Woman's opinion on under arm hair - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

LAW2 · 11-20-2010, 05:57 AM

I'm a guy and like most have under arm hair. Now once there was a GF that asked if I would shave it because she felt like Chuck Norris was attacking her.

At first I was taken back by the request but then I figured it's only hair and she's the one that see me the most w/out my shirt on.

So my question to the ladies or guys with a woman's opinion is what do you prefer if you have a preference? New GF hinted at she likes a guy with not as much hair and other than than the regular grooming I thought about adding arms to the mix.

I tried to make a poll but it didn't work.

Prefer hair
Prefer NO hair
I don't care

On a side note it seemed like I didn't sweat as much and didn't get BO.

genuinegirly · 11-20-2010, 06:41 AM

I added the poll for you - those are tricky, it takes a while for most people to figure out where/how to click to get those started.

I said no hair. But here's the thing: my husband cringes whenever he sees me shave mine, and can't imagine doing the same. We've reached a happy medium where he keeps them trimmed short, and that's good enough for me. Unattended, unruly pit hair is gross. Man-stink sticks to it, it looks repulsive, and I can't fathom how it could be comfortable.

Seaver · 11-20-2010, 04:53 PM

Add a "I'm a man and just want to see the results" to the poll please.

LAW2 · 11-20-2010, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Seaver

Add a "I'm a man and just want to see the results" to the poll please.

Honestly I would if I could but I can't find a button or link to edit the poll. If you have the power please feel free to add your description.

SecretMethod70 · 11-20-2010, 05:23 PM

There's a link on the bottom right of the poll, "view poll results."

genuinegirly · 11-20-2010, 07:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SecretMethod70

There's a link on the bottom right of the poll, "view poll results."

Is that feature only visible to staff? I'll add it for Seaver anyway.

SecretMethod70 · 11-20-2010, 07:27 PM

Nope, should be visible to everyone

To avoid threadjacking... I don't shave my armpit hair. I'm not particularly hairy though, so maybe I'd think it's worth considering if I were.

snowy · 11-20-2010, 07:45 PM

I like underarm hair. I like my guy a little stinky. Underarm hair enables that. I think it's the pheromones. I really love my guy's smell...mmmm. It's so comforting.

Xerxys · 11-20-2010, 07:51 PM

I hate under-arm hair and I would shave if I actually had any.

I did not vote though.

tasineah · 11-20-2010, 08:50 PM

I LOVE under arm hair...and especially love CD's. I call them feathers and love the feel of them between my fingertips, and how soft they are as I twine them round my fingers and love them long to gently pull and tug and tease before during after sexing. I love to lay and watch tv and find some sticking out so that I can stroke and play with them. I am fascinated with this area's hair. Its so soft and feathery...so long and tempting, like its fingers crooking to call to me.

I love under arm hair on women too....

Daniel_ · 11-21-2010, 02:58 AM

I don't shave, but I do clip it back every little while - I've found that i get less irritation that way.

Shaved and underarm deodorants are uncomfortable, untouched and I find my shirts rub and annoy.

Plan9 · 11-21-2010, 04:01 AM

Jesus Metrosexual Christ.

If I had a giant afro around my smoothspot, yeah, I might trim it to assist my partner in her attempt to swallow the throbbing love bludgeon. I get that.

But a man's armpits? Okay... A) it's an armpit and B) it's a man's armpit. As long as the dude is showering and clued into Old Spice, stop being a sissy.

Ladies, if you want to fuck a Ken Doll, move to New Jersey and find a guido. The rest of us happen to have hair on our bodies.

All this hairless crap makes me wanna have my girlfriend start cultivating her crotch fleece. So I can shove my face in it.

...

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Originally Posted by genuinegirly

Unattended, unruly pit hair is gross. Man-stink sticks to it, it looks repulsive, and I can't fathom how it could be comfortable.

Isn't this the dude that goes like three days without showering? Maybe it's not the hair.

Redlemon · 11-21-2010, 07:03 AM

My wife hasn't stated an opinion on my body hair. I trim it with a 3 guard, which is enough so that it doesn't stick out when my arms are at my sides, but leaves enough to prevent chafing.

mixedmedia · 11-21-2010, 08:00 AM

I love body hair. All of it.
I have a hard time understanding why people hate the human body so much - the real human body, not these shaved, injected, tucked and lifted facsimiles that are becoming so prevalent. It's getting out of control.

