I didn’t vote. I vastly prefer clean-shaven but I’ll be damned if the occasional fuzziness isn’t super-hot.
Beards are usually terrible, though, and I have never seen one I liked.
Clean-shaven looks good on almost everybody. A handful of guys look better with scruff. Some guys can pull off beards. Moustaches alone are almost universally creepy (“the molester 'stache”). And a soul patch is guaranteed to make you look like you’re a douchebag who missed a spot.
Depends on the guy. I’ve seen guys who looked just wrong with beards, and others who looked equally wrong without them.
It also depends on the beard. I’m in agreement with this:
…although I can also get behind something like this.
In general, I’m just in favor of hotness, whether it be fuzzy or smooth.
Beards are freakin’ hot! Hotter than glasses, even.
The multiple choice thing makes it a bit harder to tell, but so far it appears that SDMB women, or at least those born after 1965, prefer clean-shaven men. I think this is likely to be the opposite of the OP’s hypothesis (judging from the linked thread) but it is what I would have predicted, frankly. I’ve seen some scientific studies showing that women, on average, dislike male facial hair, but damned if I can find them right now…
I used to be only a fan of clean shaven faces, but I’ve met a couple of guys in the last few years that have brought me around to thinking beards look good on some, too.
According to wiki the government’s official definition of Baby Boomers is those born from 1946-1964. Immediately after that is Gen X which ends around 1982, so anyone born after the Baby Boomers but before the Millennials (aka Gen Y) fits in there - basically if you were born in the 60s but after 1964 or during 70s you’re Gen X.
They are Gen X. Gen X follows the Boomers.
I wanted to see it more by generation than doing it “under 20” and “20-25” etc. There would be a ton of options if I split it up by decades even. Since there are so many options regarding types of facial hair, I wanted to keep the age options minimal, while still having them in there.
Most people don’t have any problem with the generations thing. Most people know what generation they are in.
I’m Gen X (32). I used to prefer clean-shaven guys, but in hindsight it’s because so few guys I knew then could pull off decent face fuzz.
Now, it totally depends on the guy. Ex had a goatee, it suited him. Current BF shaves whenever it gets itchy, which is at about a half inch. I prefer him fuzzy.
I think it’s not so much that we *prefer *clean-shaven as that it’s so very easy to fuck up facial hair.