r/razorfree

I’m really sad to be writing this because I don’t want others opinions affect me. This was the first time I went out with my armpit hair showing, I was wearing a halter neck so they were fully out. I was at my first solo concert and I thought the crowd going to this artist would be more progressive but I guess not.

Anyways some guys were sitting behind me and they kept talking about it. I really don’t want to care about a mans opinion but it really just made me so sad that the world is still like this.

EDIT: CREEPY MEN DO NOT MESSAGE ME, YOU WILL BE BLOCKED

Earlier at work I was working with a coworker from a different section who I had never met. He seemed nice enough and was telling a story about how last week a citizen got violent with him. Rather than talking about the content of her character, he just kept bringing up her armpit hair.

Now I rarely shave my armpit hair or pubes, and when I do I use a trimmer. I havent shaved my legs in probably 2 yesrs now, and before that I rarely shaved those either.

In the story he told he said she had armpit hair and when she lifted her arms it looked like she had "tarantulas under there". The car chuckled a bit and they moved on (2 of these are "liberal" women, but i think they did it awkwardly). Then later on he brought it up again and said she didnt take care of herself. I kept quiet because I didnt want to start shit because we are working together due to an emergency situation, but it seriously pissed me off.

I wanted to ask him if he shaves under his armpits, and if he doesnt how is that not equally gross? The sad thing is he has a young daughter. I live in Florida and wear tanks often and no man has EVER commented on my armpit hair, only my mom and dad and they mostly did because of societal standards and not their own views

Thanks for listening to my rant 😭

Hello, I am trying so hard to stay confident with my body and my natural hair. For about 3 months I didn't shave, and my life was just so much easier. However coworkers and acquaintances once they found out just made me so self conscious, but either outright gagging when they talked about me or just making rude comments on how "wow now you're fat and hairy" which was UNCALLED for knowing that im struggling with weight. But I stopped shabing for health reasons, I have HS and now that I shaved my underarms are suffering and I have so many bumps. Plus I am on a blood thinner so all of my cuts/Knicks bleed like crazy.

Truly I should just ignore them, but I am such a self conscious people pleaser. Anyone have any advice?

i’m 23 and i am very comfortable with my body hair at this point. i first stopped shaving my armpits when i was around 17. then roughly 4 years ago i stopped shaving my bush and also began to let my leg hair grow. i let it all grow fully wild and i absolutely love it.
i often wear skirts that reveal my very hairy legs and i don’t feel overtly phased when i see people staring. the past two summers aswel, ive swam and walked around at beaches and public swimming pools with my bush visibly peeking out. this past summer was the first summer where i didn’t tamper at all with my ‘bikini line’ and so my inner thighs were also fully exposed. this felt like a pretty big personal move for me and it resulted in me feeling more empowered than i did before.
it does really help that my close friends, whom i met in college, all let their body hair grow aswel. that obviously makes it feel even more organic and empowering. the four us went on a trip to brussels this past summer and we admired all the women that looked around our age who were also sitting and walking around with their hairy legs and pits on display. depending on my general mood and mentality, of course there are still days where i feel a tinge of uncertainty or insecurity…. for example, if im having one of those days where i just don’t want to be perceived, i will likely consciously decide to wear trousers. but when im feeling really calm and centred, and the weather is warm, it’s the opposite.

i consider my own body hair and women’s body hair in general to be very attractive. it makes me feel sexy. i honestly don’t think i could be very sexually attracted to a woman if she was hairless all over and routinely shaved/waxed herself……. same applies to men. there is absolutely no way i could be sexually attracted to a man that removes any of his body hair. nothing more unappealing than a bald penis.
so…. this is making me wonder if i have a body hair fetish and perhaps i am literally fetishising myself at the same time.

i repeatedly fantasize about meeting a man that not only adores my hairy body, but wants to ravage me because of it. the idea of it turning him on so much that he just cannot contain himself and wants to honour and kiss me all over.
i’m single and have been for a little over a year now and since the start of this year i’ve hooked up with a few men. none of them made a single remark about my body hair, nor acted in any sort of particular way.
of course, if a man were to say anything even remotely futile or negative, he’d be thrown out the door immediately. but i guess in a way i’ve been kind of expectant of atleast some sort of little thing to be said about it. but nope. nothing. this in itself is not at all a bad thing…. you know, like they’re not even batting an eye or furrowing a brow.

i don’t know.
what i do know is that i don’t remove my body hair for anyone or anything other than myself. i let it all grow because thats what feels right. women have hair and it is not meant to be removed. it’s as simple as that. the whole purpose of the shaving/waxing industry has been and will always be a money-racketing incentive purely rooted in making women feel insecure and undesirable in their natural state… very same as the beauty industry as a whole. it’s just not something i’m ever buying into again for as long as i’m alive. i wouldn’t have even began to shave in the first place if it wasn’t for my mother, a victim of internalized misogyny, telling me that i essentially had no choice once i hit puberty. that wa only in relation to my legs and and armpits though. i didn’t consider even laying a finger upon my pubes until i was groped/groomed by a guy a few years older than me as a 14ish year old girl- he shoved his hand down my trousers without any sort of prior communication/consent, and then exclaimed out loud that i was hairy. of course, i internalized that into shame.
and of course that’s another huge element. misogyny. it is heavily intwined with infantilization and western society’s obsession with youthfulness. men expecting and wanting women to have hairless bodies could be and is a whole seperate, massive discussion.

so it’s not that im expecting a reaction out of a potential male partner, it’s just that i have an unshakeable desire for him to have a deep adoration for it. him being unphased is just not enough. does anyone else feel this way?

So I'm 17 and just started being razor free (like six months ago), and well I like all the hair in my body, but mostly the armpits. I just don't know but whenever I looked at it I just felt so powerful and confident, even if I struggled slightly when I went out with friends sleveless stuff but tried my best not to care.

But there's just one person i'm terrified of seeing my hair, my dad. He's very conservative and stuff, and I just know if he'd see it, it would be bad. I've always been kinda scared of speaking my mind because I've seen how he is with my mom and sister. He has threatened to throw my sister out of the house several times (and she's 14)

The other day I heard him complain because my mom hadn't shaved down there, calling it a jungle. And honestly I just felt so disgusted by him. He is coming to stay for a month with us, so I thought it wouldn't be worth it to let him see my pit hair. I have a hard time setting boundaries and I literally can't get angry without crying.

I'm honestly just waiting to move out, I want to live as hairy as I want and not care what he says.