If you didn't dress would you still hate body hair ?

[Teresa]

Maybe men were given hair to deter them from CDing !!

Some men treat body and facial hair as a " Right Of Passage " ! Your first shave, your first chest hair ! They can now start treating like a man !
My first showing had the opposite effect, with my CDing and the first to have pubic hair and a biology book saying GGs develop first, by 11 I thought I was turning into a girl ! However testosterone took over and hair grew everywhere, which at the time was great because Sean Connery was the big thing with James Bond and having the look by late teens was great round the pool.
So you live with body hair until you put on your first lingerie set and try to slide into your first stockings but they don't slide because of that hair. When you look down those smooth stockings have a forest growing through them and the line between stocking top and pantie looks awful ! IT'S GOT TO GO !!
So you take an age shaving trying not to nick yourself but the end result is SO worth it, I still say legs give the most pleasure, putting stockings and heels on ! If I didn't CD I would never have that pleasure, I would hate to stop shaving !

I'm going on holiday soon and because I don't know if my wife has noticed or is ignoring my legs but I'm having to let it grow back. The stupid part is most of the male side of my wife's family have very little or no leg or body hair and yet they wear shorts and no one questions why they haven't and yet I'm hiding my shaved legs from the family in case it looks weird !!
So as a male do you like body hair and as a CDer hate it ?

[Erica Marie]

As a cder or just as a person, the body hair is gone. Personally I find nothing sexy about wearing a tee shirt or tank top and having hair hanging out from under your arms or off my back or chest. Kinda slobby if you ask me.

[Janice An]

Everywhere except on the top of my head.

[WhisperTV]

Yes I would.

I never shaved my body hair until I started CDing. But now that I have, I'd shave it even if I stopped CDing.

[Linda E. Woodworth]

As a male body hair is part of the territory.

I don't even think about it, it is just there.

[stephNE]

I don't like body hair either. I have been shaving for many years, and no one ever comments.
I suspect it is one of those things that since you know you are shaving, you are much more conscious than anyone else.

[BLUE ORCHID]

Hi Teresa, That is an interesting thought, But now days there many men not in the CD community that are
finding the joy of being hairless clean and smooth.

[lacie21cd]

Yes I would.

I still don't have it all off just chest and back, but my wife pretty much said she is warming up to the idea for my arms and legs. It severely limits what you can wear while CDing. I have hated it all my life, but kept it because it was the norm (or at least my percieved norm). By now it would be gone if I wasn't married.

[NavyM2F_WAM]

The only hair I want on my body is my normal hair (need to get it to grow out and fast), my eyebrows (after they have been sculpted like a GG), and my eyelashes. I have been shaving my chest, stomach, genitals and the part in between for years. My soon to be ex-wife used to shave my hands and arms every so often to let me "air out". Since I started crossdressing, I have started shaving everywhere (can't reach my back).

I JUST HATE HAIR!

[Katey888]

I suppose I've been relatively fortunate in that I don't have a heavy (or dark) beard growth - looks appalling when I've ever let it grow for a while as I did last year - and the only other significant normally visible growth was on my legs, which is all gone for some 5 months now...
I've shaved underarm for years as it gets in the way of deodorant - and I've also 'tidied up' things around me bits... My arm hair is quite fine and light so that's staying, and I have about five hairs more than Bruce Lee had on his chest, so they get sabred too...

I think I'm happy the way everything is now... I don't think I'd stop shaving if I stopped CDing - but then that's as close to an infinitesimally small likelihood as you can get anyway... :)

Thank goodness I'm not massively hirsute... I do feel sympathy for guys whose back is like a doormat... :eek:

Katey x

[Sharon B.]

I have always hated body hair, even though I am not a hairy person I still hate it. I think it is disgusting for a person to be hairy.

[Jonithan]

I am plus one on the Bruce Lee chest. Although I am more of a second trimester of pregnancy "Bruce Lee". I was never able to grow the facial hair as a youth. Thought something was wrong with me. Never a full "manly" beard. Just sprouts of whiskers. So since joining this group, I've been plucking any growth that may pop up. Turns out nothing was ever wrong with me after all. This was how I was meant to be....


