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Trimming hair...hair...down there...

RyanReddRyanRedd Registered User regular
edited February 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
Hello all, so the title of this thread basically takes care of me having to write any awkward accompanying message.

Anyone have advice for this most delicate of grooming areas?

Do it? Don't do it? Clippers? Scissors?

That's good. That's a good one.
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  • claypoolfanclaypoolfan Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I use a comb and and the edger part of my electric razor, like the part you would use to square off your sideburns. The comb makes a nice barrier to prevent any.... mishaps. If you trim too close you'll be itchy a day or two after.

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  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Electric clippers will tend to gobble on your dudes. Trim with scissors and shave with a razor. Care is of the utmost importance though.

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  • Aoi TsukiAoi Tsuki Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Outta this thread, I tried ordering this product and have been quite thoroughly pleased; I am female, but my personal hygiene doesn't fucking seem to know that, so this thing's already been put to good use. I haven't gotten it completely down, mind you, but it's helped turn the tide of battle for the first time in my life.

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  • ToasterFaerieToasterFaerie Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    This really makes me wish I could post anonymously.

    So, are we talking just trimming or total removal? For trimming get something like this and use the trimmer in the handle (maybe a little pre-shortening with scissors first). Its cheap and convenient. Use some moisturizer after to help soften the remaining hair.

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    The search keyword you're looking for is manscaping

    Trim with scissors, shave with razor.

    Or, go with the NorelCo Bodygroom.

    An extra optical inch.
    This really makes me wish I could post anonymously.

    I have no issue with discussing my "personal grooming regime" but there's always the option to register a blatantly alternate account specifically for the purpose of asking/posting potentially embarassing things if you're not as frank(s and beans) about it as I am. :P

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  • EshEsh Tending bar. FFXIV. Motorcycles. Portland, ORRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Once you do it, you have to keep up on it. The grow back itches SO MUCH. D:

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  • SpacemilkSpacemilk Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Esh wrote: »
    Once you do it, you have to keep up on it. The grow back itches SO MUCH. D:
    Yes, this is true if you shave, it's not so bad if you just trim to a short length.

    If you shave, make sure you moisturize! Dry, chafing skin and ingrown hairs will make you cry blood. Also make sure you trim as much as possible before you start to shave.

    Ingrown hairs: I used a free sample of this stuff with great success during last summer's bikini season. I would recommend it for you even if no one is ever gonna see your junk (although if so why are you manscaping?) razor burn and ingrown hairs HURT! And this stuff works pretty darn well. There are other, cheaper products out there, but I have used this one and liked it.

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  • KistraKistra Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    This really makes me wish I could post anonymously.

    So, are we talking just trimming or total removal? For trimming get something like this and use the trimmer in the handle (maybe a little pre-shortening with scissors first). Its cheap and convenient. Use some moisturizer after to help soften the remaining hair.

    You mean you don't have conversations about personal grooming with your mother and sisters plus two bf's, one of whom you've never met before? (Oh yeah, it was fun o_O)

    I like disposable razors. But I tend to completely remove the hair from some areas and not touch the hair in other areas so this may not apply to you.

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  • hawkboxhawkbox Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Assuming you are a dude? I just use a mach 3. The Venus for women works pretty well as well actually. But I only shave the balls and shaft, I don't go any higher.

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  • NailbunnyPDNailbunnyPD Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Some people are cool with razors, but they are not for me (cuts, irritation, itching.) I prefer electric trimmers. Just be careful and use the guards.

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  • BeltaineBeltaine BOO BOO DOO DE DOORegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Spacemilk wrote: »
    Esh wrote: »
    Once you do it, you have to keep up on it. The grow back itches SO MUCH. D:
    Yes, this is true if you shave, it's not so bad if you just trim to a short length.

    If you shave, make sure you moisturize! Dry, chafing skin and ingrown hairs will make you cry blood. Also make sure you trim as much as possible before you start to shave.

    Ingrown hairs: I used a free sample of this stuff with great success during last summer's bikini season. I would recommend it for you even if no one is ever gonna see your junk (although if so why are you manscaping?) razor burn and ingrown hairs HURT! And this stuff works pretty darn well. There are other, cheaper products out there, but I have used this one and liked it.

