Shaving Poll

[dalekboy]

From a discussion I had last night, a very short, quick poll, aimed only at the people who prefer their men to have clean-shaven faces. No-one can view your answers, but comments will be open to all - no screening.

EDIT - if you want to be able to see the poll's stats (without the answerers being identified of course) anyone is welcome to answer the final question, and that will give them the opportunity.


[Poll #1068748]

Comments

[kaths.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's a fair comparison unless the girl has shaved her pubes before.

A more fair one in my case would be comparing shaving your pubes to shaving your head, because if you've never done it before and find the concept icky, it's a really big deal (perhaps not as much as shaving your head, but I couldn't think of a more even comparison). Whereas with guys, they've usually been clean shaven at some point and don't find the concept icky, just a matter of convenience.

The other thing is that you see and feel a beard much more often than you do a woman's pubes, so a better comparison would be asking a woman to shave under their arms in summer when they're wearing short sleeved tops all the time.

[dalekboy.livejournal.com]

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.

[kaths.livejournal.com]

Yep, I'd hate to have to hassle with the shaving stuff every day, and I know some guys have real problems with it.

As a compromise if it was a real problem I'd possibly cope with a closely cropped beard, and I don't mind goatees.

I do find it annoying when guys constantly fiddle with their facial hair!