Chest hair good or bad?

(ps, tans = dud. yay pale folk!)

Fine, be that way. *cries*

Actually, I should think chest hair is pretty itchy.

I guess that does not mean we have to like the burt reynolds look though. A rule of thumb might be if you can sharpen a knife on it, perhaps it is time to thin it out... :)

My name is Mandy Patinkin, you have mocked my name, prepare to die! Just be glad I'm not going to break into "Brother, can you spare a dime?"

No (well, very little and non-visible) chest hair.

And here's me thinking they were maroon.

how do we feel now?

I have white chest hairs now :/

Total classic, obv

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aww mark that's cute heh

the complete lack of this anywhere was the thing that freaked me out more than anything else in the 300

the 300?

I thought you were gay

what's the 300?

tuomounter

spartans be waxin'

I'm not really down with chesthair, but then again, we all know that I like the long-haired vegan girly boys who read french poetry and think football is vile anyway...

well, everyone knows that liking football makes a person grow chest hair, that's sorted then

Is that what happened to me?

Also I read french poetry and HAVE had long hair and may have it again. I'm such a fascinating mess of contradictions!

I also drink tea AND coffee, sometimes on the same day!

crazy!!

Hi!

oh sometimes i drink tea and coffee on the same day too! sometimes AT THE SAME TIME??? like for real.

lol what?? that i've never witnessed

do u have chest hair?

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i grew chest hair in my baseball boots

waxing etc = megadud

i do not have chest hair u_u

i drink neither tea nor coffee

^^^^ british jason schwartzmann

shaving = duddest

that's the weirdest thing anyone's ever said about mookieproof

hah, it was re. adam upthread but it got all xposted out of context.

(bonus: once i dated a girl with a hairy left nipple )

I've always heard people talk down about chest hair, which left me with a little bit of a complex about mine. But every girl who has ever gotten close enough to me to run her fingers through it has been entranced.

Also: "Smooth-chested men leave me clammy."

I do not have chest hair either :-( But I do find it incredibly sexy.

I HATE when people shave it; nothing looks worse or sloppier or looks-like-he's-trying-too-hard than chest stubble.

xpost that's another thing-- mosteveryone I know who has some hates it, and fails to grasp the amount of men/women who really do dig it...

stevie otmx2

i once dated a guy who shaved all of his body hair and the thing with a lot of dudes is that they don't actually pay a lot of attention and, like, keep up maintenance and that really was unpleasant. D:

eww WORST

...but i have met jason schwartzmann. he is s-m-all

We once knew this guy who shaved all the hair on his forearms. That was funny. like, why?? He wasn't even that hairy.

What are "downy"breasts?

dirty pillows

the thing with a lot of dudes is that they don't actually pay a lot of attention and, like, keep up maintenance and that really was unpleasant

So all the time he was stubbly?

EWWWWWW

yeah like quite frequently, stubbly
v gross

Jeez, thanks for clarifying that (?)

mosteveryone I know who has some hates it

Nope.

ooooooh ;-)

But srsly because all these girls and gay boys say they think it's so 'ick', and the fact that it's the punchline of so many gross-out jokes in movies, and that you will never EVER see it in a magazine advert or on MTV or most any other TV network, etc, makes me feel weird for liking it, like I'm freaky or weird or something.

Hairlessness is just a ridiculous, kind of bizarre thing to expect of people.

So many attributes that are considered attractive by individuals or media images or culture/society/whatever are ridiculous, kind of bizarre things to expect of people.

Different people have different tastes. That's why there's chocolate and vanilla. That's why there's girls with big asses and girls with small asses. That's why there's hairy guys and guys who can barely squeeze out a treasure trail.

I don't see the point of shaving body hair if you do have it, that seems ridiculous. But, as with all sexual/attractiveness preferences - it *is* just random.

I have only a few chest hairs around my nipples, but one at least at any given time is about two inches long.

