Men and hair removal

Honestly, what’s behind men’s desire to have hairless bodies?

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18th August, 2012

Whatever happened to body hair? When I was growing up in the 1960s, male movie stars were hirsute, with great tufts of wiry black chest hair spurting over the top button of their cowboy shirts in John Ford westerns and a coarse fibrous matting covering tree-trunk legs that poked out from under Roman tunics in films like Spartacus. Back then, politicians sprouted enormous eyebrows like buxus hedging and All Blacks had arms that looked as though they were textured in dark sisal. Older men proudly sported it growing in long clumps from their ears and nostrils. Teenagers tried to compensate ...

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