# Bikini wax for men? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 6, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-wax-for-men/253736 "2004-07-06T02:53:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-wax-for-men/253736/21 "2013-06-24T04:55:33Z")
My sole worry would be that something other than hair would be ripped right out. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-wax-for-men/253736/22 "2013-06-24T05:16:13Z")
For any of these procedures, taking a few pain killers an hour before hand really works wonders. Getting liquored up might help too but then the waxers might refuse to give you service haha. ---
**Author:** ![Beelzebubba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Beelzebubba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beelzebubba)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-wax-for-men/253736/23 "2013-06-24T06:20:29Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > For any of these procedures, taking a few pain killers an hour before hand really works wonders. Getting liquored up might help too but then the waxers might refuse to give you service haha. Every few months, I have the space between my eyebrows waxed. Unattended, I would have the dreaded “uni-brow”. I also have her (the lovely Vietnamese lady who cuts my hair) clean up above and below my eyebrows (but not thin them out…I prefer to look like a man, not Joan Crawford). At the very least, I have a few HUGE mugs of beer and a few Valium before I have it done. The area under the eyebrow (basically adjacent to my eyelid) is what hurts like freakin’ hell when she peels the wax away! :eek: I’ve never had any desire to have any other area waxed. I do some basic ‘man-scaping’ because I’m dark-haired and part-Italian (so I’m pretty hairy). ---
**Author:** ![Beelzebubba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Beelzebubba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beelzebubba)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-wax-for-men/253736/24 "2013-06-24T06:26:26Z")
This topic reminded me of a hilarious scene from the show “Las Vegas” (the one with James Caan, ended in 2008). It was a conversation between Sam (the gorgeous Casino Host played by Vanessa Marcil) and Polly (the sex-crazed Asian nail tech played by Suzanne Whang)- Sam (Marquez): _ **"Polly, one of my clients said you overcharged his wife for a bikini wax. Mrs. Abizon?"** _ Polly (Nguyen): _ **"Sam, you see her before? She hairy like MAN! I have to go all the way around the corner, clean basement. Have to use 35 strip, usually 7. I lift sheet, look like jungle!"** _ ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-wax-for-men/253736/25 "2013-06-24T14:23:30Z")
> [@apollonia](#): > > A bikini wax takes off everything that will show in a bathing suit–usually cleans up the edges of the pubes, thighs, etc. A Brazilian takes off everything, right up through the labia to the anus. Everything. Around here that’s called a Sphinx, not a Brazilian. Bikini = landing strip, Brazilian = bit on top, nothing between the legs, Sphinx = bald eagle. ---
**Author:** ![apollonia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@apollonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apollonia)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-wax-for-men/253736/26 "2013-06-24T15:43:30Z")
I think that’s a fairly localized thing–any standard salon or spa that does waxing will understand a bikini wax to mean just cleaning up the area, and a Brazilian removing all the hair with the option of leaving a “landing strip” or bit in front, your choice. Sometimes “partial Brazilian” will refer to just the front, and “full Brazilian” means to take any hair off the anus as well. Individual places will vary, but that is the standard. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-wax-for-men/253736/27 "2013-06-24T18:16:31Z")
If someone will give me a bikini wax, is an erection during considered rude? ---
**Author:** ![J-P\_L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/j-p_l/32/3156_2.png) [@J-P\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J-P_L)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-wax-for-men/253736/28 "2013-06-24T18:19:20Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > If someone will give me a bikini wax, is an erection during considered rude? Kudos if you manage to get an erection while someone is ripping the hair off your balls! ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-wax-for-men/253736/29 "2013-06-25T15:42:53Z")
> [@J-P\_L](#): > > Kudos if you manage to get an erection while someone is ripping the hair off your balls! Hey, maybe I’m into that! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bikini-wax-for-men/253736.md?page=1)