"squeeze out a treasure trail"?

Isn't that what happens if you eat too many power bars?

But srsly because all these girls and gay boys say they think it's so 'ick', and the fact that it's the punchline of so many gross-out jokes in movies, and that you will never EVER see it in a magazine advert or on MTV or most any other TV network, etc

Boyification of Western Civ? Where's Magnum PI when you need him?

http://img.search.com/thumb/d/d9/Burtreynolds99.jpg/180px-Burtreynolds99.jpg

BURT

i know it's a sad ification

mm so hot

Even Burt is better without the stache. But that's a whole nother hair thread.

damn he does have a great upper lip area, i was wondering why he looked different

Hot chest hair is hot on hot guys. Gross chest hair is gross on gross guys. Relativistic cat is relativistic.

Elliott Gould: yes.
Will Ferrell: no.

Yeah but Will Ferrell has never trained properly. When he crosses over into pure action movies and has to trim down to play Travis McGee, you'll be all "Will Ferrell: yes" etc.

I find dark chest hair on men incredibly sexy.

Chest hair is stupid. I see no biological reason why you should grow hair on your chest. Or for that matter why you have to grow hair on your face. It looks ridiculous.

evolutionarily it protects u from the elements

I see no biological reason why you should grow hair on your chest. Or for that matter why you have to grow hair on your face.

People say a lot of dumb shit on ILE, but this might be the all time topper. WTF do you think it is if NOT biological?

I like it fine. Not necessarily so much that it falls off all over the place, though. (I dated one guy who looked like he was wearing a sweater, which was fine until after the sexxing when I had pieces of it ON ME, and thank you, no.)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA

I like chest hair that is well-maintained. Excessive bushiness is no good. Smooth chests are great too.

I am a little annoyed by mine--it is about 25 hairs on my left pec ONLY, and then a patch around each nipple.

I dated one guy who looked like he was wearing a sweater

My sister's ex used to comment on dudes' sweaters at the beach all the time. I don't know how he avoided getting beaten all the time.

it's good

I can't read over the rest of the thread, but shoulder, back and upper arm hair are BADDDDDD.

Like BAD as in making me feel nauseated BAD.

only bad body hair is armpit and pubic hair

I lurv armpit hair. Pubes...are just pubes.

NO:

BACK HAIR
UPPER ARM HAIR
SHOULDER HAIR
APE LEG HAIR
APE ASS HAIR (DEBATABLE)

YES/FINE:

CHEST HAIR
CUTE STOMACH PATCH/TREASURE TRAIL
FOREARM HAIR
NOT-OVERGROWN PUBES
ARMPITS (MALES WHO SHAVE THIS = o_)(
LEG HAIR WITHIN REASON
ASS HAIR WITHIN REASON

100% agreed

I have weird body hair. I have hardly any upper body hair at all... you can count my chest hairs on both hands. I usually just pluck those. Maybe someday I'll have something that looks manly, but until then, I'd rather not look pubescent. Ok, so then at the other extreme, I have TOTAL ape legs that are a bit gross, so I trim that shit every couple of months lest people think that a monkey just whizzed by them on a bicycle.

I read that quickly and thought you were saying that you didn't want to look like a monkey whizzed on your legs.

"Monkey whiz" is a very disappointing GIS.

trimming leg hair? sounds like a fucking disaster waiting to happen

what exactly are we talking about here?

Threads like this are why I don't go to the beach. I am fucking covered in body hair, and am not real interested in showing it off.

I once worked with this b400-lb. 60-yr-old bear guy that looked like Santa. And he wrote this 'erotic story' he shared with me to proofread. He described this one man as having hair like everywhere except the palms of his hards & feet and on his face and the front of his neck. All I could think of was: "So he wants to fuck Enkidu from the Epic of Gilgamesh." At that moment, I didn't know if I felt more awkward to read this fiction that was the exact opposite of my interests, or by comparing it subconsciously with the Epic of Gilgamesh.

