Ladies how comfortable with the idea that you HAVE to shave your legs, arm pits, bikini lines (and other hairy bits) all in the name of fitting socities expectations of you these days?
Men, how comfortable are you IMPOSING those expectations on your woman?
Never imposed anything on any woman I was dating, but sometimes I ask for certain things. If they don't want to do it so be it, not gonna force the issue. I asked a girl I was dating if she'd shave her legs for me and she did, but that had nothing to do with society's expectations cause she was hot all the same and mostly wore pants (and had light hair on her legs so you could barely see it anyways), it was just a personal preference of mine.
Similarly if a girl I'm dating makes a similar request of me I'm likely to comply provided the request doesn't make me look completely ridiculous in my opinion (when I used to wear a goatee girls would sometimes ask me to shave it off cause they preferred clean-shaven and I didn't have an issue with that, but if they asked me to grow huge muttonchops cause they found them sexy, I'm sure I'd take a pass on that).
But how about the guys?
What if your partner made a personal choice that she didn't want to shave her legs or arm pits anymore? I mean I can almost see the argument about pubes, oral sex etc, but even then I give more props to men like Os, who just don't fucking care about stupid things like that.
But what does her having shaved legs really mean in the long run?
Could you stand against society sniggering at your missus because she is making a stand? or would you crumble and beg her to shave, or leave her for someone who does shave?
I wouldn't like it if a girl stopped shaving her pits while we were dating, but ultimately it's not that big of a deal to me. Legs are a different story however-- I like a girl with long, smooth legs-- if my girlfriend stopped shaving them I'd probably put up more of a fuss over that than pits. But this is a personal attraction issue, not a how society views them issue-- don't care about that. I would assume it would be the same for a girl if she strongly preferred clean-shaven guys then the clean-shaven guy she were dating all of a sudden decided he wanted to grow a big lumberjack beard. I don't think it would be an unreasonable request in either case to ask the other person to keep shaving-- it's not like asking them to get cosmetic surgery or even go on a diet, just asking them to maintain that one aspect of their current look which doesn't require all that much effort, time or money to do.
Topic: Female grooming and beautification