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Anonymous05/09/26, 19:31No.18697665How important is it to be hairy?
I can't grow a beard and have very little body hair and I swear to God if people ask me why I shave my body hair (I don't it just doesn't grow) or "why I want to look like a prepubescent little boy" ONE MORE FUCKING TIME...
My lack of facial and body hair has literally been my single biggest insecurity since I turned like 13. My peers gradually getting hairier and hairier with age, now including lots of back hair and shoulder hair and here I am stuck with almost the same amount of body hair I had when I was like 10. I'm fine with my facial features, height, body, and weight but my lack of facial/body hair is really getting me down.
Doesn't help that almost all straight women and gay men, and heck even bisexual or pansexual people all seem to prefer the hairy look! Women have literally left the bed when I took off my shirt and they found out I didn't have chest hair.
It's gotten to the point where I can't wear shorts or take off my shirt at the beach. Can't even unbutton the top button of a shirt because then it'll show I have no chest hair.
So how important is it to be hairy really? Should I even bother trying to look fashionable if I have so much holding against me anyway? If I can get a date but she'll leave the bed when she finds out I have no chest hair?

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Anon05/09/26, 19:32No.18697669
no hair = gays will like you
hairy = women will like youvery simple maths
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Anon05/09/26, 20:03No.18697682
get muscular and tan if youre hairless
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Anon05/09/26, 20:41No.18697704
Eh I really REALLY wouldn't stress out about this. A lot of women are super into the hairy look sure but it's not all women or even most women. If you woke up super hairy tomorrow you'd become more attractive to some women sure but also less attractive to other women. While technically there are some things you could do that might work such as minoxidil and shit I really wouldn't recommend it personally. You won't be able to please every woman anyway no matter what. I've encountered a lot of women into the hairy look but also a lot of women who just thought it was gross so as already said you can't please everyone.
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Anon05/09/26, 20:42No.18697705
tl;dr
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Anon05/10/26, 02:48No.18697878
I'm not sure if you're gay or bi or if an opinion from another man matters to you but in my opinion the guy on the left looks a million times more attractive than the man on the right. The guy on the right looks too much like a gorilla and I realize some guys may see that as a compliment but I don't. I love a smooth muscular chest.
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Anon05/10/26, 05:06No.18697927
I'm no therapist but it doesn't sound like your lack of hair is really the problem here. I can understand generally wanting to be hairier the same way a guy might want to be taller or the same way a guy with a huge nose might want a smaller nose but it's not normal or healthy for it to be affecting you this much, especially since it's something almost entirely out of your control.I won't tell you to seek therapy because that's pretty cliche and often dismissive advice and a lot of people can't even afford it but you should definitely be taking care of yourself better. And I can't help but feel that even if you were hairy there'd be something else about your appearance making you insecure instead.
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Anon05/10/26, 05:19No.18697931
I thought Asian women hated body hair
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Anon05/10/26, 06:23No.18697960
Your insecurity is a far bigger turn-off than you being hairless to be honest. Like far far bigger and it's not even close. You'd have far better chances with women if you were hairless but confident rather than hairy but still insecure.
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Anon05/10/26, 09:52No.18698030
>if people ask me why I shave my body hair (I don't it just doesn't grow)
>"why I want to look like a prepubescent little boy"
>Women have literally left the bed when I took off my shirt and they found out I didn't have chest hair.
It sounds like a lot of context is missing between all of that, probably stuff you missed or misunderstood, but overall it kinda sounds like you're autistic. Not even meant as an insult but I mean you seem to have many traits associated with autism spectrum disorder.
For the first one it just sounds like simple genuine curiosity, not necessarily malicious.
Then for the second one it sounds like banter. People say stupid shit like that to each other all the time, especially in all male friend groups.
And for the last one that's probably not really why they left the bed. It was probably something else and they just used that as an excuse. They're probably still shallow either way but if they were liking you up till that point I highly doubt the lack of chest hair is what made them stop liking you.
All in all I'd say you're taking these things way too seriously. You need to stop taking things so seriously.
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Anon05/10/26, 10:14No.18698039
You only want hair on the top of your head. Anyone who says anything else is coping.Hair on the back is nasty.
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Anon05/10/26, 10:23No.18698042
How old are you? It takes more time than you might realize.
