John Marsh, the owner of gay porn site Fratmen, told the Daily Beast that the guys in his videos who get their Bic on south of the border are the straight models, not the gay ones. As men began to demand that their ladies be as shiny under their clothes as Barbie dolls, women started expecting the same of their men.Īlthough shaving off all your pubes started as a gay thing, it’s now primarily straight guys who are doing it. There is also some aspect of female equality in this whole equation. This, of course, spread to advertising (remember the billboard of shirtless Marky Mark in his undies in Times Square?), which seeped into the minds of straight guys and led to razor companies making products for guys who wanted to look like 14-year-old synchronized swimmers.
During the 90s, the gay aesthetic was dominated by the plucked and preened bodybuilder look. Body hair is one of the secondary sex characteristics of being a man, so why would anyone want to eradicate it altogether?Īs much as it pains me to admit it, us gays are probably at fault. Presumably, many other true lovers of the male form feel the same way. The social scientists over at Cosmopolitan recently published a study claiming that 95 percent of men now trim or shave their body hair in one way or another, a practice that has taken on the cringeworthy title of manscaping.
