Who in here has had a "Brazilian" wax?

[Scooter24]

Went to the day spa today with a friend of mine (I'm a dude) to make our appointments for tomorrow and when reading the list of treatments offered to men, I saw "Brazilian Wax" listed. I asked my friend if it was worth it and she raved about how "awesome" it was and how "clean" you feel. Is this procedure as painful as it sounds? My friend signed up for one and she urged me too, but I don't quite know if I'm that brave. lol...

Has a man in here braved this treatment? :P

[donco6]

1. Let's see . . .

having your pubes ripped out by the roots . . . painful? Nah! BE A MAN, YOU WUSS.

[WindRavenX]

2. um

As a woman, I try to keep boiling liquids away from my cha-cha :hi:
But that's just me...

[Scooter24]

4. hehe

And the nice man behind the counter made it sound so pleasant too...

:D

[WindRavenX]

7. yeah

A man.
Would YOU like your genitals covered in boiling wax? :)

[Maple]

3. I don't know why

anybody would have such an insane thing done.

Hair has roots for a reason!

[Pithlet]

5. No way.

People rave about it. But, no way. :scared:

[derby378]

6. To quote Frondi: "Yeah, yeah...NO."

Why on Earth would anyone go through that? No swimsuit is worth it.

If you want to trim yourself down there, do like everyone else and use a safe electric shaver. Me, I'll pass.

[legally blonde]

8. Good Lord No!

I have a low threshold of pain and that just sounds horrible!

[yvr girl]

9. It's not so bad

It hurts a bit, but I've experienced worse. The clean feeling is great.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

11. Clean feeling?

Yeah, well, if you never learned how to wipe properly, I guess the notion of getting necessary hair - it's there for a reason, you know - ripped out is appealing.

There really are other ways to get dommed.

Then, when it starts growing out, you get that lovely stubble-and-itch thing, with accompanying bumps and scratches.

All this to appeal to a fantasy of being a prepubescent girl who can screw.

I sometimes wonder about women. I really do.

[Dogmudgeon]

14. Don't knock the fantasy

Don't knock the fantasy of being a pre-pubescent girl who can screw. If there were more women who were into it, the pre-pubescent girls of the world might have one less thing to worry about.

There are better things for girls to do than worry about pedophiles -- like learning how to smoke, and backsass, and show how sexy they are by hanging around in malls and doing nothing.

--p!
Paging Dolores Haze, paging Dolores Haze ...

[OldLeftieLawyer]

54. Oy.

Talk about not getting it.

That's all right. You're clearly preoccupied with stereotypes. Enjoy.

[LynzM]

56. Hrm...

I'd say you might be preoccupied with stereotypes, as well. The notion that someone wants to get rid of hair 'that is there for a reason' because they can't stay clean if they don't... yeah, let's just say, that's not necessarily the reason, nor the desire to impersonate a pre-pubescent.

[Dogmudgeon]

57. You're taking it too literally

It may have been a little too subtle, but I made two other posts to this thread, one of which was utterly over-the-top.

I don't consider pubic hair waxing to be a very serious subject. I find pedophilia to be very disturbing but I'm also not too happy with the huge quantity of the "kill the pedos" posts on DU. And as for one's sexual preferences, consensual=sacred.

--p!
Gevalt.

[yvr girl]

15. I generally don't go the waxing route

Shaving is cheaper. I don't do it for the reason you suggest either. Let's just say that women have messier things to be concerned with - especially once a month. Bare is easier to keep clean.

[Maple]

12. The major question is

WHY?

Have a shower if you want to feel 'clean'

You wouldn't rip out all the hair on your head!

Why do it there?

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

21. I would love get one if I had the money to spend on it...

Even better would be to get the hair removed permanently. I've tried the do-it-yourself wax, and it just doesn't work well at pulling out the hairs.

I find pubic hair to be so annoying. Shaving always leaves those little red bumps. The appeal of the wax is that you don't have the red bumps, and it takes longer for the hair to grow back. Supposedly, the hair doesn't grow back as thick either.