I could barely grow a beard back when I was 24, now at 33 it's looking pretty good.
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Anon05/10/26, 14:34No.18698137
We must be living in completely different universes. Where I live it's the complete other way around. The desired look is hairless and if you're hairy people find it weird
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Anon05/11/26, 06:53No.18698483
Huh? Is this a thing people are actually concerned about these days? I can't grow a beard and my body is not very hairy and I've never had any difficulties getting laid. If anything I actually have somewhat more success than a lot of my bearded and hairy friends.
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Anon05/11/26, 18:20No.18698724
Okay I'm pretty sure you're just making this up or at least heavily exaggerating. To 99% of the population not being hairy is just NOT a big deal even if they might have a slight preference for hairy. When you say that women have left the bed because you don't have chest hair I believe that ONE woman MIGHT have left the bed and now you feel like a victim and are assuming all women are like this due to insecurity from one bad experience.
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Anon05/12/26, 05:09No.18699072
My legs and asscheeks are basically pure black from hair and I've considered getting it lasered because I'm worried women would think it's gross.
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Anon05/12/26, 18:07No.18699407
You kinda sound like a little bitch honestly. There are people who were born severely deformed and people who have lost arms and/or legs in violent tragedies and even people who have blown their entire face off in desperate suicide attempts and here you are complaining that you can't grow very much dead skin.Either way my advice to you would be suck it up buttercup.
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Anon05/13/26, 11:51No.18699885
Literally no one even thinks about this
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Anon05/13/26, 13:24No.18699899
Female preference for body hair varies greatly, kinda like how male preference for female pubic hair. Yeah we don't want women hairy, but you will find about as many bush and clean shaven enthusiasts.I will say however that most women do not enjoy a hairy back or balls. Hairy backs are just unaesthetic and associated with old men, in the bad way. My ex specifically said it's just not enjoyable to lick/suck hairy balls. She also didn't like getting a face full of long, twisted pubes when deepthroating, she liked them trimmed to a shorter length.
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Anon05/13/26, 21:38No.18700083
I don't think this is as big a deal as you're making it out to be. I see both really hairy guys in relationships and not so hairy guys in relationships all the time.
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Anon05/13/26, 22:05No.18700096
Hairiness isn't important. I've never even heard women bring it up. What matters the most is being tall and attractive. A tall and attractive hairless guy will have a lot more success than a short and ugly super hairy guy. Not sure which category you fall into but yeah.
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Anon05/13/26, 22:14No.18700101
Idk dawg I shave my face I think it looks nice. I guess I choose your burden lol. I don’t have a super hairy body just a stripe that goes the whole way down, idk what my back looks like but it seems pretty much hairless. Just get into swimming and say that’s why if you give that much of a fuck
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Anon05/15/26, 21:38No.18701371
Seems like hairy is favored where you live but that doesn't mean you can't make up for it in other areas. Being funny and being confident are two of the most attractive things in a man. Also dress well but not so well to the point that others start to suspect that you're gay or "metrosexual" or whatever. Going to the gym also helps.
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Anon05/16/26, 20:09No.18701952
>I'm fine with my facial features, height, body, and weight
Count yourself lucky then. Just be glad you're not 4'9" or 400 pounds or ugly as hell. I can guarantee that most women would prefer a hairless 5'10"+ guy who is handsome and weighs around the middle to upper 100s pounds or so over a guy who is super hairy but super ugly and 4'9"- and who weighs 400 something pounds.
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Anon05/19/26, 22:53No.18703971
Nice bait. You should've posted on twitter instead, that way you could make some money.
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Anon05/23/26, 01:36No.18706040

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Anon05/24/26, 00:36No.18706656
If it makes you feel any better that video in the OP post shows basically the ideal female form as well as the ideal male form and them falling in love with each other and do you notice much hair if any at all on his body? Do you see a single hair on his chest and/or stomach? The video quality makes it relatively hard to tell but at most he only has a very small amount of arm hair and leg hair. He and her look about as hairless as each other actually. If you're hot as hell then hairy or hairless no longer matters.
