# Do You Think President Obama Manscapes? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 17, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042 "2010-07-17T17:05:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042/1 "2010-07-17T17:05:26Z")
I was on the subway yesterday and I heard one young woman ask another this question. Got me to laughing…And thinking? Manscaping: Defintions 1. _To groom a man. Shaving, waxing, cleaning up the superfluous fur_ 2. _A term used to define male grooming below the belt_ Well what do you think? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042/2 "2010-07-17T17:08:30Z")
I would assume that with his schedule he has someone to do that for him. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042/3 "2010-07-17T18:00:47Z")
You forgot to include “why the fuck are we even thinking about this?” in your poll. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042/4 "2010-07-17T18:29:44Z")
Hell, no, he doesn’t manscape. He’s the President! The Leader of the Free World[sup]TM[/sup]. His great big bolshi yarblockos are completely carpeted in pubes the size of hawsers and twice as tough. He can only shave with depleted uranium blades, and then only once per blade. Chuck Norris envies his chest hair. Manscape? With a flamethrower, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042/5 "2010-07-18T03:21:44Z")
Looking at the famous swimsuit photo, it’s clear that the man has no chest hair, which may or may not indicate waxing. However, I believe I can see a tiny wisp of belly hair peeking out from his suit, which tells me he does not shave “down there,” which to me is the only definition of manscaping. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042/6 "2010-07-18T04:11:20Z")
I so did not want to have those words put into my head. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042/7 "2010-07-18T04:16:35Z")
I didn’t know that was something that men even did? Why? ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042/8 "2010-07-18T04:31:43Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I didn’t know that was something that men even did? Why? So we females don’t get our teeth flossed while blowing you. ---
**Author:** ![Nefarious\_Chipmunk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nefarious_chipmunk/32/1045_2.png) [@Nefarious\_Chipmunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nefarious_Chipmunk)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042/9 "2010-07-18T04:40:16Z")
I put that he manscapes, just because he seems like the type who cares about grooming and his appearance. I took manscaping to be any grooming of those manly bits. I don’t think he shaves\*, but I bet he trims. Michelle doesn’t seem like the type who would put up with anything less. \*Why am I even _thinking_ about this!? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042/10 "2010-07-18T04:56:23Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I didn’t know that was something that men even did? Why? It’s fashionable in gay\*, metrosexual, and some nudist circles. And less pubic hair makes the genitals appear larger (though IMHO getting ride of _all_ of his pubic makes a man look like a prepubecent boy which I haven’t been into since I was one). This is the first President in my lifetime who’s penis I don’t mind thinking off. \*Well obviously not among Bears. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042/11 "2010-07-18T08:07:08Z")
You left out “I think he does, but I wish he (and every other man) would stop.” I really, really hate seeing a man with dainty eyebrows. And men who are not thin should have some body hair. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042/12 "2010-07-18T08:09:08Z")
I just don’t know how anyone does it without themselves really itchy. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042/13 "2010-07-18T16:00:23Z")
Obama doesn’t but Glen Beck does. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042/14 "2010-07-18T16:20:22Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > It’s fashionable in gay\*, metrosexual, and some nudist circles. And less pubic hair makes the genitals appear larger (though IMHO getting ride of _all_ of his pubic makes a man look like a prepubecent boy which I haven’t been into since I was one). This is the first President in my lifetime who’s penis I don’t mind thinking off. > > \*Well obviously not among Bears. I don’t fuck any gay, metrosexual, or nudist males; I fuck regular guys who hunt and play football and other manly shit. Every single one of them has trimmed their damn pubes (and not at my request, they were already doing it when we met). ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042/15 "2010-07-18T16:40:34Z")
I voted “Other” because that was the closest answer to “don’t know, don’t care, and can’t imagine why anyone would ever come up with this question in the first place” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042/16 "2010-07-18T17:12:44Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I didn’t know that was something that men even did? Why? Trimming the hedge makes the statuary look larger. Supposedly. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042/17 "2010-07-18T17:19:42Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > I don’t fuck any gay, metrosexual, or nudist males; I fuck regular guys who hunt and play football and other manly shit. Every single one of them has trimmed their damn pubes (and not at my request, they were already doing it when we met). This must be a generational thing. I never heard of any guy doing this in my day. Certainly none of the dudes I knew. Not even the gay dudes. I blame porn. Everybody thinks they’re supposed to shave their pubes now. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042/18 "2010-07-18T17:31:33Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > So we females don’t get our teeth flossed while blowing you. A girl stopping to pull hairs out from between her teeth always amuses me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042/19 "2010-07-18T18:33:19Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > This must be a generational thing. I never heard of any guy doing this in my day. Certainly none of the dudes I knew. Not even the gay dudes. > > I blame porn. Everybody thinks they’re supposed to shave their pubes now. That might be it, actually. Any guy I’ve slept with under 30 does it- just like all women I know at the very least trim their bikini area. And if porn is to blame- thank you, porn. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042/20 "2010-07-19T00:10:11Z")
> [@heraldgwena](#): > > Michelle doesn’t seem like the type who would put up with anything less. Yeah, but where does she fall in the “shave/trim” spectrum? I suppose that’s a question for another poll. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-president-obama-manscapes/547042.md?page=2)