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How did manscaping become a thing?

Admittedly, I am in my 60s. When I was in high school and college absolutely no one groomed their pubic hair. Living in a residence hall with open showers was a treat, and you were required to have a nude soap shower in an open area before you could use the campus swimming pool. Everyone was naturally hairy. When I joined my fraternity, there must have been an open secret to have a huge bush. We were flush with these men.

I remember Playgirl models in the 70s, 80s and early 90s. Even the celebrities had big bushes. It seemed you had to have one to be considered for Playgirl.

I don't buy the argument it is more attractive to trim up. Believe me, plenty of girls blew my fraternity brothers who had big bushes. They came back for more. When some recruits for the military were photographed nude during WW2, none were dismissed because they had a lot more pubic hair than others.

Bushes don't hide a penis, most men swing back and forth when they are naked. It never hindered my opinion. I'm at a loss.

by Anonymousreply 161June 24, 2023 11:56 PM

It has been a thing for at least 35 years. Where have you been OP?

by Anonymousreply 1June 3, 2023 1:36 AM

Maybe the accessibility of internet porn and sex tapes.

E.g., the Tommy Lee / Pamela Anderson sex tape. Supposedly, Tommy Lee had shaved the pubic hair at the base of his dick, which made his dick look even longer than it was. (I still haven't seen this video.)

by Anonymousreply 2June 3, 2023 1:40 AM

R1 35 years ? Judging by the models in Playgirl, I would say more like 25 years.

by Anonymousreply 3June 3, 2023 2:04 AM

I'm sorry but ungroomed body hair is just disgusting to me. It fosters sweet, bacteria and odor. I'm not saying I expect hardwood floors; I don't. But it does need to be neatly trimmed.

by Anonymousreply 4June 3, 2023 2:15 AM

[quote] some recruits for the military were photographed nude during WW2

Pics, please

by Anonymousreply 5June 3, 2023 2:17 AM

Here you are, R5.

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by Anonymousreply 6June 3, 2023 2:42 AM

Just an example of some war heroes.

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by Anonymousreply 7June 3, 2023 2:45 AM

R7 I love that picture! Those guys were enjoying a good time in terrible conditions.

by Anonymousreply 8June 3, 2023 2:49 AM

Try this.

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by Anonymousreply 9June 3, 2023 2:54 AM

auctioned off.

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by Anonymousreply 10June 3, 2023 2:57 AM

Playgirl lasted at least 20 years with photos like this. It could have folded in its infant years, but it didn't.

Why the difference now?

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by Anonymousreply 11June 3, 2023 3:02 AM

Porn on video changed everything

by Anonymousreply 12June 3, 2023 3:11 AM

an 80s PG centerfold

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by Anonymousreply 13June 3, 2023 3:12 AM

I don’t understand how something caught on that is basically covered most of the time. How often do straight guys see each other’s bushes that they started copying each other? I doubt they discussed it. I don’t get how it became so widespread.

I thought women sh=tarted shaving their bushes because of skimpy bathing suits.

by Anonymousreply 14June 3, 2023 3:15 AM

I think it evolved when electric weed whackers began to be manufactured and sold in cruisy, masculine department-store gardening centers.

by Anonymousreply 15June 3, 2023 3:18 AM

Playgirl gave equal opportunity to blond models.

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by Anonymousreply 16June 3, 2023 3:22 AM

When you have averagemeat, any little bit helps.

by Anonymousreply 17June 3, 2023 3:25 AM

I hooked up with a male classmate while at college in the 70s. I thought he was so sexy with his clothes on. When I pulled his shorts down, I was greeted with a large blond hay bale of pubic hair. It drew me onto his cock, and I stayed there for a couple of months. It must have been the pheromones emitting from that bale.

by Anonymousreply 18June 3, 2023 3:29 AM

As much as we talk about Sam Jones on datalounge, many, many of us would like to be with him for a night.

