Talk:Underarm hair

message: This article currently focuses almost exclusively on the removal of underarm hair. Besides its lack of scope, this article seriously lacks citations.
Here are some suggestions for direction of this article:
* Add biological information. Who, what, where, why, how. Also: How is axillary hair different than other hair? How does it vary amongst ethnicities, races, geographies, etc.?
* Discuss social attitudes towards it. How has this varied over time and amongst different cultures? See the pubic hair article for an example of this.
* A picture should be added.
* Add sources, references, and links.
Emiellaiendiay 00:43, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestions and comments

message: I would suggest this image be used for this page.
65.11.12.249 14:23, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I second this  Nick Michael 22:18, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New image 

message: I propose a subsection of armpit hair in art, similar to that of pubic hair. The interesting thing is that unlike pubic hair, where there are portrayals in art from the middle ages (albeit rare), which become gradually more common in the renaissance and quite the norm in modern times, axillary hair draws a complete blank until, I believe, the late 19th century; and this goes for both males and females. Why this should be is a puzzle to me. Did our ancestors shave their armpits? Was axillary hair regarded as more 'shameful' than pubic hair? The whole thing is a mystery. If anyone is aware of any early portrayals of axillary hair in art (say up to about 1800), I should be most interested to know.Nick Michael 22:16, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Axillary hair in art 

message: Im Cuban and French and spent most of my childhood in Europe due to our fathers work.
None of my female relatives ever shaved any part of their body and none of them we're/are lazy. Three of them hold PhD's, four are medical doctors,teachers,nurses and on and on.
I never had a negative statement about my lack of shaving till I went to school in the US.
When I was in High School there a girl who followed me home and beat the hell out of me on my way home because "only nasty dykes dont shave".
what's the point of the last picture of 2 teenagers making stupid faces? 76.238.52.214 14:59, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: More suggestions

message: This is supposed to be the article about Underarm hair, not its removal. Perhaps it ought to be rewritten. --arny (talk) 19:41, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  And once again... 

message: The section below is poorly worded. I moves from Western world to Religion to Islam and then jumps to Western world but with no way to know if it is talking about Islamic men in the west or just aestheticly minded men in the west. I suggest that the last reference to Western world be moved with the other information at the start of the paragraph and then reworded to indicate that those men who do remove in the west do so for aesthetic reasons rather than implying that it is the norm in the west. Finding the original reference might be helpful as well.
Today in much of the Western world, it is more common for women to regularly shave their underarm hair, but this practice is uncommon among men. The prevalence of this practice varies widely, though. Religious reasons are sometimes cited; for example, in Islamic culture, both men and women remove underarm hair to meet religious guidelines of cleanliness. Removal of underarm hair was part of a collection of hygienic or cosmetic practices recommended by Muhammad (570-632) as consistent with fitra for both women and men and has since usually been regarded as a requirement by most Muslims.[2] In much of the Western world, men also choose to remove their underarm hair for aesthetic reasons.
Idyllic press (talk) 20:03, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflict 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The 2nd and 3rd sections are, in my opinion, written like a schoolchild would, and not very encyclopedic. --~~~~ CommieKarlovy (talk) 19:08, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The whole thing is junk to be honest - basically needs restructuring and rewriting from scratch. Iskandar323 (talk) 20:43, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It wasn't actually a big job - removing the unencyclopedic essay writing, synth and other nonsense left a fairly bare-boned, readily re-ordered skeleton of academic studies. Iskandar323 (talk) 05:34, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article has some problems 

message: old:
А 2012 study on the impact of hair removal on odor found that shaved armpits were rated as being more pleasant, attractive, and less intense compared to the unshaved armpits, an effect that persisted up to around 3 weeks of regrowth. Shaved armpits was shown to be significantly more attractive than armpits where hair had been regrowing for 6 or 10 weeks
what the study says:
"Odors of the shaved armpits were rated more pleasant, attractive, and less intense compared to the unshaved armpits (Experiment I (group N)). However, no significant differences found in Experiments II and III (group N) suggest the effect of shaving is relatively minor. Moreover, there were no significant differences in odor comparing unshaved armpits with armpits after 1 week of regrowth"
With all due respect, Cripplemac (talk) 10:07, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Odor section