[Cadence]

38. That's true.

It doesn't grow back anywhere near as thick when you wax. I'm with you I hate those red bumps from shaving. I don't experience that with waxing. Waxing lasts three weeks.
There is a tea tree creme based wax from gigi along with the warmer that works really, really well for at home. Use the numbing spray and it's easy.

I hear you about the permanent. I guess there is laser but I haven't looked into it that much to see how well it works.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

50. Never heard of that product...

I'll have to look into it.
I just tried the Nair sugaring wax. It didn't work very well at all. I ended up with a rash because it took to many rips to pull the hair off.

[Wilber_Stool]

10. Jeezus Christ!!!!

I have a hard time taking a band aid off my arm.

[Dogmudgeon]

13. But it's hip, it's happenin'!

Considering that millions of people in the Civilized World just live to be spanked, tatooed, whipped, pierced, branded, tortured with hot fluids and electrical devices, and otherwise suffer physical torment for the chance to "break on through to the other side," the mania for waxing comes as no surprise.

--p!
When I want to be at my smoothest, I just clamp some seriously big springs on sprigs of hair and get my yank on.

[Maple]

16. Good point

WTF is wrong with people?

Do we miss the Spanish Inquisiton or what??

[derby378]

22. "Millions?"

And I don't exactly consider hot wax to be torture - I plunged my hand into a vat of the stuff at Scarborough Faire and you don't see me whining about it. It's not that terrible.

[Cadence]

17. It hurts. No doubt about it.

There is a numbing spray that makes it tolerable. Waxing is nice because you only have to do it once every three to four weeks.

I can't believe there are people on here getting all up in arms over this. Man, get a life!

[Hell in a Handbasket]

18. would it be the frank, or the beans?

because wax getting ripped off my boys is NOT something im prepared to tolerate.

[Scooter24]

19. Not sure...

He said "all...front and back"

I'm guess that would include that...

[Cadence]

20. Yeah it's everything.

They did it on HBO once.. some guys lost a bet and all three of them had to get everything waxed. They didn't handle it well.

[Scooter24]

23. Is it more like

"Owwwww...Damnit" kind of pain? Or will I need to bring something a towel to bite on and some tissues for the tears?

[Hell in a Handbasket]

24. i think it would be lots of tears...but then again, i am, shall we say

particularly blessed in that department.

[Cadence]

25. LOL. But you're so modest!

:D

[yvr girl]

26. That's hard to say - it depends on your tollerance

It is one of the more painful areas to get waxed, but it's over quick. I've been in more pain from cramps...but then I've had to go to emergency on more than one occasion for them...and I've also passed out. I've never cried when having anything waxed.

[Scooter24]

28. My tolerance is pretty high

which is why I'm guessing this won't be so bad.

It couldn't get any worse than the pain I went through getting my nipple pierced. :D

[yvr girl]

30. Do you know anyone who has an epilady

If you do, try it out. They were worse in my opinion, because they were slower than one quick rip.

[Cadence]

31. No it's not worse than that.

I got my belly button pierced a few years ago, and that hurt to the point where I felt kinda like passing out for a second.
That pretty much ended my piercing phase. It was over before it really began.

[Scooter24]

34. I had

my tongue, left eyebrow, and left nipple done....took them all out last year though. I have one in each ear now plus one in my left cart. No tattoos though. Those don't heal :)

[JimmyJazz]

35. Really - I had my navel pierced and I didn't bat an eyelash

seriously - that was nothing compared to the two hours it took for my tattoo. I thought the belly button piercing was a walk in the park. Although a friend said it was the worst pain EVAH. I guess it depends on who does it? :shrug:

[Cadence]

36. Yeah it depends on the person. I have a friend

that threw up from the pain, and another that didn't think anything of it. :shrug:

[JimmyJazz]

37. I never thought a thing about it - but my tat: damn, I had a rush for

48 hours after that! I laughed through the whole thing, too even though it's pretty big. I guess after having kids, these things aren't that painful, relatively speaking :loveya: sweetums

[Cadence]

39. .