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by Anonymousreply 19June 3, 2023 3:37 AM

Super low-rise jeans and tight tops responded to the baggie SJ/Tommy look. At the same time we had the marketing tagline “metro-sexual” thrown in there making grooming a more acceptable option.

by Anonymousreply 20June 3, 2023 3:42 AM

It was fed to us through marketing. Maybe people were convinced manscaping was the "cool" thing to do. No one wants to be left out.

by Anonymousreply 21June 3, 2023 3:46 AM

Allegedly, this is Guy Madison while he served in the military during World War II, a typical soldier. There was a baby boom after the war was over. Women were glad to have their men home, no matter what they looked like.

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by Anonymousreply 22June 3, 2023 3:56 AM

Hairless guys used to admit to being jealous of their hairier brethren. Hence the expression, "This will put hair on your chest." Now we've done a 180 and everyone is supposed to be hairless (or nearly so). It's a fashion choice that changes. Dr. Seuss warned us: No, you can't teach a Sneetch...

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by Anonymousreply 23June 3, 2023 3:59 AM

One of my favorites. I need the squirrel to get out of the picture.

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by Anonymousreply 24June 3, 2023 9:11 AM

How many of you 50 years or older manscape in any way?

How many of you 30 years or younger keep your pubic hair naturally grown?

by Anonymousreply 25June 3, 2023 9:14 AM

Grampa is using "PLAYGIRL"!! as the historian record of hairy crotch zeitgeist. Meanwhile most porn in the 80s features glistening, plucked and buzzed and trimmed and shaved pretty boys. With tan lines. Whatever happened to those?

by Anonymousreply 26June 3, 2023 9:22 AM

r14 It wasn't guys observing each other. It's women and the men who will do anything to make them happy. Women are not pubic hair fiends like gay men. Most modern women do not like wild out of control bush on their man, they definitely want it trimmed. The 90s and early 2000s is really when people started doing away with pubic hair. Now hairy guys with long hair all over are back in style.

by Anonymousreply 27June 3, 2023 10:50 AM

[quote] It fosters sweet, bacteria and odor.

It’s the opposite actually. Pubic hair protects from bacteria and decreases the odor that comes from sweat. It doesn’t matter though, because the modern norm is to shower frequently.

To me, as a Gen Xer, men shaving their pubic area looks absolutely ridiculous. I understand why men with a lot of upper body hair like to keep it trim, but once shaving the crotch became the norm it was too much. I feel the same about women who now feel unattractive unless they are completely hairless.

by Anonymousreply 28June 3, 2023 10:54 AM

I always appreciated a well groomed pubis, but not overly groomed. These guys who shave their pubic foliage completely or have it sculpted into some sort of art piece are put-offs, as are guys who let their crotchal forestation grow to the point a bush hog is needed to thin it out.

by Anonymousreply 29June 3, 2023 11:18 AM

I have always enjoyed whatever style they present, when I found them exciting enough to wanna have sex. That is because I am

NOT a anal retentive control freak

NOT a prissy prude with narrowly defined tastes

and NOT a lousy lay with absolutely no generosity or sense of adventure in sex

by Anonymousreply 30June 3, 2023 11:25 AM

If any poster thinks guys win mid-twentieth century America shaved their body hair, you're crazy!

Try shaving your face with the razors that were in common use back then!

by Anonymousreply 31June 3, 2023 11:32 AM

R31 That’s a great point. Most people didn’t own hair clippers or buzzers of any kind. It’s ;Ike when they became available much more, people went wild with them.

Guys didn’t shave their chests, either, once upon a time.

R27 But why did women suddenly decide it was a good idea?

by Anonymousreply 32June 3, 2023 1:10 PM

I hate the plucked chicken/shaved look but I’m even more turned off by an overgrown forest of pubic hair which also can make many penises look tiny and just all round unappealing. A sensible trim is just the ticket.

by Anonymousreply 33June 3, 2023 1:34 PM

"Guys didn’t shave their chests, either, once upon a time.

But why did women suddenly decide it was a good idea?"

