I had some sore lower back muscles from a workout gone awry and I was soaking in a hot tub. I’m more of a “shower” guy than a “bath” guy, but it was necessary for my aching back.
"From the corner of the tub, I heard “Yoo-hoo, Cellphone… Ceellphone! Over here! Look! Look!” It was my girlfriend’s razor.
I picked it up and looked at it’s sad, little wimpy blades and wondered how awful that must feel against skin. The I looked at my woolen limbs. They arent so bad, I’m dark-haired but not particularly shaggy. Then I thouhgt “How bad could it be?” So in the interest of scientific discovery, I shaved a square off my left shin.
Neat! I got a whole checkerboard pattern on my left leg! But got lazy for the right and gave it more of a mohawk, leaving a strip running from knee to ankle. Cool.
But then I thought about the gym. It would raise a few eyeborws to turn up like that. So okay… I shaved off everything below the knee, my excuse will be “I’m taking up competitive cycling. All the cool cyclist do it!”
So now I have slick, smooth, and freshly moisturized gams!
I feel… aerodynamic! And manly! I still feel manly. You bet I do! :: beats on chest:: See how manly I still am?
Quick! Change the sheets on your bed to fresh ones and go lie down before the stubble starts! There’s nothing like smooth legs on fresh clean sheets. Mmmmmmm…
Whoops. This is suppsosed to be in “Mundane and Pointless…” Is there a way to report your own posts? Can this be moved? If not, I can make it into a poll about whether or not I should shave above the knee…
Oh definitely! Did you shave the tops of your feet and your ankles? It’s also nice to rub the top of your ankle/foot on the opposing calf. Maybe our curves work better there, but the smooth cool skin contact on the ankle and foot feels really yummy.
(Seriously, I don’t usually sit around and think of these things, but I only shave about six times a year, so I notice them more than always-shaved women do!)
The easiest way to report your own post is to report a post which isn’t yours, and explain why you did so. For example, you could have reported WhyNot’s first post in the thread with the message "whoops, this thread is supposed to be in "mundane and Pointless . . . " Can it be moved?
I reported one of your posts, so sooner or later it will likely be moved.
I once shaved a patch on my thigh. It was wonderfully smooth. I enjoyed it. If I didn’t wear shorts daily, I might have the balls to shave my legs completely just to experience it. Now, even though I don’t have the balls to shave my legs, it doesn’t mean I wouldn’t shave my chest if hair ever grew there. I’m 25 and have a few hairs sprouting up in the very upper regions of my chest - more like rogue neck hairs gone south. They are manageable by plucking; but if anymore grow I’ll have to resort to shaving/waxing the chest. I intend to maintain my perfect ephebe body as long as possible.
Thanks, I did just that after checking out “About This Board”. Hopefully it’ll get shunted over to the more apporpirate veune as moderators log on this happily-lazy Sunday.
I shaved my ankles, but my feet are relatively hairless, except for a few whiskers on the knuckle of my big toe. I think I’d risk sutting myself with that nasty girlie razor if I ried shaving there.
Walking around in just my boxers feel really different, Breezier in a less resistance sort of way. I want to go swimming, I bet it would feel super-slick through the water!
I could tell you about hairy girly toes, but the Estrogen Cabal would probably hunt me down. (It’s not that they’re hairy, per se, but there are random hairs here and there, and since the goal is Total Prepubescent Hairlessness, many of us do just skim over the toes and the top of the arch, yes.)
It’s quite odd the difference it makes to a bloke - 'im indoors has now twice defluffed his legs (he uses cream instead of a razor) for the purposes of his skimpy “Rocky Horror Show” outfit. I told him hairy legs and fishnets just didn’t work…
Anyway, the first thing he said to me after he’d got rid of the hair was that he suddenly realised why I spent so long in the bath!
Nah, no seduction here. It was winter time about 6 years back and I was just getting started in cycling. Maybe it was winter boredom, but one day I just decided, “Hell, I’m going to shave my legs.”
Then, about a year after that, I just decided, “Hell, if I shaved my legs, I’m going to shave my arms.”
Then, this year, I decided, “Hmmm, I have shaved my legs and my arms. I think I will shave my underarms, too.”
My leg stubble comes in after two days. My arms take like a week to get stubble and even then, it is pretty fine. It’s not itchy at all. There were a couple of times that it felt itchy after coming out of the shower but I think that was due to some extremely dry air or bad soap. The first time I shaved my underarms, it was pretty prickly but it doesn’t poke now for some reason.
1 to 3 days for most people. I’ve never heard of itching from leg hair growing back. It’s the more senstive parts that are supposed to itch. According to a male coworker chest hair itches, but I’m going to have to take his word for it.
So Swallowed, was there blood loss? I still have a faint scar on my shin from the first time I shaved my legs as a girl. Luckily I’m fair enough that no one notices.
Years ago, I used to shave for competitive swimming, about once or twice a year. And a few days later the leg stubble itched abominably. It was like little bugs crawling up and down my legs every time I wore long pants. And of course, any time they brushed up against someone who was interested in me brushing up against them, they yelped from the pricklies.
Mind you, my leg (and arm) hair is rather nonexistent even unshaven, so perhaps the itchiness isn’t as bad for men with hirsute ape legs…
Actually, I had to slather on moisturizer – but because of the dehydration from chlorinated pool water, not because I knew it’d be needed to stop the buggly itches.