Shagg · 11-21-2010, 09:52 AM

All I can say is that my fiancee gets turned on something fierce by my smell after I get home from a hard day at work.

StanT · 11-21-2010, 11:14 AM

They say we descended from apes and Neanderthals, some of us didn't descend quite as far as others. My knuckles still drag a bit and I'm pretty much furry all over.

I'm fairly receptive to whatever grooming my wife prefers; but realistically, hairless isn't going to happen.

Ages ago, when my daughters were in elementary school, they came home with head lice, a nasty shampoo, and a set of directions. My wife read "Shampoo all contiguous hairy areas", looked at me and said "You're fucked".

ring · 11-21-2010, 11:57 AM

"I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty, oily, greasy, fleecy, shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen, knotted, polka-dotted, twisted, beaded, braided, powdered, flowered and confettied, bangled, tangled, spangled and spaghettied..."

uncle phil · 11-21-2010, 12:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ring

"I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty, oily, greasy, fleecy, shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen, knotted, polka-dotted, twisted, beaded, braided, powdered, flowered and confettied, bangled, tangled, spangled and spaghettied..."

oh say, can you see
my eyes - if you can then my hair's too long...

ring · 11-21-2010, 01:37 PM

This shorty sees what you did, there.

uncle phil · 11-21-2010, 01:54 PM

Down to here
Down to there
Down to where
It stops by itself
(don't even have to cut it
'cause it stops by itself...)

Charlatan · 11-21-2010, 05:00 PM

I trim my armpits from time to time, mostly because I live in a very hot and very humid place. I found that if I don't trim it (a little bit) my deodorant ends up in the hair and not on my pits. I have no interest in shaving them bare. None whatsoever. The same for pubes and chest hair. Trim but not remove.

As for women's armpits... I have no issue with women having hair in their pits. It's about presentation. If a woman has hair, I like it trimmed neatly rather than unruly.

Lindy · 11-21-2010, 05:32 PM

I've noticed that the world's population has grown since shaving pubes became more common. It must have led to more sex.

Lindy

purplelirpa · 11-21-2010, 05:43 PM

I prefer a man who doesn't shave his armpits. I don't shave my armpits, and I don't expect him to do it, either.

dlish · 11-22-2010, 03:55 AM

a trim or shave. depends on the season i guess. as long as it doesnt smell, im cool with that.

having a hairy armpit doesnt let the deodorant onto the skin where it should be.

does anyone have an evolutionary explanation for armpit hair? or is that just a remnant of our primal ancestors?

SecretMethod70 · 11-22-2010, 05:00 AM

Captures scent. Biologically compatible people tend to find each other's natural scent attractive to some degree.

Obviously, this scent capturing is a nuisance in modern culture.

Plan9 · 11-22-2010, 05:23 AM

Pheromones don't lie.

mixedmedia · 11-22-2010, 07:48 AM

Not to say that shaving one's underarm hair is necessarily unhealthy (unlike shaving pubic hair which is unhealthy) I think it's important for people to realize that their bodies are essentially little ecosystems and there is a purpose for each and every element of them. Our bodies are populated with microorganisms, including the surface of our bodies which provide the first level of defense against invading pathogens. Much like we didn't understand the need for an appendix or a thymus or a spleen not so long ago (all of which serve to protect our bodies from pathogens) it's possible that we don't fully realize the implications of disturbing our 'outer environment.'

Grasshopper Green · 11-22-2010, 09:17 AM

My husband trims on his own accord and I like that. I wouldn't want him to shave completely, I like the way he smells.

jadangel · 11-22-2010, 09:27 AM

I prefer shaved, but my bf trims and I'm cool with that too. As long as the pits are clean and odor free I have no complaints.

ItWasMe · 11-23-2010, 01:30 AM

I prefer hair on men. I wish they wouldn't shave/wax/trim anything below the shoulders. And I find facial hair to be sexy if he has gone a day or two without shaving. As long as he stays a couple of inches away from me, that is

because those hairs can be sharp.

