Do you like chest hair?

[jillianjiggs]

A few weeks ago in my porn article, I mentioned body hair briefly. Primarily, I was commenting on how body hair, especially chest hair, is making a comeback in mainstream advertising. Slowly but surely, porn is also following suit. Look, I loved the original Soloflex guy as much as the next horny teenager, but it's been almost 20 years. It's time for a change.

We all remember the heyday of chest hair. It was the 1970s and the macho man was in. Facial hair and chest hair were both signs of sexy masculinity. Then, after a few years, it all started to change. The real dividing line between the chest hair era and the smooth era was 1984, courtesy the aforementioned Soloflex ads and the low-rated but delicious TV pleasure "Cover-Up." During the run of the series, beautiful and hairy-chested hunk Jon-Erik Hexum accidentally shot himself in the head. When he died, he was replaced by Tony Hamilton, a smooth-chested hunky gay Brit who was briefly considered for the role of James Bond when Pierce Brosnan couldn't get out of his Remington Steele contract. (Isn't it frightening that I know these things?)

By the 1984 Summer Olympics, thanks to the Men's Gymnastics Team and diver Greg Louganis, chest hair started to look as conspicuous as a Teamster at a garden party. Suddenly, guys realized you could see more definition if you had less hair, and thus the deforestation of American chests began. As porn is wont to do, it took this slash and burn mentality to an extreme that would make James Watt weep with nostalgic joy. These days in porn, chest hair is virtually nonexistent and pubic hair is little more than a soul patch.

Our current masculine ideal is no longer the burly man on the roll of Brawny paper towels. The A&F Quarterly has delivered a new kind of easygoing masculinity: smooth-chested, sporty and younger with an easy-care sexuality. This image of late-teen jocks who enjoy a brisk game of touch football in the mud but can never seem to finish a game without piling on top of each other reached its zenith in the late '90s. Now, the focus is switching more to treasure trails and chest hair so severely groomed it reminds one of the Disneyland topiary.

Personally, I love chest hair. I think there is nothing sexier than a guy with a little chest hair and, to borrow a phrase coined by Keanu Reeves, cop arms. I should qualify that I have never been delighted by reaching my arms around a guy and discovering that his chest hair is continued on the back page. After all, body hair is a like a good newspaper article. The bulk of it should be concisely printed on the front page and continue on below the fold, but that's about it.

(msnbc.com)

[Griff]

I condition and comb mine, slowly, lovingly, late at night when nobody...oops, wrong forum.

[RightWingZealot]

i hate what little hair i have on my chest.
I hate it so much i shaved my nipples once.

that turned out to be not such a great idea.
I dont recommend that for anyone.

maybe this was a question i shouldnt have answered

[Shelter]

I have waxed my chest repeatedly. I personally like the whole treasure trail thing being on me, but hate chest hair. It jut looks and feels nasty. bald chests are best. And on another note, if I ever end up with someone who has chest hair, beyond those little blonde hairs we all have, I will prolly run screaming from the room.

[Monster]

<--no chest hair. Well...fuzz.

Dunno if it's a good thing or a bad thing, haven't had any alternatives to compare it against.

[beatlebabe]

Chest hair....


On me??? Bad very bad

On a man??? As long as he has more on his head than on his chest I'm OK (and for the love of Pete no furry backs or asses that's just gross)

[Little Girl]

I like the happy trail b/c it leads to happyness....

lol


J

[Unrepresented]

I've got a decent supply of hair. It's good stuff, don't knock the extra handles.

This generation needs Burt Reynolds to set them straight about what's sexay!

Justin

[ATBlythe2000]

I've got stray hairs on my chest. it looks weird to me though. there like ten or so around each nipple and they're long, not short fuzz. other than that, for someone as scrawny looking as me, it doesn't matter. i'm cute, i know it.

[Monster]

Yeah, just be sure you shave your palms before going out on any dates, Tony.

[salach leine]

ehh.... *shrug*
I'm the "natural" type. So... I think fake is bad and what's there is meant to be there. I'd have a hard time...uhh... dealing with a walking piece of shag carpet, but that's a rare occurence. I only know one person like that who is so personably unbearable that it doesn't matter anyway. I don't care, though. really. hair is hair, unless it's become detached from someone's body in which case it becomes my greatest phobia (*shudders thinking about hair in the bathroom sink*)
and waxing? I dunno, I just get this disturbing image of some very hairy man standing half naked in his bathroom with a candle, dripping hot wax onto his chest and ripping it off like tarzan, howling to the sky. that's just... not appealing. not to mention what to do with strips of nasty hair-filled wax afterwards. I've heard of people straining it. how gross is THAT???
ok... wow, so I sort of went off huh?
to make a long story short:
I don't mind it, I don't really notice I guess. Not like I see a lot of chests on a regular basis. but whatever.

[ATBlythe2000]

Dates? what's that? I only hang out with claudia... err, that's getting me nowhere fast.

[Manu]

I have chest hair, thought not too much. If I wear a shirt unbuttoned at the top you see some chest hair but it doens't poke out or come out...

I don't mind it.

[AverageJoe]

i dont have a lot, and what i do have doesnt curl too much, so it looks kinda silly.

[Grizzly]

Sweater by Darwin

I am mildly hairy but not quit a Sweater by Darwin type of thing

[RightWingZealot]

>it looks weird to me though. there like ten or so around each nipple and they're long, not short fuzz.<

DONT SHAVE THEM!

[Jay13]

I like a chest hair, on men. If they look like the much afore mentioned shag pile rug, yuck. My honey as the perfect balance. Oh, but if a guy has a lot of hair, they have to be VERY clean. That means a shower every day whether YOU think you need it or not. It seems a lot of guys think that macho means stink too. ::Yuck!!::

[Outlaw5.0]

My GF hate hair on the Chest, i have very little, good thing LOL