....joni

[Jaylyn]

As I get older I am having less body hair. I used to have a full beard longer hair and looked terrible. I am now pretty much stay clean shaven and have never had to shave my legs. Just not the hairy beast I once was and my knuckles are not dragging the ground anymore. Lol

[CrossJess]

I'm lucky that my natural hair is light blond, though I dye my main hair brown, but hair hardly ever grows and shows on my face legs and arms so I'm thankful for that because I don't need to wear makeup foundation to cover up stubble "I got none", I do a fully body shave once a week regardless as I hate hair it's gross and even if I wasn't dressing I would still do it

[Teresa]

Katey that explains why people keep trying to wipe their feet on me ! I've always felt like a doormat!

I guess my hormones must still be in working order but I do now hate my body hair, the way it still keeps growing I would be shaving 24/7 to keep it all down!

I've almost strayed onto Tinkerbell's thread about, "Are you a hot guy ? do only ugly men dress ?"

[DanielleJean]

I've always hated body hair, so it would be gone whether I CD or not!

[UNDERDRESSER]

Hate it. Wish there was a cream to use that would stop hair growth for 6 months at a time. I shave most parts, the chest stays, because the SO prefers it, though i have maybe 20-30 more than Bruce lee. (I used to hate that I wasn't hairy there) I have been trying to shave the back, but it's not very clear, will get my SO to go over that tonight.

The worst? Since I've got older, the ears and nose... ARGHHHH!

[brenne]

Body hair just got in my way, stuck in zippers, got stuck & ripped by EKG tape, etc... and I never could grow a proper beard or non-scraggly moustache anyway. (Had a goatee before, but it now has all gray hairs whereas my head only has a few)

[Wildaboutheels]

Shave or remove body hair? Are you kidding? It's there for a reason! To "protect" us Humans from the elements, bugs, etc. And of course armpit and crotch hair? BOTH of those are there simply to retain odor and nothing else.

But of course we HAVE been losing our body hair for thousands of years because we no longer need it. [FACT] And some nationalities have little or almost NO body hair [FACT] and are STILL able to have stable and loving Relationships. Imagine that!!! A man w/o body hair can still be a good, honest, faithful man.

So THIS ^^^ is your defense should you feel the need to explain to someone, and clearly you do. "The stupid part is most of the male side of my wife's family have very little or no leg or body hair and yet they wear shorts and no one questions why they haven't and yet I'm hiding my shaved legs from the family in case it looks weird !!"""

You feel "guilty" for shaving, but nobody but UNsharp folks will care how much body hair you have or where you have it. [unless you were silly enough to marry a woman who likes hairy guys... nothing wrong with that and those ladies ARE out there]

I don't hate my body hair but would stay smooth regardless of my choice of clothing. I get massages quite regularly and there is a huge difference in feel between fur and smooth. Getting a massage while furry... May as well get one while still wearing clothes IMO.

YOUR biggest "real" enemy is as close as the nearest mirror. [Like at least 90% here] Your last paragraph minus the last line clearly illustrates this beyond any shadow of a doubt.

I say man up, keep shaving, and set yourself free.

[Rachael Leigh]

I've come to learn I just don't like body hair and I do think I might have shaved had I not began dressing.
I really love the hairless look on anyone but I'm sure that is a minority opnion.
What I hate is if you are in male mode and have no hair on your legs your somehow less of a man but if your hairless on your head oh man such a sexy older guy.

[Athena_]

I am cursed with a great volume of body hair, lightly colored for the most part. As I have only come out to my wife about my cross dressing, I am stuck with it for the time being. I can grow a full beard in just a few days. So I guess to answer the question; Yes, I would still hate body hair if I did not crossdress. If there was only a way to get the hair on my head to grow in all the correct places.......

[Laura28]

I never had a problem with my hair in the past, although i didnt dress as much then. About 4 or 5 years ago i started dressing more and totally, My wife said it looks silly with all the hair you should try shaving in the winter. I did and now i am hooked smooth from the head down, ( just hair on the top of my head). I could never go back to having hair, my wife feels the same way she loves me smooth as well. I purchased a home laser and use it weekly it has made a big differance in reducing my hair, ( my only problem is i have blonde hair and although not a grey hair on my head the lots of the hair on my body is grey or blonde had some dark hairs but the laser got rid of them and the Laser doesnt work all that great with grey and blonde but does slow the growth and make it finer LOL)

[Sc0rp10N]

I had been shaving certain parts for a long time. Since my late 20s. It just allowed more feeling. Then, later, in my early 30s, I started shaving my chest and belly because I was working out more but I couldn't see the results as much and I noticed actors, models and body builders shaved. I didn't ever HATE the body hair, it was just in the way. Then, when I started cding, I wanted to look as much like a girl as I could, so, now I shave, trim, pluck and cut every single hair on my body. Again, I don't hate it and I would only ever consider permanent removal in certain areas. Its just that it detracts from the visual image and skin sensitivity I enjoy for whatever mood I'm in.

