Chest hair good or bad?

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(Thought I'd better take this to all areas) I noticed the other day at a party when 3 friends stripped to the chest and started doing karate moves at midnight (not quite sure why) that I have more chest hair than quite a few people who don't seem to have any. Any idea why? Is this good or can I expect to resemble a gorrilla in the near future?

― Bill, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chest hair is dud. Especially when the guy (or woman!) is not tanned. €shudder€

― Helen Fordsdale, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't rate body hair in and of itself like this. Body hair is all part of the package. How someone acts, smells, feels, carries themselves -- this all equals sexy. Give me the whole package, I say.

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

― Samantha, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chest hair is yuck, but tummy hair is okay.

― toraneko, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chest hair is yuck

Fine, be that way. *cries*

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't have any chest hair. I'm gonna get a JBJovi false one and get on my goddamn Harley.

Actually, I should think chest hair is pretty itchy.

― james, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you are a beautiful person then it doesn't matter where you grow hair.

― toraneko, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i want chest hair. or a new coat. one of the two.

― laix, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Similarly if you are a minger it doesn't matter where you grow hair either, really.

― Tom, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Unless you plan on rolling yourself on a floor of fresh duct tape, I wouldn't worry about. Got a chest rug myself, and proud of it. Blame my Greek half.

― Brian MacDonald, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like it, but then I'm moderately histrionic and schizo- something...

― Nicole, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm actually disappointed (and slightly surprised) I scored low on the narcissism questions myself...

― Brian MacDonald, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i have one hair on my nipple which i trim occasionally. but once i let it grow out to 3 inches or so.

― ernest, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But Brian, you never struck me as being narcissitic. Especially compared to...well, modesty forbids.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's nothing wrong with body hair on guys. That's how testosterone works. A lot of guys with no chest hair shave anyhow, which is ridiculous. AND TANS ARE DISGUSTING.

― Ally, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I really only like smooth-chested guys. Although a *little* would be ok I guess, if the rest of the package was good.

― Sean, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"birds like to nest ina hairy chest" -- Sean Connery.

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... :)

― Menelaus Darcy, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

I have a hairy chest and abs. I am also in pretty good shape. The women around me like a man with a hairy chest so I am happy with the body I have. The waxed or shaved look is so very fake. Men be happy with what you have. Uf you eat right and exercise, it shouldn't matter how hairy you are. Remember lot of women find men like Alec Baldwin, Tom Selleck, Pierce Brosnon, Kevin Kline, Pete Sampras, Sean Connery, Patrick Warburton, Hugh Jackman, Mandy Patinkin, Jason Patric, Sean Astin, Larry Poindexter, Andy Garcia, David Hasselhoff, Tim McGraw, Adam Pascal, Peter Gallagher, Dylan McDermott, Donny Osmond, Paul Stanley and Tom Jones to be sexy. Those are men that I wouldn't mind being compared too.

― BASSBARBER, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)

That millionaire creep on Mr Personality shaves his freakin LEGS! I like that show though, it's like she's dating a superhero team

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

look at it in this way
paople are like cars. there are so many different type of them out there . some of them are more popular and some are not but it doesn't mean thet all the popular cars have nice derivers too .so you better be confident on how you look and I'm sure enough nice girls are there that like hairy chest and find it sexy.

― babak, Saturday, 1 November 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

URG ME FOUND WOMAN BRING BACK TO CAVE UNNNNHHHH UNNNNNHHH!

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 1 November 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

There is a man called Mandy Patinkin?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 1 November 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

With a can of nectar for drinkin...

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 1 November 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.duke.edu/~ccs3/mandy.jpg

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?"

― Mandy "Sweet Like Candy" Patinkin (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 November 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

that wouldn't be babak emadi, by any chance, would it?

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 1 November 2003 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

there's something deeply disturbing about the idea of a guy with chest hair and a tan being the superior product

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 1 November 2003 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

My sister recently told me she didn't think a chap was my type by saying "I think he might be a bit hairy for you" - a judgement she had made from seeing a head shot of the man.

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 1 November 2003 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

was she right?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 2 November 2003 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Seen by my ex-wife: A small child burst into tears while at the beach. 'Come into the water, sweetheart, it's lovely!', said her mum, splashing encouraginly in the shallow water. 'No, said the teary child, pointing at a very hairy man walking out through the waves, 'There's a bear!'

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Sunday, 2 November 2003 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I was at the pool once and a guy walked by with the most astounding amount of chest hair I'd ever seen. It was really hard not to laugh/stare. He seemed like a FREAK OF NATURE. Later I put on my glasses and realized that he had a brown towel over his shoulder. I should really wear contacts when I swim.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Sunday, 2 November 2003 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

In my experience, as a hairy-chested man, there's plenty of women who like it a lot. There's no need for any man to feel insecure about it.

― JJ Cugat, Sunday, 2 November 2003 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The only thing worse than a man with chest hair is a woman with chest hair. Especially a woman who can BRAID her chest hair.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Sunday, 2 November 2003 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Did the women w/hairy nipples issue come up yet?

