Neox
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dbelinfante said:Shaving of armpits (or even entire bodies, which is also becoming fashionable) for men is an attempt to look less masculine, perhaps boyish, perhaps even feminine. It is why the term metrosexual was invented.
Its birth has little to do with men shaving body hair so much as it has to do with men caring more about how they look and smell and taking pride in they're apearance.
dbelinfante said:Hygiene has nothing to do with it. You are not more clean, you do not smell less bad with shaven armpits. It is a pretense for wanting to look and feel like a girl.
I totaly agrea that it doesnt change how one smells though it does lessen it a bit as the bacteria doesnt have the hair to live in and only has the skin and pores to inhabit. What I totaly disagrea with is the idea that it is so that a man can look more like a woman wich is a broad sweeping generalization for a miniscule group of men and women that have a fetish for wanting to look like the opposite sex or to resemble prepubesent teenagers.
I personaly have shaved my arm pits because I have always been a hard worker and sweaty armpit hair iritates my skin and the comfort of not having it is worth the discomfort of shaving. I also shave other area's for the same reason and when your as hairy a guy as I am and work as hard as I do it is not a pleasant feeling to have any body hair get yanked out by the roots when it gets caught up in clothing specialy when its in a sensitive area.
That being said there are pro's and cons to men shaving more than they're faces such as the dirogitory comments made in questioning they're sexuality and masculenity. Theres also the issues of shaving the pits correctly as any woman can atest to what happens when you shave against the grain of the hair. And if you a guy who shaves other non public locations then theres what happens if you shave to fast and not take your time but an added benefit is that most women are turned on by it and it can make for some great pillow talk.
One last thing, in the athletic world there are sports where men have to shave off all body hair as it can mean the diference of a thousanth of a second in a race or how much harder you have to swim or wether your opponant is able to get a grip on you. Besides that to think that its some cry to be girly is silly, theres some awfully big and hairy gay men out there that would disagrea with you as well.