[Jean. Ann]

I never liked body or facial hair ,
So would shave anyway .
I just feel cleaner and better when hair free

Jean Ann

[AllieSF]

Why would I dislike my body hair in male mode unless I was a crossdresser? I never hated my hair and never had enough to hate or even dislike. I did dislike the once daily grind to shave my face, only because it wad a required task to look, in my eyes only, decent enough to go out of the house to work or whatever. I can understand someone who is blessed or damned with ape like hair growth not liking all that hair. Of course, now that I dress up special I go for the hairless or almost hairless look. I do recommend that you try epilating your leg hair and anywhere else that you want hairless because you definitely do not get any unwanted rough stubble growing back a day later or even the same day, and your hair removal requirements do seem to diminish over time and are also required less often.

[Allison2006]

I have said for some time that if anyone notices that I'm shaving legs, chest and back and asks why, I'd tell them I just hate being hairy, which is true. So yes, I think I'd shave even if it weren't for cd'ing.

[Velocity]

I have never really minded it but with each passing year I seem to notice more hair creeping in on my back, shoulders, and ears. That is annoying. My wife prefers me clean shaven on my face and I do get tired of the daily task of shaving. It would certainly be nice to not have to deal with that. As far as leg hair goes, I don't mind it at all. I do not keep my legs shaved and have only ever shaved them before in the winter as I have been too chicken to wear shorts with shaved legs. If I didn't CD, I would probably never shave anything below my neck.

[Renee Elise]

Probably not, the main reason I shaved my legs was for dressing. It does feel nice though. It only takes me a couple weeks to have "passable" guy hair so when I need to wear shorts for whatever reason I let it grow out.

[Janine cd]

I've hated body hair since I was an adolescent, even before any crossdressing experiences. I keep my body as hairless as I can,except for my head.

[FemPossible]

Yes! I remember being excited when I started getting hair in places but then the novelty wore off. I hate the itching, getting snagged and in my beard's case, growing in an odd pattern. I don't hate it with a passion but if someone said that I could remove all my body/facial hair with a press of a button, I'd do it.

[nataliebynight]

Hate it. Wish there was a cream to use that would stop hair growth for 6 months at a time. I shave most parts, the chest stays, because the SO prefers it, though i have maybe 20-30 more than Bruce lee. (I used to hate that I wasn't hairy there) I have been trying to shave the back, but it's not very clear, will get my SO to go over that tonight.

The worst? Since I've got older, the ears and nose... ARGHHHH!

It's called waxing. GG's do it all the time. Lasts much longer than shaving. :battingeyelashes::battingeyelashes:

[Dawn Rayne]

i love my body hair at all times other than when it comes to dressing.
cold out? pft.. chest hair + beared > coat xD.

unfortunately theres so much of it its really a chore to keep groomed

[Allison Chaynes]

I would LOVE to find the magic bullet product that would make all hair from the neck down disappear forever. I used to be a distance runner and a number of top runners shave to reduce wind resistance. I just hate hair, period.

[nataliebynight]

I've come to learn I just don't like body hair and I do think I might have shaved had I not began dressing.
I really love the hairless look on anyone but I'm sure that is a minority opnion.
What I hate is if you are in male mode and have no hair on your legs your somehow less of a man but if your hairless on your head oh man such a sexy older guy.

Leigh, you may have found the perfect solution for straight cders. Shave your head. Be the 'sexy older guy' person in male mode and buy a wig to wear in fmale mode. May have to try that. Unless your SO doesn't like bald guys?

[KaceyR]

I don't really remember when I first was shaving hair off...was way before CDing.
Then I noticed how Asian cultures (e.g. Japan) were very prominent in keeping hair off.
So I just started that myself and did it. Now, being single, and the back as it is, I'd not cleared that except once or twice till recently starting CDing where I get that waxed regularly now.

I do wish there was an easier way to get rid of it all permanently... (And not be costly :))

[Diane Smith]

During periods of my life when I haven't been able to dress regularly due to work or other commitments, body hair never bothered me very much. Although I stay smooth all the time now (and dress to go out several times a week), I shave and epilate only to improve my feminine appearance, not because it causes me any revulsion in male mode. Before electrolysis and graying hair, I had average growth of facial hair, but always kept it shaved. My chest and back have always been largely hairless.

