Men's Health sez "Embrace Your Hairiness"

[C91]

There's an article in the October 2006 edition of Men's Health magazine called "Be Her Do-Right Man:  A guide to common bedroom mistakes by men."  The author, Sarah Miller, outlines a few things the may help Men's Health readers with the ladies.  (I've never seen a survey from Men's Health detailing how many of their readers actually get laid on a regular basis, though.  But, I digress.)

Among the advice Ms. Miller imparted was this:

"DO NOT SHAVE YOUR BALLS.  Having sex with a guy who shaves his balls is like riding a horse with a saddle made with broken glass.  If you are going to shave, you're going to have to do it regularly.  Say, every half hour.  DO...embrace your hairiness.  Unless you come up with a dignified solution -- and they are expensive -- try to accept your body hair.  You're a guy.  You're great-great-etc.-grandfather was a gorilla.  No one blames you."

Some guys look good hairy.  Like Tom Selleck or Burt Reynolds when they were in their prime.  The hair is evenly distributed and whispy.  Women probably enjoy running fingers through it for hours -- amazed at how easily their hands glide through it.  I am not one of those men.

The hair on my chest is not like that.  It's not whispy.  It's not soft.  It just lays there.  Imagine the coat of a golden retreiver that hasn't been groomed or combed in six months -- all matted and in disarray.  That's my chest hair.  Can you picture yourself running your fingers through that for more than thirty seconds without going, "eww"?

Or at least it was until I started getting rid of it.  About six years ago Gillette introduced the Mach III razor.  And about the same time, I became one of its biggest fans.  But not for the reasons they talk about on the commercial.  I took shaving cream and blade to chest and the rest is history.

Here's a before and after.


C91 in August 2000


C91 as he appears today

I had to really dig for the "before" picture and it's not the best, but it pretty much represents how I appeared the last time I had hair on my chest.  But I think the results speak for themselves.  There are just some times when body hair doesn't work on some men. 

So, I'm sorry Ms. Miller.  I can't embrace my hairiness.  I'll have to miss out on what a tiger you must be in the sack.  But, you'll be missing out one smooth set of balls.

[Bratalie]

Hey, pick up your laundry!!!!!   

[Sunny]

Guess I'll have to introduce my husband to the MachIII...

[American_Woman]

    C91 as he appears today     

[Mr442]

It grows where it grows and the wife is OK with it.

This reminds me....

Many years ago I was sitting in my car at Frisch's with my soon to be wife and a couple of buddies.  Someone comes cruising through and one of my friends says, "there goes mommy's boy, he doesn't have any hair on his ass."

My soon to be wife leans over and wispers, "what does that have to do with anything?"  Once I stopped laughing, I told her it, hair on the ass, had everything to do with his percieved masculinity.  Men had hairy asses and women did not, so in effect this guy was being called a woman.  She had never heard this phrase before.


Which brings us back to the fact that, men have hair on their bodies, less manly men don't.  Ladies, do you want a man or another woman?

[Gryphon]

DO NOT SHAVE YOUR BALLS.

Ive never even understood how its humanly possible...without knicking onesself, to do this.

[Henry Hawk]

DO NOT SHAVE YOUR BALLS.

Ive never even understood how its humanly possible...without knicking onesself, to do this.

I do not think, I have ever, ever had to remind myself those words..

[Bratalie]

It grows where it grows and the wife is OK with it.

This reminds me....

Many years ago I was sitting in my car at Frisch's with my soon to be wife and a couple of buddies. Someone comes cruising through and one of my friends says, "there goes mommy's boy, he doesn't have any hair on his ass."

My soon to be wife leans over and wispers, "what does that have to do with anything?" Once I stopped laughing, I told her it, hair on the ass, had everything to do with his percieved masculinity. Men had hairy asses and women did not, so in effect this guy was being called a woman. She had never heard this phrase before.


Which brings us back to the fact that, men have hair on their bodies, less manly men don't. Ladies, do you want a man or another woman?

Personally, I'm a fan of the hair.  The only time I don't find it attractive is when there are only a few, random hairs sprouting from the nipples and the little patch growing between the pecks that looks like he's just hitting puberity!!  - ICKY!  (That describes the chest I looked at for 11 years!)  Wait, I lied, two times I don't find it attractive- has anyone seen the photo of the Nascar fan with a '3' (a LARGE 3) shaved into his nest of back hair?   That would be WAXED!

Sometimes I feel like I'm the odd one out because I think hairy chest is very attractive and maybe I do relate it to masculinity; I did grow up with Magnium PI on TV and most men in my family are hairy.   

[~Daisy~]

Never put too much thought in it. I like to joke around about shaving someone's balls, but I don't think I'd actually care for it. Sounds like a kiwi to me. Yuck. Anyway.