Oh goodness, IK! This thread is just priceless. I sad down to it with my morning cuppa, and having steadily giggled into it for 10 minutes, now have bubble tea of a whole new order!
On the subject of manscaping (TMI and oversharing ALERT!), this is possibly quite weird of me in that I *cannot* figure out the why of it --- and it is gender-loaded, even if a matter of personal preference, so I really *have* tried to sort it out in my head --- but I prefer boys bare but girls *not* in the market for a merkin. Me, I've tried the 'all gone' a couple of times --- razor only, TYVM! (Depilatories drive my skin nuts and NO PULLING OFF MY HAIR, PLEASE!) The SO is happy to reciprocate (hell, he even *anticipates*!); but I've neither enjoyed the results nor the awful itchy regrowth.
Kari makes an excellent point about sugaring vs waxing, by the way. In India, what you call waxing is a very new thing; yet 'waxing' is the most common mode of hair removal (10 years ago, buying a girly razor was like hunting down the right jeans, they were that rare; epilators arrived about 15 years ago, on the other hand). So our 'waxing' has always really been sugaring. I only tried real waxing a few months ago for the first time --- straight on my poor 'tache, with no patch test! What was I thinking?! Ouch! And also, yikes! Skinned and blistered from whatever the 'wax' contains. Now sugaring doesn't really work for me either --- v brittle hair and keratosis pilaris means I get stubble the very next day anyway, so a razor's as good or better. BUT I can promise you sugaring is a whole lot kinder on the skin. In my experience, it also takes fewer passes than waxing and you can just sponge off any residue with water. Plus, easier to DIY, when all you need is sugar and lemons.
