Keeping It Natural: A Man’s Creed of “Hell No To Manscaping”

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This illustration shows areas of the male body where androgenic hair, commonly called body hair, develops during and after puberty.  Body hair is termed terminal hair, as opposed to vellus hair.  Terminal hair is thicker, longer, and often darker than vellus hair.  During puberty, an increase in androgenic hormone levels causes vellus hair to be replaced with terminal hair in certain parts of the body.  The male body is particularly sensitive to androgens because of testosterone, causing terminal hair to grow on the face, armpits, and pubic area.  Adult males also grow varying amounts of terminal hair on the chest, abdomin, legs, and arms.  Females, on the other hand, can be expected to grow less terminal hair and retain more vellus hair.    So, this explains why it is manly to have body hair and why it is feminine or childlike not to have much body hair or one at all.

I find it such a strange dichotomy that while beards have returned to the mainstream, and so many guys now have hairy faces, at the same time, so many guys these days trim their body hair.  Not just a light trim, they are mowing it down.  I say a great big "Hooray" for the hairy faces and a great big "Boo" for the mutilated body hair.

Just like it's natural for adult males to have beards, as they have throughout most of human history, it's also natural for adult males to have hairy crotches, perianal areas, and underarms.  As with faces, even men who one would not describe as hairy grow hair on these parts of their bodies.  Prepubescent humans do not have body hair, of course.   Most women, who are not as naturally hirsute as men to begin with, remove or heavily trim their body hair to achieve their desired look.  A lack of body hair, or neatly trimmed pubic hair, is very feminine, in contrast to natural and abundant body hair being very masculine.

So, what the fuck?  Why do so many guys nowadays feel compelled to assault their masculine sex appeal and sissy themselves?  Mainly, I see two driving forces.

I think many women are influencing straight men to trim away body hair like they do, under the guise of "Hey, I do all this upkeep for you, so you should do it for me, too"  and "If you expect me to go down on the nasty thing you had better whack back your bush because I am too much of a princess to get gross public hair in my mouth."  I guess I can rationally understand how straight men in need of sex could be pussy-whipped into submission, as women have been using sex to get their way with men for time eternal.  Until recent times, with increased emphasis on oral sex, most women would not even consider putting a dick in their mouths, but nowadays, most feel like they probably should suck cock, but only under their own terms.  Even so, if you are a straight guy, and your woman is seriously in danger of getting public hair in her mouth when she blows you unless you whack your bush, then either she gives much better head than most other women (congratulations) or you have a little dick (condolences).  Gay men being affected by this pussy-whipped dynamic affecting straight men is weird, but unfortunately, some gay guys are like lemmings. Among many men, both straight and gay, mowed-down body hair has rather mindlessly become standard grooming because  more and more guys do it.  

Another driving force why some guys trim or remove their pubic hair is the delusion that doing so makes their dicks appear larger. Talk about total bullshit. A guy would only get some mileage out of that if he had an unusually big bush paired with an unusually small penis, and even with trimmed pubic hair, there is no way his dick looks anything other than little. I think some guys just keep on trimming, even though it is pure wishful thinking, because they want to feel better about the size of their dicks.

I am not notably hairy, but I don’t trim or shave anywhere below my neck.  As an adult male who keeps himself natural, though, I do have hairy underarms, bushy pubic hair, hair on my balls and oin my ass crack and around my asshole, and even a light spray of hair across my chest.  Admittedly, I am not as hairy as I would like to be, as I find hairy men to be sexy.  Notably abundant body hair is a turn-on for me, but it is far from a "must have" for me to find a guy sexually desirable.  I enjoy mind-blowing sex with a lot of great looking guys who are like me and not particularly hairy.  I do draw the line, though, at tragically whacked-back or shaved crotches and underarms.  That's a huge turn-off. 

I am attracted to guys who are not particularly hairy. However, even men who one would not describe as hirsute grow normal amounts of hair in the normal places, characteristic of sexually mature males. Whether notably hairy or not, I truly hate the way men look when they crop, or even worse, shave off their natural body hair.  I personally think guys don't need to trim their body hair at all.  If they feel they must, some light trimming does not necessarily look so bad as long they don't get too carried away.  Unfortunately, many guys nowadays are getting carried away. Among some men, over-trimmed body hair has become the current standard in male grooming.  

To me, once a man starts looking so obviously clipped, he starts looking less like a man and more like a groomed poodle.  He looks much less sexy.  

I see more and more men nowadays who feel compelled to tragically misuse their razors to butcher their natural body hair to the point of not only compromising their sex-appeal, but to the point of looking ridiculous.  The significant trimming-away of male body hair is commonly referred to as "man-scaping" by those guys who do it, and it is called "sissy-scaping" by those of us who are disdainful of it.  Sissy-scaping is a very girly and effeminate look. It is SO NOT manly and SO NOT sexy.

Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  Yes, we all have the right to do to our bodies whatever we want and to pursue in others whatever qualities we desire.  Nonetheless, over-trimmed body hair is a real boner-shrinker for me, whatever other great things the guy may have going on.  In my opinion, grown men without any pubic and underarm hair look peculiarly prepubescent and just plain silly.  At that point, I find they have no more sex-appeal than an eight-year-old girl.  I know the ladies are shaving or waxing everything these days, including their hoo-has, but this feminine affectation absolutely has no place in male culture. 

Obviously, my passion runs high on this subject. I really don’t take pleasure in offending any of the guys reading this who trim their body hair.  As disdainful as I am of the “manscaped” look, and as thoroughly unattractive as I find it, I ultimately believe anyone has the right to groom himself as he wants. I just see so many otherwise sexy men, both in person and in media, who have over trimmed their body hair to the point they look unmanly and no longer desirable.  It’s a tragedy.  I love men, and I love the we really look, not all trimmed up like some old lady’s poodle fresh from the doggy salon.

The term “manscaping” is commonly used to refer to this heinous act of a man mutilating his body hair on those parts of his body which are clearly meant to be hairy.  I and other men in my life often refer to the practice as “sissyscaping” to convey our rightful disdain of this modern tragedy of men feminizing themselves. A man deliberately making himself less masculine is very sissy, indeed.  Begrudgingly, I can make myself tolerate a little of the manscaped look on a guy, but it’s always visually unappealing, and it’s philosophically distasteful because it’s such an insult to manhood.

These are strong words, I know, but they are honest ones. My heartfelt belief is that the creed of a man — a self-respecting manly man — is to say “hell no to manscaping.”  Chances are, if you are a fan and frequent visitor of The Clan of Men blog, you see the truth to this man’s creed and keep yourself natural.  If you do manscape and are reading this, I implore you to stop mutilating yourself or at least be aware that in doing so, you are rejecting time-honored masculinity and giving in to the alarmingly increasing feminization of today’s generation of men.

The following photos are of proud men who keep it natural. If you subscribe to the man’s creed of saying hell no to manscaping, be sure to check out the blog’s two large collections of photos celebrating the Natural Man:  Full Bush Only and Hairy Butts & Holes.

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