:loveya:

[JimmyJazz]

40. Do *I* look like BigMcLargeHuge to You????

:P

[Cadence]

42. Hmmmm I don't know... do this

[JimmyJazz]

43. how 'bout I do this instead:

[Cadence]

44. ROTFLMAO!!!

I don't even have a comeback.. I'm laughing so hard!

[JimmyJazz]

45. good. I win.

[Cadence]

47. I'll get better ammo and see you back

here tomorrow night! :evilgrin:

[Cadence]

27. If you're seriously going to do it.

Find a store that sells gigi numbing spray. Or get numbing spray like lidocaine. It's worth it.
You know you have different equipment than I do- but I think it's more like Owwwwww... Dammit. It gets easier the more you do it.

[Scooter24]

29. I think I'm going to be a big boy

and brave it tomorrow. They had a whole range of stuff available there to buy, so maybe they have something just for numbing.

[bettyellen]

32. It feels like a slap in the face.

Only, it's obviously not your face. Not that big of a deal. I've done much more difficult things for the people I love.

[Cadence]

41. LOL! A slap in the face

You're too funny. I'm single and do it for myself because I hate shaving with a passion. But when I wasn't single I remember... wait I think I remember...yep.. yep I do. There was more sensitivity. Bonus. :D :thumbsup:

[bettyellen]

46. yes, there's are up side i hadn't expected at all....

and trust me, none of it had anything to do with being childlike.
If he wanted a child-woman, he wouldn't have been interested in me in the first place.

[Cadence]

49. Yeah- I know.

Some people try to make issues out of everything. I thought it was unnecessary.

[bettyellen]

67. grooming habits are not neccesarily political.....it's about taste,

individual desires, experiences and the wide variety of each of those things. life would be a bit of a bore without those things.
Once in a while I get my nails done, I've been judged poorly for that, too. I don't need anybody judging my feminist credentials or making assumptions about me on that basis. Fuck that narrow minded old school feminism.

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[Lavender Brown]

60. Really?

I thought you were naturally smooth.

[Withywindle]

48. No, friggin' way!

Nuh uh.


And I have tattoos. They hurt, but at least I like the way they look. I think the pubeless look is NASTY.

[Dogmudgeon]

51. The Tech: A Man's Approach to Manly Depilation

(WARNING: Contains sexist material. But it’s also funny. So choose yer poison.)

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Men, if you’re serious about depilating your Manly Area(s) without being reduced to the shameful tears of a woman, you need a Man’s approach to the problem.

You need a Tech.

A woman takes the pain, and weeps, and thanks her Lord for permitting her the luxury of toiling another day. A Man finds a Solution, Solves the Problem, and invents (and subsequently patents) a TECH.

For waxing na modo Brasiliero, the Tech will involve a few separate, but indispensible parts.

First, you need something to open the pores of the hairs up. You need to open ‘em wide, like thirty thousand horny cheerleaders doing leg-ups on a giant field of grass.

The time-honored pore-opener is heat. Hot compresses on the area will open those pores up in a jiff. Hot wax does the same thing, but you want to make sure that what’s open stays open. At the salon, pre-heat your Manly Mound of Mars with a washcloth or small towel that has been soaked with water as hot as you can tolerate it.

Tool number two: An orally-active painkiller. Alcohol is the traditional potation of the bold, hard-living, carefree Meninos sem cérebros do Brasil, but the more civilized palate of the urban executive Alpha Male may demand nothing less than pharmaceutical oxycodone hydrochloride. One 5 mg. Percocet® brand analgesic tablet per 80 pounds of body weight ought to do the trick. If you want to live close to the edge, make that dose one per 150 pounds and top it off with a classy beer, like Samuel Adams or Anchor Steam. Your waxeuse may be impressed enough to arrange one or more private after-wax check-ups.

And if you’re one of those rare Manly Men who can take it au naturel, you deserve a blow job from the entire staff, at the very least.

The third tool in the box of Masculine Depilation Tech is local anesthetic. Benzocaine and Lidocaine solutions and cremes are widely available. A 10% benzocaine solution is the gold standard for numbing out a patch of skin. Soak some into a length of paper towel or a few “surgical sponges” (actually squares of sterile cloth), put it in contact with the skin, overlayer with some Saran® Wrap or other plastic sheeting, then apply a new hot washcloth/towel. It will take 5-20 minutes for the benzocaine to sink in.

