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What Do 60% of Men Allegedly Trim?

Posted by Nicole Pasulka

 

Hint: It's not their ear hair.

In this Guardian column, the extremely British Charlie Brooker learns that 60% of men take a cuticle sissors to their pubes. Upon finding out, he is more than a little insecure about his own wild mane down under:

If the majority of other men genuinely spend hours hoisting their scrotum over the bathroom sink with one hand, nail scissors in the other, meticulously snipping and pruning their man-bush into a tiny ornamental hedge, until their entire pubic region resembles a tranquil arboretum in miniature, albeit one with a cheerful bit of dick poking out of it, then maybe all my ex-girlfriends have been secretly revolted by my comparatively slovenly lower appearance. Did they think I was some sort of wild hobo?

But, oh, sweet relief, it turns out the "survey" that fact was based on is too small to offer definitive proof that 60% of men actually do prune the hedges.

Fortunately, it seems no pubic-hair memo has been issued at all: on closer inspection, the "survey" that threw up the 60%-trim rating had only asked 50 men, with no indication of how representative these 50 men were. They could've been male strippers. Or indie Camden eyeliner types whose black jeans are so tight, they have to shave their minges off just to do up their flies. I wouldn't put anything past those twats. They probably don't have human-size testicles anyway.

So what's up with it, dudes? Is Charlie's disbelief justified, or should he head straight for the clippers? Do you trim, or
let it grow wild and free? And if you are trimming, do you have human-size testicles? 


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biff said:

I'm hairy, so, yeah, I trim. It's seems like the polite thing to do.

September 16, 2008 4:45 PM

Randlan said:

I'm a masculinist - no shaving. Except for (periodically) facial hair.

...Yes, I'm being silly. But wang shaving/trimming is not allowed.

September 16, 2008 6:48 PM

Neanderstaal said:

Trim.  Sasqrotch not big with ladies.

September 16, 2008 7:03 PM

Isaac said:

I do it when I get bored sometimes.

September 16, 2008 7:47 PM

spoco2 said:

I take at it with an electric shaver quite regularly... for a while went the hot wax route, but that was too time consuming and too costly.

So, yeah, I like the look and feel of it being neat and trim down there.

September 16, 2008 7:49 PM

Mr Histor E. said:

No fears, lads, the Greeks and Romans were great fans of male grooming, even made it a quasi-worshipful act (you know, venerating the gods by tidying up, before slaughtering some animals or each other).  They did it together in the bathhouses, maybe working in a punk or two.  What fun!  So get out the olive oil, lather up, and take off them hairs with a sharpened abalone shell--it's not gay or anything!

September 17, 2008 2:34 PM

asb76 said:

Trim?  I shave it all!  Hair's for your face/head!

September 18, 2008 2:27 PM

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Emily Farris writes about culture and food for numerous publications and websites you've probably never heard of, including her own blog eefers. Her first cookbook will be published in fall 2008. Emily lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with her cat, but just one . . . so far.

Brian Fairbanks is a filmmaker living in the wilds of Brooklyn. He previously wrote for the Hartford Courant and Gawker. He won the Williamsburg Spelling Bee once. He loves cats, women with guns, and burning books.

Nicole Pasulka is a Brooklyn writer and editor who's always on the lookout for the dirty. Her other virtual home is at The Morning News, where things are squeaky clean most of the time.

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