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Anon05/26/26, 21:47No.18708562
If this is your biggest worry then with all due respect get a fucking life
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Anon05/26/26, 22:55No.18708596
I only really keep the hair on my chest and some on my groin, the rest I keep as minimal as I can, but I don't really obsess over being perfectly gone. Just trimmed down to nearly nothing with electric clippers when it gets thicker. I also keep my asscrack hairless, I noticed that women don't want to go near it when it isn't, and I would have similar reaction if I saw a hairy female asshole.
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Anon05/28/26, 04:19No.18709363
Huh? This is a problem some guys have? I'm pretty hairy and from my experience women have not been a fan of it. I could see the excitement on their faces when I shaved my chest smooth and waxed my back smooth and trimmed my legs, arms, pubes, and armpits. Not sure if it's because how young I am and how young women my age are (I'm 20) but women have not liked my hairiness. I also grow some (very patchy) facial hair and shave it off smooth. Can't even pull off stubble.
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Anon05/28/26, 08:48No.18709413
Not sure if this is what you wanna hear or not but if a man is already attractive enough him being hairy or not won't make the slightest difference in the positive or negative direction.
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Anon06/02/26, 05:44No.18713061
idk what the hell you're on about because from my experience hairy is usually something people find gross or make fun of
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Anon06/04/26, 18:07No.18715043
I do kinda get how you feel bro. Even though I'm a man and was born a man and am proud to be a man I've always low-key gotten gender dysphoria whenever I saw how much hairier my peers were compared to me. Compared to them I felt like a woman. Even though we're both the same sex I felt like a woman for not being hairy or having a beard.
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Anon06/04/26, 20:19No.18715115
please stop treating this like the 'how to get laid' board
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Anon06/04/26, 20:29No.18715129
that second guy looks like he's wearing a gorilla suit. asking where to find the most aesthetically pleasing gorilla suit at a tolerable price point when comparing labor and materials? /effay/.
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Anon06/05/26, 02:20No.18715367
In short, you want hair but the right amount in the right places. All women want men to look like Manuel Ferrara. All of them. But much more and it gets gross. Much less and it’s unappealing.
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Anon06/05/26, 22:28No.18716044
Not sure if my opinion as a straight guy (very slight possibility of being bisexual) matters but to me the guy on the left looks a million times more attractive than the guy on the right. The guy on the right looks kinda gross actually. It looks like they shaved like 5 different people's heads and then just glued the hair from that all over his body.
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Anon06/06/26, 01:43No.18716108
My friend has the same problem
He got made fun of as a military officer in the gym and such lmfao
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Anon06/06/26, 02:02No.18716115
It doesn't matter. People will just look for any excuse to make themselves feel superior to others.Hairy? Call the hairless guys prepubescent. Hairless? Call the hairy guys disgusting primates.Don't let those small dick/big mouth faggots get under your skin.
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Anon06/07/26, 23:31No.18717347
Uhhhhh...wanna trade places? Where I am the vast majority of women of all ages find hairy men really gross. As a hairy guy myself I'd kill to live wherever you life. And in return you can live where I live. And then everyone's happy! A perfect happy ever after!
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Anon06/08/26, 17:53No.18717827
Don't know if it makes you feel any better but in my opinion hairless men are a thousand times hotter than hairy men hands down
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Anon06/11/26, 16:13No.18719451
Your lack of body hair is not an issue. Whether people like hairless or hairy men is a sort of 50/50 thing where you can't please everyone. It also have somewhat to do with trends that come and go. But your insecurity over it sure hell is an issue.
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Anon06/13/26, 17:28No.18720916
...is it just me or does the image of the hairy guy on the right look like a cropped NSFW image? Like the hairless guy on the left is cropped too but you can somewhat see the waistband squeezing his hips. The other guy however just sort of goes straight down.
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Anon06/13/26, 22:36No.18721229

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Anon06/14/26, 00:08No.18721295
women prefer hairless men
look at every post 1980s hollywood heartthrob
look at every male model
look at all the kpop singers
the only women who like hairy men are fujos or 50+ years old
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Anon06/14/26, 18:28No.18721751
So society preaches body acceptance shit for women and yet it's still socially acceptable to make fun of men for their body hair or lack of it?
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Anon06/16/26, 03:32No.18722632
TIL im a full blown megagay for liking the hairiest hairy men despite being a twinky softboi
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Anon06/20/26, 23:51No.18725501
Question...how old are you and your peers exactly? I haven't seen anyone make fun of someone else's body in the way you're describing since I was like...