Probably because they didn't want to look like a circus freak when they went to the pool or the beach????

by Anonymousreply 34June 3, 2023 1:39 PM

It was the eighties and the advent of aerobics and the body-conscious male. Movies like Perfect with Travolta brought us sleek hairless oiled bodies. Porn refected that and we got muscle Mary's shaved to an inch of their lives.

by Anonymousreply 35June 3, 2023 1:47 PM

Guys I'm in my 60's too and will add in that too much pubic bush leads to hairs getting in the mouth or teeth of a guy giving head. That's just an unpleasant or even gross reality I particularly remember happening far too often before trimming or "manscaping" became more popular.. . belatedly but thankfully so!

by Anonymousreply 36June 3, 2023 1:56 PM

And in the 90s, when more people started owning home computers and got access to internet porn.

by Anonymousreply 37June 3, 2023 2:00 PM

I don't get the DL obsession with pubic hair. The D is the important part.

by Anonymousreply 38June 3, 2023 2:02 PM

[quote]The 90s and early 2000s is really when people started doing away with pubic hair.

That backs up what I said before - the late 90s (25 years ago) is when Playgirl models were showing shaved chests, pits, legs and shaved bushes.

by Anonymousreply 39June 3, 2023 2:10 PM

There’s nothing worse than getting a big long pubic hair caught in your mouth as you’re giving head. Horrible.

by Anonymousreply 40June 3, 2023 3:51 PM

R28 Do you have some backup for this? I always read/was told that the evolutionary biological function of pubic hair (women and men) and armpit hair, was to hold odors... pheromones.

[quote]Pheromone transmission - Another theory links pubic hair to the transmission of pheromones, or scent-carrying chemical secretions that affect mood and behavior. We still don’t know exactly how pheromones influence sexuality.

Pheromones are secreted from apocrine sweat glands. Compared to other areas of the body, the pubic region has a lot of these glands.

Therefore, as the theory goes, pubic hair may trap pheromones, increasing how attractive we appear to potential sex partners.

by Anonymousreply 41June 3, 2023 4:08 PM

[quote] 35 years ? Judging by the models in Playgirl, I would say more like 25 years.

If you're talking women maybe but I clearly remember the Catalina Video boys back 35 years ago when they started to shave everything.

by Anonymousreply 42June 3, 2023 7:23 PM

Those of us over 40 years old at my gym usually shower after our workouts, and we have no issue being seen full-frontal naked, big bushes and all. One time a young man about 25 years old came into the locker room, wrapped his towel around his waist, and then took off his shorts. He showered in the private zone, behind a curtain.

He wrapped his towel around him again before he left the shower. He was trying to put his boxer shorts on when he tripped, the towel dropped and his crotch came into full view. He had hairy legs, but his pubes were shaved off completely. One of the older men asked him why he did that, it looked so weird.

He thought about it after he re-wrapped himself, and then said he really didn't know. He was just following what the older students were doing. I guess independent thinkers are more likely to keep it natural.

by Anonymousreply 43June 3, 2023 8:28 PM

R43 With all the pressure from the hairy queens to keep it natural, I think it shows independent thinking when someone does whatever the fuck they want.

by Anonymousreply 44June 3, 2023 9:38 PM

OP, styles change. Just because you liked the style of your youth does not mean later generations have to. Why should they?

It sounds like though you're an eldergay, you still seriously need some growing up to do.

by Anonymousreply 45June 3, 2023 9:40 PM

Bruno Duarte, fairly new Colt Studio model and former cast member of "Below Deck", is bucking the trend.

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by Anonymousreply 46June 3, 2023 10:19 PM

I am surprised there is easier to use equipment for this, it seems to be such a need and a large market

by Anonymousreply 47June 3, 2023 10:24 PM

R13 One of my all-time favorites. Do you have his name or a link to his full pictorial ?

by Anonymousreply 48June 4, 2023 12:54 AM

[quote]I don't get the DL obsession with pubic hair.

Thank God there is no DL obsession with circumcision.

by Anonymousreply 49June 4, 2023 12:55 AM

OP will freak out in Latin America. Those guys trim it all off. Strange.

I like a nice, neat trim. It tells me a guy cares about his aesthetic. The guys these days who don't trim are gross and disgusting, meaning they put no effort into their looks whatsoever.

by Anonymousreply 50June 4, 2023 1:00 AM

Some bodybuilders like their bodies to be completely shaved. They like it when someone runs their fingers along their soft, smooth skin, any part of the body will due.

