Poll: Straight women and not-so-straight men! What is your opinion on male chest-hair?

[bananafishtoday]

Voted for option 4. Above all else, I'm most attracted to someone who knows how they want to present themself and does it. Way more attractive than someone who's like, "Meh, I guess I'll do x b/c it's what everyone seems to want," or doesn't even think about it at all. (This applies to clothes/hair/grooming/etc overall.)

It's not so much that I don't care as it is wanting to be with someone who takes control of their own body and is confident about looking the way they want to. It's an empowerment thing I guess.

 

[Chemical Alia]

I wouldn't say I'm actually fond of chest hair (or facial hair), but small amounts don't really bother me, either. A little bit of chest hair would be preferred to a stubbly shaved chest, for sure.

Back hair is weird.

 

[lechat]

all of my girlfriends loved my moderately hairy chest. might say something about my muscular body type or the type of girl who is attracted to me but they usually spent more time playing with my chest hair than other more erotic zones

 

[xmbts]

I don't really like it but that's just me. Body hair in general is kind of squicky to me.

 

[DementedSheep]

I hate chest hair honestly. I don?t mind a little bit but a really hairy chest is a bit of turn off to me.

 

[Bellvedere]

It's not so much that I find chest hair attractive, though it definitely can be, but rather that I find no chest hair where it looks like there should be chest hair really bizarre looking. Same thing as when men shave/wax their legs. I know that sometimes there's a good reason to do it but that doesn't make it look normal.

The lack of chest hair looks fine on people that aren't all that hairy to begin with. On models I guess I'm desensitized to it. You just expect them to be hairless because most of them are.

I find the only really unattractive body hair on males is the neck beard.

 

[Terminal Blue]

Bisexual male, and yeah.. I really don't like any body hair at all.

It's something I'll tolerate, largely because it's so rare to find men who shave to the extent I like unless they work in porn, but let's just say chest hair is certainly not a feature, particularly if it's simply left unmanaged.

Actually, you do get athletic looking male models with body hair, they just tend to be advertising things like aftershave rather than underwear. The reason underwear models don't do it is much more because underwear modelling is closely tied to bodybuilding aesthetics than anything else, the same goes for athletic modelling (where it's always been the norm for men to be virtually hairless).

Marketing for designer underwear also tends to be aimed at younger men than aftershave and similar goods, so you could also argue they're invested in promoting a more youthful look. If the person viewing the ad is a gay man, it also doesn't hurt that a younger looking model is likely to be read as more receptive and available.

For the most part, modelling is really just about selling shit. You can't read too deeply into it.

 

[RandV80]

Another thing I wanted to add but missed out in the original post. If it turns out that most people either don't care about, or are actively attracted to chest hair, then why do you think we've found ourselves in a situation where the media will for some reason never portray chest hair as an attractive trait on a man?

Probably because underwear models looks best with a shaved chest to show off the muscle definition they worked so hard for, but your average guy obviously isn't an underwear model and shaving your chest just becomes excessive grooming for no real gain. The 'situation' isn't really a good reflection on reality because the media usually only shows certain types of guys without their shirts. This shaved chest trend probably started back in the 80's with your muscle bound action stars. There's a reason why you see say Daniel Craig without his shirt, but not Samuel L. Jackson.

I gotta say that it's not a realistic reflection of a lot of guys either, I'm fairly lean with some nice muscle definition nowadays since I started dieting and working out a lot but I can tell you that being hairless would take like an entire week of my life at a time to maintain, because I'm male and I run almost entirely on testosterone and willpower.

Being both a viking and a highlander I has hair, and I'm adapted for the cold and fighting bears, so I has more than a bit of hair.

Fuck shaving it or waxing it, I'd waste too much of my life in pursuit of vanity, though I do shave my underarms and keep my pubic area trim for self esteem reasons.

Yes I understand exactly what you mean! I'm descended from Lumberjacks myself immigrated to Canada from Switzerland and was born and raised in the mountains. My city girl can't get enough of the body heat I generate and my modest amount of chest hair is a part of that. I can understand if some city guys want to do it but you can't be no mountain man without any chest hair!

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

Another thing I wanted to add but missed out in the original post. If it turns out that most people either don't care about, or are actively attracted to chest hair, then why do you think we've found ourselves in a situation where the media will for some reason never portray chest hair as an attractive trait on a man?

