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The first time a man brought up the subject of shaving to me, it was as a hypothetical, at a party, and he wasn't even my lover. I replied with the "infantilization" argument, and he assured me that was not what turned him on.
While I shave my legs & underarms, I don't need to do it often (convenient genes).
Wax scares me. I've always kept things trim, and again, convenient genes kept this to a minimum.
My last boyfriend confessed that seeing me shaved was a fantasy of his.
I did it as a surprise and discovered that in the heat of the summer, I felt far less sweatty.
I kept it up for quite some time.
Eventually, the boyfriend asked if I would grow it back again. The fantasy had gone the other way.