I think some of them would compete totally nude and shaven. All oiled up, it would be a turn-on. Like the Greek gods.

But it will never happen.

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by Anonymousreply 51June 4, 2023 1:05 AM

[quote] Bruno Duarte, fairly new Colt Studio model and former cast member of "Below Deck", is bucking the trend.

The current trend is actually toward MORE BUSH.

There are a lot more Gen Z guys — including really femmy ones — who are leaving their pubes intact, sometimes not even trimming at all, than there are or were among Millennials, say, 15 years ago.

The musk is hot as hell. It smells amazing. It smells like MAN. People who shave their pubes look prepubescent or alien.

And no, it’s not a big deal if you get a pube in your mouth. It’s a bigger deal to be confronted with a hairless freak.

by Anonymousreply 52June 4, 2023 1:08 AM

R52 the first word I saw was musk. Must be universal. It’s just hot. No other way around it.

by Anonymousreply 53June 4, 2023 1:11 AM

When you meet a hot, handsome stud after he’s worked a long, HOT day, and he unzips and whips out a whopper, surrounded by a forest of unruly pubes, and the pube musk is so intoxicating that it’s almost indescribable… THAT is pure sex. I don’t know how anyone cannot love every moment of that.

If you don’t love it, you ain’t cut out for sex.

by Anonymousreply 54June 4, 2023 1:48 AM

R54 = male Cheryl, proud of her stank and who thinks soap⁸, water, deodorant, mouth wash and tooth paste are feminine constructs designed to emasculate "real men."

by Anonymousreply 55June 4, 2023 2:11 AM

I agree, R54!

by Anonymousreply 56June 4, 2023 2:28 AM

The April, 1982 issue, r48.

Here’s another from the set.

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by Anonymousreply 57June 4, 2023 2:40 AM

I’ll conclude R57 is musky. I’d be so turned on, I’d eat out his ass. Would be my first time ever.

by Anonymousreply 58June 4, 2023 2:43 AM

He’s dreamy as hell. Pity we can’t see his feet in that photo, because I like to think they stink as well, and I’d love to sniff the fuck out of them, too, in between huffs of his groin and buttcrack.

by Anonymousreply 59June 4, 2023 2:45 AM

[quote]The current trend is actually toward MORE BUSH.

Jeb? Pierce? Jenna?

by Anonymousreply 60June 4, 2023 2:52 AM

Trim the pubes just a bit to keep them manageable and neat. No shaving. But goddammit, leave the foreskin alone and INTACT! No cutting whatsoever.

by Anonymousreply 61June 4, 2023 3:05 AM

I miss the men of the 70s and 80s.

No shaved crotches, no shaved torso’s, no shaved armpits, and no ear gauges or tattoos or piercings.

And no beards like these people

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by Anonymousreply 62June 4, 2023 3:12 AM

Moderately hairy chest, with a trail down to pubes. Trim the bush a bit, not shaved. Hairy arms and legs ok. Just no thick shoulder hair or back carpet.

by Anonymousreply 63June 4, 2023 3:13 AM

R55 is a hairless, porcelain, prisspot with OCD who hasn’t had dick since 1983.

by Anonymousreply 64June 4, 2023 3:15 AM

1987

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by Anonymousreply 65June 4, 2023 3:41 AM

I bought my first glossy Colt magazine when I was 17 years old. It was at a truck stop about 100 miles from home. No one knew who I was, so I was giddy when I destroyed the plastic wrap around it.

This was the first guy I saw inside it. I got an immediate woody, and I nurtured it all the way back home. I’ve been a fan of big bushes ever since.

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by Anonymousreply 66June 4, 2023 5:05 AM

Thanks R57! I wonder what he looks like today - 41 years later. He must be in his 70s (if he's still with us).

by Anonymousreply 67June 4, 2023 5:04 PM

These are the University of Warrick Rowers, an English club which poses nude to combat homophobia. I wonder if they grew out their pubes individually, or it was a group decision. Why?

