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17 May 2007

Wax on, wax off... →[More:]

So a student announced in class today that she attempted to wax her boyfriend's hairy chest. But after she ripped the first strip of wax off, he refused to let her do anymore (I believe some expletives were involved). So now, she said, he just has this one smooth strip on his chest. (How does he explain it in the locker room?)

I tried to stick up for the poor fella (I don't know who he is), touting the virtues of a hairy chest, but she just wrinkled up her nose and shook her head. Ah, well. I tried. I guess smooth chests are what's what in the Bronx these days.

post by: Pips at: 18:40 | 31 comments

Hair below the neck is evil, we're told.

posted by chrismear 17 May | 18:41

Hair below the neck is evil, we're told.

Damnable lies.

posted by BoringPostcards 17 May | 18:45

What kind of talk is that for a furry? Is that where the fetish comes from?

posted by ethylene 17 May | 18:49

If hair below the neck is evil, I must be the devil. I seem to be maintaining the same overall amount of hair, just that now there is almost none on my head and plenty everywhere else. The only part that I remove (apart from on my face and in my ears and nose), is the back of my neck, because it annoys me. The rest I have given up on.

posted by dg 17 May | 18:54

I am often mistaken for a furry if I am naked.

As for the person with the racing stripe down their chest... how were they going to explain going from a hairy chest to a non-hairy one? Shave the rest of the chest and the explanation is the same or leave the racing stripe and have a laugh.

posted by terrapin 17 May | 18:56

I still have some thin patches on my chest that were shaved for my treadmill/stress test heart thing a month ago, and somebody mentioned them TODAY when I was in my front yard with my shirt off. I never realized how slow chest hair grows compared to some of the rest of it.

posted by BoringPostcards 17 May | 19:03

BoPo, just tell them you fell asleep in the woods and someone rode a bike over you.

posted by jonmc 17 May | 19:30

With velcro tires?

posted by BoringPostcards 17 May | 19:39

I think chest hair is ok (on a man), but back hair... needs to go.

posted by getoffmylawn 17 May | 19:42

oh, and HI PIPS!!!!

posted by getoffmylawn 17 May | 19:42

Listen you hair-ists, you don't have to LIKE back hair, but cut those of us so-afflicted some slack. I've been made to feel bad about it by one lady or another ever since the first sign of the kidney warmers.

Imagine being in a room, fully clothed, with people who roundly agreed that something that you have going on, under your clothes, is gross. Makes you feel pretty good about yourself, trust me.

/end rant.

posted by richat 17 May | 19:54

My ex was naturally hairless, so I thought that's what I preferred. My current sweetie has black chest hair and belly hair, and, yes, some back hair, and I am delighted by it all and run my fingers through it whenever given the opportunity. I never knew the delights of a hairy guy before this, but I dig it. For the record, I also find his beer belly adorable. Does this mean I am in love?

posted by Twiggy 17 May | 20:19

what richat said.

i'm glad turtlegirl likes her fuzzy turtle :)

posted by terrapin 17 May | 20:22

getoffmylawn

that's what he shoulda said.

posted by jonmc 17 May | 20:30

Twiggy, I rather enjoy makin' like the crickets with jon's hairy legs under the covers myself. It's all good, I say.

Addendum: As the conversation briefly progressed in class today (there was some work to be done, after all), a few girls joined in to question the wisdom of the bikini wax. The same girl, in fact, who went after her boyfriend's chest squeezed her thighs together under her desk and said she didn't understand why anyone would do that "down there." The others eagerly agreed. Clearly the Brazilian has not reached the Bronx.

(GOML!!!)

posted by Pips 17 May | 20:53

If they're really worried about the stripe, maybe they could look into getting Nair or stuff like that? I've never used it, though.

posted by casarkos 17 May | 20:58

I don't have a problem with guys' back hair.

Just sayin'.

posted by initapplette 17 May | 21:05

makin' like the crickets

I love it!

It's usually Rich putting up with my hairy legs. I don't think I've shaved since December... and I don't know when before that. I think that means he's in love. It takes him a week to get a five o'clock shadow. I don't think back hair is in my future.

posted by youngergirl44 17 May | 21:27

I'm sorry you were made to feel that way, richat. The mister has a light dusting of back hair. It doesn't bother me; it's just hair.

posted by deborah 17 May | 21:44

Some of us like hair. I'm not against a little grooming, but it's disappointing when a guy takes his clothes of and I discover that he waxes.

So, guys, as usual, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. Do what makes you happy. Unless it involves never bathing or something like that.

posted by small_ruminant 17 May | 22:16

My husband is covered in hair. It's everywhere but on his head and his bum. I don't even notice. I'm not turned off by back hair. It seems so many people are. I don't get it. I'm not going to write someone off just because they're hairy. Besides, hairy is manly, and I like manly.

posted by LoriFLA 17 May | 22:18

Not into 5 o'clock shadows, goatees, beards, or moustaches (exceptions can be made for a really impressive handlebar moustache) though- all I can think about is sandpaper when I see them. Rugburn. Roadrash. Bad. Uncomfortable. Run away.

posted by small_ruminant 17 May | 22:19

So, guys, as usual, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. Do what makes you happy.

I've considering running Nair through a garden hose into a sprinkler, then leaping through it at intervals and turning myself into abstract pubic topiary art.

posted by jonmc 17 May | 22:19

Baby, baby, baby, Don't you shave your legs, don't you double comb your hair.
Don't powderpuff, just leave it rough- I like your fingers bare.

posted by small_ruminant 17 May | 22:21

You'd have to go bare to do it right. Though apparently there is precedent for wearing a short skirt and red nylon undies.

posted by small_ruminant 17 May | 22:23

Of course the sprinkler leaping could itself become art if you don the right apparel- say, some of those sparkly streamers that go on kids' bike handlebars.

posted by small_ruminant 17 May | 22:25

Did she say the hair was chafing her? Tell her to have BF put conditioner on his chest hair. I prefer less hairy guys, but who they are as people matters first.

Brazilians? NO!! That hair is there for a reason. I smirked when I saw Bryce Dallas Howard in Manderlay...of course they were real common in the '30's.

posted by brujita 18 May | 02:40

I've talked about my aversion to body hair before. I know I am in the minority here, and that's cool. I shave (in addition to my face of course) my back and from the chest down to my thighs.

But for the love of all that is good, don't use Nair. I thought once, foolishly, nah, this won't burn. And my nipples were on fire for days.

and not in a good way

A good razor and Kiss My Face shave lotion is all you need. Nary a bump or scrape on me.

posted by tr33hggr 18 May | 07:27

Imagine being in a room, fully clothed, with people who roundly agreed that something that you have going on, under your clothes, is gross. Makes you feel pretty good about yourself, trust me.

I hear ya. I have the same trouble when people begin discussing STDs.

posted by JanetLand 18 May | 07:52

I've considering running Nair through a garden hose into a sprinkler, then leaping through it at intervals and turning myself into abstract pubic topiary art.

PLEASE DO THIS!!!!

Funniest thing I have read in a long time.

posted by terrapin 18 May | 12:24

kidney warmers

That's just adorable.

And yeah, eeeeeeewwwwwwwing at back hair is kinda the gender-flipped version of "No fat chicks!"

posted by Elsa 18 May | 13:10

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