There I was in the shower, nice and hot, just got done washing my hair. Time to shave the ole five o’clock shadow (hot water makes for a closer shave and less bloodletting)
I get done, and as I set the razor down I see my schlong waving in the wind and get to thinking about all the shaved genitals threads here on the SDMB. I think to myself " Hey Why Not?" I reach for the razor and the shaving cream, I squirt the shaving cream into my hand and lather up my balls. I look from my balls to the razor, from the razor to my balls, slowly bringing the razor closer, closer, closer finally it is the moment of truth, I have contact.
as the Shick is poised, ready to go I suddenly wonder just what in the name of all that is good and holy am I doing. I quickly put the razor down and rinse my scrotum off and get out of the shower.
I guess all those tales of the horrendous itch that follows scared me off.
So I still have my testies harry and itch free.
(Betcha thought I was going to go through with it didnt ya?)
Shit. I wish this God damn board had an anonymizer.
Electric, NEVER blades. Burns don’t even compare to cuts.
Itch? What is this “itch”?
Without pubic hair, I don’t get the rashes I used to. (Yes, I shower daily, and use soap, thank you, we’ve heard from you before, buh-bye!) It’s also more, ah, pleasurable.
All I want to say is that since your hands were already down there, I hope you felt yourself up nice and good and made sure you’ve got no limps. Unusual and new lumps would be your first sign of testicular cancer. We gotta do it just like women do. Self exam help
Shame welt up as I was thinking of writing this, but I guess it doesn’t matter right? = )
I shave mine as well. I differ slightly in that I don’t use any cream or lather? I just jump in the tub, take my mach 3 and go to town. I have never had a “burn” or even a nik. Go figure? But believe me, single men, women prefer it this way. I know my wife wouldn’t have it any other way.
After doing it for about a year now, it doesn’t itch and I even think it’s regressed into not growing as much.
-=gulp=-
Let me be the first female poster to ring in with an “Amen!” to all the bare-skinned boys out there! Yes! What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, after all!
I suppose I would if there was an extra set of hands helping out, preferably of the female persuasion. But untill that happens, they are going to stay the way they are, maybe a little trim now and then, but thats another thread.
<----look 600!! only 9 thousand to go to catch up with Handy.
I’m disappointed to hear you wussed out. Not that I actually care about your scrotal disposition, by any means, just that it really is all the rage in Paris…or was that prison?
Either way, speaking for myself, the itching was mild at worst and lasted very briefly. If you think you might do it in the future, stock up on baby powder.
Probably needless to mention, but stay away from the aftershave, too.
[sub]Did you know they’ve taken to calling this “Pulling a thinksnow” in chat?! I don’t know whether to be honored or horrified![/sub]
I shaved once, in the shower, with a disposable razor, with soap. I went from the top of the, ah, area, all the way down and around the back. I nicked myself once, but it was no big deal. And the end effect was fairly nice. When my gf saw, she was mightily intrigued, and couldn’t stop running her fingers over the now denuded area. The area is usually sensitive, but without hair it was lie-on-the-bed-and-twitch-and-gasp sensitive. That one evening was well worth the hassle of shaving.
The only problem was it was pretty darn scratchy when it started growing in, and I found I’m prone to ingrown hairs. No one likes a hairy crotchpimple. (Which is why it makes such a great insult, of course)
Actually, I’ve found that keeping shaved minimizes ingrown hairs in the titular (or, rather, gonadular) area. Itching isn’t a factor if you keep at it.
And just as well you wussed when you did. You don’t want to start with a non-fresh blade. You can get away with that easily on your face, but not with the boys. Trust me.
I’ve been shaving my pubic area for years - even when I do occasionally cut myself it doesn’t really hurt. The loose skin covering the testicles seems, oddly enough, devoid of pain sensors. (NOT the testicles themselves of course!!)
I had appendicitis when I was 15 years old. At that time I was right in the middle of a fine cultivation of a glorious patch of pubic hair. It was the talk of the town. In preperation for the operation, those butchers, er, I mean doctors, shaved it all off!!
I kind of liked it.
But, and trust me on this, if you’re 15, and you live in a small farming (read: red-neckish) town, you don’t want to find yourself naked in the locker room with the other boys with no hair on your balls.
But now that I’m all grow’d up, I’d shorely (hee-hee) like to try it again sometime.
Shaving, that is, not finding my self naked in a locker room with boys.
I think it would have been a first if I didn’t beat you to it by a couple of weeks. Actually, I did leave my eyebrows, eyelashes and forearm hair, but everything else went. I have maintained the clean shave of my pate and scrotum. All else is allowed to grow back with just some minor trimming and maintenance.
My balls never itch when I shave. However, I was tortured by the itching of my shorn pubis. I suspect that it would not have been so bad if maintained properly, but I got really tired of being caught by coworkers and others as I frantically scratched my crotch.
I used an electric to bring everything down to a reasonable length and then applied the Mach3 universally. For days after, I ran naked through the house like a mad fool just to feel the wind rush against parts of me in ways that it hadn’t since I was a child. I’m sure all the neighbors got a good giggle from the sporadic exclamations, “Wheee! I’m a naked shark!”
I was sober through all of this. Obviously, I should drink more.
In preparation for my vasectomy I had to shave “the boys.” That’s been more than a two years ago and I’ve kept 'em smooth, which is no easy task since I"m the type that can grow a full beard in about 5 minutes, 3 if I sit and concetrate really hard. Always use a fresh razor and plenty of shaving cream. My SO now insists that I continue so I guess I’m in it for the durationn.
