User: Will

You forgot Jewish.

I don't know about anyone else, but, I shave elbows to knees because I wanted to do something a little different and this seemed like the best option. A couple years ago, I decided that I was tired of being a 200# lump of blubber and got myself in shape. Once I was 160# and fairly muscular, I wanted to do something to reward myself. My first thought was a tattoo but that seemed way to permanent. Then I thought about a nipple piercing but I like to wear close fitting shirts to work sometimes and it would definetly show. So, shaving was the perfect answer. No one knows unless I want them to, and anytime I want I just let it grow back. I have tried many different combinations of places to shave and not shave, and I think that for me it works best to shave elbows to knees, and just leave a small tuft of hair above my $%!@.

I'd like to know why some of you out there have decided to shave and if you have done it for awhile. Also, any women who have shaved their pubic area, if your husband or boyfriend has too, did you have spectacular sex the first time???

========== In Reply To ========== I am a male, I shave my chest, underarms, and legs, and my face. I was wondering why is it that some women prefer the bare look for chests and underarms but think that legs should be hairy? Is it because leg shaving is so ingrained as a "female" activity that it's weird for men to do it ? also doesn't it look odd to see a hairless upper half with a jungle from the waist down?

I shave from my elbows to my knees - plus I leave a small patch of hair just above my $%!@ - the main reasons for me are that (1) I am not very hairy to begin with so there isn't a "jungle down there" and (2) alot of people do think it is weird so if I am at the mall in a short sleeve shirt and shorts, no one notices that I shave. At the gym or the beach, I'm around others who do shave too so I don't worry about it.

========== In Reply To ========== I am curious-- the poll spoke of a trend in shaving body hair for guys. I am 53- and have played some sports and am still active in our local YMCA. I have never seen any guy with shaved body hair-- excepting of course if someone had surgery- I heard that guys on swim teams would shave body hair- being in a smaller town we did not have a swim team- so I really do not know- I am not against anyone shaving any part of the body they wish- its their body and their hair! I simply have never known anyone in a lifetime of playing sports and being active in the Y at least three times a week usually more- who shaved any palce except their face. Are you sure this is a "trend"? thanks You may not realize the number of guys who do shave some or all of their body - I think that if you ever did it you would be more in tune with others who do too - like when you lift weights, you can spot another guy who does easily, even if he isn't particularly huge, you can just tell by the way his muscles look - similarly, I think guys who shave can tell if someone shaves or is just naturally less hairy.

========== In Reply To ========== When I took the poll I was surprised to see "athletic supporter only" as one of the choices for how much undressed the guys are during a group exam. I had that experience when I wrestled in high school. There were two big wrestling tournaments, one in the fall and one in the spring, and every wrestler got a quick exam by a doctor during weigh ins. If you never wrestled, you probably don't know that you have to weigh in every time you go to a tournament since wrestlig is by weight classes. Our coach checked our weight every week and the drill was to strip to your shorts and line up to be weighed. For tournaments, the drill was that you got a quick check by a doc while lined up to weigh in. For this we were ordered to undress from our regular clothes and put on only our jockstraps to be weighed in. Wrestlers wear singlets which are those tight body suits for wrestling, but you didn't weigh in wearing those. We would line up and as we reached the scale to be weighed in, the doc would listen to our hearts, check our skin for sores or cuts, and then we had to drop our jocks for the cough check. Then we got on the scales and were weighed in. Only then did we go back and put our singlets on and leave the locker room for the tournament area. Not a real complete exam, but it was a good example maybe of how little guys get to wear for somethings like wrestling and sports.

There were, until a year or so ago, videos available on the internet taken of tournament weigh-ins and the physicals. For the weigh-ins, which were done in a gym, each weight class lined up, at the far end in street clothes which were removed to underwear as the line got closer to the scales (one scale and a coach for each weight class). The wrestler one back from the one on the scale dropped his shorts and then weighed-in nude.

In another approach, the wrestlers came nude out of the locker room into the gym, held their hands above their heads and turned for the skin inspection and then mounted the scales.