BS: just for men to answer this question

Subject: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: skarpi
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 09:14 AM

I was asked the other day in work a question , now this person is a
woman and is a very good friend of mine and we can almost talk
about anything when we are together , and this time out of the blue she
asked me
   


       " Skarpi do you shave your " balls " or what ever you call
         in English ?? " I say down below - and I could not say a word for few min .

         hmmmm I told her .............. " ?????

So is it common that men shave them self down below ?????
like woman do ?


So just wandering .........   around the world


This is a question , like do men wear something under the scottish uniform ?


?? o(-/-)o

ATB Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 09:15 AM

Oy.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 09:18 AM

Back, Sack and Crack :)


G

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 10:07 AM

No. But occasionally I get the urge to trim some of the longer hairs back a bit with a small pair of scissors. Why? Who knows. I mean, it doesn't really matter, right? Maybe I do it for the same reason that a bird plucks at his feathers or someone runs their fingers through their hair. Personal grooming instinct? Nervousness? A desire to superimpose existentialist doctrine on traditionalist mores? ;-)

I don't think that shaving that area would be wise, as it would probably itch like hell when it started to grow back in.

I wonder what Brad Pitt has to say about this?

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: mack/misophist
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 10:10 AM

I hope it's relatively common. I had to do it when I got my vasectomy. But only once.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 10:21 AM

Crabs. I had crabs once--twice actually, but the second time was just a continuation of the first time--and I believed the instructions (to shave the pubic area). It was itchier than the damned crabs when hair grew back in. Piss on that. Never again. Let the bloody stuff fall out like the rest of my hair.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: artbrooks
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 10:24 AM

No

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 10:25 AM

What Art said.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: beardedbruce
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 10:25 AM

It is itchy. My first angioplasty was with a complete shave, knees to neck.

They have improved things lately.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: Amos
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 10:44 AM

As a general rule, men do not shave their balls, except for medical purposes as described above.

At least all the ones I have met. I've never heard of it as an aesthetic practice. But these days, with chain link septums and chrome-hitched labia, anything is possible.


A

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 10:45 AM

SHAVE?? I thought you said SAVE.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: gnu
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 10:45 AM

.... with a rusty razor....

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 10:47 AM

Nope, I've never shaved south of the neck.

tap tap tap, knock on wood.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 10:47 AM

"common"? HA!

Maybe in some groups, but I'd bet that 94.638% would laugh at the idea.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 10:52 AM

I don't shave there for two reasons: I want to hide them when I'm nekid so the the world doesn't laugh at what the missus has been laughing at for years; and nothing (repeat, nothing) sharp gets anywhere near that delicate area. One last thing, it's the last place I still have most of my own hair.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 10:58 AM

Ping pong balls? Hell, I thought you said King Kong balls.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: bobad
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 10:59 AM

Shaving one's balls would be a rather tricky operation, the scrotum on the other hand would be much easier, for those who are so inclined.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 11:10 AM

Just don't use an electric razor while yer in the bath.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 11:14 AM

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 10:21 AM

Crabs. I had crabs once--twice actually, but the second time was just a continuation of the first time--and I believed the instructions (to shave the pubic area). It was itchier than the damned crabs when hair grew back in. Piss on that. Never again. Let the bloody stuff fall out like the rest of my hair.



    Peace, down here when we get crabs we get rid of them thusly: Light one side of your pubic hair on fire and when the little beasties flea to the other side beat them to death with a club.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 11:16 AM

LOL! That sounds like something Shane would do...once.

He's not completely stupid, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 11:27 AM

Crabs? Do you prefer king to dungies?

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 11:28 AM

Ebbie, you haven't gone and changed sex have you?


G

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: Amos
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 11:28 AM

RIght. IN the battle of wits, that man (Shane) is only half-armed. Fortunately, as a figment, he doesn't need much.


A

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: dwditty
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 11:32 AM

Can't wait until Spaw weighs in on this one - he is so hirsuit.....I mean astute!

