Chest Hair
This blog topic is inspired by a conversation me and some of my coworkers had at work the other day. I can’t remember how the topic came up exactly, but for some reason we all began exchanging our views on chest hair. I never really realized before just how many different viewpoints there are on the matter –like discussing politics with pro-abortionists and religious leaders.
On this matter, I would say I fell in the NDP category. I lie somewhere in the middle of the bare chest vs wild amazon debate. I like a ‘stubbly’ chest is how I put it to my coworkers; ‘A nice trimmed chest.’
This is when one of the girls gave me a strange look and another girl chimed in with a story of how turned off she was when first felt stubble on her guy’s chest. ‘You could definitely tell he shaved his chest and that was the deal breaker for me.’ This is when I took back my stubbly comment and clarified that while I do like a trimmed chest, you should never run the risk of cutting your fingers on your mans little bristles. But I also wouldn’t want my fingers to get tangled up in a mass of hair when I stroke the chest.
A friend of mine fully supports the green party/Darwinian view on the matter – let the hair be natural and show off that he is a product of his environment. Why hide your genes or clog drains on tuffs of chest hair? Man was created to have hair on his chest, so why alter evolution? My argument, however, is that while I totally appreciate the evolutionary theories behind chest hair, it does not stand true today. Yes, men were created with a coating of hair as a defense mechanism against nature while they hunted and built shelters for their families. But until my boyfriend picks up an ax to build me a log cabin and cooks me steak with the cattle he freshly killed that day, I don’t think that the argument of biology and evolution are quite relevant.
On the other end of the spectrum, however, are the liberal/ feminist viewpoints on chest hair. Maybe men with smooth waxed chests are just the change that we need in society. Men should not be oppressed or centered out because of their choice in grooming. And perhaps a shaved chest would put men and women closer to equality – men can now also feel pressured into the social norms of beauty and this could be another example of how biology can not segregate men and women into two different categories.
Along with this is an extremist view on the matter – those girls who want their men to be as hairless as a fetus. They love a guy who spends hours at the spa ripping out every hair on their back, chest, legs and armpits and who touch up those stragglers with razors and tweezers on a day to day basis. I don’t understand these women, or men for that matter. To me, a hairless man seems to be a bit high maintenance and perhaps cares a bit too much about his appearance. It also, in my view, takes away a bit of his masculinity in both a physical and mental manner. Not only that, but I don’t want to date a guy who has smoother legs than I do or that steals my shaving cream.
At the end of all this, I suppose it’s true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Some like it smooth, some like it trimmed, and some like it au naturel. I suppose it is a matter of preference and who wants to fight over bathroom time with their significant other.
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