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mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 12:39 pm

Here's a trend you'll want to follow!!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3919210

Newsweek Jan. 19 issue

- As three Wall Street types left an Upper East Side salon in Manhattan last week, a beautician told a NEWSWEEK reporter: "It's not their backs I'm waxing. It's their b-lls." There is such a thing as being too well groomed, but apparently not for some upwardly mobile heterosexual men. In several major metro areas—New York, L.A., Atlanta, Washington, D.C.—men are paying up to $100 for bikini waxes that take it all—all—off. Ken Knox, associate editor at Adult Video News, says, "For years, gay men have been shaving and using the Nair hair-removal cream. But it's the straight guys who seem to be doing the more extreme waxing."

There are powerful motives at play. Men claim it makes oral sex more sensual, says Lidia Tivichi of New York's Kimara Ahnert salon. "Without the hair, everything down there looks bigger," she says. "I know they like that, too." When the pain is unbearable, men use anesthetic cream before appointments. Still, Cynthia Esser-Thorin, who owns Pink Cheeks in Sherman Oaks, Calif., says that at times "we have to pull a man off the ceiling." (She uses her feet to steady the hairiest guys.) Not Ron, a divorced 39-year-old banker from L.A.: "Conversation helps. If [a waxer] talks to me midtear, I can keep my mind off it."

—Holly Peterson and Jenny Hontz

Don't try this at home!!!

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 1:07 pm

Hey, Moody, sounds like your hubby might think this is more fun than seeing Elvis with us at the Ryman.

SoLikeCandy · Post by **SoLikeCandy** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 1:11 pm

Waxing my LEGS is hell. I can't imagine a man having his...um...berries waxed.

At least now men might have an idea of what PMS is like. HA!

A rope leash · Post by **A rope leash** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 1:34 pm

This is another case of people with more money than sense. That hair is there for a reason. I don't know what the reason is, but I see no reason to remove it!

Are they paid per scrotum or per testicle?

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:42 pm

.....' "Pink Cheeks" in Sherman Oaks CA'.....

this name sounds obscene to me. i do not want to know what they do to get those cheeks pink.

i don't get why a guy would wanna go 'bare' anyway. doesn't make ME any happier. in fact, personal opinion here, *ick*.

oh, and really, no one has to explain to me why it might be more fun. really, no need to bother.

oily slick · Post by **oily slick** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:16 pm

SoLikeCandy wrote: I can't imagine a man having his...um...berries waxed.

berries?

Misha · Post by **Misha** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 1:53 am

I cannot understand why a man would do this. Speaking of the berries I have seen, I did not note the absence or presence of hair. There was better stuff going on to pay attention to....

Is this some sort of socially acceptable form of S&M????

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 4:55 am

Why would any man want their back, sack and crack waxed let alone PAY for it?!

By the way, does Adult Video News have a website?!

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 6:01 am

Is that hair there for a reason NOW is the question, seeing as we all wear longjohns and the like, it's a bit different to when we roamed the plains of Africa with cold testicles.

Billy Connolly said they look like a 'hairy brain'...the fact that the male cognitive centre is in their scrotum will not surprise many female readers

.

oily slick · Post by **oily slick** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 10:47 am

Misha wrote: Speaking of the berries I have seen

berries?

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 11:17 am

oily slick wrote:
SoLikeCandy wrote: I can't imagine a man having his...um...berries waxed.

berries?

oily slick wrote:
SoLikeCandy wrote:Speaking of the berries I have seen
berries?

Is there an echo in here?

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 2:18 pm

Verbal G wrote:

Why would any man want their back, sack and crack waxed let alone PAY for it?!

if you can think of one more spot to wax, I think we'll know what EC was up to during those four days at the spa....

RedShoes · Post by **RedShoes** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 2:42 pm

Am I the only one not too shocked by this? Not that I necessarily think it's a great (or fun) idea, but I guess it seems like it's fairly common for women to shave/wax/nair/whatever other way you can think of to remove hair down there, so why not men too?

