# Men, how do you shave hair around your genitals? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 30, 2014, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-do-you-shave-hair-around-your-genitals/703044 "2014-10-30T18:59:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![MrsTime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@MrsTime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrsTime)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-do-you-shave-hair-around-your-genitals/703044/81 "2014-11-07T22:22:27Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Here you have it folks, **MrsTime** has never watched a baseball game. No I haven’t but I understand men get away with a lot more than a woman does. They think nothing of “adjusting” in front of the world. ---
**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-do-you-shave-hair-around-your-genitals/703044/82 "2014-11-07T22:25:01Z")
Had mine shaved once only, when I had a double hernia operation, and I didn’t do it myself. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-do-you-shave-hair-around-your-genitals/703044/83 "2014-11-08T05:11:40Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > What if it were an emergency? What if shaving Jennifer Lawrence’s pussy was the only way to stop the chupacabra apocalypse, and nobody else was around? What THEN, hotshot? I’d have to take one for the team. _Grumble grumble_ 😉 > [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > I’m covered with a thick, luxurious pelt from head to toe. Shaving my genitals would create an unnatural looking wasteland. That’s why I avoid manscaping of any form below the neck. You and me, both, buddy. > [@grude](#): > > I think it started in porn because it made it easier to see the uh action, and easier for the actors to clean up after. I was thinking about this from another thread. Actually, I think it is the natural result of the shaving process for ladies starting with underarms, then legs, and migrating inward as bathing suits became smaller and smaller. Don’t want any of that “unsightly hair” sticking out around the [del]dental floss[/del] g-string. Don’t want a bulge in the panties. Not sure where the trend for men started, but shaving chests was already a thing - body-building going mainstream? Magnum PI had a furry chest. > [@AnthonyElite](#): > > The thrill of scalding hot wax on your…what? It doesn’t have to be scalding? I’m reminded of a clip from Howard Stern’s show. He had as a guest a lady who let her father wax her butt. So they did it on the show. He was not trained in any way. So he didn’t realize the experts apply wax and then paper, and use the paper to pull the wax. He was spreading the wax, letting it dry, then trying to dig it with his fingernails to pull it. :smack: > [@DrCube](#): > > and once every month or two I take clippers and mow the rest down to a reasonable length so I don’t have a giant unkempt bush down there obscuring the important parts. Just how big is your unkempt bush? Or alternately, how small your important bits? Okay, question. I once had an issue requiring some intervention and trimmed the area with scissors. I was then subjected to a couple weeks of torture as the pointy bits stabbed various places until the hair grew out and those fell out. So, do you have to deal with that? How do you avoid it? Keeping bare would be one way, I suppose, but the back and forth method seems risky. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-do-you-shave-hair-around-your-genitals/703044/84 "2014-11-08T12:12:14Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Snip-snip here, snip-snip there, and a couple of tra-la-las. Well … a little Disney music is probably OK. But, be careful before involving any Heavy Metal or Hard Rock. A friend of mine was once experimenting with a slingshot and nailed me with a hard rock right in the worst possible place. YOWCH! Best to just leave the rest of the story to the imagination. It wasn’t pretty. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![xythenz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a88e57/32.png) [@xythenz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xythenz)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-do-you-shave-hair-around-your-genitals/703044/85 "2014-11-08T13:43:24Z")
I shave with minor frequency for convince. Oddly enough, my girlfriend actually enjoys the sensation of pubic hair. However she does not enjoy how stray pubes seem to get everywhere, so once a month, or maybe longer, I shave em down. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-do-you-shave-hair-around-your-genitals/703044/86 "2014-11-08T15:12:02Z")
> [@MaverocK](#): > > **Men, how do you shave hair around your genitals?** Currently, I don’t. Maybe I live a boring life, but bedroom romance for me never starts with me hearing, “WTF Did You DO To Your Dick And Your Balls!?” :smack: > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > What if it were an emergency? What if shaving Jennifer Lawrence’s pussy was the only way to stop the chupacabra apocalypse, and nobody else was around? What THEN, hotshot? I’d look her in the eye, tell her that I’ve always enjoyed her acting, ask her if she had a good life & if she has enjoyed it, and then gently break the news to her that _ **we are all a-gonna die** _. I don’t know her, I’m not in a relationship with her, and I’m certainly not going to Toro-Mower some poor terrified young woman stranger’s Hoo-Ha just to save the world. (I’m pretty sure Tony Stark has a suit of armor for that anyway.) Look, I’m not going to suddenly start this. The day the woman who is at that stage of a relationship with me leads me upstairs and says playfully, “…you know? There’s something I’ve always wanted to try & I think it would be fun. For me, I have a fantasy… and I’d like to see you to try some shaving” is the day I’ll think about it. Then, with a trimmer, a can of Barbasol, a Gillette Fusion, and a glass of wine, she’ll show me _what_ she likes & _how_ she likes it. > [@DingoelGringo](#): > > Had mine shaved once only, when I had a double hernia operation, and I didn’t do it myself. Waitress…? Hold la Hernia… ---