Ananas · 12-03-2010, 09:52 PM

The poll needs a Prefer Trimmed option.

I'm not asking for a complete shave, but a nice trim, edge-up is the tops. I absolutely hate watching basketball games on TV. Guy goes to the free throw line to shoot and the camera zooms right into his sweat-dripping unruly pits. Yech.

Terrell · 12-09-2010, 07:08 PM

I don't do any manscaping. Then again, I'm not exactly hairy.

bagatelle · 12-10-2010, 04:20 AM

Funnily enough my husband has not much hair growing elsewhere than on his head, so he does not have to do anything about it. My brother OTOH doesn't have much on his head, but he's a hairy beast otherwise, so I conclude hairiness on head and rest of the body does not go hand in hand.

Quote:

Originally Posted by mixedmedia

Not to say that shaving one's underarm hair is necessarily unhealthy (unlike shaving pubic hair which is unhealthy) I think it's important for people to realize that their bodies are essentially little ecosystems and there is a purpose for each and every element of them. Our bodies are populated with microorganisms, including the surface of our bodies which provide the first level of defense against invading pathogens. Much like we didn't understand the need for an appendix or a thymus or a spleen not so long ago (all of which serve to protect our bodies from pathogens) it's possible that we don't fully realize the implications of disturbing our 'outer environment.'

Now this is interesting thought, that one should not interfere with the "life" downunder by shaving the nether regions.

blahblah454 · 12-10-2010, 10:27 AM

I trim my hair there, I don't like it all over the place. Looks gross to me, and I find that it gets irritated when I use deodorant for some reason.

Shaved... never tried it but I think that would be odd. I trim it down, I think it looks better and deodorant doesn't bother my underarms that way. Works for me.

View Poll Results: Women's opinion on arm hair?
Prefer hair	9	22.50%
Prefer NO hair	4	10.00%
I don't care	7	17.50%
I'm a man and just want to see the results.	20	50.00%
Voters: 40. You may not vote on this poll

11-20-2010, 05:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
LAW2 Upright Location: Florida	Woman's opinion on under arm hair I'm a guy and like most have under arm hair. Now once there was a GF that asked if I would shave it because she felt like Chuck Norris was attacking her. At first I was taken back by the request but then I figured it's only hair and she's the one that see me the most w/out my shirt on. So my question to the ladies or guys with a woman's opinion is what do you prefer if you have a preference? New GF hinted at she likes a guy with not as much hair and other than than the regular grooming I thought about adding arms to the mix. I tried to make a poll but it didn't work. Prefer hair Prefer NO hair I don't care On a side note it seemed like I didn't sweat as much and didn't get BO. Last edited by LAW2; 11-20-2010 at 05:08 PM..

11-20-2010, 06:41 AM	#2 (permalink)
genuinegirly Eat your vegetables Super Moderator Location: Arabidopsis-ville	I added the poll for you - those are tricky, it takes a while for most people to figure out where/how to click to get those started. I said no hair. But here's the thing: my husband cringes whenever he sees me shave mine, and can't imagine doing the same. We've reached a happy medium where he keeps them trimmed short, and that's good enough for me. Unattended, unruly pit hair is gross. Man-stink sticks to it, it looks repulsive, and I can't fathom how it could be comfortable. __________________ "Sometimes I have to remember that things are brought to me for a reason, either for my own lessons or for the benefit of others." Cynthetiq "violence is no more or less real than non-violence." roachboy

11-20-2010, 04:53 PM	#3 (permalink)
Seaver Junkie Location: Fort Worth, TX	Add a "I'm a man and just want to see the results" to the poll please. __________________ "Smite the rocks with the rod of knowledge, and fountains of unstinted wealth will gush forth." - Ashbel Smith as he laid the first cornerstone of the University of Texas

11-20-2010, 05:23 PM	#5 (permalink)
SecretMethod70 Human Administrator Location: Chicago	There's a link on the bottom right of the poll, "view poll results." __________________ Le temps détruit tout "Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling

