I wasn't aiming for fair, I was aiming for realistic. Many guys like women bare below, many women like bare faces - it's a common enough ground to work as a base point for compromise.

Guys may not find the concept icky, but for many shaving every day is a chore that they feel they have to do, due to public perceptions of guys with beards as being untidy looking, unclean, or rough. It means scraping a blade over sensitive skin every day, unless you use an electric razor, which rarely do as a good a job as a blade.

Personally, I like being clean shaven, but to do it I either need two basic shaves a day, or one painful one. Many guys have sore faces, rashes, and all sorts of skin problems from shaving, and they just have to do it anyway.

I have worked in a couple of jobs where I was expected to shave every day, even though I didn't deal with the public, because they had standards. I went to school with a kid who at the age of 13 had a full beard, and was constantly pressured by the school to shave it.

I know a quite a few women that don't like the idea of shaving any part of their body, but still expect their partners to shave. The poll really just works as a hypothetical situation to get people thinking about their attitudes.