According to a recent survey, a third of women will decline to get busy if they haven’t shaved their legs. We clear through the brush to get to the root of this prickly topic.
For most guys, anxiety mounts before they roll over to inquire if the missus is in the mood to be enthusiastically defiled—usually because there’s a damn good chance they’re about to get shut down like a kid asking for ice cream before dinner. It’s not their first night on the bench, either. Some even have a mild case of PTSD from past rejections, those moments when the women they love—the same ones they swore to stick with through sickness, health and dinners with the in-laws—suddenly want nothing to do with them. If a guy’s lucky, maybe she offers a soft, “Not tonight” before rolling over, leaving him alone with his thoughts, hurt feelings and a stubborn erection, which will likely persist through at least one X-Files rerun.
It’s enough to send a man spiraling into an abyss of self-doubt. So, what gives? he might ask himself. Do I stink? Have bad breath? What kind of hygienic heresy must it be? However, what if her turning him down for sex isn’t actually about him at all? What if the real issue is something else entirely, like something too hairy to handle?
“I get self-conscious about it. It totally messes with my head. It’s hard to stay in the mood when I’m worried about him noticing that my legs are prickly.”