I'm a hairy motherfucker. Except I can't grow a good mustache.

I have a nice crop of chest hair. Thick, but not too thick. I think it's my best feature.

If chest hair is wrong, then I don't want have the option to be right.

Let's see some jpgs, people.

Yep, I'm a hairy fuck. A pic in this month's wdyll demonstrates it.

xpost i agree

I like snailtrails =D they're cute. I dont mind a little chest hair on guys tbh.

Hmm, I don't know about these pictures...

yeah i'm DEFINITELY not posting a pic of my chest on here without being like completely high and out of it

I'm not quite a werewolf. Not quite.

Snailtrail yes. YES. YES PEOPLE. yeeeessss And hair is neither here nor there, as long as it moves, bcz if you were ruffling a guys chest and the hairs just sat there like titanium wires, I couldn't handle that.

Also, chest stubble >_< NO SIR.

Mind you shaved legs on guys = HOTT OMG.

That actually weirds me a little, but then I don't shave my legs so if a man around me did it would make me feel like Yeti.

Gilgamesh is basically the world's oldest slash.

i didn't have dinner 2nite

do we think jesse's sucking face bout now?

lol that was meant for the other thread no more chest hair observations from me ; )

<i>WTF do you think it is if NOT biological?</i>

A curse?

And no there is no reason whatsoever. Take a gaggle of smooth, hairless guys and guys with a full beard, chest and back hair. Now throw them out naked and exposed to the elements for a set amount of time and I bet the relative rates of hypothermia fatalities between the two groups would be so small as to be inconsequential. At the very least, the number of times in a man's life where he'd be justified in saying "Praise evolution that years of Darwinian processes equipped me with this sweet growth of hair sparsely and unevenly covering my upper torso or else I'd REALLY be in trouble now" are pretty small.

Women don't grow beards or chest hair, and they seem to have gotten on just fine.

well obv now it doesn't make much of a difference, but when evolution was like happening, these things actually had a purpose.

a lot of things that evolved turned out to be pointless, but they certainly werne't always

and it's awful to look at body hair as a curse. awful and completely like aryan or something

;_;

trimming leg hair? sounds like a fucking disaster waiting to happen

A disaster? Like, a dude with no leg hair? Cancel the Tour de France next year, then, and maybe the Olympics.

I used to shave my legs. When I was v into teh road cycling.

Secondary sex characteristics are a motherfucker. All you bald guys out there... I have your hair on my legs.

I like the bicycle dudes' legs. Like... wow.

I knew the cycling was good for something.

> And no there is no reason whatsoever.

Define reason. I mean, if there was no reason for it to grow, it wouldn't be growing would it?

There's no question that body hair is a vestigial trait that serves no current purpose - that's why it's as rare and sparse as it is. Don't forget that the same is true of the hair on the head, though, as well as most of your fingers and toes, etc. And if you ever wear makeup or have any piercings you really need to shut up about necessity right now.

this thread needs WAY more pictures.

also grey chest hair on me = woo!

(grey pubes though...slightly less woo)

MB on the direction this went. My comments were (mostly) in jest but I guess I didn't really convey that. Yes I do know body hair has a purpose or else why would it be there? I just don't like having to shave. Moreover I recognize the potential "aesthetic" value of something that serves no real purpose IMO like chest hair. My nipples have no reason to exist either but I'm still glad I have them.

u shave ur body hair??!! why? don't u hate stubble, razor burn, the chicken look?

Sorry. I get a little defensive about hirsuteness, since, as I mentioned above:

http://meggan.typepad.com/quiddity/images/werewolfreal.jpg

There's no question that body hair is a vestigial trait that serves no current purpose - that's why it's as rare and sparse as it is.