**Author:** ![santiago42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@santiago42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/santiago42)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-do-you-shave-hair-around-your-genitals/703044/87 "2014-11-08T20:52:56Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > What if it were an emergency? What if shaving Jennifer Lawrence’s pussy was the only way to stop the chupacabra apocalypse, and nobody else was around? What THEN, hotshot? I’ve never shaved “down there”. However, if Jennifer Lawrence asked me to go any where near that area for any reason whatsoever, I believe I’m man enough to grit my teeth and do what needs to be done. Because that’s just the kind of man I am. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-do-you-shave-hair-around-your-genitals/703044/88 "2014-11-08T20:53:39Z")
> [@Aghris](#): > > Hence the necessity of maintaining it. I’ve only rarely been in your situation, so I’m no expert, but isn’t oral much more enjoyable if you don’t have to fish tiny hairs from between your teeth? I know that if I’m sucking some guy’s balls, I prefer them clean shaven. I can’t imagine that to be any different with women. > > Also, when my guy has not at least trimmed his ass, my cock is raw after a while of too much friction. Does that not happen with vaginas as well? Or am I getting too graphic here and venturing into TMI area? I don’t want to lick an 8 yo. I’m just not attracted: I want a woman dammit… And without going into details, physically, the area of interaction is not hairy: We don’t get sore (at least, not from hair) and I don’t get hair in my teeth. Taking it, I don’t really enjoy oral, so the issue of the original post xxxxx’x xxxx xx. I do get my face into it: it’s a kinda strange sensation but not unpleasant. I see that the term “mustache ride” has been re-defined to refer to the Blokes moustache! – that’s not how I would understand it… which takes us back to the original post: I shave my face. My partner doesn’t like the sensation of whiskers here, there or anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Obscure\_Pop-culture\_Reference](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9de0a6/32.png) [@Obscure\_Pop-culture\_Reference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obscure_Pop-culture_Reference)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-do-you-shave-hair-around-your-genitals/703044/89 "2014-11-10T07:19:18Z")
Just an odd info I came upon some time ago. The custom of shaving nether regions is much older than some posters suppose. Arab historian Usama bin Munqidh (1095 - 1188) reports this episode, he has heard about from an arab, owner of a public bath in Mara’s. A christian knight went to the bath and saw that the owner had shaven his groin. He was so impressed that wanted to be shaven and afterwards appreciated it so much that he asked the owner to shave his wife too. So he had a servant go home and bring the lady and stood there watching while the arab guy shave his wife’s privates. The bath owner end his story with this: “he even thanked me and paid for the service”.\* The purpose of this story, in Usama’s book “Kitab al-I’tibar”, is to show how christians had neither jealousy nor sense of honor, eve though they were fierce warriors, but as far as this thread goes, it shows that around 1100 AD, in the Middle East it was quite common for arab men to shave their genitals and that some europeans were experimenting with it. I don’t have time for a research, but recall reading in a book about some famous prostitute in Roman or Byzantine times shaving her pubic hair. I would guess that the practice of shaving pubic area is really old: once men started shaving their beards it was just matter of time before somebody started with other hair patches. regards \*source: Jonathan Phillips, “Holy Warriors. A modern History of the Crusades”, 2009. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-do-you-shave-hair-around-your-genitals/703044/90 "2014-11-10T14:25:43Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > Look, I’m not going to suddenly start this. The day the woman who is at that stage of a relationship with me leads me upstairs and says playfully, “…you know? There’s something I’ve always wanted to try & I think it > would be fun. For me, I have a fantasy… and I’d like to see you to try some shaving” is the day I’ll think about it. Then, with a trimmer, a can of Barbasol, a Gillette Fusion, and a glass of wine, > she’ll show me _what_ she likes & _how_ she likes it. How \*you \*doing? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-do-you-shave-hair-around-your-genitals/703044/91 "2014-11-10T21:28:00Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > What if it were an emergency? What if shaving Jennifer Lawrence’s pussy was the only way to stop the chupacabra apocalypse, and nobody else was around? What THEN, hotshot? Well… OK. But just this once. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-do-you-shave-hair-around-your-genitals/703044/92 "2014-11-12T07:43:17Z")
Nobody’s addressed the question of the “porcupine effect”. Not for shaving, but for trimming. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-do-you-shave-hair-around-your-genitals/703044.md?page=4)