I understand that BJs are more likely to be given to those with neat manscapes. For this reason, and general aesthetic preference, I’ve been tending to my brambles for some time with varying methods and likewise varying degrees of success.
My best success came from electric clippers to get the rough out of the way and Nair to clean up the remainder. I’ve met with limited success on my scrotum as, being a wrinkly terrain, the electric clippers like to nab bits of my flesh. Nair seems to have trouble with untrimmed hairs though so my solutions so far leave by scrote and bunghole with some lingering strays.
Recently, I decided to just smother the whole everywhere with a thick spread of Nair, after removing the easy bits with electric clippers, and leaving the Nair on for its maximum recommended duration.
This did not work. Aside from the hair that still clings to all my nooks and crannies, I now have a yeast infection…
What is a body to do? Permanent laser treatment runs upward of three thousand dollars, I’m thinking there must be a halfway solution around here somewhere though.
Does the community have any solutions to recommend?
I am old enough to remember when shaving all over was a fetish thing. But having been smooth, woah I like it so much better. I got ingrown hairs more leaving it natural, and it was itchier, but my natural hair is quite coarse and curly.
The skin biome isn’t weak enough to be lost by cutting off the hair, though, right? I’ve shaved my underarms since forever ago and no problems there, and plenty of men are bald or shave their face.
Well, the biome is going to exist no matter what we do.
What happens is that the balance shifts. It’s like going from fresh water to brackish to salt. Different fish, fungi, bacteria, plants, etc are going to thrive more in one zone or another.
Having hair present does the same thing, though the body is going to have different balances in each area as well, just like a lake biome is different from a river.
Underarms, as a perfect example to compare with the groin, have different conditions. First, air flow accessibility based on clothing. The pits tend to have better air contact. They also tend to dry out faster, partially because of the air access, but also because of the way arms move. When you get a patient that has reduced arm mobility, you start running into some of the same issues groins deal with. It stays damper, so you get more activity from fungi in specific.
It’s the same when you go to the scalp or face. There’s less variation between shaved and unshaved, but there is a teeny, tiny difference there. And, again, that’s mostly due to the head having more air contact, thus changing which microbes are going to thrive and be dominant.
It’s all about balances. It doesn’t really matter much what’s dominant in an area as long as it does have competition. It’s just that the groin is better suited to the kinds of microbes that become a problem when that balance is thrown off, and those microbes are also going to have higher concentrations when the hair is gone, making it more likely they’ll get out of balance more often.