    Wow that's some expensive stuff!

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  • SpacemilkSpacemilk Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Beltaine wrote: »
    Spacemilk wrote: »
    Esh wrote: »
    Once you do it, you have to keep up on it. The grow back itches SO MUCH. D:
    Yes, this is true if you shave, it's not so bad if you just trim to a short length.

    If you shave, make sure you moisturize! Dry, chafing skin and ingrown hairs will make you cry blood. Also make sure you trim as much as possible before you start to shave.

    Ingrown hairs: I used a free sample of this stuff with great success during last summer's bikini season. I would recommend it for you even if no one is ever gonna see your junk (although if so why are you manscaping?) razor burn and ingrown hairs HURT! And this stuff works pretty darn well. There are other, cheaper products out there, but I have used this one and liked it.

    Wow that's some expensive stuff!
    Yes it is :( However I am STILL using the sample I got, which was maybe half or a third of the size of the actual product. It lasted me through about half of last year's swimsuit season in Houston, which is twice as long as anyone else's swimsuit season. (besides you crazy Floridians) You don't need to use much so the bottle lasts forever.

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  • SpawnbrokerSpawnbroker Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I never understood manscaping. I let it all grow out, never had any complaints. To be fair, I'm also completely okay with my partner not shaving at all, so YMMV.

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I never understood manscaping. I let it all grow out, never had any complaints. To be fair, I'm also completely okay with my partner not shaving at all, so YMMV.

    By the same token, if you've never done it, how would you know that your partner wouldn't appreciate it if it was done?

    And for the latter, yeah, sorry, I don't go that way. I prefer to floss after I eat, thanks. :P

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  • AlyceInWonderlandAlyceInWonderland Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I never understood manscaping. I let it all grow out, never had any complaints. To be fair, I'm also completely okay with my partner not shaving at all, so YMMV.

    By the same token, if you've never done it, how would you know that your partner wouldn't appreciate it if it was done?

    I don't care either way :P

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I never understood manscaping. I let it all grow out, never had any complaints. To be fair, I'm also completely okay with my partner not shaving at all, so YMMV.

    By the same token, if you've never done it, how would you know that your partner wouldn't appreciate it if it was done?

    I don't care either way :P

    I knew something like that was coming.

    Tomato/tomahto I guess, some people don't mind, others it's just a turn-off. And others it's a turn-on.

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  • SpacemilkSpacemilk Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Yeah it's a turn-off for me. =/ As others have said, YMMV.

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  • AlyceInWonderlandAlyceInWonderland Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    For me, when a dude shaves completely I think they look really weird, and prepubescent. Almost to the point of making me laugh, actually. So yeah, tomato/tomahto.

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  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I don't get why anyone, man or woman, would shave down there. I guess the illusion of boning someone prepubescent is appealing to some? I was with two women who were shaven down there, and it was super weird. But yeah, to each their own.

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  • Aoi TsukiAoi Tsuki Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I don't get why anyone, man or woman, would shave down there.

    WAY TOO MUCH INFORMATION TIEMS
    If you're a girl and the cropland is waaaaaay rich down south and it's That Time Of The Month, and you use pads, in theory? You'd be amazed - and thoroughly, thoroughly disgusted - at how much can accumulate on your heavier days, no matter how assiduously you clean that shit up. In theory.

    Also, try being a girl with visible bikini growth, go hang out around the pool, and see how fast your social life goes south. Thanks, genetics/social expectations!

    That's why.

    Further advice: take it in stages. If you've never shaved before, hacking it all off at once is suicide.

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  • AlyceInWonderlandAlyceInWonderland Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I don't get why anyone, man or woman, would shave down there. I guess the illusion of boning someone prepubescent is appealing to some? I was with two women who were shaven down there, and it was super weird. But yeah, to each their own.

    Everything Aoi Tsuki said.

    While I don't mine at all if my SO doesn't shave, I happen to shave down there because it makes me feel a hell of a lot cleaner. I mean, if my SO preferred me to not shave completely, I wouldn't, but just in personal preference with my own body, it's a lot cleaner feeling.

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  • CasualCasual Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Flap Flap Flap Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    How does hair removal cream work for guys? I'm tired of chewing up my boys in my electric razor and ripping wax paper off them doesn't seem much more appealing.

