STUDY: Most Gay Men Prefer Their Guys Naturally Hairy
According to a survey conducted by Manhunt, gay men prefer their partners to leave their body hair alone.
More than 27,000 Manhunt members were asked which body parts they like their partners to manscape and, surprisingly, most wanted everything left the way God made it. The body part that got the most votes was the penis shaft—and even that only saw 21% of participants wanting it shorn.
Here’s a breakdown of some of body parts we’ve been known to trim. For the full results visit Manhunt.com (NSFW)
• Back (10.93%)
• Face/Beard (8.58%)
• Lower Back (8.17%)
• Armpits (3.14%)
• Chest (3.13%)
• Shaft (21.35%)
• Pubes/Bush (19.47%)
• Balls (17.66%)
• Taint (11.86%)
• Hole (11.58%)
• Butt Cheeks (6.78%)
Does this jibe with your personal preferences or are you a smooth operator?
Share your opinions in the comments section below!
@Big Red Paul: except when it gets stuck in your teeth
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@Big Red Paul: Amen to that.
@Captain proton: But that just makes it more fun. LOL
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Any yet Queerty post nothing but shaved down twinks that you know below the waist look like 12 year olds and/or plucked chickens . . .
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I wish the porn studios would get the memo. I especially don’t like the way the trim body hair close to the skin, making the performers look like overgrown adolescents.
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It’s too complicated question for a simple vote – it depends entirely on the guy, not to mention who’s doing what to whom.
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If I hear a single bad word against Tom Selleck I will hunt you down and castrate you.
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@Joetx: You’re just looking at the wrong porn. :)
Studio porn is boring. Porn on tumblr is what’s hot!
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@Eric Auerbach: it’s probably cheaper to use those basic, mainstream photos.
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I would like to take this opportunity to thank Peter Frampton for leaving his shirt unbuttoned for a seven-year period that coincided with the height of my sexual potency. Did any man’s chest ever have a more beautiful patch of fuzz?
I used to listen to that “I’m in You” song and visualize myself undressing him with my teeth.
“I’m in you-uuuu…You’re in me-eeeee.”
What were we talking about?
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Actually, while I understand that this particular group may like hairy men and that this particular study reflected similar tastes (and we have no idea whether its a poll, an internet poll, OR an actual study with a control group and variable control – so that, for example, bear lovers are not oversampled) — other studies have shown, and I believe, that the desire for a hairy man is a distinctly minority position among both gay men and even more so among straight women (where it doesn’t enter double digits).
If its what you want, more power to you — I will join with the clear majorities in a number of significant studies in saying, no thanks – I’ll take my men smooth thank you.
Kind thoughts.
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I agree that it depends on the man. The amount of hair, and who is doing what to whom. Personally I hate my own hair in the nose, ears, groin, ass, & chest area but like it just fine on my head, arms and legs.
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@Christopher: Haha exactly tumblr knows what guys are actually hott. I think the majority of us are getting tired of seeing ultra shaven/waxed guys. The scruffy guy on this article is more like it ;) Btw if anyone wants more guys like him you can check out my tumblr – AlwaysImagining.tumblr.com
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@jwrappaport: Exactly! Although I really don’t like back hair!
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At long last I feel validated in my love for furry guys. http://popingay.com/post/42451063486/hairy-gays-a-love-story
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A few problems with this article.
Who says that Manhunt members are representative of gay men in general? (For that matter, how do you know that the ones who responded to the survey are even representative of Manhunt members?)
Asking what parts you want *shaved* is not the same as asking what parts you want naturally hairless. I’m really not a fan of hairy backs, but if the guy’s back *is* hairy, I don’t want it covered with razor stubble instead.
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Shaved shaft is a must for any safe sex practicing top.
Getting the condom caught in the hairs of your shaft…kills the moment!
And if you like being deep throated, last thing you want is a hair on the shaft getting caught in someone’s teeth.
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No thanks, I’d take a smooth hairless hottie any day than a big foot. Hairless all the way. lol
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I’m not sure I made this completely clear in my original post, so I just want to put this out there: Peter Frampton, if you’re reading this, you are still the hottest guy ever.
EVER!!!
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Yes:
- Beard/scruff
- Chest
- Legs
- Arm
- Pubes
No:
- Shoulders
- Back
- Giant 70s/80s ‘stache that I thought had gone out of style back in the 90s.