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by Anonymousreply 68June 7, 2023 9:05 PM

I'm 29. I have a lot of chair on my chest and torso-- it would look strange if my bush was shorter than my body hair so, save for an occasional trim around my shaft, I leave everything as is. It's not for everyone, but it suits me, and none of my partners have ever had a problem. On the contrary, most love it.

by Anonymousreply 69June 7, 2023 9:13 PM

Atta boy, R69.

R68, I think it’s just the new trend, to NOT shave the pubes. Shaved pubes NEVER look better than grown-out pubes, just like almost no one looks good with no hair on they head.

by Anonymousreply 70June 7, 2023 9:15 PM

Oh Georgie, how I long for the old days.

by Anonymousreply 71June 7, 2023 9:19 PM

I hooked up with a bald-headed man. He was a bodybuilder, he had an amazing chest, a long cock and a very big dark brown bush. The bush compared to his bald head was a huge turn-on.

by Anonymousreply 72June 7, 2023 9:53 PM

My dick only gets hard for otters, because they's my favorites.

by Anonymousreply 73June 7, 2023 9:55 PM

Here's a modern day hairy crotch. I'm glad some are rebelling against the razor. I can't imagine anyone passing on him.

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by Anonymousreply 74June 7, 2023 10:02 PM

I'm 58 and OP sounds like a fossil.

by Anonymousreply 75June 7, 2023 10:13 PM

I’m in my late 30s and I absolutely love hairy men. I hate how most guys my age automatically want to be “manscaped” - give me full bush or nothing.

by Anonymousreply 76June 7, 2023 10:15 PM

I like 'em all. Who gives a fuck if a guy is manscaped or not as long as he's sexy, fun and available.

by Anonymousreply 77June 7, 2023 10:24 PM

Sounds like you can’t afford to be choosy, R77

by Anonymousreply 78June 7, 2023 10:33 PM

[quote] Women are not pubic hair fiends like gay men. Most modern women do not like wild out of control bush on their man, they definitely want it trimmed.

Why are you speaking for straight women? Men are hairy and straight women are hard wired to be attracted to hair. How do you think our species continued? Look at all the hairy hunks who became sex symbols.

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by Anonymousreply 79June 7, 2023 10:38 PM

“Most modern women” can fuck right off.

Have you observed modern women and the trends they follow? Come on.

by Anonymousreply 80June 7, 2023 10:48 PM

While there were likely several factors converging simulatenously, I'd bet one of the bigger reasons was that it makes your dick look bigger to manscape.

by Anonymousreply 81June 7, 2023 11:51 PM

In 1972, I think Burt Reynolds could have a rain forest growing downstairs, and they would flock to him. "I want him deep inside me", or to that effect.

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by Anonymousreply 82June 7, 2023 11:56 PM

I'd say an Amazonian rain forest, as proof in this outtake.

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by Anonymousreply 83June 7, 2023 11:59 PM

Uncut?

by Anonymousreply 84June 8, 2023 12:00 AM

Blow up the picture. I don't think so.

by Anonymousreply 85June 8, 2023 12:10 AM

There's some interesting bad outcomes addressed here.

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by Anonymousreply 86June 8, 2023 1:28 AM

This is a map showing the percentage of men who manscape in each state.

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by Anonymousreply 87June 8, 2023 1:36 AM

I don't shave smooth because that's absurd. I do use clippers in my pits and pubes because I've discovered it's just easier to maintain hygiene and not stink.

by Anonymousreply 88June 8, 2023 2:13 AM

the 70s were all about volume! a full bush below helped balance what was on top.

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by Anonymousreply 89June 8, 2023 2:19 AM

[quote]Guys I'm in my 60's too and will add in that too much pubic bush leads to hairs getting in the mouth or teeth of a guy giving head. That's just an unpleasant or even gross reality I particularly remember happening far too often before trimming or "manscaping" became more popular

Too fucking right, R36! There’s a difference between clearcutting and selective pruning. If I had a nickel for every time I gagged on a pube that was stuck in my throat after trying to part the hair aside as if I were (gently!) macheteing my way through a tropical jungle? Well, I wouldn’t be rich, but I’d have a stack of nickels at least. A little trimming of the bush shows respect for the person going down on the dick.

by Anonymousreply 90June 8, 2023 3:28 AM

[quote]I always read/was told that the evolutionary biological function of pubic hair (women and men) and armpit hair, was to hold odors... pheromones.

