Cite, plz with empirical evidence that proves those “razors” were used for tonsorial purposes.
Because jeremy evil makes me. He hates facial hair, and I don’t particularly care for it either. (I have sideburns, though, but those are kinda… an extension of my hairstyle.)
When I was 19, my first boyfriend asked me to grow a beard, and I did. It looked ridiculous. I grew a goatee a couple of times during my university years, but my moustache doesn’t connect to the beard growth coming up from my chin, so the goatees looked kind of incomplete.
I shave every day before work, and have gotten into the habit of shaving on the weekends as well. (Jeremy’s really into the clean-shaven thing… No, not there!)
Why do men shave? Because they don’t want beards. I dunno.
Why Do Men Shave Their Beards?
Because it feels funny when we shave our balls.
Well, I shave both for the same reason: the girlfriend prefers the silky-smooth goodness of a freshly-shaven Catalyst.
Because I’d look atrocious with a full beard. The answer to the corollary is, because I’d look atrocious with a shaved face.
Raisinbread;
We have cave-paintings in Spain and France of clamshell and sharktooth “razors” being used.
As for cite, easiest is Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, volume 9, pp 968.
I only shave the stragglers growing at midcheek and on my neck. I like the facial fur 
Personally, I have a bad problem with ingrown hairs, but I also have very curly and stiff facial hair (until it grows out), so I’m damned if I do, damned if I don’t. If I shave too often or too closely (I can’t use an electric), my face breaks out. If I don’t shave often enough, curly hairs from my upper lip tickle my nose.
Thus, I shave everything except the chin up to the sides of my mouth (lower lip). Some like it, some don’t.
Now, if only I wasn’t a chick… 
But seriously, folks…
While the above description of my face-fuzz is true, I also had something to add to Degrance’s post re:gasmasks.
I don’t know if it was required back in WW2, but according to CNN, shaving to improve the fit of gasmasks is one of the things the Marines are doing in THIS war.
I shave because I hate facial hair on me, but I think the OP should grow a beard.
[sub]Here’s a fact that I don’t know if I agree with, but it makes me wonder. A recent study showed that men that shave daily, live longer on average.[/sub]
I can’t grow a full beard; it just doesn’t grow in some places, resulting in a patchy look. I like a goatee, but the woman I’m dating doesn’t. I don’t like it that much, so I don’t grow it anymore.
As a girl I prefer the clean shaven or a goatee. I had this boyfriend a hundred years ago who was a lazy good for nothing peice of trash waste of natural resources. He never shaved for the above reasons. So, now when I see a man with a beard, especially an unkempt beard I automatically assume he is lazy.
How sad is that? My husband has a goatee but keeps it well trimmed. He knows my opinon about beards…
kniz, do you have a cite for that unusual study?
Nobody has cites nowadays then again this is IMHO where cites are apparently unimportant.
Mine grows so darn quick that I can go from clean shaven to nice beard in two weeks, so I change it every month or so. Having had just about every facial hairstyle for some period (even left a little Hitler moustache on for half an hour) of time I feel pretty qualified to talk on the subject. By far it seems the biggest determining factor to facial hair is what is going to give you better chances with women. This of course depends on where/when you grow up and what any particular SO thinks. Even the ones who love the goatee (never seen a woman gaga over a beard) are red-faced (as well as other parts) after a long night. This is with putting conditioner in the facial hair every day (it helps!).
If women all decided they loved beards it would be a very furry world.
http://www.komotv.com/healthwatch/story.asp?ID=22913
"*A new study shows men who don’t shave everyday enjoy less sex are more likely to suffer a stroke and are more likely to die from a heart attack than daily shavers.
They’re also less likely to be married and tend to be shorter.
Scientists aren’t sure why that’s the case but believe lifestyle and social factors, like smoking, play a role.
The study included more than 2,400 Welsh men. *"
I think that’s the study kniz was referring to, raisinbread.
But how many women want to sleep with short, married Welshmen, furry or not?
I started growing beard once, against my wife’s wishes. A large number of women told me how much they liked my beard. My wife told me I reminded her of her ex.:eek:
I shaved.
I seem to recall reading that the Huns, who were not hirsute, “shaved” by ritually scarring their faces. I’m sure it did not make them look more effete.
Well thank god I’m not a hod then!
There was a thread on this very topic in just GQ last week, if you’re interested.
As to the OP, like most men with Asian blood, I shave because a few straggly hairs would look ridiculous. (I’m past-Asian; lack of body hair aside, I look entirely Caucasian.)