11-20-2010, 07:27 PM	#7 (permalink)
SecretMethod70 Human Administrator Location: Chicago	Nope, should be visible to everyone To avoid threadjacking... I don't shave my armpit hair. I'm not particularly hairy though, so maybe I'd think it's worth considering if I were. __________________ Le temps détruit tout "Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling

11-20-2010, 07:45 PM	#8 (permalink)
snowy Kick Ass Kunoichi Location: Oregon	I like underarm hair. I like my guy a little stinky. Underarm hair enables that. I think it's the pheromones. I really love my guy's smell...mmmm. It's so comforting. __________________ If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

11-20-2010, 07:51 PM	#9 (permalink)
Xerxys Junkie Location: My head.	I hate under-arm hair and I would shave if I actually had any. I did not vote though. Last edited by Xerxys; 11-21-2010 at 01:52 PM.. Reason: Hate, not haste.

11-20-2010, 08:50 PM	#10 (permalink)
tasineah Crazy Location: NE region of the united states	I LOVE under arm hair...and especially love CD's. I call them feathers and love the feel of them between my fingertips, and how soft they are as I twine them round my fingers and love them long to gently pull and tug and tease before during after sexing. I love to lay and watch tv and find some sticking out so that I can stroke and play with them. I am fascinated with this area's hair. Its so soft and feathery...so long and tempting, like its fingers crooking to call to me. I love under arm hair on women too....

11-21-2010, 02:58 AM	#11 (permalink)
Daniel_ Evil Priest: The Devil Made Me Do It! Location: Southern England	I don't shave, but I do clip it back every little while - I've found that i get less irritation that way. Shaved and underarm deodorants are uncomfortable, untouched and I find my shirts rub and annoy. __________________ ╔═════════════════════════════════════════╗ Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air, And deep beneath the rolling waves, In labyrinths of Coral Caves, The Echo of a distant time Comes willowing across the sand; And everthing is Green and Submarine ╚═════════════════════════════════════════╝

11-21-2010, 07:03 AM	#13 (permalink)
Redlemon Devoted Donor Location: New England	My wife hasn't stated an opinion on my body hair. I trim it with a 3 guard, which is enough so that it doesn't stick out when my arms are at my sides, but leaves enough to prevent chafing. __________________ I can't read your signature. Sorry.

11-21-2010, 08:00 AM	#14 (permalink)
mixedmedia has all her shots. Location: Florida	I love body hair. All of it. I have a hard time understanding why people hate the human body so much - the real human body, not these shaved, injected, tucked and lifted facsimiles that are becoming so prevalent. It's getting out of control. __________________ Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

11-21-2010, 09:52 AM	#15 (permalink)
Shagg What day is it? Location: Downey, CA	All I can say is that my fiancee gets turned on something fierce by my smell after I get home from a hard day at work.

11-21-2010, 11:14 AM	#16 (permalink)
StanT © Location: Colorado	They say we descended from apes and Neanderthals, some of us didn't descend quite as far as others. My knuckles still drag a bit and I'm pretty much furry all over. I'm fairly receptive to whatever grooming my wife prefers; but realistically, hairless isn't going to happen. Ages ago, when my daughters were in elementary school, they came home with head lice, a nasty shampoo, and a set of directions. My wife read "Shampoo all contiguous hairy areas", looked at me and said "You're fucked".

11-21-2010, 11:57 AM	#17 (permalink)
ring ░ Location: ❤	"I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty, oily, greasy, fleecy, shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen, knotted, polka-dotted, twisted, beaded, braided, powdered, flowered and confettied, bangled, tangled, spangled and spaghettied..."

11-21-2010, 01:54 PM	#20 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Down to here Down to there Down to where It stops by itself (don't even have to cut it 'cause it stops by itself...) __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-21-2010, 01:37 PM	#19 (permalink)
ring ░ Location: ❤	This shorty sees what you did, there.

