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By Buzz60. There may be a reason as to why shaving your legs never really turned into a job well done. As it turns out, you should have been shaving them at night.
Woman shaving her legs. Leg shaving is the practice of removing leg hair by shaving the hair off using a razor or electric shaver.In addition, some people remove leg hair using waxing, sugaring, depilatories, epilators or other depilation devices, or lasers, but shaving remains the least expensive and one of the least painful methods.
Shaving is most commonly practiced by men to remove their facial hair and by women to remove their leg and underarm hair. A man is called clean-shaven if he has had his beard entirely removed. [1] Both men and women sometimes shave their chest hair, abdominal hair, leg hair, underarm hair, pubic hair, or any other body hair. [2]
Historically, body hair has been associated with virility, power and attractiveness but the removal of body hair by men is not just a modern-day fad.In fact, hair removal has a traceable history that stretches as far back as ancient Egypt, where men and women would shave their bodies, heads and faces and priests ritualistically shaved their bodies every three days.
“It has always amazed me that men get a lesson in shaving and women are handed a razor and essentially told ‘good luck’,” says Karen Young, How to Shave Your Legs for Smooth, Silky Skin ...
Armpit hair and underarm hair on men seems to be no big deal — but according to YouGov’s 2021 Body Image Study, half of Americans say women should get rid of their armpit hair. Meanwhile, 59% ...
A century after these ad campaigns started, removal of leg and underarm hair by women in the U.S. is tremendously pervasive and lack of removal is taboo in some circles. (Feminists of the 1970s and 1980s explicitly rejected shaving, though. [11]) An estimated 80–99% of American women today remove hair from their bodies.
Presumably if they did not shave their legs, women would differ enormously in their degree of hairiness, just as men do. (Legs, arms, chest etc - some men are practically hairless, while others are as shaggy as bears.) So if all women went unshaven, men might just go for the least hairy.109.149.27.188 23:14, 5 February 2013 (UTC)