I do positively, absolutely, with every fiber of my being despise nose and ear hair, though!

- Diane

[Christen]

I actually like no hair as a male, everything seems a bit more tactile, if you know what I mean. If I didn't CD? I do hate the grey chest hair thing, so I'd probably shave that regardless. My arms have always been quite hairy, to the point where in Indonesia many years ago, a little boy on the Bimo (Bus) kept pointing and laughing at me. I worked out he found it hysterical that I had the same amount of arm hair as the ninety plus year old local next to me, I was around 29. I'd like less hair but shaving the arms is strange, even for me. I've a sort of relative who's always got shaved legs, he used to run marathons, his wife asked him did he shave them to help massages, no, he said I like the feeling. Everyones OK with that.

Christen x

[Paula_Femme]

I absolutely loath my body hair, always have, even before I started "dressing;" if I had the $'s I'd have everything below my eyelashes lasered off!!! :)

[Beverley Sims]

Like you Teresa,
I hated body hair.
I underwent a hormone treatment to bring on puberty when I was twenty three.
It almost backfired, and today I wish it had.

[Vanessa5]

I hate body hair. I have it because my wife likes "hairy men". I just cannot stand it.

[Adriana Moretti]

I always hated it too...and hate is a STRONG word....but it's always been gone/shaved....call me a true italian though...i get lazy sometimes and wont shave my armpits if im not going in public en femme ( i find them a pain) ....i know gross....so i will be home ..in a skirt and tank with hairy pits...classic old school italian...but thats pretty gross i will admit.

[wanda66]

Clean shave . Its a pain but I dont like body hair . I keep my pits hair free, I really hate see that man or woman..with me my legs and chest dont seem to need as much attention as I get older.

[jaye_cd]

I have kept myself free of body hair ever since it started growing in. Even in the periods of my life where I put my CD activities on hold for any length of time, I still kept up on the shaving. I have never liked body hair on myself and if I could afford to get it all lasered off I would eagerly do so.

[Jocelyn Quivers]

Yes, even if my girl side never existed, I just feel cleaner, and cooler especially during the summer time hair arm pits, legs, arms yuck!

[franlee]

How can I express my conviction on this situation? Hell Yhea! I hate shaving Period anyway or where you look at it.

[Tracii G]

If I wasn't TG or a CD I wouldn't give hair much thought.
The fact I am both the idea of hair is disgusting Ewwww.

[khaleesie]

Hmmmmm. No, I wouldn't bother with the removal if I didn't dress......

[~Joanne~]

So as a male do you like body hair and as a CDer hate it ?

I have hated haired in both drab and femme for as long as I can remember. I have been shaving everything for the last 2 years now and will not go back ever. I know how a lot of girls here will say "nobody will notice" but there is always a few that will. When I have been asked, I just tell them the truth, I hate hair and shave everything I can. Then I back it with "nice to see your checking me out so closely, My SO (I use her name) isn't going to like this" lol

During the summer months I am a whole lot cooler, less sweat being trapped and less need for deodorant every 4 hours and nobody like seeing hair under some pantyhose. nobody.

[cdrachael]

Yep I would still remove the body hair. Have hated it all my life and shave and use hair removal cream to get rid of it. If I could afford permanent hair removal I would. Hopefully one day. I tried the pearl hair remover that they advertised on infomercials but that didn't work very well.

[Marcelle]

Yup . . . never been a big fan of body hair. The funny thing is if I had received my father's genetics I would have little to no body hair (he was 1/4 native). My body hair comes from my mother's side of the family as all my uncles are hirsute mountain men. Now I have always maintained minimal body hair for some time due to other reasons not associated with CDing. My therapist will tell me that although I supressed my CDing tendencies for 32 years after my first attempt at 17 my dislike for body hair was probably a hold over . . . um . . . I suppose but then again my therapist and I don't always see eye to eye on some things. I truly believe if I was not CD I would still have removed my body hair.

Hugs

Isha

[Stephanie Julianna]

Yes. (That's my shortest answer to date.)

[alwayshave]

I hate body hair and it has nothing to to with crossdressing.

[grace7777]

I dislike body hair and started shaving it before I started dressing.

[Rebekah_uk]

I was shaving my upper body for heat control purposes before coming out to my wife. My upper body hair when it grows fully is very thick and kept it shaved for that reason. On the whole I have always hated body hair and would love to get rid of it permanently if I could.

