back hair - hideous or acceptable?

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would you date someone with back hair? would you cease all relations with someone upon the discovery of back hair? (this sparked by kim's post in the moustache thread)

― Dave M. (rotten03), Sunday, 20 October 2002 07:33 (twenty-three years ago)

its status as a repellent is very overstated. i don't see what the big deal is.

― minna (minna), Sunday, 20 October 2002 07:35 (twenty-three years ago)

*silent*

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Sunday, 20 October 2002 07:37 (twenty-three years ago)

On guys - acceptable
On girls - not very nice but if it was true love then it wouldn't matter

― toraneko (toraneko), Sunday, 20 October 2002 07:42 (twenty-three years ago)

What Minna said. It's not like one would have to look at it all the time in any case.

― Damian (Damian), Sunday, 20 October 2002 08:55 (twenty-three years ago)

it don't bother me.

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 20 October 2002 10:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I think that somehow worse than full back hair is just having like a dozen hairs randomly. I am always trying to pull them out and I think I am giving myself athrititis.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 20 October 2002 10:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Unsurprisingly, due to my advanced years, I am starting to develop this. Can't we decide it's sexy? We old men need the help.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 October 2002 10:54 (twenty-three years ago)

ditto we young apes.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 20 October 2002 11:20 (twenty-three years ago)

i once dated someone who found it a turn-on but then i waxed it off to collect on a bet that i was "too manly" to do any such thing (made with someone else) and said person was actually upset! i echo the sentiments expressed above - does it really matter that much? btw, martin, an australian medical study recently found - among a sample of about 250 men - that the men with hairy backs were generally brighter than those without, so wear it with pride, i say.

― angelo (angelo), Sunday, 20 October 2002 13:28 (twenty-three years ago)

'research' used for the 'good' of society again sez I.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 20 October 2002 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

If I count the hairs, will that equal my IQ? Have scientists nothing sensible to do with their time?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 October 2002 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Girls! For the ideal mate, look out for hairy-backed men with long index fingers.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 20 October 2002 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

he's right you know.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 20 October 2002 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn: only halfway there.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 October 2002 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

martin, the answer is index finger elongation surgery.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 20 October 2002 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Can't think of any other research of this ilk off-hand. Help me out -I want to create the ideal composite man. Is there any truth to the bald = virile thing, for example?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 20 October 2002 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm balding, so I hope so.

I need to go out and buy one of those foam rubber pointy hands.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 October 2002 14:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually I have a small story here. A few years ago I was dating someone, and very early in our relationship (at which point I had not seen the man's torso sans shirt) I made a flip comment along the lines of 'ew back hair is icky' but I was thinking of excessive back hair - like a black bear skin strap-on or something. I wasn't thinking at all - probably because he seemed like this uber-confident guy, really conventionally good looking. But I guess this one little comment put fear into his heart, because some time later, when the shirt finally did come off, my hands noticed just a few prickly little bits of stubble on his shoulders. He must have had all of twenty hairs there, not even dark ones, but he'd shaved them off FOR ME. I realised then how stupid I'd been and that it wouldn't have mattered to me at all, even if he were covered in the stuff. I wanted to tell him all this, but it probably would have just embarrassed him that I'd noticed. I still feel pangs just describing it. I swear - I don't think I've ever been as touched by such a small thing before or since.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 20 October 2002 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

kim you dated brundlefly!!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 20 October 2002 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh fine - ruin my poignant little tale by bringing up the whole regurgitation thing (get it? get it?). And if anyone takes my last sentence OUT OF CONTEXT... prepare to die. ;)

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 20 October 2002 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Now look what you've done, Kim, you've ruined Dan's fun!

I actually have that shoulder hair problem -- a bit more than Kim's ex! -- and I just don't like the look of it, so every so often I shave it off. Pure selfish vanity! My back is comparatively smooth.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 20 October 2002 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Heh, but it's a sentence worded with SUCH a lack of foresight that surely it's still funny? (even without Dan)

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 20 October 2002 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't see asking "Honey, do you think my back is too hairy? Would you shave it for me snookems, pretty pleasse?"

― brg30 (brg30), Sunday, 20 October 2002 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I like hairy men

― C J (C J), Sunday, 20 October 2002 20:46 (twenty-three years ago)

so far, this thread has fared far better than the previous ILE back-hair thread

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 21 October 2002 06:40 (twenty-three years ago)

when people shave their backs and stubble starts reappearing is far worse than the actual back hair - it does feel like you're in bed with brundlefly

― H (Heruy), Monday, 21 October 2002 06:49 (twenty-three years ago)

apparently, premature balding is a sign of lots of testosterone. who knows if this actually translates to virility.

i used to get hundreds of e-mails offering to expand the size of my index finger until i fixed my junk e-mail filter.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Monday, 21 October 2002 06:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't mind hairy legs/underarms on wimmen but the sight of a hairy male back does turn my stomach.
Fuzzy is okay but a full on comb job is yukky.

― Android (Android Elvis), Monday, 21 October 2002 09:27 (twenty-three years ago)

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