You know leg shaving started only about 100 years ago…(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leg_shaving) apparently as dresses got shorter the tendency increased…
I think it is silly…
Nothing wrong with hairy legs…
I’m going to go ahead and mark you in the, “Minority,” column on that one, I’m afraid.
It seems like the liking of such by men has to do with interest in youth…
Strangely, of all of the women I have ever dated or slept with, only one has been younger than me while the oldest had 20+ years on me. With respect to the one younger than me, it was only by eleven months.
The response to hairy legs on a woman is just conditioned, the razor companies may have been instrumental in starting the fad. I really don’t care too much whether or not the vagina is shaved, as long as it’s not fucking ridiculous down there.
I just don’t want to look at a woman’s legs and think, damn, they look just like mine!
To each his or her own, but my reaction when seeing the pic in the OP was “Ew!” 
I have to think there’s some photoshopping involved there.
I can’t speak to why men may or may not like it, but from one woman’s perspective, the underlying motivation is mostly tactile - I very much prefer the way my legs feel when they are clean-shaven.
Probably the same reason I have a slight bias against facial hair in men - just too scratchy.
I tend to think of body hair as a masculine feature.
That’s why it doesn’t appeal to me when it comes to women.
Smooth legs feel nicer…and yeh, look better too. And, tbh, hairy arm-pits are quite sexy.
Nobody wants to fuck a sasquatch.
Save women apparently… long, curly, luxurious backhair apparently is deeply attractive to them- why else would men have it?
I need to start collecting quotes of I write… that first tone above is catchy. Nobody wants to fuck a sasquatch. Should be in a chinese fortune cookie.
Good thing we’re in Mundane Babble; we’ll just overlook that small, hardly even noticeable, bit of inconsistency in your logic.
Yeah I feel that way about head hair.
I agree. I got used to it when I was in a very lefty, hippie area. Stubbly legs are the worst, but even hairless legs feel weird to me now. Just another way we taught women to think there was something wrong with their bodies. We do this to men also, but man is money to be made on women’s self hate.
But leg hair is soft, at least on the women I’ve known. And I rather like the feeling, as a guy, of that soft, very slight, resistance. I think this is purely cultural. The associations are bad, so it feels back.
I agree, however, about the beard. I grew a beard for over a year once. People kept telling me it would get softer. It never did. Every time I rolled over in the night it was like nuzzling and industrial brillo pad. I hated it. But the hairs on my face were nothing like women’s leg hair.
I agree with the latter sentiment. I am a beast. I want to mate with another beast. Man, it’s enough of a pain in the ass, so to speak, having to shave my face every day. I can’t imagine how women deal with armpit shaving and leg shaving. And who wants a razor cut in the armpit. I cringe in sympathy.
But then, why do women have leg hair? Start waxing grizzly.
I’m sure it is at least partly cultural and I agree that we all get more than our fair share of messages telling us how deficient we are, generally from those who sell products to remedy those “deficiencies.”
Yes, I’d say in general women’s leg hair is softer and finer to the touch than a man’s beard. But in saying that I love the feeling I get from shaving my legs, I don’t mean “to the touch,” exactly. I mean the sensation my legs get from being clean-shaven, as opposed to the feeling in my fingertips from touching my leg, if that makes any sense. It might not, I am tired. 
Anyway, there’s sort of an increased sensuousness when wearing hosiery or even in pants, when my legs are perfectly smooth. It just feels a lot nicer.
It’s a good thing that there are men who find – for lack of a better word – unshaved women more attractive, as there are women who have no desire or intention to shave. It’s fortuitous when diversity in appearance aligns with diversity in attraction (see also the “Fat Chick” thread).
Yeah, I saw the fat chick thread. What a guy. Or maybe he was just trying to get a rise.
My wife shaves in the summer. I don’t mope around the house, but she ain’t shaving for me.
Of course, I like body odor too. Within limits, I suppose. But I like the smell of a woman’s armpit and if I find the smell of artificial flowers, ugh. I mean, I assume we should be turned on by sweat and the smell of each other’s bodies. Not how they smell after two weeks without a shower or what the enclosed space of a man’s shoe can create…
but I seem not to have been affected by all the brainwashing around how one had better sterilize, deorderize, de-mammalize - OK, they are allowed to have breasts in the modern world, but the rest of their mammalness - the female body.
And now women are getting into shaving their pubic hair.
Black women straighten and dye their hair, it seems as a rule.
Fake fingernails.
Hair that doesn’t move.
Layers of chemicals filled with toxic heavy metals.
And then all the plastic surgery.
I really think we should meet mudcovered under trees more often.
What are women going to do when via gene modification they can ‘fix’ their daughters.
We think we are way above cliterodectomies, but I am not so sure.
Naw… you’ll be blamed for the yeast infection. The reason why I don’t take women camping with me anymore. That- plus the damn bear that nearly ate her. I don’t think she ever fully forgave me for almost being eaten by it- but I got some good closeups two inches from the bear’s face:
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I’m sorry… but I’m voting no on the unshaven legs thing… and the armpit smell thing… if nothing else, I like people who invest time maintaining themselves and keeping themselves presentable, tells me that they actually give a damn. NOT shaving is not an activity… and tells me either that your lazy (if you think shaved legs are nicer) or nothing at all (if you don’t).
Is the universe lazy, or nothing at all?
Hmmmm…
Theory of the Lazy Universe. The Big Yawn. Got around to making life eventually, but apparently only here… too lazy to do it elsewhere.