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: topical tom
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 11:33 AM

Nothing ever below the neck.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 11:36 AM

Oblate follicled spheroids.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: Megan L
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 11:38 AM

Whit a bunch o big girls blouses

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 11:41 AM

"Peace, down here when we get crabs we get rid of them thusly: Light one side of your pubic hair on fire and when the little beasties flea to the other side beat them to death with a club."

Thanks for that, Neil. Wish I'd met you years ago. Last time I stabbed them with an ice pick.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: Paul Burke
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 11:50 AM

So is it common that men shave them self down below ?????
like woman do ?

None of the women I know shave there either. Hence the phrase "chewing the carpet".

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 11:56 AM

LOL - skarpi, I know for a fact that men do shave their nether regions...shall I name nmaes?

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answear this question
From: PoppaGator
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 12:16 PM

Who'd want to?

I men really, WTF is the world coming to?

I don't even shave much of my face, let alone any more tender and more private area.

Of course, having spent my young adulthood in the "hippie" subculture, I've never had much interest in any kind of hair removal, for myself or for others of either gender. I'm perfectly OK with women not shaving their legs or armpits, although I do accept that most women, at least in the US, find it necessary to conform to societal norms by removing their hair from those areas.

This may mark me as an old fuddy-duddy, but I've never encountered a "bald" public area ~ on anyone. I don't understand how any red-blooded male would find anything attractive about a grown woman's hairless crotch. Sort of smacks of pedophilia, if you ask me. Also, there's the issue of STUBBLE, which could become very uncomfortable!

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 12:24 PM

Too many women in here. Why is it they can't keep out of men only threads, but bitch like hell if men post on their womenz only threads?
That's 4 of them so far!

G

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 12:34 PM

Cut 'em off when the male hasn't yet reached puberty and the problem solves itself. If, indeed, it IS a problem.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: kendall
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 12:40 PM

The best way to deal with crabs is::
Rub sand on the whole area, then pour alcohol around. The little bastards will get drunk and stone each other to death.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: jacqui.c
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 12:41 PM

#5 weighing in - now you know that if you suggest that a thread is purely for men that us womenz is going to have to check it out. WAY too much temptation there!

On the question - how about waxing? No sharp objects to deal with.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: bobad
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 12:53 PM

"On the question - how about waxing?"

Why?

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 12:57 PM

"Whoa, Peace! You dark horse, you"

I never looked that good in my life. And it's too late now.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Deckman
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 01:11 PM

Hmm? I've been trying to think of an appropriate song? How about if someone, prefably a woman of the opposite sex, try a re-write of the olde Baptist parody:

"My face I don't mind it,
For I am behind it,
The one in the front gets the jar!" CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Acorn4
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 01:24 PM

I trust the womwn on this thread are wearing beards.

Never shaved mine though they have caused me to have one or two close shaves!

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 01:43 PM

The last woman in my life had everything a man could want.......................













Hairy legs, hairy chest, two beards

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 01:53 PM

Skapi, I would think living that close to the Arctic Circle you would want all the insulation you could get so as to not freeze them off.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: skarpi
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 02:48 PM

who said anything about me being shaved ???

ATB Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: fat B****rd
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 02:55 PM

I've been shaved 'knees to nipples'for hospital purposes on 4 occasions. Bloody itchy when it's all growing back. Great for 'The Last Turkey In The Shop' but no good for using your glasses and doing 'Groucho Marx'.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: skarpi
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 02:56 PM

well Poul b , I know a lot of woman who shave or wax their
private place ,

and its understandable why woman comes in here .

if you only knew what we Vikings do here up in the artic :>) LOL

I suppose you americans should look at the TV shows from USA
like on " E " channel or STAR channel the things you see on it
my oh my .



Atb Skarpi .

