There's always the bizarre contradictory trend I see around here of wearing a brightly colored thong under white pants. No PL, but reassurance that they are, if fact, wearing underwear. Or something.
Why couldn't Giles have shackles like any self-respecting bachelor?
Xander ,'Beneath You'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Jul 02, 2007 10:06:13 am PDT #5957 of 10001
Jesse - Jul 02, 2007 10:07:09 am PDT #5958 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, also:
I think hairy boy parts deserve a chance for waxing too. Dammit.
Guys do wax. At least some guys. And/or shave and/or trim, just like the ladies. At least in my acquaintance.
sumi - Jul 02, 2007 10:11:41 am PDT #5959 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Dracula's Castle is for sale.
Pix - Jul 02, 2007 10:14:22 am PDT #5960 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Guys do wax. At least some guys. And/or shave and/or trim, just like the ladies. At least in my acquaintance.
Oh, I know that some do, but it certainly isn't anywhere near as common in men as it is in women. I know a lot of men who would never consider waxing/trimming/shaving and yet think women should.
§ ita § - Jul 02, 2007 10:14:59 am PDT #5961 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Guys do wax. At least some guys.
Enough, though? I mean some guys have multiple orgasms, they just don't count.
I have no idea why I'm blushing typing that.
My brain is so on vacation right now. Can't get jack accomplished.
Nutty - Jul 02, 2007 10:16:36 am PDT #5962 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Total removal of a normal body part, for the sake of "hygeine," strikes me as deeply insane. Decide you look prettier with only one eye, whatev, it's your eye. Decide that having more than one eye is freakish and gross, honey, seek therapy.
That goes double if the body part removal is strongly divided along gender lines.
In re thongs, not only is there a longstanding problem with the whole black thong/pale trousers issue, but there is the basic problem I see demonstrated in front of me on the public transit stairs all the time: it is totally possible to be wearing a thong and accidentally catch your trouser/dress material in your buttcrack. Which is GROSS. In sum: thong not the magical cure-all for underpants-visibility issues; it creates as many problems as it solves.
DavidS - Jul 02, 2007 10:18:52 am PDT #5963 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I don't wax, but I'll do some maintenance down there.
I prefer trimmed trim, but appreciate all kinds.
I just opened my birthday card from the FiL. Picture of a kitten on it. Yep. Oh well, there was a $100 gift card which I sorely need.
DavidS - Jul 02, 2007 10:20:19 am PDT #5964 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I don't think body hair falls in the "body parts" category.
It's more an accessory than a part.
Scrappy - Jul 02, 2007 10:21:24 am PDT #5965 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Well, it's a body part, but it grows. I mean, I cut (and dye) the hair on my head and on my legs, so it ain't that big a jump. Is that like removing an eye? I trim my nails for hygeine and convenience--is that like removing an eye?
I tried the waxing thing but the ingrown hairs and the expense and itching made it so not worth it.
JZ - Jul 02, 2007 10:21:49 am PDT #5966 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I know a lot of men who would never consider waxing/trimming/shaving and yet think women should.I'm all for people doing what feels good and makes them feel attractive and whatnot, but the thing that got up my nose about this particular flamewar was the number of people insisting that a goolie with any visible hair, even if it was kept scrupulously clean and neatly trimmed, was just inherently too disgusting to touch. Not that I wanted to side with the "preferring nude goolies=pedophilia" people, but there was just something mildly creepy about being so thoroughly grossed out by a bit of hair that really serves mainly to indicate that the goolie on which it's growing is at or very near sexual maturity. Even a clean, tidy bit of hair. There were under-30 guys swearing they'd lose their erections or want to vomit if they were fooling around with a woman and suddenly she revealed herself to have Hair Down There.
Shaving and grooming, either gender, for the fun of it? Cool! Finding a totally normal indicator of sexual maturity viscerally repellent? Slightly less cool.