# How common is keeping your groin shaved? (North America) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 14, 2009, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028 "2009-04-14T03:16:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fell\_through\_the\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9adbd/32.png) [@Fell\_through\_the\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fell_through_the_Ice)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028/1 "2009-04-14T03:16:32Z")
Wondering what percentage of people do this? I know that strippers and pron actors do this, of course, but so do other people for a variety of other reasons, like keeping cleaner, drier, cooler, etc. At a large party with a late-night naked hot-tub at a friends house, would a totally shaved person be unusual? ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028/2 "2009-04-14T03:17:35Z")
Male or female? ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028/3 "2009-04-14T03:22:46Z")
It depends on age and gender, mostly. Just from anecdotal evidence from friends and acquaintances, I’d say between 60% and 80% of women aged 16-30 at the very least trim a lot down there, or shave completely. For the same age range for men…no clue. I know several guys trim a little bit, but not nearly to the extent women do, on average. Usually we just cut the pubes back a little bit out of a courtesy to the fairer sex and to give us that “virtual inch,” as it were. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Fell\_through\_the\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9adbd/32.png) [@Fell\_through\_the\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fell_through_the_Ice)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028/4 "2009-04-14T04:02:04Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > Male or female? Either. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028/5 "2009-04-14T04:39:12Z")
Yes, a totally shaved male would be unusual. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028/6 "2009-04-14T04:46:02Z")
I shaved my balls once. I did it for Science.[sup]1[/sup] I didn’t like it. [sub]1. OK, my roommate in college bet me $50 I wouldn’t do it. Easy money.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Fastidiots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@Fastidiots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fastidiots)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028/7 "2009-04-14T05:58:28Z")
My SO told me when we started dating that I needed to start trimming, and I told her she’d have to stop shaving. Something about a bald cooch squicks me out. Eventually she would shave me entirely for entertainment in the shower, and to this day I demand a mohawk in return. I’d say amongst college men you’d see 60-80% trimming, and 5-10% shaving. ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028/8 "2009-04-14T07:00:50Z")
I did once have a conversation with my (gay) friend about shaving - he had recently done it. Said it wasn’t too itchy, but that his boyfriends liked it. He did note that everything looked bigger with the hair gone… Just my own random thought - is liking a shaved groin in any way analogous to liking one that doesn’t grow hair at all (yet)? ---
**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028/9 "2009-04-14T07:02:53Z")
Male in late 20s here. I don’t shave entirely but I trim my pubic region and armpits. Less sweat, easier to clean plus makes my little friend look bigger 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Fastidiots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@Fastidiots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fastidiots)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028/10 "2009-04-14T07:18:47Z")
> [@Dog80](#): > > Male in late 20s here. I don’t shave entirely but I trim my pubic region and armpits. Less sweat, easier to clean plus makes my little friend look bigger 😉 I find an entirely shave netheregion _increases_ sweat, or certainly my awareness of it. And to two posts above, I think that yes, a bald crotch on a woman looks too prepubescent - though I’d be very very slow to accuse someone that likes it to be pedophilic in any way. ---
**Author:** ![sweeteviljesus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@sweeteviljesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweeteviljesus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028/11 "2009-04-14T14:24:20Z")
\Have you ever seen the sight of a freshly-shorn scrotum? I suggest you try it. It’s breathtaking.\ ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028/12 "2009-04-14T15:09:25Z")
> [@bengangmo](#): > > Just my own random thought - is liking a shaved groin in any way analogous to liking one that doesn’t grow hair at all (yet)? Eh, I suspect it’s more closely analogous to liking shaved legs or underarms, at least on women. [Speaking of which…](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/625/who-decided-women-should-shave-their-legs-and-underarms) In the case of men, well, some men are naturally a lot hairier than others (e.g. hairy vs. hairless chests), and some straight women and gay men prefer more, some prefer less, hair on their men. There may not be an explanation beyond “Different strokes for different folks.” ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028/13 "2009-04-14T15:12:51Z")
> [@sweeteviljesus](#): > > \Have you ever seen the sight of a freshly-shorn scrotum? I suggest you try it. It’s breathtaking.\ I assume you mean breathtaking in a bad way. I once had my scrotum shaved for a surgery (a knee surgery - what was the guy thinking when he shaved me?) and it looked like I had a pair of hairless moles caught in my crotch. Large, manly hairless moles, mind you. Not pretty to me and it itched like hell as the hair grew back. ---
**Author:** ![Nethinim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nethinim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nethinim)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028/14 "2009-04-14T15:32:58Z")
Women primarily shave/trim for cosmetic purposes. It just looks unsightly to have fur sticking out of of your panties or bathing suit. Men tend not to shave/trim, they usually do not have as much hair to trim. The area is much to difficult to shave anyway. My SO was simply a very bushy lady, but preffers to simply trim a bit. She conceeds that all that hair tends to get in the way. I would agree. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028/15 "2009-04-14T15:38:08Z")
If went completely bald, I’d have a odd looking circularish bald patch down there between my fuzzy belly and thighs…so that would entail shaving all-over to compensate, which is a considerably bigger investment of grooming time… ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028/16 "2009-04-14T20:23:53Z")
> [@sweeteviljesus](#): > > \Have you ever seen the sight of a freshly-shorn scrotum? I suggest you try it. It’s breathtaking.\ You need to watch those Zoroastrians. They’re tricky. ---
**Author:** ![mrpayday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@mrpayday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrpayday)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028/17 "2009-04-15T07:12:50Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > If went completely bald, I’d have a odd looking circularish bald patch down there between my fuzzy belly and thighs…so that would entail shaving all-over to compensate, which is a considerably bigger investment of grooming time… I did see some bad pr0n with a guy looking like that, the equivalent of a neckbeard i suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028/18 "2009-04-15T07:53:12Z")
I shaved once (I’m a man), and afterward I felt like a little baby. One must consider whether he is a grower or a shower before taking that step. That said, 5 inch pubic hair is rarely sexy, and a trim might be in order. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028/19 "2009-04-15T08:07:24Z")
> [@Nethinim](#): > > Men tend not to shave/trim, they usually do not have as much hair to trim. Men don’t have as much pubic hair as women?? If that’s your point, I’m going to disagree. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028/20 "2009-04-15T08:15:56Z")
Male. I shaved everything once just for shits and giggles and I have to say it was soooo itchy I almost clawed my eyes out. Never again. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-keeping-your-groin-shaved-north-america/493028.md?page=2)