I like hairy women. Considering that the hairiest woman has nowhere near as much body hair as the average man, it’s only mild amounts of hairiness we can encounter in women anyway. But I love it.
Mrs. Mojo has never shaved her legs in her entire life, not once. Her leg hair is exquisitely fine, light, downy, silky smooth and soft as a dream. I wouldn’t trade it for all the tea in China. [swoon]
In parts of South India where Mrs. Mojo comes from, women have a unique tendency toward facial hair: it grows from their temples across the sides of their foreheads. Many of her relatives have this (although she doesn’t). I don’t care for she-mustaches, but fortunately Indian women don’t have mustaches.
I totally love women’s dark and thick eyebrows. They are so sexy beautiful. It follows from this that I loathe plucked eyebrows. Bald brow ridges—Yuck. Ladies, please, please don’t pluck!
Women’s head hair is at its best when long, thick, wavy and Chelsea Clinton luxurious. Fortunately, most Indian women have this including my cherished Shakti Yoni Devi goddess. Fortunately I work with a lot of Black women who have this too.
I bet most women reading this wished the majority of men thought like you do! I can only think of one man I know who actually finds hairy women more attractive than the shaved, bleached, plucked & waxed variety.
My sister got the Hairy Gene…taking after my father who was definitely a wookie-type. I know how much distress it’s caused her (lots), and how much money she has spent (really lots) getting professionally zapped, plucked & waxed.
When you think about it, it’s a silly physical thing to get icked out about! I’m sure it’s got something to do with infantalizing women or something.
My first serious boyfriend wasn’t much for body hair and convinced me to, well… bare it all, if you will. I did, of course (Youth is wasted on the young, eh?) and kept it up pretty much until I met my last boyfriend, who preferred the look of a ‘natural’ woman, so to speak. I thought about it for awhile and decided, sure… I’ll give it a go. Razorburn sucks ass and then I won’t have to worry that he’s fantasizing about Sailor Moons little sister or something of that nature.
I never could quite give up shaving my legs though. Its much like any other addiction… I could just never get through the withdrawl period. I’ll go 4 or 5 days and then think “Uck… my legs are all sharp!” and immediately take the razor to them… so they never really get the opportunity to grow to a nice, soft length.
My underarms I go back and forth on, but in the summer I’d rather they were shaved, otherwise they feel weird.
I think alot of what we, as women, do to our body hair is alot more for us than you boys think.
Never discount the practical.
However, my eyebrow plucking is completely a result of my own aesthetic leanings. I like high archs and a more defined angle, I think it makes my face look better. THough I admit, there are a few girls who just end up looking like Bozo’s neice after being left alone too long with a pair of tweezers and an eyebrow pencil.
Totally sexist, MHO: I like clean-shaven legs on a woman, pits are optional, but otherwise (not a hell of a lot more choices), I agree with the statement made by AHunter–“Ban the razor.”
I can handle hairy legs, they don’t bother me at all. But the pits shudder It totally removes any sexual attraction I might have felt. I feel like I’m looking at a man, she might as well have a penis. But anything else I’m cool.
OH OH what I really hate are women who pluck or otherwise alter their eyebrows. I think it looks really silly. There’s this woman whom I often see on the bus who litterly has absolutely no hair on her forehead, it having been removed, and she has drawn them in like this
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just like that!! I mean she might as well be an insect.
in the groin region I really don’t mind, but I find a nicely arranged ensemble quite becoming.
I’ll throw in my vote against overplucked eyebrows. That is just weird. Especially when someone pluckes them into oblivion, then draws them back on with an eyebrow pencil, and you see the stubble underneath.
That’s just [silly[/].
brother rat…I guess I’d look like a guy to you :)! I rarely shave my pits, though I have very little pit hair anyway. I figure it’s there for a reason, & it doesn’t bother me. Like malkavia says, a lot of what we women do is more for us than for the guys.
I shave everything else, though. I think that very blonde women look great with downy leg hair, especially with a tan. And I don’t think other women look unattractive unshaved. But I just cannot accept my own unshaved legs, I’m a slave to my razor (and Nair.)
Fuzzy, smooth, no big deal. Just one thing though. It’s either
1]Don’t bother shaving your legs OR
2]Wear stockings/hose
Even opaque hose is not opaque enough to overcome the trapped spider look. Ick. If you want to wear stockings, please shave first.
But other than that, have as much hair as you want. Hairy legs, fuzzy underarms, bushy eyebrows, like I care. Heck, keep your mustache, wax it up into a little handlebar if you want.
