the opposite sex. Frightening! It must be like sitting on a porcupine!

Wow, that must have been an interesting conversation!

Yes, people of both sexes in this demographic do expect it. Much more on the womans part than the mans. Also, not that I have checked, but I don't think most guys are cutting down to the skin. It's more like a hedge trimming

 

[Andre1969]

well let's just say that if you shave your nuts it does increase the sensation when a tongue rolls across 'em.

And if you at least trim up a bit, it does make certain things look larger. An oak tree stands much more impressive after you've cleared all the vines and weeds and undergrowth from around it.

 

[Nords]

well let's just say that if you shave your nuts it does increase the sensation when a tongue rolls across 'em.   
And if you at least trim up a bit, it does make certain things look larger.  An oak tree stands much more impressive after you've cleared all the vines and weeds and undergrowth from around it.

Well, there goes the metrosexual couth factor!

I guess that "virtual inch" comment was a bit too subtle...

 

[HFWR]

Subtle, or stubble...

Hey, I'm a hairy guy, so I trim the shrubbery occasionally, but no razors allowed in that particular region. I don't even like shaving my face...

 

[haha]

I think our demographic must be changing on this board. The last time we had a poll about grooming, as I remember the consensus was that we couldn't be bothered to gets a haircut; shaves(of the face mind you) were maybe weekly; and baths tended to be as needed.

I'll start shaving my balls when the hair down there goes gray, and not before. 

I have a friend who is a professional waxer. She says the male crotch waxing is called a “manzilian”, a takeoff I suppose from the famed Brazilian Strip on the lassies that we know and love so well from porn. She also says that if you wax, you had better like it, because eventually the hair doesn't grow back very fully.

I have a book of old pornographic photos mostly from France in the 1890s and early 20th C. Wow, those girls sported bushes that the gardeners at Versailles would have been proud of. And compared to today's ideal, they had some hefty hips and thighs too.

Ha

 

[bow-tie]

well let's just say that if you shave your nuts it does increase the sensation when a tongue rolls across 'em.   ...

Bwaahahahahahahahaa.. that's awesome.

I was watching MTV once... very briefly.  I heard it called "Manscaping"...

I am in that 27-32 demographic.. and I am SOOOOO out of touch.  Not to mention extremely metrosexually challenged.

 

[Mwsinron]

My wife finds it sexy. Partners do certain things for each other

 

[HFWR]

Life, liberty, and the hirsute of happiness...

 

[d]

Who is next? Rover?? :

without further comment,
see:http://wwww.petfinder.com/fotos/MA262/MA262.6917040-1-x.jpg

 

[Khan]

The 'back crack & sack wax"?

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/body-care/waxing/363883/

 

[BunsGettingFirm]

Oh yeah, I've seen then.

Do I really need to spell out why the wives (and therefor the husbands) like doing this?

I believe that by explaining it I may get the thread locked

Also, I do believe this does have something to do with the fact that women have been doing it for so long, they're just happy to make their husbands go through the same thing

Yeah, but some women also have landing strips. Are we going to imitate that too? Let's just say that I think that creating a landing strip on"uneven grounds" can be challenging.

 

[ladelfina]

urgh. With ladies's legs (etc.).. the promise is all "smooth and silky" but the reality is stubble, ingrown hairs, infected follicles.. yuck!  Leg waxing is painful enough; I can't even begin to imagine ball-waxing

yes saluki9, please explain the appeal --for the wives-- (beyond the retribution aspect).
[I get a creepy pedophile vibe from hairless adult genitals..  ...ew!]

 

[TromboneAl]

tongue rolls across 'em.

Not making this up: The term for this is "teabagging."

 

[astromeria]

[I get a creepy pedophile vibe from hairless adult genitals.. ...ew!]

me, too

Are these "styles," fads, what have you, started by porn? Similar to the saggy/baggy pants look started by ill-fitting prison clothes (or is that an urban legend)?

 

[TromboneAl]

And our parents used to complain that we had long hair!

 

[Nords]

Leg waxing is painful enough; I can't even begin to imagine ball-waxing

Yet women still pay for leg waxing, right? I'm sure that many women would pay even more to have someone wax their SO's assets, so to speak.

As soon as a major sports figure claims that he gets a 10% performance improvement (in whatever area) from bodygrooming or "extreme waxing", then all the amateur wannabes will be lining up to pay for it.

And people think that sweeping up the cranial hair clippings in a barber shop is a yucky job...

 

[AltaRed]

me, too

Are these "styles," fads, what have you, started by porn?

Surely you are not serious about pedophilia and/or porn comments?? Dancers and strippers and such have shaved and trimmed to bare, or almost bare, pubes for decades.

 

[Danny]

We had three competitive HS swimmers. Every year my wife and I would host a pasta feed and shave off prior to the Sectional Championships.

The boys would get their heads shaved and yes most body hair would also be shaved although I didn't witness anything between the legs getting that treatment.

Same for the girls except they didn't let their heads get shaved....just regular barber clippers and shaving blades were used...It was a lot of fun...The upperclass(wo)men would do the honors on the youngsters....it was a kind of tribal bonding/passage ritual....some of my favorite memories of the kids HS years. Swimming is a great HS sport...

 

[ladelfina]

Yet women still pay for leg waxing, right? 

Yeah, I did.. ONCE!

I'm sure that many women would pay even more to have someone wax their SO's assets, so to speak.

As punishment? [Whatever floats your boat...!  ]

Seriously, at the risk of being a party pooper, I think it's kind of a waste of time and $ for everyone, apart from the pain. Altared.. um... are you using strippers as an example somehow distinct from porn?     Maybe it's popular in porn because you can "see everything" more clearly in photos? And yes, I'm serious about the creepy pedophile vibe.. 

Yuck:

Yum:  (I almost forgive him the Zardoz red diaper)

I see that often people've written "Merkin" on the board (to indicate average/slow Joe American..). Well, longer ago than "decades".. merkins were/are fake pubic hair wigs.. to fill out those scraggly areas. No more pubic combovers! (I see brewer and some others have picked up on its antique meaning).  Now that energy costs so much a merkin could keep you cozy and warm. OTOH, I guess waxing is part of that booming service economy... So, WAX AWAY, all who enjoy it!!

For those who want to be hairy, but are sadly lacking, there's:

edit: dunno what happened to bigger images; they're there, at
http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/beefcake.html
Enjoy!

 

[flipstress]

I am late to this thread (as usual).

I love this board.  I learn so much--this time about the habits and preferences of the younger generation. 

 

[Gonzo]

When I had open heart surgery in 2000, two young girls shaved me from the neck down!

But I was not having a good time that day.

Gonzo

 

[BunsGettingFirm]

Oh, yeah, by admitting to performing body grooming, Saluki, I can see that you're not THAT conservative.

 

[mathjak107]

nothing i hate more then  when i wear my wifes clothing and the little hairs on my leg stick out of the stockings.. ha ha ha   awe what the heck i still feel a little pretty

 

[Martha]

First the women , but now the men?? Who is next? Rover?? :

We used to have standard poodles. Yes on the shaving.

Me, I like manly men. Shawn Connery type of men.

 

[saluki9]

Oh, yeah, by admitting to performing body grooming, Saluki, I can see that you're not THAT conservative.

I never quite indicated exactly what grooming I participated in, did I?

Thats' ok, some of the hardest partying people I know are conservative politically and also some of the stuffiest people I know are liberals.

Early on in my teen years I learned not to look for girls on the right side of the fence