Grooming of the male body seems to move in cycles of various fashions.
QUESTION:
I love to see how hairy some guys’ bodies are, which has always turned me on! Especially a nice pubic bush—I mean, yum! But when I see that a guy has shaved it off, it’s an instant turn-off and I totally lose interest. It seems so unnatural! Why do some guys do that to what Nature gave them?
RESPONSE:
Grooming of the male body seems to move in cycles of various fashions. However, in today’s world it seems like all sorts of fashions, which used to seem mutually exclusive, can co-exist. Aside from the ancient Egyptians, many of whom shaved their entire bodies on a regular basis, I’m not aware of any major trend to remove pubic hair until the second half of the last century.
During the 1970s, at least according to what we see in gay porn, the trend was towards natural body hair. Facial hair, chest hair, and pubic hair, all seem to have been in favor and almost universally kept quite natural. Men appearing in the magazines and early videos of those days also sported more varied and natural physiques.
Grooming of the male body seems to move in cycles of various fashions. However, in today’s world it seems like all sorts of fashions, which used to seem mutually exclusive, can co-exist.
Then, it seems that during the ’80s and ’90s a trend towards more uniform gym-cultivated bodies and less body hair became fashionable. Some observers interpret this as a reaction against the “naturalistic” gay porn models of the pre-HIV era and the “wasting syndrome” during the early years of the epidemic. The shift may also reflect the more conservative backlash after the tail end of the 1960s dwindled, with the rise of Baby Boomers into more affluent and more responsible levels of prominence. Whatever the reasons, more and more men lost the facial hair and even shaved or waxed their chests. More men aimed for gym-sculpted physiques.
The mid-to-late 1990s and the early aughts, after the turn of the millennium ushered in a trend to severely trim or entirely shave off pubic bushes. Some men came to appreciate shaved balls, while maintaining some pubes, while others seemed determined to lose all “hair down there.” Many men apparently decided that eliminating the bush would make their penis appear larger, though that’s probably only part of the story. In regions such as Europe, this fashion of shaving the crotch completely became more common. In parts of the Middle East and Pakistan and India many men seem to have decided somewhere along the way that it was “neater” and perhaps even cooler in truly hot climates, to remove it all.
These days we see a wide variety of trends that co-exist. Since around 2010, facial hair has returned into widespread vogue, first with beards, and now we witness the rebirth of the classical mustache! Along with that swing of the pendulum, a lot more men seem to favor the naturally hairy chest and the return of the full natural bush! Recently, bushy, and longer beards also seem more popular.
Really this is just a matter of choice. Fashions always tend to wax and wane. Personally, I’ve always felt you cannot do much to improve upon Nature itself. But that’s another entire discussion: “What does the term ‘natural’ really mean?”
Everyone has specific turn-ons, and things that turn us off. This is okay, so long as we try not to judge anyone’s worth according to something as fleeting and relatively superficial as a fashion!
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I myself has shaved my hair off ,why I like the way it looks, feels, and it àlot easer to clean up . The smooth feeling ya feel when I’m masturbating is so awesome .
So I don’t think it s a bad thing.
There do and do’nts to everything.look at it like thats there way , you have yours no body should be ju
Fully bushed here, it’s a personal choice for sure. Perhaps it’s a generational thing, guys/gals my age tend to have fully bushed pubic mounds. I like the natural look. And its a frequent poll question at BW, to be bushed or not to be.
Hey Bruce the Batemaster, I am fully bushy genetically and feel fortunate. Tried shaving my balls and trimming but my hair is so prickly I can’t stand it. Bushy is comfortable, and my scrotum doesn’t stick to my legs. Hairiness is there for a reason and it also captures wonderful pheromones!
However I have often wondered about the role of women in this, from sexual liberation onwards, it seems men are not free to be. Women love smooth bodies, cocks…. But what about stubble chest and tittie rash….maybe worse still, labia rash. And many men will do what their women want to get more sex.
Personally I think the look is emasculating and makes most men look prepubescent, a demographic that doesn’t interest me sexually. Pubic hair and hairy bodies frame everything and give a bit of a wow factor.
I couldn’t agree more. Men are supposed to have pubic hair, it’s an indication that they are men and not boys. As a further bonus, the hair traps their male-scent.
I started shaving the base of my cock, just to make it look longer. Then discovered that shaving my balls clean made them more sensitive. Love that. Using silicone cockrings, it was clear that hairless was the way to go in all the areas they touched. So these days, I’m smooth where it pleases me, and still have my bush, which is also a turn on for me and others. I LOVE burying my face in a hairy crotch, but equally love licking a smooth playing field.