If you're interested in a GG's perspective, I started to shave my legs because it made me feel grown up. It is what the 'big girls' did. I can't say that I remember any tactile difference when putting on nylons, but then my leg hair was not thick and coarse when I was a teenager. It still isn't.
As I grew older, I determined that men prefer shaved legs, so I kept it up. At various times in my life when sex was not a priority (early child rearing years, or at the end of my marriage), I didn't bother shaving especially in the winter, unless I wore a dress to go somewhere. I suppose the idea that a woman *must* have clean shaven legs in instilled in me, so I would feel as if I am committing a faux pas should I appear in public looking hairy, like smiling when I have spinach stuck in my teeth. But, no one knows if I shave my legs or not under my jeans, and so I often won't shave for weeks in the wintertime.
But, I can see why CDers would love to shave their legs. Men have a great deal more leg hair. There has got to be a huge tactile difference after shaving and it has got to make CDers feel a lot more girly.