I think you’re right, R41, but it reminds me of my long-ago ex’s mum who was a nurse and a bit of a hippy. She always kept referring to the pheremone mixture caught in axillary hair as “armpit pudding”. Like, she’d keep saying “armpit pudding” over and over. If she wanted to gross us out, she succeeded.

by Anonymousreply 91June 8, 2023 3:34 AM

That is incredibly fucking gross, R91.

by Anonymousreply 92June 8, 2023 3:36 AM

Thank you, R92! Just trying to spread the armpit pudding grossness!

by Anonymousreply 93June 8, 2023 3:43 AM

R28: “It’s the opposite actually. Pubic hair protects from bacteria and decreases the odor that comes from sweat.”

As a naturally very hair dude, this has to be the dumbest statement I’ve seen here in the last week or so. And that’s saying a lot.

by Anonymousreply 94June 8, 2023 3:52 AM

R64 is femmy, “sex-positive!”, dangly-earring turd who overcompensates for his lack of natural masculinity thru his B.O. fetish. R64 also think he’s hot because he gets routinely tag-teamed at unwashed bear orgies, though no one who is actually hot would be spotted at said orgies.

by Anonymousreply 95June 8, 2023 3:57 AM

[quote]He’s dreamy as hell. Pity we can’t see his feet in that photo, because I like to think they stink as well, and I’d love to sniff the fuck out of them,

So the pube people are also the foot people?

by Anonymousreply 96June 8, 2023 4:12 AM

R95 doesn’t type old enough to have pubic hair.

by Anonymousreply 97June 8, 2023 4:18 AM

^ yes, because someone who isn’t old enough to have public hair would know what all of the things referenced in r95’s post are. That makes total sense.

by Anonymousreply 98June 8, 2023 4:21 AM

* pubic

by Anonymousreply 99June 8, 2023 4:21 AM

R96, I’m both a foot person and a pube person and yes, I think there’s some crossover there.

by Anonymousreply 100June 8, 2023 4:22 AM

R95, you can at least skip the COLOGNE for god’s sake.

Do you put it on your crotch too?

by Anonymousreply 101June 8, 2023 4:22 AM

^ why do you care whether I wear cologne? I like the smell of a good cologne on me and also on a sexy, masculine man.

No, I don’t wear cologne on my crotch. What a fucking bizarre question.

Do you shower at least once a month?

by Anonymousreply 102June 8, 2023 4:24 AM

R101, now that I’ve made the connection that you’re one of the prominent anti-trans trolls on other threads such as this, your statements and questions here now make more sense.

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by Anonymousreply 103June 8, 2023 4:47 AM

You had to drag that into a thread having nothing to do with the t, r103? You are a boor and a bore.

by Anonymousreply 104June 8, 2023 5:01 AM

[quote] Bushes don't hide a penis

Of course they do.

by Anonymousreply 105June 8, 2023 5:06 AM

R102, no one wants to smell you. Only trash wears perfume.

by Anonymousreply 106June 8, 2023 5:07 AM

[quote] Just an example of some war heroes.

OP is so obsessed with this topic that he has to roll out some “war heroes” and their bushes. lol

by Anonymousreply 107June 8, 2023 5:08 AM

Women under 35 expect men to be shaved. They find hair disgusting and that includes under the arms. If men want sex, they need to take a weed whacker to their junk. Swimmers always shaved.

by Anonymousreply 108June 8, 2023 5:10 AM

[quote] Pubic hair protects from bacteria and decreases the odor that comes from sweat.

Wrong. Armpit hair also produces more odor and is full of bacteria.

by Anonymousreply 109June 8, 2023 5:12 AM

As a photographer it’s funny because straight men shave everything and gay men stay hairy.

by Anonymousreply 110June 8, 2023 5:13 AM

R106, go wash your fucking crotch, fat loser.

by Anonymousreply 111June 8, 2023 5:13 AM

^ sorry, should’ve “fat, MAGAT loser”

by Anonymousreply 112June 8, 2023 5:14 AM

The prisspots who have no issue with a stranger shoving his dick down their throats but shriek in horror that a public hair might get in their mouths are hilarious. 🤣

by Anonymousreply 113June 8, 2023 12:30 PM

As are the mincing, prancing queens who think having a hairy chest and a full bush makes them butch, R113.

