I started at 35 when I moved to S Cal and noticed for the first time that it was possible to sweat in one’s nether regions while doing nothing. I don’t go for the cue ball look, but I do keep it pretty short since I don’t like sweating any place!
Late 40s, when the nose/ear/eyebrow growth starts getting out of line; and/or when other bodily hair starts overgrowing proper garments. Though I’m pliable to persuasion if the lady I am with at the time expresses a preference, within reason – it’ll grow back.
While at it,
Well, consider that the source IS The Sun… but, in any case, I’m normally pretty much a do-your-own-thing kind of guy, but last I checked the amount of time you should dedicate to thinking about your 8-year-old daughter’s, or ANY 8-y/o’s, future pudendal styling, never mind talking or actually doing anything about it, is expected to be somewhere between zero and nuthin’ . . .
I started shaving my legs and pits when the hair in that area thickened and darkened from pale fuzz to brunette hair. I think that’s when I started plucking my eyebrows, too. Sometime in my early to mid teens, I was horrified to discover that my pubic hair grew outside the boundaries of my (rather modest, for the time) swimsuit, so I shaved or used Nair there, as well.
In my late forties, I found that I was getting occasional dark hairs on my face, and when I got tired of plucking or getting waxed on the face, I had some electrolysis done. That was some of the best money I’ve ever spent. I’m tempted to get my pits done, too.
I recommend it. I’m in the process of getting my pits done and will move on to bikini and legs and spend every disposable dollar to never have to shave again.
Please tell me you’re male.
Pubes always bugged me, and I started hacking at the bush with scissors until I got brave enough to shave. Nowadays Big Jim and the Twins are always shaved. At the age of 14, a Zoroastrian named Vilmer ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum — it’s breathtaking … I suggest you try it. I have an electric shaver that keeps the pit hair at a minimum. I tried shaving it once, it itched like crazy and so now I keep it putting green short.
Well there’s hairy and then there’s HAIRY 
I stated shaving legs and pits at 8 - yes, that early, because I was hairy, dammit, and it was also vampire-pale skin and dark hair. Very visible.
The only crotch trimming that occurs is if I’m wearing a bathing suit and something escaping is the suit - that gets trimmed. Otherwise, my adult pubes have a hair, deal with it . (I think I mentioned I’m hairy, right?)
I anticipate the need for removal of facial hair will arise with menopause, as that runs in the family. (Did I mention we’re hairy? Yes, even the girls.) No, not bearded-lady strength but we’ve all seen grandmas with more than peach fuzz, right?
Basically, hair gets trimmed/shaved only if it’s going to be highly visible in socially unacceptable ways. My spouse would probably be thrilled if I kept my shins bald, but on the other hand my skin is very easily irritated and bald shins with rashes and sores are just as unattractive as hairy ones. So he puts up with my furriness and enjoys it when summer comes and I start wearing skirts again.
:eek::eek:
It’s a quote from one of the Austin Powers movies…
I don’t “manscape”. I shave my face, and I started doing that regularly at about 15, but other than that, just the occasional trim or shave down below to please whatever girlfriend recommended it.
I’m amused that this is even an issue. Shave, grow wild — who cares but you and your partner. It’s ridiculous that it’s even a “trend.”
Don’t get me wrong: talking about it is fine. I’m just as nosy as I’ve always been. 
Started shaving legs/pits at 12-ish. I only tried shaving “there” once while in high school, and it basically itched like a mofo for a week so that was the last time for that.
I basically pluck the strays between and underneath my eyebrows but don’t really bother much shaping them.
Legs around 12 or 13. Pits probably around 14. Bikini line probably around 17 or 18. And that’s all I did for years and years.
Then, one day in my early30s I looked down when I was peeing, and realized that my pubes were going salty gray. :eek: Fuck* that*. I trimmed it all down to putting green. I won’t go cueball bald because I don’t like looking like I’m 12. But I keep shaving more and more off, so there’s just barely a putting green landing strip. I call it my Marine Buzzcut.
I find:
•It’s cooler. I live in Florida.
•There’s less chafing when I’m pole dancing (and now I know why strippers shave it all).
• There’s less chafing during sex.
•And it’s an open invitation to oral.
This thread would be so much more informative if people gave their current age or birth year, since body hair has seen such a huge shift in the last few decades.
I was born in 1974, when adults had pubic hair. Mom always shaved her legs, but I can’t for the life of me remember if she shaved her underarms. When I was about 12, I wanted to start shaving my legs, so Mom gave me an electric shaver. It took a couple of years for me to brave a blade, with bar soap like Mom used. (Ouch! Lots of cuts.)
By age 16 or so, my pubic hair spread to the insides of my thighs, as is normal for sexually mature women. I began shaving or Nairing just the edges, so it couldn’t be seen outside underwear or bathing suit. I think I began shaving my underarms about the same time.
Sometime in my early 20’s (so…early 90’s), I shaved my pubic hair for the first time, but it was because I wanted to be naughty, not because everyone was doing it. It was still a pretty racy thing, and turned my boyfriend on like you wouldn’t believe. From that point, I was variously hairy or not, depending on my mood and desire to titillate.
Really it’s only been in the last five years or so that it’s become known through popular culture - not just porn - that Bare is Better, at least in my area of the world. I was rather shocked just in the last few months when the TV show Mike and Molly - twice now! - had jokes about women waxing their pubic hair being a given.
I still have yet to brave the Brazilian wax.
True dat. I’m 35.
It always amazes me that for a board of people who are supposed to be so intelligent that there are still people here who throw out the “adults have pubic hair” nonsense. Hurr durr, adults have pubic hair.
Adults have leg hair, armpit hair, facial hair, sometimes gray hair and all kinds of other things that people get rid of, dye, etc and that seems to be acceptable to these brainiacs but they are emphatic about what people do with their pubic hair because “ADULTS HAVE PUBIC HAIR”
Hilarious.
They probably think that anyone who shaves their pubes is into children or something :dubious:
Sleeps and Curlcoat, you can do whatever you want with your pubic hair: crimp it, cut it or pull it in backwards by the roots. It makes me no never mind.
I think taking the time to remove it is a waste, but others thing my coloring my head hair is a waste. So be it.
I just got an EKG, and the technician had to shave my chest in two spots, leaving me with a rather mangy look. When I got back, I asked my wife if I should do a manscape. Her response was :dubious:
So, I’ll just look like The 40 year Old Virgin for a while.
I’m 25 and for the record, the vast majority of my female friends of all ages do not shave all their pubes off. Same goes for the peer groups of my younger sisters who are now 18 and 20. Most keep it as neat as needed to wear a swimsuit, at least in the summer; but plenty do not groom the area at all. I know vanishingly few men of any age who ‘manscape’ beyond removing their nose hair every couple months.
There has certainly been a trend in the last 20 years towards greater and greater hairlessness, especially in the media, but totally shaved privates aren’t that common outside a few specific populations (porn actresses, subsets of the gay male community, etc) IMO. Though if you watch too much porn or nightly news, it might not seem like it…
ETA: I hate too much hair on a man. Hairy men have plenty of fans, though, they don’t need me.
How is it any different from saying, “In the Edwardian Era, women wore corsets,” or “In the 1940’s, men wore hats,”?