Probably because underwear models looks best with a shaved chest to show off the muscle definition they worked so hard for, but your average guy obviously isn't an underwear model and shaving your chest just becomes excessive grooming for no real gain. The 'situation' isn't really a good reflection on reality because the media usually only shows certain types of guys without their shirts. This shaved chest trend probably started back in the 80's with your muscle bound action stars. There's a reason why you see say Daniel Craig without his shirt, but not Samuel L. Jackson.

I gotta say that it's not a realistic reflection of a lot of guys either, I'm fairly lean with some nice muscle definition nowadays since I started dieting and working out a lot but I can tell you that being hairless would take like an entire week of my life at a time to maintain, because I'm male and I run almost entirely on testosterone and willpower.

Being both a viking and a highlander I has hair, and I'm adapted for the cold and fighting bears, so I has more than a bit of hair.

Fuck shaving it or waxing it, I'd waste too much of my life in pursuit of vanity, though I do shave my underarms and keep my pubic area trim for self esteem reasons.

Yes I understand exactly what you mean! I'm descended from Lumberjacks myself immigrated to Canada from Switzerland and was born and raised in the mountains. My city girl can't get enough of the body heat I generate and my modest amount of chest hair is a part of that. I can understand if some city guys want to do it but you can't be no mountain man without any chest hair!

As someone who felt legitimately proud at the discovery one very recently that I had a consistent line of thin, fair hair, stretching from one nipple to the other, you have no idea how inadequate you guys are making me feel right now.

 

[soren7550]

While growing up, I wasn't a fan of man chest hair. But, once I started dating Mr. Boyfriend... he's got sexy man chest hairs. X3

It's not a whole lot, enough where I can play around with it a bit. And I find it sexy as hell. So option 3 for me.

Now if you excuse me, I need to find my boyfriend and play with his chest hairs.

 

[The White Hunter]

Another thing I wanted to add but missed out in the original post. If it turns out that most people either don't care about, or are actively attracted to chest hair, then why do you think we've found ourselves in a situation where the media will for some reason never portray chest hair as an attractive trait on a man?

Probably because underwear models looks best with a shaved chest to show off the muscle definition they worked so hard for, but your average guy obviously isn't an underwear model and shaving your chest just becomes excessive grooming for no real gain. The 'situation' isn't really a good reflection on reality because the media usually only shows certain types of guys without their shirts. This shaved chest trend probably started back in the 80's with your muscle bound action stars. There's a reason why you see say Daniel Craig without his shirt, but not Samuel L. Jackson.

I gotta say that it's not a realistic reflection of a lot of guys either, I'm fairly lean with some nice muscle definition nowadays since I started dieting and working out a lot but I can tell you that being hairless would take like an entire week of my life at a time to maintain, because I'm male and I run almost entirely on testosterone and willpower.

Being both a viking and a highlander I has hair, and I'm adapted for the cold and fighting bears, so I has more than a bit of hair.

Fuck shaving it or waxing it, I'd waste too much of my life in pursuit of vanity, though I do shave my underarms and keep my pubic area trim for self esteem reasons.

Yes I understand exactly what you mean! I'm descended from Lumberjacks myself immigrated to Canada from Switzerland and was born and raised in the mountains. My city girl can't get enough of the body heat I generate and my modest amount of chest hair is a part of that. I can understand if some city guys want to do it but you can't be no mountain man without any chest hair!

I'm planning on moving to Norway at some point in pursuit of some kind of home, my girlfriend also approves of being fuzzy and a walking radiator. The relatively immunity to cold is a big plus though it's been recently diminished by the almost complete loss of body fat reserves, though the extra physical power in place of it more than makes up for it because now I can just stop and do some pushups to warm up or something >_O

I'm descended from norse pirates and scottish raiders and such, live in England though and England is quite temperate compared to the scottish highlands or the vast expanses of bugger all in Norway.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

I'm a straight male, so my word isn't exactly law on this, but I always figured it depended on the physique of the man in question.

Hairlessness emphasises the physique, so on a buff guy, good news. On somebody with a bit more meat on their bones however...

 

[lunavixen]

I've never had a boyfriend, but i don't like the look of body hair that much, i mean a little bit is fine, and if it suits your body shape, fine. But if you have a lot of body, i get really uncomfortable.

 

[Daveman]

Straight guy here. I don't think it makes much difference, I just wish it grew evenly on both sides of my chest.

 

[manic_depressive13]

I have no feelings towards it. If you're naturally hairy, great. If you're naturally hairless, great. The only thing I consider a turn off is vanity. I'm not interested in people who give a shit about body hair, whether it belongs to themselves or others. There are so many more worthwhile things to give a shit about.