See: Simmons, Richard.

by Anonymousreply 114June 8, 2023 12:47 PM

The Millennials have always had a thing about body hair. Rip Van Winkle beards okay; body hair no. And then there was that weird eyebrow-plucking fad.

It seems to be just them, because younger guys just let it grow.

by Anonymousreply 115June 8, 2023 1:36 PM

The glimpse of pubic hair in an otherwise innocent setting presents a thrill. At 12:16.

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by Anonymousreply 116June 8, 2023 2:06 PM

Peek-a- boo Pubes.

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by Anonymousreply 117June 8, 2023 2:09 PM

I'm going back to the gym for the first time since the pandemic. Curious to see how prevalent the pube-shame and towel-dancing still is. Will report back.

by Anonymousreply 118June 8, 2023 3:10 PM

My father, who would be close to 100 if he were alive, taught me to trim my armpits in order to avoid stinking when I was a teen. So no, manscaping has not just "become a thing."

by Anonymousreply 119June 8, 2023 3:33 PM

^ also, some of us were raised with cultural or religious practices that promote trimming of body hair (particularly armpits, as you mention, or pubes) for hygienic reasons

by Anonymousreply 120June 8, 2023 3:45 PM

Hairy or not hairy has made no difference in my *hygiene*. Where do people get that hairy pits “trap” bacteria and odor? It’s there, hair or not. Bacteria doesn’t magically not appear if you don’t have hair. You don’t magically stay dry without hair. You need to wash yourself and use deodorants either way.

by Anonymousreply 121June 8, 2023 3:53 PM

You don't have to be a genius to understand that longer hair retains more volumes of bacteria than shorter or trimmed hair. But maybe you like the taste of bacteria.

by Anonymousreply 122June 8, 2023 5:55 PM

We’re not talking taste, R122. We’re talking odor.

by Anonymousreply 123June 8, 2023 9:36 PM

I can understand if someone's pubes were super bushy that they might want to trim them down a bit, but shaving is just so ugly.

It has to be the perception that shaving makes you look bigger.

by Anonymousreply 124June 8, 2023 9:44 PM

Paddy O'Brian built a career around his bush. He started doing it about ten years ago, and is still going strong.

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by Anonymousreply 125June 8, 2023 9:53 PM

[quote]It has to be the perception that shaving makes you look bigger.

It doesn't, it makes you look like an eight year old.

by Anonymousreply 126June 8, 2023 10:25 PM

Colt Studio has provided a diet of muscular manbush for over 50 years.

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by Anonymousreply 127June 9, 2023 2:52 AM

Those were the good old days...

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by Anonymousreply 128June 9, 2023 2:56 AM

...better closer up.

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by Anonymousreply 129June 9, 2023 2:57 AM

blonds, too.

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by Anonymousreply 130June 9, 2023 2:59 AM

That video at R116 not only shows us a glimpse of pubes, it shows a fair amount of cock! And it looks hard to me.

by Anonymousreply 131June 9, 2023 3:01 AM

World renowned bodybuilding champion of the era, and opera singer, Chris Dickerson, posed for Colt.

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by Anonymousreply 132June 9, 2023 3:12 AM

Your welcome.

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by Anonymousreply 133June 9, 2023 3:13 AM

...er You're welcome.

I'm so distracted.

by Anonymousreply 134June 9, 2023 3:14 AM

R131 agreed! Nice thicky.

by Anonymousreply 135June 9, 2023 3:54 AM

John Davidson - Cosmopolitan Magazine - February 1974

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by Anonymousreply 136June 9, 2023 4:49 AM

John Davidson was not hairy, but here's a closeup of his pubes...

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by Anonymousreply 137June 9, 2023 4:53 AM

Dear person posting the Worthpoint links - all of them are dead

by Anonymousreply 138June 9, 2023 1:43 PM

Lord how I wish I had the kind of body hairy that Paddy O'Brien was blessed with - he's gorgeous (and yes, I know those pics are 12 years old). The treasure trail! Delicious. those hairy legs... fuck yea.

by Anonymousreply 139June 9, 2023 5:12 PM

[quote] We’re not talking taste, [R122]. We’re talking odor.

