pc@hplabsb.UUCP (Patricia Collins) (08/30/83)
I would like to put in a vote for MEN to try shaving their armpits! Armpit hair does what it was *intended* (?) to do: it catches perspiration. Trying to counteract this with a liberal dose of deoderant on an unshaved region results in a sort of gummy mess of hair and gunk. That is aesthetically unpleasant to me. Legs are another matter. I simply like the feel of smooth, silky skin. (I don't know any men who could accomplish this silkiness without hormone supplements, so I won't suggest they shave their legs.) ...Now as I understand it, in some mid-eastern countries women would NEVER shave their legs and underarms, but they *always* keep their pubic hair shaved. (ref. CHILDREN OF THE JINN, by Margy Kahn) To my way of thinking, these hair preferences are not much different from men's facial hair. In different cultures and at different times, men either look shaggy or shorn. We happen to be in a place and time where individuality is tolerated if not supported, so we see long/short hair, beards &/or moustaches (tamed or wild), and hair sprouting from the armpits of some women and men. Patricia Collins hplabs