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Signs men are emasculated Part 1: Men shaving or trimming their body hair

SDET said:
I can tell you from experience: When the guy uses Nair and the gal gets clean waxed, it's terrific. Shaving sucks: nasty stubble.
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I did shave once upon a time. But I was never brave enough to use a nair type product there. On swim team I used it to clean my arms and legs, but my skin was raw for a day or two afterward.
 
maquiscat said:
While I agree with your point, I am going to have to ding you for this specific argument. I could have a vehicle armor plating that is absolutely protective against up to 50 tons of TNT explosive, but that doesn't do the occupants any good if the explosion is on the inside of the vehicle. Citing STDs, when shoving the Willy past the claimed protective layer, does not prove the protective layer isn't working. Yes there are all kinds of STDs with all kinds of transmission vectors. Some can be transferred mouth to mouth.

Henrin still hasn't upheld his claim with any evidence, but even if his claim is correct, citing something that bypasses the protection, doesn't disprove the protection.
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There, however, is evidence that 'shaving down there' does increase std's. Extreme Grooming Linked To Sexually Transmitted Infections : Shots - Health News : NPR
 
calamity said:
Herpes, from what I have read, can be transmitted orally. So too can gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia. But, those require...uh, a deeper oral commitment than simply brushing a cold sore up against a labia.
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I understand that. Basically, like penetration, you are bypassing the pubic "barrier", so to speak. I was asking about something that would be transmitted without the pubic hair being present, but blocked by its presence.
 
RAMOSS said:
There, however, is evidence that 'shaving down there' does increase std's. Extreme Grooming Linked To Sexually Transmitted Infections : Shots - Health News : NPR
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Even the article itself says:
"Right now, we have no way knowing if grooming causes the increase in risk for infections. All we can say is that they're correlated.
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Also noted was:
Although the analysis took into the number of sexual partners people said they had, it did not consider whether people were having safe sex or getting vaccinated for HPV. And the survey didn't ask people whether they were diagnosed with the STD before or after they started grooming.
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And finally:
"We know that shaving creates microtears and cuts," Gunter says. And if men and women are doing it right before sex, those wounds might not be healed, making it easier for viruses and bacteria to enter skin.
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So it's sounds like there is not a definitive link between the two. The correlation could come from people who shave are also more likely to engage in risky behavior, such as lack of protection, and similar. So that would be more of a behavioral problem than the actual lack of public hair. And, if they are not allowing sufficient time for healing from the microtears and cuts, that would be more behavioral as well, since similar exposure could happen via genital/facial contact, if the face was shaved just before sexual activity. I a man still looking for something that can directly link a lack of pubic hair in and of itself (let's say a weird condition where the person can't grow any at all) and health risks.
 
In all my days I never heard my father and his buddies discussing male grooming habits...Not even at the barber shop.

I guess in those days there was much more to worry about than what some dude did to his body.

I know I could care less what my bros do to their nad - sacks.
 
maquiscat said:
I understand that. Basically, like penetration, you are bypassing the pubic "barrier", so to speak. I was asking about something that would be transmitted without the pubic hair being present, but blocked by its presence.
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Now you have me curious as to why pubes dd not disappear like the rest of our body hair. In fact, the pube island is such an extreme that pubic lice evolved into highly specialized little bugs simply to cope with living on it.

In general, it does look like it does serve as a protective shield.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/07/pubic-hair-has-job-stop-shaving
 
I'd shave even if I wasn't in the army. I don't grow good facial hair, all it does is trap oil and dirt and feel all grimy to the touch.
 
This is why I love being a liberal man, we don't obsess over masculinity.
 
a7xfanjma said:
This is why I love being a liberal man, we don't obsess over masculinity.
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Actually neither do most conservative men. Just the insecure ones.
 
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