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  • KistraKistra Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I don't get why anyone, man or woman, would shave down there. I guess the illusion of boning someone prepubescent is appealing to some? I was with two women who were shaven down there, and it was super weird. But yeah, to each their own.

    It isn't an all or nothing proposition.

    For both genders (in my limited experience) it is possible to shave the parts that spend the most time in your partner's mouth and leave the hair surrounding those areas alone and not look even vaguely prepubescent.

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  • EggyToastEggyToast Jersey CityRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Trimming everything up is the way to go for me, and thankfully it's the kind of place where you can just hack away at scissors and have everything look fine. It's not like a well-groomed beard or anything. But yeah, I just use small scissors that my wife acquired at some point in her manicure set and keep things tidy. For me it greatly reduces any lingering odors from exercise, so that's worth it to me.

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  • Rear Admiral ChocoRear Admiral Choco I wanna be an owl, Jerry! Owl York CityRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Personally, I shave the balls and shaft and trim the rest.

    The Gillette Fusion works great, but pretty much anything with at least three or four blades will do for maximum comfort. The fusion I can glide right over like nothing, no nicks or anything.

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  • krushkrush Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    For me, when a dude shaves completely I think they look really weird, and prepubescent. Almost to the point of making me laugh, actually. So yeah, tomato/tomahto.

    actually, I look at chicks that shave completely the same way. I can't get aroused at the sight of a bald puss 'cause it looks adolescent.




    I also think guys who REALLY like women with bald crotches have latent pedophile tendencies. Like... "Why don't you have a seat..."-type tendencies.


    but... FWIW, I do shave the twins with a standard twin-blade razor and plain bar-soap. The woman-that-inhabits-my-house has an easier time with balls-in-her-mouth activities when there's no hair on 'em.

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  • InfidelInfidel Heretic Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Liking shaved women indicates psychological issues? Jesus, keep that stupid shit out of here.

    It's not hard to trim and groom so that you're not an ugly mess. I concur that shaving completely on a guy looks funny unless you're planning on doing some porn and going hairless all over. :lol: If you shave right down, I dunno about some people but I have a lot of hair everywhere else and where the hell do you stop!

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Infidel wrote: »
    Liking shaved women indicates psychological issues? Jesus, keep that stupid shit out of here.

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  • AstrocookieAstrocookie __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2010
    If you are in Europe, do not shave.

    If you are in America, fucking shave. And be circumcised.

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  • DixonDixon Screwed...possibly doomed CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I just use a razor for the whole job while in the shower...it seems to work really well.

    Also another thing you can do, is if you are in a relationship where the other person wouldn't mind you could also get them to do it. A girl I was dating for quite a while we would always do each other while in the shower. Much easier, and leads to other fun to :P

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  • BioHaz594BioHaz594 Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I take care of the beans n frank with some shaving lotion and a mach5. An electric trimmer to take care of the upper deck, but just a little off the top.

    I also have much appreciation and gratitude for girls who keep it clean cut. I find it so much sexier and less bothersome with I go downtown.

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I use a razor on my balls while in the shower. Works fine and I have yet to have any problem with razor burn or ingrowns, I also moisturize afterwards just with a face moisturizer. I've yet to nick myself while doing it. I was a bit skeptical and throwing something sharp down there too but it's worked pretty well!

    It regards to using hair remover.

    Think of it this way.

    Nair is more caustic than oven cleaner.

    Saying this I know a dude that uses it on his sack.

    Diff'ent strokes and all that.

    If you do want to try it out, for God's sake do not just later up the entire area and see how it feels. Start small and work your way up.

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    If you are in Europe, do not shave.

