# I think it's time to embrace women not shaving **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 10, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163 "2015-11-10T03:17:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163/1 "2015-11-10T03:17:04Z")
These (NSFW) pictures from Huffpost article linked in the spoiler box the show just how erotic and beautiful a woman’s unshaven legs and body can be. It’s a garden, you need to let it grow. Huffpost article here [14 Photos Show How Liberating It Can Be To Go All Natural](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/14-photos-show-how-liberating-it-can-be-to-go-all-natural-nsfw_563cf236e4b0411d3070e08f) (NSFW) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163/2 "2015-11-10T04:57:23Z")
Eeeww, no. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163/3 "2015-11-10T05:07:29Z")
I’m sorry but that crap is gross. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163/4 "2015-11-10T05:18:03Z")
If they are comfortable in their own skin and fur and keep the insects down to a tolerable level I don’t see a problem. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163/5 "2015-11-10T05:18:33Z")
I can deal with the armpit hair; it seems like kind of a balance to pubic hair, which I’m cool with. Not that I’m personally going to grow out my armpit hair, but meh. Somehow, though, the leg hair squicks me the hell out. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163/6 "2015-11-10T05:54:41Z")
My wife HAS to shave her pits. It was part of her marital vows. ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163/7 "2015-11-10T05:58:18Z")
Armpit hair is exciting, leg hair I could get used to, and pubic hair, frankly, drives me wild with lust. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163/8 "2015-11-10T06:46:09Z")
“Erotic and beautiful” were not words springing to mind as I looked at the images. To each their own, I guess, but it did nothing for me (public hair, I don’t mind so much as the rest of it). ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163/9 "2015-11-10T06:52:03Z")
> [@astro](#): > > These (NSFW) pictures from Huffpost article linked in the spoiler box the show just how erotic and beautiful a woman’s unshaven legs and body can be. Could not disagree more. ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163/10 "2015-11-10T07:07:12Z")
At this point in the history of the Internet, anyone who hasn’t accepted that different people have different feelings about what looks good, and that nothing is _objectively_ ugly or beautiful, is just willfully obtuse. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163/11 "2015-11-10T07:13:20Z")
Bush on the cooch is a must. Maybe because of that’s what the models had in the Playboys I saw in the 70’s? Or maybe the first one I had you could have knit a sweater with? My wife shaved hers once because she was super pissed at me and knew I didn’t like baby vag. All that other fur on those girls is a deal breaker. Tarantula babes are freaky unattractive. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163/12 "2015-11-10T07:20:26Z")
Soembody take the booze away from **Astro** , he’s had enough. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163/13 "2015-11-10T07:22:27Z")
> [@WF\_Tomba](#): > > Armpit hair is exciting, leg hair I could get used to, and pubic hair, frankly, drives me wild with lust. +1 ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163/14 "2015-11-10T07:57:50Z")
The less hair, the better. Then again, I’m just a boring old straight cis male. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163/15 "2015-11-10T09:08:48Z")
No. Juuuuust, no. Given I grew up spankin’ it to late 70s \*Playboy \* and early 80s porn I don’t mind and kinda like a _little_ 70s-style bush. But armpit hair and leg hair?!? Literally makes me want to puke. Guys are hairy, chicks ain’t… ---
**Author:** ![Memnon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163/16 "2015-11-10T09:14:49Z")
I’m all for women not shaving provided they’re all for being single. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163/17 "2015-11-10T09:16:47Z")
Not a fan of armpit hair or leg hair on women. Not much of a fan of it on men either, frankly, but it’s usually covered up, so that’s not an issue most of the time. Pubic hair I’m okay with, as long as it’s not rampant. Not that anybody should be accommodating for my eclectic tastes. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163/18 "2015-11-10T09:25:09Z")
Long ago I dated a guy who thought armpit hair was very sexy. Well, sorry. I don’t like it on myself. I’ve never really needed to shave my legs\*, and I am not shaving my snatch except every once in awhile, for science. But the pit hair has got to go. If somebody likes it on herself, fine. Not me. I don’t even have that much, or rather, I wouldn’t, but never mind, it’s gone. \*The tradeoff here was unfortunately blonde eyebrow/eyelashes. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163/19 "2015-11-10T11:31:44Z")
I think there was some trimming in some of those pictures. Not to mention that only a few of them showed hairy legs. I don’t mind a little leg hair, but at some point too much hair would turn me off. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163/20 "2015-11-10T12:33:58Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > Guys are hairy, chicks ain’t… Actually, some chicks are hairy- as has been proven. No women would ever need to shave, it would be a non-issue, if your assertion that “chicks ain’t” had any grounding in reality. > [@Tithonus](#): > > I’m all for women not shaving provided they’re all for being single. Wait, so not only can they not date _you_ (they’ll be so disappointed to hear, I’m sure), but they can’t date _anybody_? Because you decree it? I wouldn’t say that I’m into women who go unshaven, but it’s not a turn-off either. I’ve seen some women make it very sexy, others not so much. It’s never been a deal breaker in and of itself. Certainly, if I began a relationship with a woman who, during the course of the relationship, decided to change her grooming habits, it wouldn’t be an issue for me. But, sure, it’s an aesthetic. Being an aesthetic, it’s perfectly reasonable that some people may have a preference for or against it. I have no issue with anyone having a preference against it. But when it comes to grown adults suddenly reverting back to age 14 “Eeeeew! Gross!!! Did you _see_ that???”, unable to refrain from comment (even if they believe they’re commenting discreetly to a friend), frankly, it’s pathetic. Get over yourself. It’s a human body. Grow up. Pretty much the same as pointing and gawking at little people. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-its-time-to-embrace-women-not-shaving/737163.md?page=2)