I wish. ;_;

One time I was changing at the gym and some guy, a complete stranger, looked at me and said, "There must have been a bear in your family!" Like, THANKS FOR THE AWKWARDNESS, COMPLETE STRANGER. I really wanted to say, "Yes, that's exactly right, my maternal great-grandmother fucked a bear. You want to inappropriately check out my package while you're commenting?"

omg that's awful i woulda told him off

I was too flabbergasted to say anything! Like commenting on complete strangers' bodies in the men's locker room was suddenly acceptable and I didn't get the memo or something.

Sometimes I wish I could comment on men's bodies in the locker room. Like, as in, "Old dude, you might want to think about wearing a towel. I can do without the preview of what I have to look forward to when I'm 65. Just a towel, that's all I ask."

lol phil honest that's ridiculous

Yeah, totally, Phil. I'm with Surmounter here.

I've had folks make remarks at me like that out of the blue, folks I didn't even know, but not in specific relation to chest hair and that is even more ridiculous than any shit I've ever heard said to me. I hope you told 'em off good.

Bad News Bears :(

I can't read over the rest of the thread, but shoulder, back and upper arm hair are BADDDDDD.

Upper arm may not be great but the shaved upper arm hair look doesn't improve upon it at all.

Young girls seem to like chest hair more as they get older. And isn't chest hair back in style amongst the homosexuals? It's about to swing back into style.

Excuse my confusing language there ("shaved upper arm hair", "young girls as they get older"

Do you ever see a man in a suit with k-hairy hands and then wonder where all the other hair is, the mad extent of it? It's kind of distracting, but only a tiny bit.

no

One time I was changing at the gym and some guy, a complete stranger, looked at me and said, "There must have been a bear in your family!"

Are you sure he was talking about that kind of bear?
Are you sure he wasn't flirting with you?

even if he was it's a dumb thing to say.

what other kind of bear would he have been talking about?

I mean, A) you were changing B) he used the word 'bear' and not 'ape' or something

what other 'bear' do you think, surmounter? ;-)

well i assumed he meant "bear" as in not the animal

"Yes, that's exactly right, my maternal great-grandmother fucked a bear

no no he meant animal

huge x-post

- wait, a lot of women find Pete Sampras sexy. My world is upsidedown.

so sexy

I got called a big hairy monster the other day

Thatll teach me to sleep with 10 year olds

this dude.

"We welcome celebrities to apply to join the torch relay," Xinhua quoted a spokesman for the organisers as saying. "But it is hard to assess his chances, as the recruitment is open to everyone."

Yu Zhenhuan FTW!

THAT IS NOT CHEST HAIR!! That is EVERYWHERE hair!

actually his chest could be hairier tbh.
http://www.hairyhuman.co.uk/images/Yu%20Zhenhuan.jpg

I've always been a big fan of chest hair. Not a massive thick rug mind you, and I agree there is something a little offputting about shoulder hair. But a nice smattering of chest hair is so manly! and the snail trail is very appealing too.

Are you sure he was talking about that kind of bear?
Are you sure he wasn't flirting with you?

1. No, he definitely meant "bear" as in "animal," not as in the other kind. Insert ludicrous Gomer Pyle-ish accent to imagine pronunciation.

2. It occurred to me for a split second, but then it struck me as more undiplomatic dumbness. Then again, I'm not gay, so who knows? Maybe I just didn't recognize it?

Nonetheless, it pissed me off. I shoulda punched him in the groin.

Last summer I was at a public pool outside DC and a bunch of kids, say, 9-11 years old, said to me, "Man, you look like Austin Powers" (kind of odd, as I'm nowhere near that!), to which I responded, without any sarcasm or shame, "Thanks!". They just looked at me, very confused that I'd say that. It was great!

kinda digging my chest hair these days tbh (itchyness is a dud though)

i can see my chest hair when i look down but not when i look in a mirror, very frustrating

lol

I have about five long, scraggly hairs around each nipple and at the center of my chest, and that's it.