    If you are in America, fucking shave. And be circumcised.

    please let's not start that whole thing

    edit in fact, just stop talking. Europeans like shaving as much as the next person. Please do not put forth stereotypes


    shave/trim however much you want to

    for the sake of ease it's scissors for trimming and a razor for shaving. To be perfectly honest, if you're using ANY modicum of care while shaving you won't cut yourself. And if you're not being careful when shaving your junk you probably shouldn't be shaving your junk

    It all depends on what you/your partner wants and it's all a matter of personal taste. I personally hate an excess of body hair and i keep myself trimmed because to me, it looks better. Sometimes I go the full distance and get a whole shave done. I also like that.

    and frankly saying i like that because i want to fuck children is a horrendously insulting thing to say, so thanks

    Shaving the actual balls is an exercise in patience and courage. It's not easy to purposefully put a blade that close to your jewels. Most of the time I trim it real short and call it a day, even when i go for a full shave.

    whatever you're shaving down there, stretch it out and get a smooth an area as possible, it can be hard to finagle and there's going to be a lot of groping but keep an eye out and pay attention to what you're doing and you'll never cut yourself. Switching to your other hand or reaching over to do the other side can be unnerving but take it slow, be gentle.

    I have never personally used any of the nair-like products, but i've heard that more often than not, it's going to burn

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  • RobmanRobman Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Shave with the grain. If you take nothing else from this awful thread, remember at least that.

    EDIT:

    DO NOT NAIR YOUR JUNK. That goes for ladies and gents.

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  • PeasPeas Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Dixon wrote: »
    I just use a razor for the whole job while in the shower...it seems to work really well.

    Also another thing you can do, is if you are in a relationship where the other person wouldn't mind you could also get them to do it. A girl I was dating for quite a while we would always do each other while in the shower. Much easier, and leads to other fun to :P

    But what if her hands slipped? D:

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  • hawkboxhawkbox Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Peas wrote: »
    Dixon wrote: »
    I just use a razor for the whole job while in the shower...it seems to work really well.

    Also another thing you can do, is if you are in a relationship where the other person wouldn't mind you could also get them to do it. A girl I was dating for quite a while we would always do each other while in the shower. Much easier, and leads to other fun to :P

    But what if her hands slipped? D:

    You get anal for the next 6 months or till you can't run the guilt trip on her anymore. ;)

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  • The Crowing OneThe Crowing One Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Peas wrote: »
    Dixon wrote: »
    I just use a razor for the whole job while in the shower...it seems to work really well.

    Also another thing you can do, is if you are in a relationship where the other person wouldn't mind you could also get them to do it. A girl I was dating for quite a while we would always do each other while in the shower. Much easier, and leads to other fun to :P

    But what if her hands slipped? D:

    From an earlier thread on the subject, courtesy of Seeks:
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    It is actually easier with a partner, but it takes a lot of trust and relaxation to let another person near your precious with sharp, sharp razors. If this is an option, it may be worth the try.

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  • SmallLadySmallLady Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I get everything "down there" waxed every two months.. Believe it or not, for my own comfort more than anything. I hate having hair there. Especially during "happy special time of the month time"

    Waxing is a good way to avoid ingrown hairs, and over time it will lessen the amount of hair you get around your boys :)

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  • krushkrush Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Robman wrote: »
    Shave with the grain. If you take nothing else from this awful thread, remember at least that.

    EDIT:

    DO NOT NAIR YOUR JUNK. That goes for ladies and gents.

    funny bit about that.

    While at uni, I was friends with some folks from Cyprus. One of the girls had the ever so slightest bit of hair on her top lip and decided to get rid of it. Her roommate told her to just use the razor she normally uses on her legs and be done with it.

    I'm sitting there one day have a few shots with them and I ask "Where's The Cat (my nickname for her)?", "oh, she's in the bathroom shaving her lip". Almost on cue, The Cat bursts out of the bathroom SCREAMING, completely naked, with a red streak across her lip, holding he legs far apart, spreading her ass cheeks, with her entire pubic area fire red. Turns out she didn't like the thought of using a razor on her lip and borrowed some Nair from one of the other roommates, then decided to try it on her pubes and ass crack.

    I was entirely too drunk to see some shit like that. I CRIED laughing until I hurt.

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  • DalbozDalboz Resident Puppy Eater Right behind you...Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Robman wrote: »
    Shave with the grain. If you take nothing else from this awful thread, remember at least that.

    Absolutely. Ingrown hairs are unpleasant in general, but particularly in that area.

    I use a disposable razor with an aloe guard strip in the shower. However, I also go very gently and don't repeated go over the area to the point that it gets irritated. The goal is to clean the area, not scorch the earth.

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