OK so maybe you like the odor of bacteria.

by Anonymousreply 140June 9, 2023 8:28 PM

Paddy O'Brien is not looking so bad today either.

by Anonymousreply 141June 9, 2023 8:30 PM

[Quote]Paddy O'Brian built a career around his bush. He started doing it about ten years ago, and is still going strong.

He looks magically delicious. 😉😋

by Anonymousreply 142June 9, 2023 9:22 PM

This guy, Osito Blanco, has an onlyfans page. He's naturally hairy in every shot. It doesn't look like he's manscaped in years.

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by Anonymousreply 143June 10, 2023 12:00 AM

Maybe banning the razor is making a comeback.

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by Anonymousreply 144June 10, 2023 12:06 AM

^^^ Uncut king!

by Anonymousreply 145June 10, 2023 12:22 AM

Frau imposter @ R95.

by Anonymousreply 146June 10, 2023 12:25 AM

Most women I know these days grow bush or only trim.

Stark contrast to how it was when we were growing up (2000s) and all of us felt compelled to be bald as naked mole rat babies.

by Anonymousreply 147June 16, 2023 1:27 PM

Today's young people need to grow a penis. Seriously, people.

I drink from the faucet, pack a lunch and have a 'fro down there.

by Anonymousreply 148June 16, 2023 2:45 PM

[quote] The Millennials have always had a thing about body hair. Rip Van Winkle beards okay; body hair no. And then there was that weird eyebrow-plucking fad.

Gramps thinks Gen Z and Millennials are the same thing.

by Anonymousreply 149June 16, 2023 2:50 PM

[quote] Most women I know these days grow bush or only trim.

You don’t know any then.

by Anonymousreply 150June 16, 2023 2:50 PM

R150 what circle of girls do you move in, then? Miami Beach instahos?

by Anonymousreply 151June 16, 2023 3:28 PM

A lot of currently working models are showing up like this in photographs.

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by Anonymousreply 152June 18, 2023 1:23 AM

Only on Datalounge are Playgirl models of the 80s used as a barometer of anything.

by Anonymousreply 153June 18, 2023 1:51 AM

Women shave or wax if they want a date. Body hair is a turnoff with the under-30s in the genital and armpit region.

by Anonymousreply 154June 18, 2023 2:38 AM

We remember those "glory days" because it was so infrequently that we saw naked men anywhere. We saw Playgirl once a month, if we were lucky. You wanted to remember what you saw. Being able to attach a name to a face and body helped you recall much faster.

by Anonymousreply 155June 22, 2023 11:37 PM

I remember this man and his large blond bush solely through this Playgirl photograph.

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by Anonymousreply 156June 22, 2023 11:39 PM

Randy Ricks was a stripper for 40 years at LaBare in Dallas. He was a Playgirl centerfold multiple times.

I don't think many of you would object to his bush, given what it is the gateway to.

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by Anonymousreply 157June 24, 2023 3:15 AM

Here's a great story about Randy Ricks.

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by Anonymousreply 158June 24, 2023 3:19 AM

R153, This was an example of the only thing I could jerk off to in the mid-70s. I could hide it away and reuse, so to speak. I imagined what they looked like underneath those swimsuits.

Playgirl models were a revelation. When I was able to see one, I marveled at the cocks, balls and bushes on extremely good-looking men. It was like a dream come true. So, yes, it's what I still measure other men against.

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by Anonymousreply 159June 24, 2023 11:42 PM

When I saw this Winston Man in magazines in the 70s, I would lie down on my stomach in my jeans and rub my crotch against the carpet until I came. It was a mess to clean up the insides of the jeans, but that was half the excitement to dare to cum.

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by Anonymousreply 160June 24, 2023 11:55 PM

Then I discovered he was in Playgirl as David White a couple of years later. I didn't just cum in my jeans, I exploded.

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by Anonymousreply 161June 24, 2023 11:56 PM
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