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When I was a kid, and naturally hairless below the scalp, I couldn’t wait to grow up to be a man. The act of shaving one’s face was a rite of passage I was eager to reach as a pre-adolescent. The grown-up guys with hair on their chests, on their forearms and on their legs (and between them) were symbols of maturity and virility. I was a kid in the 70s, when the hairy-chested Burt Reynolds aesthetic was the ideal. … Continue reading →