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End of Gender: "He-Wax," She Wax, We All Wax?

Social Commentary post by Malic White on April 24, 2012 - 2:42pm; tagged advertising, pubic hair.

hewax add, showing a white man with a hairless chestNearly a decade after the "metrosexual" invaded the mainstream, men are taking grooming to the land down under.

While men give he-waxing glowing reviews, Cosmopolitan writers say they're "not so sure" about men "having zero hair where there should be at least a little." After all, body hair is (or was) considered manly. Some women worry that the "boyzilian wax" means that men are becoming, well, more like women.

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Isn't He Lovely: Bare Down There and Everywhere Else

Social Commentary post by CristenConger on September 19, 2011 - 10:11am; tagged body hair, body image, isn't he lovely, male body image, muscularity, pubic hair, shaving, waxing.

young man with shaving cream on his face and chest shaving his chest hair with a disposable razorWhile mulling over the male quest for muscularity a few posts ago, I brought up the notion of the "sanitized ideal" that has recently become de rigueur for the mainstream masculine body image. We’re talking hair-free, sweat-free, odor-free; in other words, the same unrealistic standards peddled to women for so long, à la leg and underarm shaving. And like the hairless female ideal, it isn't just the most visible fur that men are tending to these days; statistically, men groom their pubic hair more than any other type of body hair (sans beards).

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