I’m older than that and I’ve never had a chest hair. Not a one.*
I couldn’t grow a beard if I didn’t shave for a year but I can and have grown very decent mustaches.
*My father and his brothers had no chest hair, either, but they all had heavy beards.
This was how it was with my boyfriend back in the 70’s. When we first began dating at 18, he didn’t have much of anything, but as the years went by it filled in, and he was quite hairy by the time we broke up at age 24.
My 55 year old husband just has a few hairs here and there, but yes, he seems to be sporting more nose hair than I recall.
Our sons, almost 25 and almost 19 respectively, have very hairy legs, but less above the waist, if more than my almost bare-chested husband.
I remember their bodies grew from the ground up, too–first their huge feet, then the legs followed, and finally the rest of them. Guess it’s the same thing with hair.
I had a fairly good amount of hair on my chest by the time I was fourteen (more so than most of the guys in gym class – the only guy who was really significantly hairier had a “hormone problem” and had more hair on his back than most 40-50 year-old men have on their chests! But that is an entirely different story…).
I always liked being hairy, and I wish that I was hairier – I just assumed that I would progess to “Robin Williams”-level hirsuteness as I aged, but I have not done so yet. My arms are nowhere near as hairy as I would like them to be. I do not have too much hair on my back, and I would not mind having more. The odd thing is, my legs, feet, and stomach are less hairy today than they were ten years ago. I wonder why?
I will never understand the current “shave all the body hair off” mentality!
All of these posts about body hair and no pics? I am appalled.
And anyone who wants more body hair is free to harvest my back. I hate having back hair. I tried to laser it off a few years ago and there was no appreciable effect.
I´ve been able to sport a beard since I was 16, which was pretty much the same time it started growing on the chest.
Now - I just want that back-hair to go away! Choo. Choo! Scram!
Woo-hoo! Yow!
Any suggestions one how to use Nair on one’s back without assistance?
Well depends on where it’s located obviously, there are a couple of patches on my back but I can reach them by putting the cream on the back of my hands and rubbing it that way and looking in a mirror (otherwise co-opt a friend/SO/family member/pet - surely someone in your life wants you to be hair-free enough to help).
I didn’t have more than a “happy trail”, and some moderate forearm and lower leg hair in my teens. I started getting more body hair as I started putting on adult bulk in my mid-20s. I’m still getting hairier in my early 30s. My wife mentioned that I’ve got a bit more body hair now than a couple of years ago. At least I don’t have back and shoulder fur, and I’m still far, far away from being as hairy as Mr. Scout Leader here.
I’ve always been fairly smooth (just a few random hairs). Recently however I’ve noticed I’ve all of a sudden got more chest hair (not an extreme amount but definitely noticeable). I’m almost 35.
Ah, that’s 1920s-style hair removal.
Started at 12. By 16 I was pretty much covered. Very thick, black, and silky smooth. Unfortunately, as the hair on my head as started to go gray, so has my chest hair.
What you said - although the chest never really filled in - it’s a sort of artsy isoceles triangle with the base running from nipple to nipple.
Nair has an aerosol version now, with no rubbing required. It’s not quite as potent as the wipe-on stuff, so it may take 2 applications instead of one to get through thick hair, but it’s a lot easier to do on yourself in hard to reach spots.