>My lack of facial and body hair has literally been my single biggest insecurity since I turned like 13.
Well 13. Back when I was in middle school. Middle school was fucking rough but in high school they already stopped making fun of other people's bodies in that way. Kinda of odd that the age it started for you was the same age it ended for me. Your story doesn't sound right. Either your peers are REALLY immature as in borderline mentally retarded or you're a 13 year old who happened to find 4chan in which case get out because you have to be 18 to be on here.
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Anon06/23/26, 00:34No.18726717
>Women have literally left the bed when I took off my shirt and they found out I didn't have chest hair.
See when I first read this 44 days ago I thought that this was bullshit but in those 44 days since that actually happened to me. And it wasn't just a random woman either it's a woman I've known for over a year at least and always been very good friends with me and she's actually helped me a lot in my darkest times and we've been dating for 6 months and we've actually cuddled and made out with clothes on before we got in bed we took off our clothes with the lights off and we began to have sex and she was loving it a lot, she was very happy and moaning and explicitly saying how she loves it but then 30 minutes into it she was like "huh where's your chest hair?" in a genuinely shocked and disappointed tone and to be clear she had never seen me without a shirt before this point and hearing her question I just told her "it's there don't worry" and that very second she went to turn on the lights and in a borderline aggressive toddler-like tantrum which was completely out of character for her as she was usually very sweet, caring, and mature started to go like "ew you have no chest hair! why didn't you ever tell me this?! disgusting! you're a man! you're supposed to have chest hair!" and I thought she was joking at first but then she very aggressively and violently pushed me out of her room in a way that kinda hurt actually and didn't even allow me to put my clothes on and then as I was about to leave her house I basically had to beg for her for my clothes that were still in her room so I could drive home and I begged for more than an hour and then she very angrily threw the clothes at my face and she actually forgot my belt and socks, she only threw me my shirt, pants, shoes, and underwear but I was like "good 'nuff" because I was tired of being there. And after that she blocked my phone number and all my social medias and never talked to me again. She liter
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Anon06/23/26, 15:11No.18727073
whateveryone thinks hairy men = poor ugly indian
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Anon06/24/26, 18:14No.18727857
I've always been kinda upset over my lack of facial and chest hair but eventually I just learned to get over it. You should too. I've never had trouble dating women over it. At worst they say I could pull off a beard and then I have to tell them I can't grow one but that's literally the end of it. It doesn't drag on any more than that.
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Anon06/28/26, 13:06No.18729620
I have a similar issue but just with my legs where the rest of me is actually pretty hairy chest, back, and shoulder hair included as well as a beard but from some reason no hair grows on my legs at all. Doctors said there's nothing wrong hormonally and that it's just a weird quirk. It's actually weirder than you think because where I'm hairy I look pretty tan but then my legs are as pale as a ghost. And no it's not because the rest of me gets more sunlight, I shaved a small part of my arm just to confirm and the small part of my arm I shaved was as pale as my legs. I'm naturally pale but my body hair makes me look more tan. It's so weird. It's why I never wear shorts.
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Anon07/02/26, 20:48No.18732368
i wouldn't say i'm insecure about it but i have always been mildly jealous of guys who can grow a full rug of chest hair without even trying
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Anon07/06/26, 06:37No.18734221
>Women have literally left the bed when I took off my shirt and they found out I didn't have chest hair.
I refuse to believe this
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Anon07/08/26, 02:12No.18735375
That's really strange. Not only do I not grow a lot of hair naturally but I actually shave my entire body and wear relatively short shorts regularly showing my shaved thighs and I've never had issues getting women nor have they ever complained. At worst they were kinda caught off guard at first by how soft, smooth, and silky my skin was when they touched it but they learned to love it in not too long. It could be because I'm generally considered attractive by women and I'm a big athletic guy (6'4") so perhaps it "makes up" per se for the natural hairlessness and shaving but your story still doesn't make a lot of sense.
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Anon07/08/26, 23:04No.18735907
I can't speak for anyone else but a smooth muscular chest is one of the sexiest things ever to me.