Oh, and the clean shaven look all over can be a bit…disconcerting. Quite pleasant on occation, and affords a better view, but still…eh, not so much a good thing. But really, by the time I’d find that out, like it’d matter.(“Oh, I’m sorry. You’ve shaved your girl-parts clean as a whistle. I must be going now.” Yeah, that’ll happen.)
Add me to the rank of “follicular freedom fighters.”
I owe my appreciation of feminine hair to a latina I dated in college, Dawn. She had the finest, sikiest sable fuzz growing at the nape of her neck, down her sideburns, in a little streak in her armpits, a fine line running from her navel down…
I better stop now.
I’ve since moved on (indirectly) to a lady of mediterranean descent, whose nether hair is as coarse as brillo from shaving daily for decades. She insists on shaving her legs (from her shins up to her tan line), but the rest she leaves natural for me.
And Sir Rhosis, let me remind you that the fur in an armpit is virtually indistinguishable from the fur in the analogous “leg pit.” You don’t gross out when you see a woman’s pubic hair just because a man has pubic hair too, do you? It’s the same difference, just about two feet higher. Concentrate on that fact the next time you see a woman’s hairy pit, and then see what happens!
The only objection I have is when it gets long enough in certain places to encroach on certain orifices during certain activities, and cause abrasions to both parties. But the careful application of scissors is enough to take care of that.
I’m rather indifferent on the matter, but I would like to say this; more body hair on women can indicate the presence of more testosterone. Testosterone increases sex drive.
I think you’ve misattributed someone else’s “gross out” comments at pit hair to me. My post only said pit hair was optional–it doesn’t bother me one way or another.
This is a good subject. Now, for whatever reason, I find that REALLY hairy legs on ANYONE is simply unattractive, too animal-like. Actually, too much hair period is not very hot. I don’t have a lot of body hair myself, so I don’t prefer really hairy people anyways. Hairy armpits are of no concern, and although I am sure there are people out there with pit fetishes, I don’t know any of them. I certainly do not have one. Thus, who cares about hairy pits?
I sympathize with those women who find the chore of shaving legs a ‘pain’. Shaving one’s face is a ‘pain’ too, but I cannot think of anything LESS attractive than a dude with one of those long-crazy-nasty-barbarian-type beards. Just me though.
I have found that I prefer a pubic region with a look circa early 1980’s playboy (big muff, but not wildly so) And a nice light line of stomach hair on a woman is waaayy hot. I once had a girlfriend who had a small patch of hair along her lower back, near her butt, and that was waaayy hot too.
And I once slept with a chimpanzee. . . .oops wrong thread.
Okay, hold on a minute. I have plenteous, dark body hair due to my Eastern European ancestry (I’m a chick). While I don’t have hair all over my body, let’s just say that in certain regions the hair is…copious. My “bikini area” extends past my groin and onto my thighs (upper and inner), which makes wearing a bathingsuit a bitch, because I WILL NOT take a razor to that area (razorburn in the crotch is something I will not put myself through EVER AGAIN). I usually use depilatory cream, but you’re not supposed to use it really close to your nether regions. I finally found a bathingsuit last summer that has attached ‘shorts’.
When I don’t shave my pits for a while, the hair grows in all soft and poofy ( a friend once described it as “luxurious”). But my legs? A different matter. Once in high school, I didn’t shave my legs all winter. The hair grew out straight. My socks constantly pulled at the hair around my ankles. And wearing hose was absolutely painful. How is it that guys aren’t bothered by socks? Do they not pull as much because guy’s leg hair is usually curly?
I for one dislike having more-than-average body hair. A guy I dated for a while had light-colored armpit hair, and when I grew mine out before having it waxed I was dismayed to find that my pit hair was darker and there was more of mine than of his! I remember in high school sneaking glances at other girls as we changed clothes or got into swim suits, and being green with envy because their crotch hair didn’t extend out past the line of their underwear like mine did. Plus to top it all off, I have sensitive skin & can’t shave that often, and I always seem to get an ingrown hair or three when I depilatorize my groin. And man does that hair itch when it’s growing back! Especially where my underwear rubs against my skin…wait, stop, too much information. Sorry. Didn’t mean to gross anybody out.
And the real kicker is that the hair on my head is thinning because I have a thyroid imbalance! I don’t have bald patches (yet), but I can tell it’s thinner. You never realize how much your hair means to you until you see large clumps of it in your comb. Why couldn’t it be my crotch hair falling out instead?
My leg hair is irritated by socks, and my fellow guy friends have noticed and complained of the same.
As for my feelings on the shaving thing, I much prefer the unshaven woman. It’s natural and it shows that the woman is comfortable with herself and not a slave to arbitrary social conventions.
