Reply #17: I would consider myself to be part of one sexual minority

[MikeH]

I am a straight heterosexual male, and am mostly traditional in my tastes, lifestyle, and values. I have not suffered outward oppression to the degree that other sexual minorities have.

Where I am probably in the minority, and where my taste definitely differs from the norm in this society, is that I have an attraction to body hair on women which I have had since adolescence. I particularly like hairy legs on women, but also like hair on other parts of women's bodies, such as arms, armpits, and especially the pubic region.

I have never understood why just about everything else has been or become acceptable in our society at some time since the 1960's except for natural body hair on women. It has been one of my disappointments that that has been the case. I am saddened by the fact that women, and now sometimes even men, feel that they have to or are pressured to go through all kinds of pain and trouble to remove body hair, certainly more so than in the 1960's and 1970's. It seems like a plasticized Barbie doll look is an ideal in this present society.

It has bothered me to see in threads about body hair, especially in the lounge, that people feel very free to make comments like gross, yuck, and disgusting about something which is a matter of personal taste, and which they happen to personally dislike. Such comments are very thoughtless, and are really no different than similar comments about the idea of homosexuality or gay or lesbian sex before it became mainstream to accept homosexuality as something perfectly normal and natural. Such comments imply that there is something wrong with me for liking body hair on women, or with anybody else who likes such. I would expect to see such comments in places like Free Republic or on any conservative web site where people are not known to be accepting of others who deviate from cultural norms in any significant way.

I know that there are other people, including other men, who also like female body hair; I have seen posts by such people here on DU. And I have posted on an adult chat board for discussing female body hair; there are other men such as myself who also like and appreciate natural female body hair.