I’ll do a trim, once and a while. Only if I think it’s necessary.
If no one is visiting, though, why bother maintaining the garden?
A question for guys/girls in the know:
My boyfriend is au naturale down there. I don’t really have a preference, but I asked him once in conversation if he’d ever thought about trimming and he seemd perplexed. He’s naturally pretty hairy (about as much as Mr. Acuminate), and think it’d look weird if his pubic hair was short and the rest of his body hair wasn’t.
Is he right? I’ve been with a couple guys who shave their pubes, but neither of them had body hair to speak of. He’s an easy-going guy and would probably let me scape him in the interest of scientific inquiry, but I’d rather not put him through it if he’s likely to look ridiculous.
This has become a truly hairophobic society.
I keep trimmed. Have full shaved before but didn’t like that as well.
I trim with a beard grooming doodad. Shaved bare once. Never again. shudder
Weird the social blinders we develop about certain things.
I’m way on the low end of the macho scale. Typical Berkeley progressive/liberal ( but non-hippie ) in a number of respects. But for some reason my kneejerk view is that males trimming/shaving their pubes is incredibly, overwhelmingly effeminate. It seems strange to me.
But then again I’m middle-aged ( 42 ) and I was never terribly on board with the whole women shaving their pubes thing, either ( even though underarm shaving was already becoming the norm when I was in my formative years ). Though I got used to that one.
So, nope. No grooming here. But I promise to try to mentally recalibrate my neanderthal views on the topic :).
Don’t think so. I’m a combination of the acuminate and trail ones (though my non-pit-or-crotch body hair is naturally short and thin) and my…er… self looks fine to me.
That said, what does it matter what we think? You’re presumably the only one who has to look at it. I don’t do it for cosmetic reasons at all - the wifey, like you, has no real preference - but if makes physical contact feel better and (I assume) means she gets less hair in her teeth.
Naaah… that implies that it’s a reasonable and acceptable behavior when females do it.
(bleah!)
… but he doesn’t need to. It has always grown very neat and tidy!
He does shave his armpits in the summer as he gets very very hot in his work and it can lead to fungal infections. That surprised me a bit the first time I saw him doing it!
Or you could look at it as a courtesy to the person who spends a lot of time down in that area.
42=middle-aged? 
Really really do NOT get all this grooming and shaving. I, female, will groom only enough for nothing to stick out of moderately high cut underwear/beachwear.
SO is as metrosexual as they come (will use sunbeds, has several bottles of scent divided into seasons, has lots of fancy clothes, countless pairs of jeans and more shoes than I do etc etc) but the thought of grooming pubes just would not occur to him or me.
I was one of the people who were amazed to learn in an old thread on this board that non pornstar women groom more than just a bit at the sides and now I am even more stunned to learn that a fair number of men apparently do so. :eek:
As usual YMMV and without turning this into a huge debate I do want to say that I do wonder when and especially why we all decided that hair = bad.
What else would it be?
I almost put “over 35”. :smack: Not yet!
Anyway, grooming is not effeminate. I’ll just say that if you want a woman’s face down there regularly, she would appreciate it.
Heh. On my first read I thought you were talking about “topiary trimming”, so that pubes resembled a woman’s face. 
Honestly, it’s never occurred to me and seems ridiculous in the extreme. We’re not mannequins nor Ken dolls.
How is it ridiculous? I wish people would at least try to understand what others are saying. If you have soft fine hair have at it I guess. But if your hair is bristly and rough the woman - or man - in your life might appreciate it if she wasn’t getting poked in the eye all the damn time.
It isn’t about looks, unless you want it that way. It’s just politeness to the other person who has to share in it. And also guys, shampoo and conditioner down there once in a while, too. I know it seems counterintuitive but you have hair down there, and it really does soften it up.
Yeesh. You’d think we were asking for you to chop it off!
35 here and pretty hairophobic (as AHunter3 aptly describes). I shave balls and pits. Trim pubes. Wax ass. Sometimes chest as well, but always keep it trimmed. Luckiliy I’m not very hairy, but what I have i like to keep to a minimum.
I’ve never ever encountered hair on a guy that was too bristly or rough nor would it occur to me that it could be. That’s the honest truth. I may have been lucky in my choice of partners or they may have been grooming without me knowing (there have been some casual encounters in the past) but to be honest I think I would be okay with almost all types/lengths of hair down there as long as everything was clean. And the guy was nice, of course.
Again, if it works for you and your partner agrees, each to their own. But this really is news to me. Guess I’ve lead a sheltered life.
Do you wax your own ass, or have someone do it for you? I’m having real trouble envisaging the mechanics of self-butt-waxing.
By the way, before everyone says ‘sure, but you’re gay’: many of my straight friends groom as well, but skip the wax. Shaving balls and whistle is common among them all though.