Eh, whatever. Just a thought

taz · Post by **taz** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 2:52 pm

trim, not wax...who wants to look like a 12 year old boy? (insert michael jackson joke here)

Gillibeanz · Post by **Gillibeanz** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 3:04 pm

REDSHOES: Im with you on this one. Variety is the spice of life and all that jazz!

SoLikeCandy · Post by **SoLikeCandy** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 3:33 pm

Berries.

That's right. I said it. BERRIES, damn it!

A rope leash · Post by **A rope leash** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 3:51 pm

Surely, you mean plums...

oily slick · Post by **oily slick** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 5:19 pm

nuts, bag, balls, knackers, family jewels, the twins, yes, even plums, but berries?

taz wrote:trim, not wax...who wants to look like a 12 year old boy? (insert michael jackson joke here)

so you need to weed the berry patch? surely you don't need to make little taz, the one-eyed monster, mr winkie, the big unit, your third leg, the old tallywhacker, mr happy, dudley do wrong appear healthier than it is, you're 6'5" for heavens sake. and a site administrator.

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 5:19 pm

What's the most unnatractive hair on males ladies?

I'd hazard a guess at profuse nipple hair...

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 5:22 pm

Nope, it's hair coming out of the ears!

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 5:26 pm

ears / nose

ick. ick. ick.

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 5:37 pm

OS, you're having a problem with the berry thing, no? Berries come in all shapes and sizes. I've seen strawberries the size of apples. Also, at the risk of opening a door that no one wants opened, keep in mind that a banana is technically a berry.

Furry shoulders. Blech. And Laughingcrow, I would say that profuse nipple hair in the absence of other chest hair would be a little weird. Not weird enough to wax, though.

taz · Post by **taz** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 5:46 pm

oily slick wrote:
so you need to weed the berry patch? surely you don't need to make little taz, the one-eyed monster, mr winkie, the big unit, your third leg, the old tallywhacker, mr happy, dudley do wrong appear healthier than it is, you're 6'5" for heavens sake. and a site administrator.

6'5" is one thing...but it's the site admin that brings all the girls to the yard (vague milkshake song reference...sorry). Gotta keep it neat Oily or else you hazard having a girl not willing to perform certain acts...though I don't have a double standard, I hold them to the same criteria...

(and it can never appear 'too' healthy...if ya know what I'm saying

)

legman open to offers · Wed Jan 21, 2004 6:24 pm

Who wants to look like a snake crawling out of a birds nest? No offence L. Crow.

Mr. Average · Post by **Mr. Average** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 4:14 am

The 'reason' for the hair: anatomists posit that the hair acts as a dry lubricant, minimizing the membrance to membrane contact (and attendant friction) that causes chaffing and irritation when two mucous membranes abut up against each other and, because of the anatomical design of the human body, have the tendency to rub against each other. Reference the axillary region, the female external genitalia, specifically the labia majora, and the crack of the ass.

Strictly speaking, the skin in these regions meets all of the anatomical requirements of mucous membranes: an epithelial cell lining with only slight keratinization, apocrine sebaceous glands ( a form of exocrine gland that offers another lubricant, but is rapidly prone to bacterial infection once its contents are extruded to the skins surface).

Then, of course, there is that good friction associated with sexual activity. Again, the pubic hair in the region is considered a dry lubricant that reduces irritation that might result from prolonged periods of intense copulatory behavior...the kind that you can easily read about in Penthouse forum. And , of course, the only kind in my personal realm of experience.

Yah, thats it! Thats the ticket! (with best nasal Jon Lovitz accent that you can muster).

Somehow, the word 'muster' in this context sounds obscene.

So when one shaves the "Little Fireman", or "Big Ed" as it were, they are stoking the frictional fires of chaffing and irritation of the skin of the Nether Regions.

Finally, I can use some of that useless knowledge that I absorbed when I completed the requirements for a Masters Degree in Human Anatomy. I must admit, however, that I enjoyed teaching that lesson to the first year Nursing Students. Lecture, of course. No lab required or permitted.

Dammit.

Talk about irritation...........................

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