It's my birthday. Among other lovely swag, I got loads of book vouchers - yeeha! See, everyone? I'm really not that hard to buy gifts for, LOL.Veeeery short 'n sweet post today from me. DH has just rung to let me know he's on his way home so I've got, like, 5 minutes to schedule this before I'm supposed to be getting ready for our karate lesson. Yikes! Suffice it to say, this is how it's been all day -- rushing round like crazy.
Anyhow, I'm driving home with aircon at full blast. It's midday, another scorcher in Auckland, and we're all drooping from the heat and humidity. Glance outside and what do I see? A guy jogging. With his shirt off.
He's lean and ripped -- a true runner's physique. He's very tanned -- obviously runs with his shirt off quite often. He's no spring chicken, probably about mid-to-late forties, but he's in good shape. Really good shape.
But you know the first thing that hit me when I saw him? It wasn't his great physique or the tan, or even the way he was barrelling up the steep hill. It was his hairy chest.
Not making any judgement calls, here. My dad is a hairy dude, so I grew up with hairy chests. And I'm not the least averse to Pierce Brosnan's hairy chest (or the rest of him!) in The Thomas Crown Affair.
But I notice that more and more guys these days seem to be making regular dates with wax and going all baby-smooth and hairless.
So whaddya reckon? Wax on or wax off for our menfolk?
And do you think the hairy chest will ever make a splash on the covers of our favorite romance novels?
Gotta fly. DH is home and I'm still not in my gi!
:-)
M
10 comments:
I'm all for manscaping!
The hairy chest doesn't bother me, but when a guy take's his shirt off and it looks like he's wearing a sweater...
Happy belated birthday!
I like a bit 'o grass on the playground. :) Manly men are where it's at. But when the chest hair bleeds over onto the back view in a major kind of way, bring on the wax!!!!
Here's one for you: a dance friend of mine waxes for competitions because he's so hairy (front and back) that his mates have nick-named him "Bremworth".... In NZ, Cavalier Bremworth is the name of a well-known carpet manufacturing company, LOL.
Sounds like we're all pretty much on the same page with degrees of hairiness -- otherwise, it's wax on, baby!
I guess I'm in the minority. I like to take people as they are, accept them for how they look naturally. If someone has to wax or pluck or fold, spindle or mutilate themselves, or go to great lengths to be pleasing to others, that takes a lot of energy from his personality, which is more important to me. Maybe I'm just sensitive because I have such a hairy chest and back. LOL
Happy birthday, doll! *mwah*
My husband has a hairy chest. He needs his fur to keep warm when he's gone a-viking! Oh wait, they don't do that anymore. Hmm.
I don't mind the fur, I married it. But on the cover of my romance novels, I like it smooth. Oiling down the manslaves doesn't look as appetizing if it gets all gooped up on the fur.
In RL it makes no nevermind though. LOL
I gotta admit, I like being able to run my fingers through DH's chest hair. But looking at the cover of the first book I found on my desk, Hot For The Holidays, I can't quite imagine that cover dude pictured with a nicely masculine hairy chest. Seems the marketing gurus prefer wax on -- or maybe the cover model oilers don't like dealing with "goopy fur". (Gotta love that visual, Saranna! LOL.)
And Cameo - excellent point! Wouldn't be impressed at all by DH hogging the bathroom all the time to de-hair his fine self. So much time and energy which could be ah... far better spent ;-)
And my friend the dancer has thankfully regrown all his fur. Confided that it itched like a bitch while it regrew, tho, poor guy. Hope next dance comp he'll go au naturel -- he's a spectacular dancer so who the heck cares if there's a hairy chest peeking through that shirt-front? Everyone'll be too busy oohing and ahing over his awesome moves!
I once saw a guy with hairy shoulders--omg he was hot! I would have said "ew!" to back hair until I saw him. He had really heavy beard stubble, too. It just screamed testosterone to me. The handsome face and trim physique helped, I'm sure. :)
Maree,
Hot for the Holidays. Great book and a fantastic cover. LOVED Angela Knight's story.
But I have to agree with you, chest hair on that cover-no way.
I don't like a lot of hair on a guy's chest but I'd never ask him to wax it.
Hugs,
Tambra
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