Thirty minutes after pre-treating with the Percs, the benzocaine, the hot compresses and the special (but optional) Neuro-Linguistic Programming Mind Control CDs you brought along for some extra mental muscle, your combat zone will be ready for action. You should be numb locally and globally.

The final component of the Tech is a bullet. It’s for you to bite on. If you’re persnickety about your teeth, you can substitute a non-metal object. A cigar is Manly, but does not offer much resistence to your bite; a hunk of well-seasoned oak, poplar, or polyethylene is to be preferred.

At this point, give your depilatory technicienne the pre-arranged signal.

The wax is poured and lovingly sculpted to conform to the root of your Manhood as wide-weft cloth is worked into the cereous mass. It cools a little, stiffens, as your waxeuse performs her own mental preparation, recalling (as vividly as she can) the time that guy from the States told her that he was a producer for Girls Gone Wild and got her drunk and did things to her that would bring shame to her family.

At the peak of concentration, acting on the flawlessly imprinted years, perhaps weeks of experience, she executes her most graceful arranco dos cabelos ondulados; then voilà!, the deed is done.

You are now as nude as a little boy, yet you remain All Man. And the women, well, the women will swoon and clamor for your presence in the quarto do prazeres sem cuidados.

Just as soon as you can be scraped off of the ceiling.

--p!

[SarahB]

52. Nope

I'm a woman though. I don't know of any man who would in all honesty. I think it might even lead to bleeding in the scrotal area. There is a very small layer of skin and it's heavily vascular. Not something I'd recommend for a man because of those factors. If I'm correct, those things just leave a very tiny little landing strip sort of line for women, so I'm not sure for men (bald?). I've had waxing done before, but just more of a general thing getting rid of anything that could excessively pop out of a swimsuit kind of thing. I doubt I'd do it again because everywhere on me grows quickly so to have that done (even to pay for it) and have it only last a week and a half really isn't worth it. Buy a good razor, change the blade often, exfoliate prior, and moisturize. That helps with irritation if one chooses to shave partially or completely or whatever.

As for clean, showering works wonders. That shouldn't have anything to do with "hairstyle".

[Bouncy Ball]

63. Landing strip?

LOL, I call it a "racing stripe."

[Hell in a Handbasket]

65. i prefer 'mohawk'. nt

[BlondieK143]

53. I've thought about it.

I'm not a big fan of hair. At all. Even when I'm single (which is how it is currently). I'm just not so sure I can handle the pain. :D I don't see it as a "clean" thing nor as a prepubescent girl (wtf was THAT comment all about?!), it's about how comfortable I am with my body. For me, I'm just more comfortable without it. Let us know how it goes! :D

[shesemsmom]

55. NO WAY

I have enough pain in my life with out paying for it too lol

[Briarius]

58. It's something I've considered

let us know how bad it is :D

[Cadence]

59. Be sure to give us an update! n/t

[HEyHEY]

61. Is that something your mom does?

:P

[Bouncy Ball]

62. As soon as someone can tell me the advantages

of being bald "from butt to front" (as the spa lady told me where the Brazilian wax is done), I'll think about it.

But that's likely all I'll do.

I've used a razor. Completely. The growing back was NOT fun. And I didn't even particularly like it right off the bat, either.

I just don't think it's for everyone. I don't like a jungle-ey look, but bald? No thanks.

[One_Life_To_Give]

64. What do you do with the Legs then?

So if a guy gets this done. What do we do with the other hairy parts?

(If they skipped the Scrotum might think about it. Otherwise, you have got to be kidding! That skin ain't strong enough for waxing IMHO)

[plcdude]

66. personally

from a this male's perspective pubic hair on women is totally erotic and arousing. We are adults and it is part of adulthood and maturity. The bald or landing strip look is a real turn off. I trim my beard so it doesn't look all scraggly/wooley but neat. We should do a poll on this one on how people feel about it. I think pubic hair is sexy, but then I am just one man.