Hilariously, I’m now picturing you with a sculpted moustache and a bald head.
Now now, I’m a lady, and while my 'stache is noticeable to my SO, I doubt it could hold a curl with some wax added to it 
I know. That’s what made it hilarious. You mentioned waxing upper lip and eyebrows in the same breath, which could have been interpreted as fully removing both or shaping both. And I decided the latter would be funnier. 
Exactly. Hairy, non-hairy, it’s all fine with me. But grooming it is WEIRD.
Okay, now I’m really conflicted. What are Wookie-level men supposed to do? Honestly: I can’t see asking the woman at Fantastic Sam’s for a back trim. Can you?
Well, you find yourself a partner who likes a pelt (and there are such people, truly!) or you make an appointment at your local men’s spa that does bodygrooming. $75 for shoulders and back in Chicago.
Speaking as the daughter of a Wookie level man, you get your significant other to do it for you. Otherwise, you can go to a professional place that does hair removal and ask for what you want - waxing or buzzing. I would not go to Fantastic Sam’s or Supercuts et al. Go to a real place that advertises for it - or, even better, has a prices on their website specifically geared toward men.
ETA: What WhyNot said. Plus there’s such a thing as a Boyzilian, but that’s off topic
I’m moreso with the younger kids on this one - my 19 year old brother and his friends (not the ones of Eastern European decent, I’m talking the Indian/Italian/Greek ones) get their eyebrows waxed and chest waxed or buzzed. Just to clean up the strays and the uni-brow look. But my dad - the Wookie - makes fun of my little brother for touching the hair on his chest. But it’s all a fad, and hairy chests will come back into play soon enough.
I’m a guy with a hairy chest and I mostly hate it.
I’ve shaved it bald a few times and those times my girlfriends hated it.
These days, I mostly like to take scissors to it every 3 months or so and just try and evenly shorten it all over. That way the hair is all there but not too long, nor too sharp and poking like from shaving it bald.
I have to say that shaving it bald feels incredibly smooth and the muscle definition is much more pronounced. But after a few days the stubbles grow in and itch and the feeling of clothing catching on my own body begins to annoy.
Eugh, waxing my back and shoulders? Sister, I like you, but why did you have to make me aware such an abomination of a service is actually provided somewhere?
…ooh, male-focused pedi/manicure. Want.
I picked “shaved”, but actually I strongly prefer “naturally hairless”, if I have a choice. I don’t like body hair generally, aside from pits and pubes. Or facial hair, for that matter.
Shaving chest hair sounds weird, but shaving your armpits would always be appreciated
Welcome to the Androgynous Millennium! Women have been waxing for years, it’s time to share the [del] agony [/del] fun!
Of course, depilatory creams (like Nair) are another less painful and more private option, but I don’t know how well they work on back hair. They work well on female leg hair, but not so well on female pubic hair.
Zeriel, if it’s any consolation, less hair shows more muscle definition. Also, it makes everything look bigger down under.
Waxing isn’t like Steve Carrel in the 40 Year Old Virgin, either.
Mig’s got those cute little nipple hairs and a happy trail. That’s good enough for me!
I don’t care either way though, but I’ve never actually dated anyone with thick chest hair.
I like every variety of hairiness, all the way from naturally bald to full on Wookie; however, my preference is for a hairy chest, and kinda smooth elsewhere. I would really not like a shaved chest - I dated a guy who shaved his entire body and it was kinda creepy.
The Mr. does shave the junkal region which I appreciate (unlike men - or so I’ve been told - I prefer the area to be quite fresh smelling if I’m going to get up close and personal with it, if ya know what I mean - less hair helps in that regard).
The only arrangement of hair that I really couldn’t abide by was this one fella I dated who looked like he was wearing mohair pants. Seriously from the feet to his waist (including butt) was MEGA hairy - from the waist up - not a scrap. I apologize if that is your current hair arrangement, but it was just a tad too weird for me.
Sorry, I didn’t think of that.
I didn’t think of that, either. “Naturally hairless” isn’t part of my personal existence. 
Rockin’ the satyr, eh? 
I think that athletes that go around topless should probably shave their chest–but I honestly prefer that they not go topless in the first place. It’s something I was raised with. I always wore at least a T-shirt, even when swimming.
So, in compromise, I chose don’t care, as well as don’t like shaved for myself, since I hate shaving anything besides my face, as I itch enough just through allergies. And my hair grows really fast–I already have to shave my face twice a day.
Wasn’t sure how to answer, since I like men and I like both (as long as it’s not the aforementioned sweater). Since my feelings on both are distinctly positive, this is quite different from “I don’t care.”
Real men only shave their chests for one reason: surgery. Ideally for the surgical removal of a bullet.
You missed me out too! I’m not a man, and I’m not attracted to men, but I still have an opinion on chest hair.
I really dislike heavy chest hair; there was a Robin Williams movie where he played a Russian defector - I saw it when I was about 12 and all I could think was HE IS A GORILLA!
But hairy men can’t help being hairy. It’s natural. As much as it perturbs me to see their hairline at the back just keep on going on with no discernible divide, it’d be more painful for them to try to shave or wax it away. Better for me to get over it than for them to get rid of it. And a woman having missionary-position sex with a man who’d shaved his chest hair two days before would probably rather he’d just gone Wookie.
FWIW, the TV thing I think is partly a current trend and partly that a hairless chest shows well-defined muscles better. In real life you have 3D shadows, movement, etc, to show that. It probably is also part of the whole worship of youth that’s been going on … well, forever, really, in fits and spurts.