SHAVING
March 12th, 2009 | Posted by admin | Category: Men's Health-Erectile DysfunctionNo Comments
Some grown men shave off their facial hair every day or even twice a day (if they have thick, fast-growing hair). Others will let their moustaches, sideburns and/or beards grow and only trim them every once in a while to keep them neat. Still others just let their facial hair grow and only rarely, if ever, shave or trim it. It is a personal thing, a matter of individual taste.
Many of the men we talked to shaved when their facial hair first started to grow, even if later in life they decided not to shave. One moustached man said:
I don’t shave it now. When I was a teenager I did, though-because it was just these few scrawny hairs. It looked rather pathetic; kind of scraggly. It didn’t look like a real moustache.
Phil, age 30
Another man said:
I don’t shave anymore, just too lazy to shave every day. When I got that first peach fuzz, I shaved every day, religiously. It was sort of a macho thing. Also, I don’t know if it’s true or not, but I heard the more you shave, the faster your moustache and beard would grow in.
Ted,age 36
A lot of the boys we talked to felt excited about shaving and looked upon shaving as a sign of growing up. Many boys wished they had as much facial hair as some of their friends had. One man told a funny story about this:
I went round with my cousin, Albert, and his gang, who were all in their mid-twenties. I was, say, 19. Albert had a car, a Model-T, which was something – having a car that is – in those days. So it was really exciting for me to go round with these older men. I wanted to look as old as them, so I’d take my mother’s eyebrow pencil and colour my moustache in, you know, to make me look more mature.
So we go to a dance, and afterward I’m smooching with this girl in the back seat of Albert’s car, and my moustache smears off all over her face. Talk about embarrassing! I thought I’d never live it down!
Charlie, age 67
Getting their first razor was also a big event for some boys. Some bought these razors themselves; others got theirs as gifts. Some used their dad’s razor at first:
When I first started shaving, I didn’t say anything to anyone. I didn’t want to buy one [a razor] and just leave it there in the bathroom ’cause I knew my family would just tease me to death about it. I really didn’t have that much to shave. So I just used my dad’s razor.
My sisters were starting to shave their legs, and they were using dad’s razor, too. He’d get hopping mad ’cause he’d go to shave his face and the blade would be dull and nicked ’cause my sisters and I used it all the time. He’d cut his face and then he’d start yelling, ‘Who’s been using my razor?’ My sisters and I would say, ‘Not me, not me!’ Finally he went out and bought us all razors and told us, ‘You kids use my razor again and I’ll kill you.’
Sam, age 35
If you do start to shave, make sure that the blades of your razor are smooth and free of nicks or you’re likely to cut yourself. A dull blade can pull at your skin and irritate it, so make sure you’ve got a sharp one. But be careful – you can cut yourself with a sharp blade. Using soap or shaving cream will ease the pull, or drag, of the razor on your skin. There are also electric razors. You’re a lot less likely to cut yourself with an electric razor, but some men don’t like them. You might talk to your dad or another adult male to find out what he recommends for shaving.
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