Body hair grows between 125mm and 150mm per year.
And, we will spend on average more than 3,000 hours of our life shaving.
But, shaving is tres en vogue circa 330 BC.
In Ancient Egyptian times, men scraped their hair away with crude items such as stone, flint, clamshells and other sharpened materials.
As shaving spread through the world, men of unshaven societies became known as “barbarians.”
Shaving was a sign of good hygiene, which was important to the Egyptians.
Luckily for the men and women in the 21st century, companies like Schick and Gillette have made the hassle of shaving a lot easier.
But, body hair is still a menace to our sex lives — it’s only good for keeping people warm in the winter.
Today we reinforce the Egyptian’s view of body hair — keep it neat and keep it clean.
By society’s general standards, men are supposed to have body hair. Leg hair is manly, chest hair is manly, but manliness can apparently only be expressed on one side of the body, because ass hair and back hair are unacceptable.
What’s a man to do?
Girls agreed that manscaping, removing body hair from the man’s body, is encouraged as long as the man never mentions it.
For some reason, a man’s sexiness is lost when the woman discovers he Nairs his chest and back hair. It must have something to do with the vision she gets of him holding the pink bottle, listening to Norah Jones and flipping through this month’s Cosmo.
But, keep the manscaping away from the legs, arms and armpits.
What about the ladies?
One guy told me, “Girls shouldn’t have hair below their eyebrows.”
To be more specific, the biggest hair-raiser when it came to shaving is the meadows in the Southern Hemisphere.
“To shave, or not to shave,” seems to be the big question when it comes to the grooming of the private areas.
And, when it comes to “mowing the lawn” the opinions are mixed.
Some men and women believe it should be kept as bald as the day they were born.
“I don’t have the time or the patience to go on a Safari,” a male friend complained to me. “Plus it’s just disgusting if she doesn’t shave.”
Others disagree and are pro-pubic hair.
A guy in my philosophy class went so far as to say: “It makes her look like she is 12 years old and then I feel like R. Kelly.”
But, there is a medium.
You can keep your pubic hair neat by shaping it into a picture.
There is a heart (for the romantics), landing strip (for the pilots) and the “Gucci Coochy” which is the Gucci “G” (for the fashionable).
Whether you shave or save your pubic hair, the general consensus is keep it neat and clean.
If you don’t take any advice from anyone take this from me: no matter what your preference is, no one’s private parts look good with a sexual disease, so remember to always wear a condom.