I thought this whole thread was going to be making fun of people who shave their chests. Kind of disappointed.

i shaved for a while, then was with someone who found that off-putting, so i stopped and never did so again.

i've got mad chest hair but can't really imagine shaving. that's a lot of shaving and itchiness.

so disgusting, i could vomit (shaving)

I like to be realistic about biology and it kind of doesn't matter about hair because whomever I am in <3 with, I usually find his traits attractive regardless. But at the moment I do slightly prefer lack of chest hair. That could always change.

Shaving just seems UGH impossible to keep up, and horribly itchy for everyone, and a rly rly bad idea. On the other hand no one seems to find it weird that women shave their legs every day (or whatever), so I guess I have no point really.

My wife asked me to scratch her back last night, so I rubbed against her with my brillo-pad chest. (/tmi)

yea but i feel the chest is worse

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it's also just unattractive once it grows out after like, a day? and you got little razor bumps and burns?

the question marks are there because i'm questioning the sanity of anyone who does this.

this is what waxing and laser-hair-removal were made for.

word

i won't lie when i say that if i could get the chest hair and right-above-the-ass-crack hair done away with forever, i'd be okay with that. belly hair is sexy.

you can, it's just really fuckin expensive

Young girls seem to like chest hair more as they get older.

That kind of thing happened to me, re body hair and also any kind of muscular or stocky build -- basically all the trappings of "masculinity" that seemed to belong to my parents' age and era, and not mine. Then I pretty much spent all of my 20s in a gradual shift toward finding barrel-chestedness appealing (as opposed to 6'2" twiggy indie boys or whatever) and at this point I don't have a strong opinion about that stuff.

The anti-beard thing is a firm stance, though.

if you have chest hair keep it fer chrissakes, there are too many other ways to revert to pubescence.

i just feel like kissing the man with the beard is difficult

i love my chest hair it is like there is a whole robin williams growing on my torso

does it keep you warm?

i'll admit to sort of trimming mine a bit. i don't have a lot but the clutch of long scraggly hairs are long.
and weird.
so, gone? no. tamed? yes.

As a teenager coming into my hairiness (that word looks like it's spelled wrong), I used to find it odd and shame-inducing that none of the bros on MTV and stuff had any chest hair whatsoever. I feel like moderate hairiness has swung back into being the norm. I mean, if you're naturally hairless, cool, but is there anything worse than the homophobic jock homos who wax their chest? Oh yeah, if they have pierced nipples. Disgusting.

my chest hair makes me feel manly

http://dcuni.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/sunburn.jpg

When this thread was started, I didn't even have a hint of chest hair. I got chest hair at about age 30. Even now, it's not much, and it's only right in the middle. Hey, gotta work with what you got.

http://www.geocities.com/chestrockwell45/prince.jpg

i still think chest hair is hot. my bf has a lovely spread of it. i'm a fan.

right-above-the-ass-crack hair

What the fuck is up with this anyway? Is there a scientific explanation?

if your ass has hair, and your back has hair, why not the part of your back right above your ass

simple math imo

I find chest hair incredibly sexy and am so glad it's become somewhat fashionable again. I don't have any at all (boo) so I can't really relate to how much of a potential nuisance it could be, so I can see why people might want to trim, but shaving it completely really is gross. I have friends that used to, and they'd get "chest stubble", and yes, it is completely horrifying.

I also secretly love right-above-the-ass-crack hair.

And re: Laruel, I find it completely weird that women are expected to constantly (and uncomfortably) shave all these parts of their body as a minimum requirement to even be considered for social acceptability

it's really not a nuisance at all unless you're a fuckin twink model or somethin

I've been told it can get uncomfortable on hot summer days or somethinig.

This really should turn into WDYCHLL

that has never happened to me and i am a str8 actin bear cub livin in the deep south... armpits sure, scrotum sure (on gold bond-less days), but never the chest

yeah, a non-issue.

i'd be up for getting my chest waxed tho. see how the other half lives.