My girlfriend hasn’t shaved any part of herself in years, and she lives right here in the USA. To be specific. we live in Asheville, North Carolina. I would estimate that about 1/4 of the adult women that I know in Asheville don’t shave. That’s the kind of town Asheville is. I don’t even notice anymore.
To sidetrack this thread even further, something else I’ve noticed in Asheville but have not gotten used to is women who have facial hair and don’t try to hide it in any way. There is a woman I know who has a sparse goatee that she has grown for years. She wears it braided with beads, apparently because it wasn’t freaky enough without the beads.
Right on! I had a full beard/mustache when I was 15 too. I also had long hair. Since then I’ve experimented with different facial hair, and now have a goatee/mustache and sideburn. Looks pretty good, considering it’s on me.
Anyway, I don’t know why they’re generally unacceptable on young people. Disneyland used to have an unwritten dress code that stated that male visitors could not have long-hair. Also, until recently, employees could not have any facial hair. Reasoning: beards and long-hair were associated with un-American things like beatnicks (already mentioned) and hippies. I think the policy was implemented in the late 50’s. The policy for employees was only lifted earlier this year. My cousin worked there a few years ago when it was still in place.
Now that you mention it, I once saw a photograph of the first scientific conference on the Theory of Relativity, back in 1920 or so, and all of the participants but one had facial hair. Of course, the one without was Marie Curie.
I attended BYU and it’s always the topic of hot debate each year. Many feel that it’s an outdated notion.
Actors who are growing beards for plays have to carry “beard cards” that allow them to have facial hair. Even then they run into problems with a few who are so devoutly anal that they refuse to honor the cards.
If you have facial hair you can not use the cafeteria, the library, computer labs, etc until you go home and shave.
The school will tell you it has to do with the “appearance of evil” and talk about the hippies, but really it seems that the school’s main goal is to teach students to conform to a narrow definition of social norms.
I’ve had a full beard for about a year. I am 19 right now, and am well aware that I would look “better” clean-shaven. However, I keep the beard for three main reasons:
I’m lazy, and don’t like to shave.
I look rather scary with it, so people tend to leave me alone.
I don’t want a girl to like me so superficially that the beard scares her off. If I meet a girl and fall in love, and she likes me for who I am, then I’ll shave for her without any hesitation. However, I’m not going to shave in order to get a girl.
For the most part, the comments on my beard have been very positive from males, and rather negative from females.
In the great novel ‘Going all the Way’ by Dan Wakefield which takes place in Indianapolis after the Korean War, one of the main characters (in his early 20s) grows a beard just to shock all of the older people.
Where are you 'Bytes?? Where’s “this country”? I haven’t seen that commercial–was it a long time ago? I don’t think anyone says ‘sonny’ these days (in America).
I’d worn a moustache for about 12 years, then let my goatee
come in. I got so many compliments from men and women that I was sorry I hadn’t done it earlier. In my case, though,
I still have to shave every morning and trim my goatee weekly, or else it gets bushy and looks stupid.
I grew a beard and/or moustache on and off from college to just before I started dating my to-be wife. I had a full beard then, and she liked it. She once asked me to shave it off to see what I look like. She didn’t like it. So I keep it now to get laid. :D:D
I occasionally shave it off, like when I screw up trimming, or reshape it to a goatee when I plan on going to a Renaissance festival. She growls…
I don’t shave my legs. Occasionally I’ll shave my pits, but not on a regular basis. I **hate[/] to shave. It leaves these itchy bumpy things all over. I’m not very hairy though. My husband doesn’t mind (much!)
there are some tulips even I won’t tip-toe through.