Dorsal Hair

[looksgoodinred]

Seems to be becoming less of a "thing" if you've got it (and if you have it, you'll be shaving/waxing/sugaring because you want to).

 

http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/08/how-back-hair-became-the-new-pubic-hair.html?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=facebook

 

Recent essays by Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern and Andrew Sullivan suggest back fur is the new bush: common among adults, yet rarely seen in the wild. Men gay and straight have been silently, stoically waxing and using Nair — sometimes, most poignantly, enlisting a roommate to shave — in order to meet the standard of dorsal hairlessness established by Hollywood at some point between Roger Moore’s James Bond and Daniel Craig’s. Stern describes these travails as well as the rigid standards that demand them: according to GQ, back hair is the only body hair that is “never sexy.” Men have absorbed this edict so successfully that I personally had no idea what was going on. You guys were shaving your backs this whole time?

 

In the body-hair wars, defenses based on personal sexual preference carry little political weight. The implication here is that men should groom themselves based on the imagined tastes of some potential sexual partner. (And that anyone who isn’t particularly interested in sex with Andrew Sullivan might as well keep on feeling bad about his body hair.) In fact, after a couple years in the pubic-hair trenches, I’ve come to the conclusion that it is impossible to defend one’s body-hair choices without insulting someone else’s. Whether you’re saying a woman should go bare or keep a full bush, you’re telling women what to do. And what about the naturally smooth? If body hair is a “powerful visual indicator of maleness,” as Sullivan writes, does that make Asian men “trussed twink”?

 

 

Hairy or smooth, mens' backs are hawt.

[dervish]

You'd need to be vain as fuck to shave/wax your back.

 

Only non head region I've done was when I bought a trimmer for Movember. Was bored, one thing lead to another, before I knew it I'd taken my first tentative steps into a pube free world.

[Clydeside_Sheep]

There's definitely a subtle campaign underway in order to promote men behaving like women. I'm deeply suspicious of men who start tinkering with non-head hair.

 

Why would a man even be thinking about his own appearance in the first place? Its not like we have to look at ourselves.

 

Recently, looking to get a hair cut and shave, I spotted the traditional barber sign outside a shop, but - when I got the the door - it was called "male grooming" not "barber". A wide berth was given (the lack of price list on show, with the usual sub-£10 prices, also caused alarm bells).

 

I was tempted to put my head inside and say "I know you do grooming, but do you cut hair as well?"

[dave_min]

Sounds like you need a Spa weekend CS.

[fatjim]

Ever since the introduction of men's magazines that weren't porn and male grooming products metrosexuals have become more and more.

 

Companies realise there is a massive market for male grooming.

 

Men who spend too much time on their appearance are just slaves to that market because they are led to believe they have a better chance with women. Fucking muppets.

 

I never buy any of these products and I have never bought a men's magazine.

[dave_min]

You any good with the ladies fatjim?

[360]

He sure as hell doesn't get them in the sack by making them laugh.

[Ke1t]

Leave the hairless queerbaits alone.

 

I'm currently growing a mighty beard in anticipation of headed up north into the Upper Peninsula at the end of the week. That's rape country like you only see in Deliverance or Tarantino Torture Porn movies. If they see a hairless dude they'll just rip his kecks off and penetrate his Brazilianed anus before passing him round all four hundred members of their toothless, inbred, hillybilly extended family.

 

But they'll see me with my Mighty Beard of Heroism and realise that I'm not one to be messed with.

 

If anything I'll be man-banging them redneck fucks just to alleviate the boredom of Northern Fucking Michigan.

 

Male grooming?

 

Jesus fucking Christ.

[fatjim]

You any good with the ladies fatjim?

Put it this way I never chatted up any ladies my whole life and got plenty of action.

In fact I had to beat them off with a stick. Even after they died.

[Clydeside_Sheep]

Sounds like you need a Spa weekend CS.

 

Indeed, I think the 3rd weekend is free next month:

 

Weekend 1: At the football

Weekend 2: Drinking, smoking and eating to great excess,

Weekend 3: ?

Weekend 4: Commando training

 

See you in the jacuzzi

[fatjim]

He sure as hell doesn't get them in the sack by making them laugh.

You would be surprised how quickly laughing gas knocks them out.