# men shaving their testicles **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 27, 2011, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869 "2011-04-27T06:11:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869/21 "2011-04-27T13:49:18Z")
Visual inch. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869/22 "2011-04-27T13:59:42Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > Nit, but if you’re a clinical researcher you should know that it’s their _scrotum_ they’re shaving - not their testicles. Unless they’re exceptionally thorough. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869/23 "2011-04-27T14:15:45Z")
Two healthy/fit people with shaved parts = Feels a lot better to have sex and oral sex. A LOT better. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869/24 "2011-04-27T14:46:11Z")
Another vote for sensation. Much like any other part of the body, if it is covered with hair the efficacy of the nerves in the skin is reduced. Also, my wife likes it, and I wish her to spend as much time as possible in the neighborhood, so I’ll keep it tidy. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869/25 "2011-04-27T15:40:50Z")
I have enjoyed the look and feel of myself shaved bare, but it puts the wife off. For the same reasons, she only trims herself, darn it. But, beggars can’t be chosers. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869/26 "2011-04-27T15:46:20Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Isn’t that an Elton John lyric? Yep, it’s in that song “Don’t Let Your Son Go Down On Me”. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869/27 "2011-04-27T15:48:22Z")
So all those guys dancing and singing in the revival of “Hair” have shaved their balls? ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869/28 "2011-04-27T15:53:26Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > I don’t think of myself as old (but I’m 42; maybe I am). But this just strikes me as… unnecessary. It doesn’t seem to me that back in the day we suffered from a lack of BJs due to unshaven scrotes. My wife has never complained about the hair. But then I never understood men doing the chest-waxing thing either unless he was a swimmer. > > And while I appreciate a trim lawn on women, a complete lack of hair strikes me as way too pre-pubescent to be sexy. > > And while I’m at it, Get the hell off my lawn! I’m a decade younger, but the “pe-pubescent look” that is now the currency of the realm feels very weird to me. I dont think trying to look like a twink is gonna improve my sexyness in any way. I dont shave, and I have a problem considering hairless guys as guys. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869/29 "2011-04-27T15:56:19Z")
Sucking on and licking hairy testicles is not fun and I’m much, much less likely (i.e. will not) to do this if there is a forest down there. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869/30 "2011-04-27T16:05:45Z")
[There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum. It’s breathtaking.](http://www.hark.com/clips/ydxhjwslfh-dr-evil-discussing-shaved-scrotum) ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869/31 "2011-04-27T18:02:00Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > I’m a decade younger, but the “pe-pubescent look” that is now the currency of the realm feels very weird to me. I dont think trying to look like a twink is gonna improve my sexyness in any way. > I dont shave, and I have a problem considering hairless guys as guys. This pre-pubescent argument comes up every time genital shaving comes up. It’s been debunked. It might feel weird to you, and that is a valid opinion, but shaved adult genitals or shaved adult anythings do not look similar to hairless pre-pubescent human bits. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869/32 "2011-04-27T18:16:34Z")
You can’t “debunk” an opinion. ---
**Author:** ![howye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@howye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howye)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869/33 "2011-04-27T18:33:09Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > [There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum. It’s breathtaking.](http://www.hark.com/clips/ydxhjwslfh-dr-evil-discussing-shaved-scrotum) Came to the thread to add this if it wasn’t here already. Thank you for your public service. I have nothing to add to the subject, other than I have enough problems with that bit under my nose. Hats off to y’all who can handle shearing the undercarriage. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869/34 "2011-04-27T18:35:02Z")
I’ll speak on behalf of Mr. Horseshoe, who will be turning 30 this summer for your demographic info-gathering. He shaved himself for me as a surprise (for my 30th b-day, as a matter of fact) and was, well, delighted with my delight. He’s kept up with it since then despite my never specifically asking me to. In fact, shit, he’s more thorough about maintenance than I am! So anyway, yeah, one more for the “fun time is more fun” chorus. ---
**Author:** ![Anticounterrevolutionary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Anticounterrevolutionary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anticounterrevolutionary)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869/35 "2011-04-27T18:37:22Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Like everything else, it began with young urban gay guys, I think in the late 80s to early 90s. Then the “metrosexuals” took it from there. Same with eyebrow maintenance, which I hate. It may go back a little farther into history than the 80’s. Ball-shaving is recommended in the Muslim _Book of Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)_ written in 817. > [@](#): > > Abu Huraira reported: Five are the acts of fitra: circumcision, removing the pubes, clipping the mustache, cutting the nails, plucking the hair under the armpits. Personally, I find depilation to be a sign of cleanliness. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869/36 "2011-04-27T18:52:32Z")
Since much of this is a matter of opinion, I think it is better suited to IMHO than GQ. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869/37 "2011-04-27T19:05:53Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Just wait until you are about 50, and your eyebrows begin to look like demented caterpillars, you’ll change your tune. My husband is 26 and his eyebrows already look like demented caterpillars if he doesn’t trim them - he also gets a monobrow if he doesn’t keep on top of it. He also shaves his junk. When I asked him why (I’m not too bothered either way) he said it’s more comfortable because the hairs don’t get caught in his underpants and whatnot. I also think he likes strutting his newly shaved package around, which I think is the primary reason he does it. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869/38 "2011-04-27T19:29:01Z")
Agreed. I shave my boys (or at least clip the hair way back) so it doesn’t get caught in my foreskin. I gotta big beer belly so clipping becomes an adventure in avoiding pain! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Any\_Other\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@Any\_Other\_Name](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Any_Other_Name)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869/39 "2011-04-27T19:40:05Z")
I can understand trimming back the brush a bit, electric hair trimmers are a safe way to do so. But taking a razor to scrotum seems as risky as an old man shaving his very wrinkled face. Or do most guys use an electric razor? Though obviously not the guys that are shaving in the shower. Dont want to get too graphic, but just how is all this shearing getting done, safely? ---
**Author:** ![Marc\_Xenos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Marc\_Xenos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marc_Xenos)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869/40 "2011-04-27T19:59:05Z")
> [@Anticounterrevolutionary](#): > > It may go back a little farther into history than the 80’s. Ball-shaving is recommended in the Muslim _Book of Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)_ written in 817. I find it an amusing contradiction that growing hair all over one’s chin is a sign of manhood, but shaving his balls is a sign of purification? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-shaving-their-testicles/579869.md?page=3)