# Shaving down there adds an inch **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 2, 2006, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaving-down-there-adds-an-inch/355142 "2006-05-02T19:57:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaving-down-there-adds-an-inch/355142/41 "2006-05-03T17:10:01Z")
> [@](#): > > She may want to wear you [beep][kiwi fruits] and[beep] [carrot] as a Roman glasdiator mask and unveil Christmas lights. Well, that makes it a bit clearer (maybe), but I still don’t get the bit about Christmas Lights. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaving-down-there-adds-an-inch/355142/42 "2006-05-03T17:46:13Z")
[QUOTE=McNew] **lev** , the “shocker” also sometimes carries the subtitle “two in the pink, and one in the stink”. I’ll let you figure out where exactly the first 2 fingers are supposed to go, and by default, where the pinky goes. I don’t know if the guy in the ad used the symbol because it kept pausing on me and buffering, and since I’m at work, I got tired of waiting. [/QUOTE] Ah, now I understand. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaving-down-there-adds-an-inch/355142/43 "2006-05-03T21:08:09Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] Not opening the link since I’m at work but…shaving does make it look bigger. **So does losing weight if you’re carrying extra pounds.** [/QUOTE] Tell me about it. When I was younger and at my near optimum weight between 16 and 19, I had at least an extra two inches. It was huge. Now I’m just huge. It sucks, makes me want to shed a tear. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaving-down-there-adds-an-inch/355142/44 "2006-05-03T21:36:16Z")
The music video! The MUSIC VIDEO! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaving-down-there-adds-an-inch/355142/45 "2006-05-03T21:47:06Z")
Has someone told [Scylla](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=81642) about this? Strange that I associat shaving balls with Scylla. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaving-down-there-adds-an-inch/355142/46 "2006-05-03T22:19:13Z")
[QUOTE=blinkingblinking] Are men shaving hair from their entire body? Or is this just a complete joke ? [/QUOTE] Dude, I get my whole BACK waxed. So I’m hardly surprised that some other guys like it smooth with a capital “Smoo.” ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaving-down-there-adds-an-inch/355142/47 "2006-05-03T22:33:59Z")
Can I shave twice? ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaving-down-there-adds-an-inch/355142/48 "2006-05-04T01:21:09Z")
Bwahahahahaha! The music video absolutely killed me! If more commercials were as entertaining as this one I might stop muting the TV when they come on. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaving-down-there-adds-an-inch/355142/49 "2006-05-04T01:42:09Z")
I read the title of this thread as “Shaving down there adds an\* itch\*,” and I came in to say, “Boy howdy, does it! This one time, my best friend had to be shaved for surgery and for weeks afterward, she was scratching like a monkey,” but now I see that it is not appropriate. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaving-down-there-adds-an-inch/355142/50 "2006-05-04T03:23:04Z")
[QUOTE=GorillaMan] I thought it was a spoof. And a really unfunny boring spoof, which rang alarm bells. So I whois-ed, and it’s not a spoof. It’s just awful. [/QUOTE] It appears to be a viral ad. The idea is that folks spread it around via email links or, say, messageboard postings. [QUOTE=Zebra] She may want to wear your [beep] and [beep] as a Roman gladiator mask while unveiling Christmas lights. This is from the official site for the product of a major corporation? [/QUOTE] I don’t know exactly how viral campaigns are designed, but this isn’t really all that atypical. A website I’m an administrator at had a new user sign up and attempt to solicit people to write viral campaigns; from her shpiel, at least, it sounds like this kind of thing is pretty much par for the course - she specifically indicated that viral campaigns aren’t as restricted in terms of content. Generally, the rules that apply to TV commercials and other mainstream media don’t count, in large part because few people are likely to see it who are offended by such things (also, obviously, the internet is not as bound by indecency rules like the broadcast media.) ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaving-down-there-adds-an-inch/355142/51 "2006-05-04T06:14:13Z")
Hmmm… :: looks into pants :: Well, I’ve never really considered it before, but I suppose little Jimmy’s garden could use some pruning. But the beard stays. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaving-down-there-adds-an-inch/355142/52 "2006-05-04T06:56:36Z")
In the sense of making **fetus** want to buy the product, this is the most effective ad ever. EVER. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaving-down-there-adds-an-inch/355142.md?page=2)