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 2 November 2003 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Cos that's a turn-on and no mistake

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 2 November 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

for what species?

― Skottie, Sunday, 2 November 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Chest hair is CLASSIC. No chest hair is ok too. Shaving/waxing chest hair is Sinister. I noticed alot of North American men do this. It's bizarre.

― jed (jed_e_3), Sunday, 2 November 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I know a girl who has downy breasts.

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 2 November 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

NB This is not me.

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 2 November 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I was under the impression that was far from uncommon

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 2 November 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh hey maybe I'm into badgers!

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 2 November 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Badger king!

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 2 November 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/78/15/3395187/1094984199373l.jpg

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

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 2 November 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not scared of you, Mandy Patinkin.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 2 November 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I like that the holy trinity of lynx, brut [I think] and I have no idea are given pride of place on top of your bookshelf.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 2 November 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a feeling that it's Tesco's own anti-perspirant (it was still there until last weekend when I had a big clear-out - that picture's about two and a half years old!).

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 2 November 2003 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you put on weight since then?

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 2 November 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 2 November 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got better glasses though. (I'm not as skinny as I look in that picture though - even back then I was still 13st.)

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 2 November 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

How tall are you??

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 2 November 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

5'8"

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 2 November 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― Surmounter, Monday, 23 July 2007 05:12 (eighteen years ago)

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

no no he meant animal

― Stevie D, Monday, 23 July 2007 05:13 (eighteen years ago)

huge x-post

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

― Z S, Monday, 23 July 2007 05:28 (eighteen years ago)

so sexy

― Surmounter, Monday, 23 July 2007 05:28 (eighteen years ago)

I got called a big hairy monster the other day

― President Evil, Monday, 23 July 2007 06:24 (eighteen years ago)

Thatll teach me to sleep with 10 year olds

― President Evil, Monday, 23 July 2007 06:25 (eighteen years ago)

this dude.

― Drooone, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 05:55 (eighteen years ago)

"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!

― Drooone, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 05:59 (eighteen years ago)

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

― Stevie D, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 06:52 (eighteen years ago)

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

― Drooone, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 08:54 (eighteen years ago)

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.

― gem, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

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.

― Phil D., Wednesday, 1 August 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

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!

― Mark Clemente, Thursday, 2 August 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

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

― from crass encino (velko), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 08:44 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Hoos Passansteeno (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 09:29 (sixteen years ago)

lol

― 20 HOOS poppin steens on kawasakis (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 10:15 (sixteen years ago)

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

― goodbye pork pie scarf (The Reverend), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 10:38 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Mister Jim, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 16:17 (sixteen years ago)

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

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:36 (sixteen years ago)

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

― meat of beef (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:41 (sixteen years ago)

so disgusting, i could vomit (shaving)

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:42 (sixteen years ago)

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.

― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:44 (sixteen years ago)

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

― WmC, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:44 (sixteen years ago)

yea but i feel the chest is worse

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:44 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:45 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:46 (sixteen years ago)

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

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:47 (sixteen years ago)

word

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:47 (sixteen years ago)

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.

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:48 (sixteen years ago)

you can, it's just really fuckin expensive

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:48 (sixteen years ago)

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.

― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:53 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:55 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:56 (sixteen years ago)

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

― GROLIOUS NIPPON ;_; (cankles), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 18:16 (sixteen years ago)

does it keep you warm?

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 18:16 (sixteen years ago)

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.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 20:38 (sixteen years ago)

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.

― DJ Mr. Face Stabba, M.D. (Whitey on the Moon), Thursday, 26 March 2009 05:33 (sixteen years ago)

my chest hair makes me feel manly

― i stole a metal dude's t-shirt in richmond just to watch him cry (latebloomer), Thursday, 26 March 2009 05:59 (sixteen years ago)

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

― tits akimbo (kenan), Thursday, 26 March 2009 07:00 (sixteen years ago)

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

― tits akimbo (kenan), Thursday, 26 March 2009 07:04 (sixteen years ago)

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

― behind the times (gem), Thursday, 26 March 2009 12:46 (sixteen years ago)

right-above-the-ass-crack hair

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

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 26 March 2009 12:54 (sixteen years ago)

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

simple math imo

― the most brazen explosion of clitoral lust in folk-metal history (cankles), Thursday, 26 March 2009 12:57 (sixteen years ago)

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

― (The) (Fabulous) (Stevie D), Thursday, 26 March 2009 13:15 (sixteen years ago)

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

― the most brazen explosion of clitoral lust in folk-metal history (cankles), Thursday, 26 March 2009 13:20 (sixteen years ago)

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

― (The) (Fabulous) (Stevie D), Thursday, 26 March 2009 13:21 (sixteen years ago)

This really should turn into WDYCHLL

― (The) (Fabulous) (Stevie D), Thursday, 26 March 2009 13:21 (sixteen years ago)

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

― the most brazen explosion of clitoral lust in folk-metal history (cankles), Thursday, 26 March 2009 13:23 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, a non-issue.

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

― Surmounter, Thursday, 26 March 2009 13:46 (sixteen years ago)

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