 

[Ieyke]

I got the whole Germanic barbarian thing going on.

Right there with you, bro.

I'm a Viking descendant. I find hairless men to be a comical failure of nature.
Hairiness is an actual genetic sign of manliness due to the levels of androgen(the male hormone) in a person's body. Ironically, for some reason, so is baldness... That's why Sean Connery is both bald and hairy - he's manly as all hell.

Just in general, men seem to be getting wussier and wussier and more girly as time goes on. Literally physically weaker than their ancestors. And they seem to be trying to make up for it by acting like bigger and bigger douchebags.
I'm not sure if I'm a genetic throwback or what, but I'm massive and powerful for no other discernible reason and fairly hairy.
I'm physically not all that far removed from my Viking ancestors, while mentally I'm EXTREMELY nice and caring and friendly, and rated as or near genius levels.

I feel like I'm a big friendly German Shepherd living in a sea of obnoxious-as-fuck wussy little loudmouth Chihuahuas who think they're hot shit.
I have no interest in being Alpha Dog to them, since I generally know I'm top of the food chain.
I think that's why I get along so great with most women, but I don't like to deal with the vast majority of guys.

It'd be interesting to see a study that correlates the attitudes of men in regards to stature and body hair.

I try not to just imagine traits that are "not mine" as being automatically worse, and instead try and observe people for patterns of all sorts. This is a pattern I just happened to notice, and it really started to annoy me.
It could very well be the byproduct of culture, the food that we eat, and the chemicals we are in contact with. I could list a dozen different possible factors/causes...
I dunno.
All I know is that there appears to be a pattern there.


Hairy > Hairless


*grumble grumble grumble*
Sorry for the rant. Didn't really intend to go off on such a tangent...

 

[MetalMagpie]

I like chest hair. It's a very masculine feature, and goes well with some tasty biceps.

 

[The White Hunter]

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As someone who felt legitimately proud at the discovery one very recently that I had a consistent line of thin, fair hair, stretching from one nipple to the other, you have no idea how inadequate you guys are making me feel right now.

It's better than nothing man, you could be one of those hairless man-woman freaks that plague modern society.

I mean, manly men have beards, and hair, and fights bears and cut down trees and things right?

Realistically though it's not a terribly important thing. I'm hairy and heavily built at a fairly mediocre 5'10". I have monstrous strength for my muscle mass because it runs right through my family, my father for example has been known to lift dryers and washing machines above his head with no visible effort, I have been know to put a guy through a plexiglass fire door because he wouldn't leave me alone for weeks on end.

It's all genetic. I'm a furry angry arsehole because my genes demand it and not much else.

I could remove the hair but it would take far too much effort and nobody cares anyway.

 

[lacktheknack]

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OT: Straight male, minimal chest hair. Best of both worlds, really.

 

[Ieyke]

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As someone who felt legitimately proud at the discovery one very recently that I had a consistent line of thin, fair hair, stretching from one nipple to the other, you have no idea how inadequate you guys are making me feel right now.

It's better than nothing man, you could be one of those hairless man-woman freaks that plague modern society.

I mean, manly men have beards, and hair, and fights bears and cut down trees and things right?

Realistically though it's not a terribly important thing. I'm hairy and heavily built at a fairly mediocre 5'10". I have monstrous strength for my muscle mass because it runs right through my family, my father for example has been known to lift dryers and washing machines above his head with no visible effort, I have been know to put a guy through a plexiglass fire door because he wouldn't leave me alone for weeks on end.

It's all genetic. I'm a furry angry arsehole because my genes demand it and not much else.

I could remove the hair but it would take far too much effort and nobody cares anyway.

You sound like me, though I'd never remotely call myself an angry asshole...
Makes you feel like you're almost a different species to be so massive and hairy compared to the hairless little weirdos, doesn't it?

Still, people are how they are. As long as they're good people, I'm fine with them. So like NinjaDeathSlap could be a hairless little dude, but as long as he's not trying to compensate by being a complete jerk, he's all good in my book.

Hell, as his name reminds me, being small certainly has its advantages in stealth and agility...
As someone who actually HAS trained in Ninjutsu, it's always bothered me that I have such a handicap due to my size and mass. My mass is much harder for my legs to safely stop if I were to drop from a height, my weight much more likely to break things I climb or land on, my size more likely to give me away when disguised or hiding, etc etc....

Everything is a trade-off...unless you're Captain America... *shrug*

I certainly prefer having my manliness stat almost maxed out, though.