I tried to edit the message to make one sentence clearer, but edit has timed out.
revised version: No, besides the fact that it was just a vaguely relevant part of a counter argument about women probably not being pedos for liking guys who shave their face, since that is obviously ridiculous (and yet equally plausible).
I shaved my pubes off all of once, and I personally did think I looked like a child. My SO thought so too and was squicked out. No sex was had, because eeuch. (For context, we both work with children and don’t watch porn, if that matters. I think it might. I think no pubes just visually equates to “child” for me, because that’s the context that I have.)
What other people wanna do is entirely up to them.
I must say the sensitivity thing mentioned by Carmady sounds like a load of tosh to me. Hair removal causes all kinds of itching and irritation. I’ve removed permanently what I wanted gone, and that has increased sensitivity because there is no more itching, scratching and irritation. Also no more stubble. Obviously it will differ from person to person, but as a blanket statement of whether you care how it feels I think it makes no sense.
Probably a very good point about working the children and not watching porn.
That could increase the likelihood of thinking that.
Personally I find it odd that anyone would look at an adult with no pubes and think that, and yet I don’t work with children or see then naked normally and do look at porn.
I guess if it was rare for men to shave their faces that would also seem very odd if someone did and then had sex.
As for sensation, while I don’t shave my man patch generally, I often grow a beard that I shave off regularly, and when hair covers so completely you do not feel skin on skin contact, rather you just feel your own hairs being moved.
Skin on skin feels much nicer even if it is just my fingers touching my neck, it feels more sensitive despite the razor burn, and maybe because of it.
Razor burn?
Seriously? Obviously doing it wrong.
Hot water, FRESH razor blade, not a cheapo one (mach 3 Gilette works great), and of course, shaving cream.
Here’s when you’ll have an issue: If you don’t shave in so long that it takes you 25 strokes to remove the hair, and you’re just cutting it shorter and shorter until then AND dulling the blade. Then yeah, you’ll irritate your skin.
My wife is just starting to grow her hair back after chemo. Neither of us liked it because it made her look very vulnerable. I doubt she’ll ever shave because of the associations with sickness.
I went to a pre-interview group assessment once - including a debate/analysis task where the scenario was something to the effect “You are a property management group - you have funded the construction of 100 new houses and you have agreed with the local authority that 40% of them will be classed ‘affordable’ - demand for these is oversubscribed - how will you prioritise the applicants on the following list:”
There followed a list of different applicant families, clearly (or at least, I thought so) tailored to trigger emotive reaction; a single mother with three children; a family where the father had just been released from a prison sentence for aggravated assault; a lesbian couple with an adopted daughter of a different race; etc. - there wasn’t a traditional white-British nuclear family in the list.
Everyone launched straight into heated debate about how we couldn’t exclude this or that family; or we couldn’t have this family if we also had that one, and so on.
I held back a bit, then gave the answer I thought was obvious: we accept them on a first come basis, subject to meeting any financial constraints such as deposit and mortgage. In real life, we wouldn’t know all these details about their backgrounds.
I got the job.
…damn straight…
To eliminate getting poked in the eye or having to pull pubes out of the teeth.
Obligatory shot of a shaved beaver.
Or close enough anyway.
So to make my above post clearer by using an example:
This part of the post is totally 100% okay with me and I’m happy for you.
This part, where you extrapolate from your own experience to what “a woman who enjoys sex” should look like. Not okay.
My ex b/f wanted me to shave it all off. At the time I thought it was strange, borderline/ped. Got used to it, and now find it totally gross and unattractive for a woman to have a hairy bush.
Exactly! My guy and I both use Gillette Fusion ProGlide – they’ re expensive razors, but well worth it. I don’t experience any itching, irritation or razor burn. I started doing this over three years ago and I wouldn’t go back. It’s just part of my routine, and we both enjoy the look and feel of things very much.
And on the Straight Dope Message Board, we don’t assume everyone is white and Christian and from an English-speaking country. If we’re talking about white Christians who live in English-speaking countries only, we say so.
You have no cause to be pissy about people’s responses. It’s not our fault that you didn’t learn the ways of the board before starting a thread on a subject bound to elicit strong reactions.
Correction, I should have said electric shaver burn. (maybe I push too had)
But when I do use a razor I seem to significantly blunt them after one use, despite using Gillette fusion, hot water and shaving cream.
But, I have heard shaving cream is meant to be less effective than hot water, only harder to keep on your face while you shave obviously.
Funniest thing I’ve read in a long time.
Hey, it gets cold in the winter, and pubes don’t shrink like cold penis does.
Thing is, going bare isn’t exactly an easy process. Waxing can be painful (think of how much it hurts to rip off a bandaid!) and expensive*. Shaving – it’s not an easy area to shave, plus you have to deal with stubble, nicks, cuts, razor rash, etc. It’s not like shaving your legs or armpits. I have no problem trimming and grooming – I like to look nice and neat in a bathing suit, so that’s fine. But until they come up with some kind of Nair product that’s safe to use on one’s pubic hair, I’m not going completely bare. (Sorry, I’m too much of a wimp to try waxing.) It’s not about being rude – it’s about convenience and how much pain I’m willing to go through.
Crabs – well of course you’re not going to get pubic lice if you don’t have pubic hair. I think that goes without saying. But if you found out someone in your kid’s class had head lice, would you shave your kid’s head? I should hope not. C’mon, people, common sense.
As for guys with beards – some guys look good with some scruff. It all depends.
*Please, please don’t ever offer to pay for this to a girlfriend. That’s just crass.
If your crouch needs to be baled, sounds like you need a tractor, not a razor.
Laser hair removal is apparently pretty effective and permanent.
But expensive and slow.
I think if anyone can crack an affordable and permanent hair removal solution that isn’t dangerous or too painful, it will be popular with many, including some guys who want to give up shaving their face.
I think all means or hair removal so far has a down side and I think that there are plenty of reasons to not want to bother with many/most areas or hair removal.
Still shaving is pretty easy and I would happily help out and shave a partner, if I had one. If you aren’t good at it and nick her, you probably don’t get ‘desert’.
Might get to kiss it better though…
(emphasis added)
Why am I not surprised?