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Anon07/09/26, 07:57No.18736193
Never understood the love for hairy bodies because smooth soft skin is the most attractive thing in a person to me and hairiness kinda makes things less smooth and less soft.
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Anon07/09/26, 21:09No.18736561
Whenever I see a guy with a really hairy chest like picrel all I can really think of would be what would happen if he got something REALLY sticky in his chest hair that can't be easily washed off by water such as gum (like you know that REALLY sticky and stretchy gum from your childhood back at school that if it got in someone's hair they had no choice but to have their hair cut) or something. And if he tried to pull it off it would basically be a free waxing session for his chest lmfaoooo
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Anon07/10/26, 04:03No.18736746
I just spent two hours using tweezers to get rid of all of my facial hair one by one. It hurt like hell but now my face is really smooth.

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Anon07/18/26, 11:22No.18741738
Wait isn't it usually the other way around? Don't dudes manscape and shit to be hairless? Have I been so out of the loop that things reversed and I just didn't notice?
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Anon07/21/26, 14:33No.18743178
/LGBT/ is that way bub...
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Anon07/24/26, 17:21No.18744944
If it makes you feel any better I'm as hairy as the guy on the right, perhaps even slightly more than that and I've always been really hairy for my age since I was like 10 and I've never at any point in my life had any success with women. Meanwhile I see guys who are as hairless as the guy on the left having a lot of success with women.
I don't think me being hairy is the reason for my lack of success with women. It's most likely because I'm just generally ugly with a socially awkward personality and no impressive achievements of any kind but the point is being hairless is not nearly the death sentence you're making it out to be and might even be preferred to a lot of women.
And for any other hairy guys reading this if it matters, yes I've seen hairy guys have success with women too so being hairy is not a big thing either. I'm just not a sexy guy in the eyes of women by my hairiness is not necessarily the issue if at all.
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Anon07/29/26, 06:20No.18747319
Huh? Have trends just changed completely and I didn't notice? Wasn't it just yesterday that almost all men were shaving and waxing their chests and manscaping and shit? Have trends really done such a 180 that now dudes who are not very hairy are the ones self-conscious about their bodies?Damn dude I feel like I was frozen and woke up 100 years in the future or some shit right now. We've really come full circle.
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Anon07/29/26, 07:35No.18747337
I’m surprised this bait thread is still going. I’d left /fa/ for a year and this is still being bumped. Body hair is personal preference. Most women don’t prefer it, but most women also don’t mind it (up to a certain point). Culture plays a heavy role. Many women are “disgusted” by foreskin, but those are American women who were socialized to be disgusted by it. Most women outside of the USA don’t even consider foreskin because the natural hog is the default and circumcision isn’t even culturally relevant. Body hair is the same way. The only people repulsed by it generally come from a country that shaves and/or an ethnic group with little body hair. I think it looks good either way, but I’m biased towards thick dark body hair because I like middle eastern men. It makes olive skin glow. Contrary, blonde makes me think of my German dad. Ick.
>TLDR; boy tits are boy tits. Pic rel.

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Anon07/29/26, 11:54No.18747390
As a hairy guy I would say that body hair is not at all important. Some women strongly prefer it and some (probably slightly larger group) dislike it. Most don't really mind, or will be into it depending on how otherwise attractive you are. I trim my chest and stomach and try to keep my shoulders and back relatively clear. Too much grooming seems a bit gay, and on the other hand being ostentatious about your torso hair is also kind of ridiculous. I kind of like the women who like body hair though, so not a problem
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Anon08/03/26, 03:29No.18749782
I never used to be insecure about this but anecdotally I've been seeing more and more men showing off their body hair or at least not trying to hide it, lots of guys in public with very visible chest hair, armpit hair, and back hair and women all talking about how much they love it and prefer it over hairless men and I'm just here with my naturally minimal body hair like...*sweating nervously.* Does this mean I have to be super hairy too alongside being tall and rich with a big penis? Another requirement women want of men?
And I'm surprised at the amount of hairy men I'm seeing because I thought the majority just didn't have a lot of body hair just like I don't. Does that mean all these guys have been shaving and just stopped or just covering up and I'm in the minority after all?
I wouldn't say I'm nearly as insecure about this as you seem to be. It's nothing like "my single biggest insecurity" or being afraid of taking off my shirt in front of others but I do kinda see where you're coming from just in general even if not as extreme.