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From the 1930s through the 1960s, the movie industry forced movie stars to shave their bodies – body hair was considered too erotic. And humans being humans, a lot of men and women promptly eroticized shaved bodies, since that’s what they saw at the movies. That became a self-fulfilling cycle, and lots of actors have been shaved since the 1960s to take advantage of that initial eroticising.
And, of course, advertisers who sell shaving products have spent billions of dollars over many decades to persuade men and women that shaved is better than not shaved.
With all of that brain-washing aimed at body hair, it’s surprising that it gets popular again every couple of decades – body hair is just too erotic to fully suppress.
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@EManhattan, your Hollywood brainwashing theory has given me new insight into the American public’s stubborn refusal to accept “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” as the glorious cinematic achievement that it clearly is.
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Depends on the guy. I generally prefer the shaft shaved and if the pubic mound is overly hairy I like that trimmed up. Backs, very few guys look good with back hair in my opinion. Pleasure trails? LEAVE THEM ALONE!
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Please for all us hairless guys celebrate your fur, please
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@popingay: I know the feeling. I knew I wasn’t the only relatively smooth guy who preferred their men furry — but sometimes it feels that way. It’s not hard to imagine that the prudish mores of the 30s would have had male movie stars shave their bodies. On the other hand, it’s easier to see the definition on a physique model if his body’s shorn. Remember Colt’s Carl Hardwick? Did you prefer him smooth or furry? Ever see a hairy man with a relatively nice body at a hotel’s swimming pool? It’s hard to take your eyes off him. Just too much exposed manliness.
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I’ve got a nice chest of hair (Russian genes)
I’m not getting rid of it for anybody!
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There isn’t enough time in a year to keep up with trimming the hair on my body at the rate it grows. Eventually, though, ya gotta trim it cause it gets out of control.
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I’ve known this for a long time. It has been apparent since 2007 that this was the direction male objectification was going. The first inclination was Dolce & Gabbana’s 2007 ad for their Light Blue Pour Homme fragrance which featured a model with a hairy chest and happy trail. Hairy Men have been 100% mainstream since then. It just always takes the mass market a while to catch-up
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Just wish this was more see able in the media mainstream
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Still don’t like hairy dudes. Jeez! Getting a mouth full of his body hair… Phoowey!
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While I do like my men furry, it took me a while to get used to men having a lot of back hair. I guess it’s an acquired taste.
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Wow, way for Queerty to COMPLETELY misrepresent that survey by Manhunt. It wasn’t “Do you prefer your men trimmed or un-trimmed?” It was “WHICH PART DO YOU PREFER THAT THEY TRIM.” That’s why the percentages are all OH SO LOW. Because they’re out of 100%. It’s not 3.13% of the population thinking you should shave your chest and then 96.87% thinking you should leave it natural. It’s 3.13% of the population thinking the chest is the most IMPORTANT part of your body to shave, and 96.87% thinking it’s more important to shave/trim something else. That’s why each category (upper and lower body) work themselves out to 100% if you add up the numbers. It takes about 5 seconds with a calculator to figure this out. Come on, Queerty. This is just annoying. And it’s equally annoying that everyone in the comment section seemed to just take the false information at face value, without taking a hot second to actually check out the survey and see that Queerty had it all wrong.
This hurts my brain.
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I am hairy all over so I win…. From top to btm so my guys love the bear in me :)
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Does anyone else appreciate how, when one or both men are hirsute, it’s like our muscles are oiled up? My chest and abs would just slide and glide over his, with just the right amount of friction? Only one guy has to be hairy too! The other dude can be hairless and the effect is the same: very sensual and erotic!!
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My late, gorgeous love was usually clean shaven — unless a role called for facial hair — and his hair pattern was the same as Thomas Magnum’s: no back hair! Playgirl Mag published a photo spread of him undressing until all of his “fur” — and everything else — was exposed! He denied it was he, “I’m a legitimate actor! I would never pose nude for a magazine like that!” But they didn’t cover his birthmark. So, when I got out the magnifying glass, he could no longer deny it, but, I always denied it along with him and still do! We were out, but not about that!
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And yet literally every picture of a shirtless guy in the main page is of a guy who’s been waxed within an inch of his life.