Yesterday while in the Tranquility Room waiting for my therapist to come get me for a much needed and much deserved massage, I was browsing through a magazine about spas and chanced upon an ad that intrigued me. The ad was a picture of a quite comely lass in lingerie giving a “come hither” look to a guy wearing only briefs. The man had absolutely no visible hair anywhere on his body save for his head. The tag line – “Real men wax!”
Really? I have been introduced to the term “Manscaping” just recently, (I know, which rock have I been living under?!) and I am trying to figure out just when it was that body hair on a man fell into such disfavor. I remember reading an article in The San Francisco Chronicle two years ago about men in the Bay Area who had taken to shaving their pubic hair. The reason, however, was not to remove hair so as to be more esthetically pleasing to the female eye, but rather, much more vain and base, to make their penis look longer! Yes, removing ones pubic hair, according to the Chron, added an “extra visible inch” which, apparently, made these men more desirable to women.
Give me a break!! By the time you are down to your birthday suit, isn’t it already a given that you are going to get laid? Has any woman ever said at that point “Oops, sorry! I was expecting at least an inch more so, see you later!”? Okay, maybe, but I doubt it.
But this ad and the idea of ”manscaping” goes beyond vanity and advertising. At least I think it does. Yes, I know, women have been removing hair from their bodies for, well, forever. They have been shaving legs, shaving armpits and, more recently, shaving/waxing their mons venus all in a effort to make them more attractive to men. This is, as far as I can tell, mostly an American thing. European women have hairy armpits and men still seem to find them very desirable. Of course they also go topless at the beach, but that is a different blog! So I guess it is a natural progression in this country for women to now demand the same thing from men, that is, “Please remove all of that nasty hair!” Apparently, American women now find smooth and hairless much more attractive than rough and hairy.
No more playing with chest hair either before or after? Secret Agent 007,- at least Sean Connery, anyway - is now being turned down by women? (“Yes, I know you have a license to kill, but you’re not getting any of this until that chest rug is removed!”) What has the world come to?
I guess I am one of the lucky ones. I have some American Indian blood in me so my body hair is minimal, except for “down there”. So the chest hair thing being mostly non-existent, and absolutely nothing on my back and butt, at least I only have one place where I now need to remove it. And who wouldn’t want to add to the manhood? Apparently a lot of men do, judging by the number of ads on TV, print and the internet touting “male enhancement”. But who needs pills when you can add a “visible inch” just by shaving?
Any bets on how long it will be before Gillette comes up with a razor that is specifically designed for the male crotch? Buy that stock now! You heard it here first!!
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