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Anon08/03/26, 03:32No.18749786
body and facial hair is gross af
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Anon08/03/26, 06:29No.18749854
body hair is only for women, no gay guy wants body hair unless it's a feminine twink gay who is basically a woman. in fact the uglier you are the more you should use hair to cover everything up.
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Anon08/07/26, 09:29No.18752393
Me and my boyfriend are super hairy naturally and we wear short shorts a lot and we wax our legs smooth because in our opinion big hairy thighs on display in public is just not an attractive look. I'm aware a lot of people like the hairy look but we don't. I don't judge other people for it but for me personally displaying hairy thighs in public just feels indecent and my boyfriend is the same.Me and my boyfriend would prefer to just be naturally smooth because the hairy look just doesn't look good on us and just feels like it's obscuring our beautiful naturally smooth skin with no scars or marks. If we could get rid of every single hair except for the hair on our heads, our eyebrows, and our eyelashes we 100% would.
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Anon08/07/26, 19:45No.18752585
I have a few hairs around my nipples and exactly two strands of hair in the middle of my chest. I try to cherish them as much as I can but the girlfriend just loves to pluck out my hairs when no one's looking. Doesn't take long either because the nipple hairs combined with the middle of the chest hair only gives me exactly 8 strands of hair total. D: And the girlfriend is really fast and sneaky about it too. ;-;
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Anon08/12/26, 14:52No.18754824
Super hairy men like the right pic for some reason make me super uncomfortable. I know it's just a me problem and there's nothing wrong with hairy men but it still just makes me uncomfortable. Maybe because it reminds me of a really weird uncle from my dad's side that I had growing up. For some reason he was by far my hairiest family member, even hairier than the guy in the pic despite the rest of my family not having a lot of body hair. He didn't sexually abuse me or anything but I was still afraid to be left alone with him.
And then I hear some people are actually really into hairy men and I'm just like...really? Different tastes I guess but I do not find hairy men attractive in the slightest, and I'm pansexual.
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Anon08/12/26, 17:20No.18754877
you are severely overestimating the amount of men with chest hair
idk im not white but ive never heard of being a hairy ass neanderthal being the body standard
if anything its the opposite
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Anon08/13/26, 01:14No.18755091
Women in their prime (18-21) do not like hairy men
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Anon08/13/26, 02:06No.18755100
I'm pretty hairy but I shave my chest and balls. It's just too annoying in the summer heat and makes my skin break out into rashes on really humid days. I'm 186cm, 110kg and lift, I hate being hairy and wish I had the balls to pull the trigger on electrolysis or something.
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Anon08/13/26, 02:16No.18755105
Having a hairy chest/stomach/pubes is fine it just needs to be maintained. Most men who have body hair like the right don't don't actually maintain it enough to be hygenic (unless they're gay but even then there is outliers)A guy with maintained body hair is a green flag, it means they're hygenic and aware of their appearance IMO
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Anon08/15/26, 13:30No.18756084
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Anon08/15/26, 13:34No.18756085
It is very important to have a hairy asshole.

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Anon08/21/26, 11:57No.18758698
I have literally never thought of any of this or even really cared or noticed how hairy I am and how hairy the other men in my life are.
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Anon08/26/26, 01:04No.18760965
Shit is this really something people are worrying about these days? This is why people need something productive to do and can't have too much free time.
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Anon08/31/26, 00:22No.18763080
While a lot of people do have a preference for hairy, most people won't turn down an otherwise great guy just because he's not hairy.
>Women have literally left the bed when I took off my shirt and they found out I didn't have chest hair.
This is definitely not normal. You sound like you've met some really psychotic women. The only justified reason to leave the bed if you already like the guy enough to get into bed with him would be something REALLY crazy like if he had an extra eye on his chest or 15 nipples or something.
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Anon09/05/26, 02:33No.18765578
man just shut the fuck up and get over yoursefl
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Anon09/10/26, 06:44No.18767954
i know that by saying this i'm ironically bringing more attention to this thread but just from a psychological standpoint how the hell is this tacky thread at 208 replies and 123 days old? that's like 4 fucking months by now. 208 replies and 123 days all about how hairy men are?