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: frogprince
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 03:30 PM

NOT ON YOUR LIFE. Had 'em shaved for a vasectomy. When I did advance paperwork, a few days before, I was alerted to expect it, and assured that it would be done by a male; I still don't know why that was supposed to make me feel better about it.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Megan L
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 03:31 PM

Skarpi SKELP

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: skarpi
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 03:37 PM

jabb I ave been waiting for this Megan


:>)))


ATB Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 04:26 PM

When I was a teenager, I worked as a construction worker one summer.
I heard every poor dirty joke ever told. Some did not make much sense, but it did not matter, as added to the work atmosphere.

One male hairy rhyme that I remember a worker recite was:

"The hair grew so thick
between my a&@x*le and $#@xk,
that my balls wouldn't jingle
anymore".

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 04:29 PM

It doesn't rhyme.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 04:44 PM

I don't imagine a bunch of granola eating old folkies is the best group to whom to pose your question. Most of us don't even shave our faces.

Shaving of privates is probably far more common among the younger set with their tattoos, piercings and other aberations of appearance. They're also probably more influenced by the "aesthetics" of modern-day pornography where almost everyone, male and female, shaves for the benefit of the camera.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 04:54 PM

I've sometimes wondered if some people ever lose their beard through baldness. The same question applies lower down.

Anyone know the answer?

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 05:06 PM

Peace, be creative,

What do you call someone who cuts you off in trafficZ?
what rhymes with thick?

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 05:09 PM

Having been shaved (for medical reasons only), I can say that the stubble growing back was more painful and uncomfortable than the heart surgery that necessitated the shave!

Personally, I would think it would be entirely too sweaty and nasty.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: PoppaGator
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 05:09 PM

The "pattern" common to cases of "male pattern baldness" is pretty much limited to the scalp. I don't have any definitive medical literature to cite, but I have observed many guys with thick full beards and bald heads. And I'm not talking about shaven heads, I mean real regular age-related baldness

For most fellows, beard hair seems to remain darker than head-hair as the graying process gets underway. In my own case, the pubes are turning gray even more slowly ~ dark hair down under, "salt & pepper" facial hair, almost-all-gray on top.

My facial hair is thinner than it once was, and almost-bald in spots, but that's due to radiation treatment, not age.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 05:10 PM

Schtip?

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 05:32 PM

"what rhymes with thick?"

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh

Jaysus, why did you not just write it out in full?

"The hair grew so thick
between my axle and gear stick
that my balls wouldn't jingle
anymore".

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: gnu
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 06:23 PM

Jingle jingle jangle.... rawhide!!!!

Ouch.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 06:30 PM

Roll 'em, roll 'em, roll'em
keep those dogies roll'in
out into the open,
Raw hide, ouch!


Will that be baby powder, Talcum powder, gold bond,
or corn starch?

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: frogprince
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 06:34 PM

"the heart surgery that necessitated the shave!" Liz, I know it's said that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, but I never thought about what route surgeons take to get to a woman's heart...

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: GUEST,Chief Chaos
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 06:46 PM

It's become a strange world where women are supposedly not expected to shave (or otherwise de-pilate)their pits or legs and some men shave that what weren't meant to be anywhere near a sharp object! That damn thing looks like a deflated balloon already, why make it worse?

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Peace
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 07:47 PM

"I know it's said that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach"

Yer close . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 01:03 AM

I hear the clippings make good tea.....

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: DougR
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 01:15 AM

Skarpi: I can't recall that coming up in conversations with other men. I would guess, though, that if it is done, it is limited to a very few men. No authority, though, so don't bank on it.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 02:34 AM

PEACE..I thought it was through a man's left ventricle...

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 02:49 AM

In actual fact a lot of the 'younger' generation of males get waxed or shave much of their bodies as it is claimed to be 'cleaner'...........what have we missed guys?

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 03:30 AM

Well,. pubic lice have to have something to hold onto and when there is no forestation in the way, any sores or lesions can be clearly seen.