11-21-2010, 05:00 PM	#21 (permalink)
Charlatan Getting it. Super Moderator Location: Lion City	I trim my armpits from time to time, mostly because I live in a very hot and very humid place. I found that if I don't trim it (a little bit) my deodorant ends up in the hair and not on my pits. I have no interest in shaving them bare. None whatsoever. The same for pubes and chest hair. Trim but not remove. As for women's armpits... I have no issue with women having hair in their pits. It's about presentation. If a woman has hair, I like it trimmed neatly rather than unruly. __________________ "My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars." - Old Man Luedecke

11-21-2010, 05:32 PM	#22 (permalink)
Lindy Junkie	I've noticed that the world's population has grown since shaving pubes became more common. It must have led to more sex. Lindy

11-21-2010, 05:43 PM	#23 (permalink)
purplelirpa Crazy Location: Indiana	I prefer a man who doesn't shave his armpits. I don't shave my armpits, and I don't expect him to do it, either.

11-22-2010, 03:55 AM	#24 (permalink)
dlish Currently sour but formerly Dlishs Super Moderator Location: Australia/UAE	a trim or shave. depends on the season i guess. as long as it doesnt smell, im cool with that. having a hairy armpit doesnt let the deodorant onto the skin where it should be. does anyone have an evolutionary explanation for armpit hair? or is that just a remnant of our primal ancestors? __________________ An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere I always sign my facebook comments with ()()===========(}. Does that make me gay? - Filthy

11-22-2010, 05:00 AM	#25 (permalink)
SecretMethod70 Human Administrator Location: Chicago	Captures scent. Biologically compatible people tend to find each other's natural scent attractive to some degree. Obviously, this scent capturing is a nuisance in modern culture. __________________ Le temps détruit tout "Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling

11-22-2010, 05:23 AM	#26 (permalink)
Plan9 I Confess a Shiver	Pheromones don't lie. __________________ *Whatever you can carry.* "You should not drink... and bake."

11-22-2010, 07:48 AM	#27 (permalink)
mixedmedia has all her shots. Location: Florida	Not to say that shaving one's underarm hair is necessarily unhealthy (unlike shaving pubic hair which is unhealthy) I think it's important for people to realize that their bodies are essentially little ecosystems and there is a purpose for each and every element of them. Our bodies are populated with microorganisms, including the surface of our bodies which provide the first level of defense against invading pathogens. Much like we didn't understand the need for an appendix or a thymus or a spleen not so long ago (all of which serve to protect our bodies from pathogens) it's possible that we don't fully realize the implications of disturbing our 'outer environment.' __________________ Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

11-22-2010, 09:17 AM	#28 (permalink)
Grasshopper Green ...is a comical chap Location: Where morons reign supreme	My husband trims on his own accord and I like that. I wouldn't want him to shave completely, I like the way he smells. __________________ "They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings; steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king" Formerly Medusa

11-22-2010, 09:27 AM	#29 (permalink)
jadangel Upright Location: Backwoods, Ky	I prefer shaved, but my bf trims and I'm cool with that too. As long as the pits are clean and odor free I have no complaints.

11-23-2010, 01:30 AM	#30 (permalink)
ItWasMe But You'll Never Prove It. Location: under your bed	I prefer hair on men. I wish they wouldn't shave/wax/trim anything below the shoulders. And I find facial hair to be sexy if he has gone a day or two without shaving. As long as he stays a couple of inches away from me, that is because those hairs can be sharp. __________________ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Ok, no more truth-or-dare until somebody returns my underwear" ~ George Lopez I bake cookies just so I can lick the bowl. ~ ItWasMe

12-03-2010, 09:52 PM	#31 (permalink)
Ananas Still Crazy Location: In my own time	The poll needs a Prefer Trimmed option. I'm not asking for a complete shave, but a nice trim, edge-up is the tops. I absolutely hate watching basketball games on TV. Guy goes to the free throw line to shoot and the camera zooms right into his sweat-dripping unruly pits. Yech. __________________ it's gritty

12-09-2010, 07:08 PM	#32 (permalink)
Terrell Insane Location: Orlando, Florida	I don't do any manscaping. Then again, I'm not exactly hairy.

12-10-2010, 10:27 AM	#34 (permalink)
blahblah454 Let's put a smile on that face Location: On the road...	I trim my hair there, I don't like it all over the place. Looks gross to me, and I find that it gets irritated when I use deodorant for some reason. Shaved... never tried it but I think that would be odd. I trim it down, I think it looks better and deodorant doesn't bother my underarms that way. Works for me.