[StarrOfDelite]

Aesthetically, the shaved human body, whether male or female, is superior. All you have to do is look at a fitness or bodybuilding competition where the contestants are pretty much 100% hairless for competitive reasons: Judges cannot see muscle definition and vascularity through a fur coat. I never competed, but did semi-serious weight-lifting and body-sculpting when I was younger, and like any Wannabe shaved all my body hair so I looked more like Arnold or Lou or Franco. When I had the epiphany and started crossdressing, I continued to sculpt while losing muscle mass, and I never let the body hair grow back. If I quit CD'ing I'm pretty sure I'd continue to depilate all over.

[Alice Torn]

My back is like a hairy throw rug! I grew up as a kid thinking real men were hairy, and hairless guys were gays probably. Now, many guys shave body hair, gay or straight. But, i still suffer some mental blocks about going out and about in shorts with bare legs, or bare chest. And, being around my 93 yo father, and older brother, still hide my shaved legs , and torso. I fell for some men, that are literally covered with thick body hair.

[Alice Torn]

I made a typing error, last post. It should say "I FEEL" for some men, that are literally covered with thick body hair. It seems natures practical joke, that men lose the hair on top, and it comes out in ears, nose, and on back!

[fun4metoo2004]

Fore me it is not "hate" hair, I just have so sparse an amount on my legs, that I really only have hair on my arms now. That I am considering removing as well. Laser, etc. is too expensive.

[Cara Lacey]

Living in the desert, (106F° right now) I feel cooler with my body shaved.
I am not sure whether this is psychological or physical, but it works for me.

[Tina_gm]

I have always felt fortunate that I do not have a lot of body hair. I have never thought there was anything appealing about it, and will never understand any woman who thinks it is appealing on men. Granted, I never shaved any of it till I started CDing, but I always thought it was one of those things women did that I was envious of. To have (normally) very fine body hair and shave their legs and armpits or anywhere else they wish to. The smoother the better, and now that I do shave a lot of my body hair, it looks and feels so much better to me. I will confess to being only a winter shaver, and that is the one thing about summer that I do not like. I know that I do have the choice to go year round.... but I am not comfortable with people seeing my legs or underarms shaved, and my wife is not either. Not fond of the summer body hair, but I manage

[valerieg]

I'd still dislike it, but would be far less likely to do anything about it. Why? I hate to maintain things.

[Pink Susan]

Yes I hate body hair now , it took a while to get to this stage , I only started shaving my chest 3 years ago.
Now its a must-do daily routine , and my legs too , I love how soft they feel afterwards , and I hate the sight of hairs under my pantyhose

[Rachel Morley]

So as a male do you like body hair and as a CDer hate it ?
No. In fact, I hate all of my body hair both in boy mode and en femme ... I always have. Before I embraced my CDing I used to enjoy bodybuilding and so I always liked, and wanted, the smooth tanned look. I spent lots of time under the sunbed and also getting my body waxed.

[tappanty]

As a male body hair is part of the territory.

As it is for women. I don't think there are to many men who would ask them to stop shaving it off though. I myself, dislike body hair and would still shave no matter what.

[MichelleHart]

In a way I guess I'm lucky that I've never had that much hair at any given time. I didn't start seeing the usual male pattern growth until I was in my late 20's. At first I sort of looked at the hair as OK my body is trying to tell me something and I stopped getting ribbed by my male friends about being smooth as a woman. That lasted about six months till I started shaving everywhere.

[Claire Cook]

I never thought about this until I started shaving my bod several years ago. Now it just feels so great that yes, even if I weren't wearing sleeveless blouses and skirts, I still would.

[AshleyT]

i some times shave my shoulders and chest but thats as far id go as people would start to talk

[Simone_40]

Inwardly, I don't consider myself male. Just as the song goes, "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!".
I always keep my legs shaved. I love it!

[BaliGirl]

I've always disliked hair on my feet and toes. I think only Hobbits should have hair down there.

I didn't mind body hair before I started to CD. Now I really don't like it. Now I epilate those places where I can manage the pain, and shave otherwise.

[Algoma]

I have always hated body hair, from a teen on. I was lucky to have no hair on my legs, naturally, and light body hair on chest. But I hated even that so I always shaved it. I recent years for CDing it's all been removed, every where! Hate it, hate it, hate it!.

[Melody1]

Body hair has always me, used to stay super trimmed, until the whole "metrosexual" thing made it ok for a man to just shave off the body hair