Trends

So, how do these trends, like grooming, spread if we guys are too afraid to talk about things like shaving the shaft, the balls, and trimming the pubes?

We take our cues from places like men's health and fitness magazines, seeing other guys at the gym in the showers and locker rooms, films and television, porn. We see all that, and follow suit.

My shaving actually began not by choice - unless of course I didn't want to be a dancer. We weren't allowed to have any pubic hair showing at any time. Therefore, off it came. Sounds a bit gross, I know, but the guys even shaved each other's cracks. Smooth was the name of the game, from face to toe. I realized that without the hair, I didn't sweat as much. Less sweating, less itching. Less itching, less scratching. It made sense to continue.

The thing is, we see the other men in the showers and locker rooms and we don't talk to each other. Unless we're there due to a team sport. We might nod and give short, soft, "hey," or "how you doin'?" - but, talk? Nope. We very rarely do that. 

Damn shame, though. Because other guys may have an answer to something with which we have an issue.

Open up. Talk. Communicate.

Learn to be comfortable in your own skin; with the bits you were born with.