Mine doesn’t ever hurt. The closest I get is sometimes if I’m wearing a bracelet it’ll catch on my arm hair. Yes, I regularly wax that, too. I know, I know, it’s a little bizarre, but I feel so much cleaner hairless.
Ducht women will mostly shave their armpits and lower legs in summer and if they plan to wear dresses. Otherwise, no. Shaving here is seen as somthing optional, not seen as practicing hygiene, like the US seems to feel it is. I get the impression that in the US, shaving or waxing is something like brushing your teeth.
What other clothing choices are there? A hula skirt? 
How 'bout…[Ned Flanders]Nothing at all! …nothing at all![/Flanders]
I picked “sometimes” because unlike under my arms where I still shave regularly, I shave my legs a third as often as during summer and spring. No one sees it when I’m wearing pants, but after a while it feels really bad (physically, that is, not emotionally) not to shave.
However, I love the epilator I got in July, because using that doesn’t need to be done nearly as often as shaving. I doubt I’ll need to use it even as often as now, which is only once a week/every ten days as it is.
There’s just that point in the growth cycle where it’s longer than stubble but shorter than arm hair. Like nashiitashii said, it just gets prickly and you feel it being prickly on your skin. I find it’s worst when I’m in bed, trying to get comfortable, and I can feel my prickly leg hair and I can’t sleep!
I’ve never had my leg hair get caught on things.
The only reason I would shave in the winter was if I had a date lined up, which happens rarely enough that I voted for why bother, I wear pants. In fact, I haven’t shaved in about three weeks now. I’m well past prickly into just hair. I don’t care if I’m hairy if nobody’s going to see, or at least nobody who cares; when it gets cold, I like to think it provides extra insulation. I probably wouldn’t bother shaving in the summer either except that on occasion I do wear shorts, and wear sandals pretty much all the time.
I never did have much leg hair, and it’s gotten sparcer the older I’ve gotten. If I wear pants a lot, most of it gets rubbed off. At this point, it would take a wedding with a short dress and nylons to get me to shave them.
I used to play bagpipes and on performance occasions wore traditional highland kilt. Well, traditional for the men, as a woman I guess I was technically in drag, but it was a performance and the traditional costume for said performance. Between the kilt and the kneesocks pretty much all the hair was covered.
Me and the husband often go bare around the house, but we’ve been married long enough to stop caring much about such trivia. Well, OK, he has expressed a slight preference for shaved legs, so maybe fore special occasions, but he’s also seen what a mess my skin can become after irritation so he doesn’t press the issue.
You seriously just blew my mind.
I have to shave, otherwise the stubble catches in the fabric of my pants. Owie.
I’ve been waxing my legs for 20 or more years. The hair has just about given up, so the few (10 -12 per leg) which have stubbornly persisted get long in winter but they’re so sparse I don’t even notice them. So I wax them during summer, leave them over the winter and have a spring clean in September.
My armpit hair is also diminishing but is much more intractable, so it still needs regular waxing.
Armpits every other day, as it seriously helps me sweat less when they’re hairless. My brothers also use a hair trimmer/buzzer under their armpits so they sweat less (they’re 18 and 14).
Doesn’t anyone shave to go to the gym?? It’s why I do in the winter, every 3-4 days.
Yeah, I find that I sweat less. That’s why regularly pit waxes are a must for me. (I go every two weeks or so.)
I always put sometimes. Although I admit the amount increases if I’m seeing someone, and decrease when I’m not, but they never go more frequent than once a week for legs and every other day for armpit. The only time I DO shave with more frequency is my bikini line, if I’m in a situation where I’ll be going to the beach or pool for a few days straight. Then I’ve found that shaving more frequently decreases my irritation and red bumps.
I shave more often because of my SO…I just don’t think it’s attractive to run your hand over your girl’s leg and find it all stubbly, although he’s never said anything about it when it does happen…but even when I was single, I shaved at least twice a week in winter.
Like others have mentioned, it gets to a length otherwise where I find it irritating. I guess that sensation would go away if I never shaved it again, but the “in between” hair is just…irritating! Like I can feel my follicles or something. I don’t like it.
I do it when it hurts, or when I’m planning to wear a dress and actually remember that while I’m in the shower. Ideally it would be about once a week, but I’m not good at remembering.
I don’t have a lot of hair, so I normally do it every two weeks or so. The pattern doesn’t change in winter - I just don’t like hair on my legs regardless of the season.
I shave every 2-3 days all year round because I can’t stand the friction of my legs rubbing together with stubbly hair at night. And like **Twickster **upthread, if I let my hair get longer and soft, it can still hurt. I think it’s because I don’t have a lot of hair on my legs, but what I do have is pretty coarse.
No hair, thanks!