Personally, I want to know why I suddenly need hairy elbows.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Megan L
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 03:33 AM

Stops them getting scratched wie all that leanin on a desk you do lassie

*ducks and searches for the table

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Paul Burke
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 04:19 AM

More cogently, have any of the blokes (or even blokesses) had (inside) their noses and ears depilated? Are tweezers more effective and/or less painful than a blowlamp? And does it pull chicks?

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Paul Burke
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 04:21 AM

BTW that was swazzant nerf, or nununtsexy as the Germans say.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: goatfell
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 04:29 AM

no

and you should of asked her if she shaved her ( idon't if this the correct spelling) but you should of asked her if she shaved her virginia.

I mean what a personal question but then are from Australia

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: goatfell
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 04:31 AM

or not as the case maybe.

I mean what a stupid question, if that was me I would of pull down my trousers and pants and then she would of seen my balls.

and maybe that would teach her not to aske stupid questions.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Megan L
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 04:35 AM

why was it a stupid question? If you want to know someone then who better to ask than a trusted friend. But of course it is ok for folk to use the f word and be a crude as blazes but not to have genuine healthy dialogue.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: goatfell
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 04:45 AM

I mean you don't go up to someone at work and ask hey do you shave your balls I mean aske that question in privite not at work because that as far as I'm concerend that is public and everyone well know, and then posting it on Mudcat so the whole world will know.

but then I have just answered it so I'm stupid as well, tho me that is is a very personal matter

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: GUEST,girly cat in disguise, c/w false moustache
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 06:35 AM

Two of my (male) friends were discussing this once - one did and one didn't, and the one that didn't was equally unimpressed - and the one that did sort of shrugged and said 'you have to shave, you can't expect someone to put them in their mouth if you don't'.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 06:40 AM

These are the only balls I will ever suck.
The thought of anything else makes my eyes water.

G

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Grab
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 09:54 AM

So Skarpi, what *did* you tell her? Does you does or does you don't shave sack? :-)

FWIW, trimming the thatch occasionally is a good plan if you're prone to hairyness - minimises overheating in summer, and nicer for your partner. Don't overtrim though. As has previously been pointed out, hair growing back is *very* itchy, quite apart from the "shaved turkey" look.

Paul, re nose hair, I use a disposable razor head (Gillette Sensor) which is just about the right size to go round the inside of a nostril when detached from the razor handle. No need for a fancy trimmer or anything like that. Only two things to be careful of: firstly mind your fingers; and secondly always scrape across the blade, not down it, otherwise you'll have the mother of all nosebleeds. It's certainly a lot safer than scissors though, where one false move puts a sharp pointed implement up your sinuses!

The alternative to trimming nose hair is nasal dreadlocks, which ain't a pretty sight. I knew a bloke whose nose hair reached his top lip - I can't believe his wife wouldn't tell him "that's a bit gross dear, go and have a trim".

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Peace
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 10:29 AM

Nose hairs will hold back the snot until such time as you just have to get even with a llama. Trust me on that one.

Sally the camel has two humps,
Sally the camel has two humps,
Sally the -- wtf am I typing here?

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: GUEST,Chief Chaos
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 07:02 PM

Peace,

Thatsalottasnot!

You will probably never be able to get even with a llama, trust me on that. The best thing is to learn to see it coming and duck!

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Peace
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 09:12 PM

I hear ya, CC. Man, they DO have an attitue at times.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Peace
Date: 10 Jun 08 - 10:15 PM

I don't know if I'm the only one who notices, but my typing has gon to the dogs layely.

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Jun 08 - 03:34 AM

Woof woof

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: GUEST,Chief Chaos
Date: 11 Jun 08 - 05:54 PM

LLamas don't like dogs! Look out! Incoming! *ducks*

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 12 Jun 08 - 08:41 AM

...enter, stage left, Scrotum (Wrinkled old family retainer)

:D

Subject: RE: BS: just for men to answer this question
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Jun 08 - 11:31 AM

(Women don't know the extent to which they've encountered shaved balls?!?)