I swear I wasn't looking at Shaving Soaps!

[mctmatt]

I swear I was looking at Porn and not Shaving Soaps!

I saw this posted somewhere and thought is was pretty funny. I just have these images of some members on this forum tying to convince their significant other with the above title statement! Anyway I thought it was funny!

 

[Emanon]

My wife would never fall for that. As soon as she catches me smoking a cigarette she knows right away that I've been looking at shaving stuff .

 

[Mick]

Oh yea baby!!!

 

[Lamboy]

HAHA. The lady knows me too well. When I said I was ok going antiquing the alarms started ringing.

 

[mastershake]

i just started in the whole shaving thing used to use carts ....., but even though its been just months she know now that half of the stuff that comes to door will be shaving stuff.. and i get that look every time ones shows up.

 

[mctmatt]

Late at night when the only thing that is awake is the darkness. To the computer we go with credit card in hand we began viewing. Italian Barber, Bullgoose, West Coast Shaver, Mike's Natural Soap, QCS, ShoeBox Shave Shop, show me your goods!

 

[JCinPA]

That is funny! Reminds me of a joke. Guy is out on a date with a woman not his wife. Ends up coming home very late and his wife is there with the proverbial rolling pin. On the way home, though, he stops at the local pool hall and chalks his hands.

When he gets in the door the wife says, "And where have you been?"

He responds, "I cannot lie to you, I was out on a date with a hot new secretary from the office."

"Let me see your hands!"

He pulls his hands out of his pocket and she sees the chalk. "You lying b@5ta4d! You've been out playing pool with your no-account friends again, haven't you?!"

 

[Marco]

As about my wife I can say the truth or I can lie. That makes very little difference. She already knows that I'm looking at shaving stuff. Anyway...

 

[coolbus18]

There are days when I enjoy being divorced!

 

[Jerry4roo]

As about my wife I can say the truth or I can lie. That makes very little difference. She already knows that I'm looking at shaving stuff. Anyway...

yep +1

 

[ThePatrician]

I almost think my wife would be happier if I was looking at porn instead of shaving stuff.

That is funny! Reminds me of a joke. Guy is out on a date with a woman not his wife. Ends up coming home very late and his wife is there with the proverbial rolling pin. On the way home, though, he stops at the local pool hall and chalks his hands.

When he gets in the door the wife says, "And where have you been?"

He responds, "I cannot lie to you, I was out on a date with a hot new secretary from the office."

"Let me see your hands!"

He pulls his hands out of his pocket and she sees the chalk. "You lying b@5ta4d! You've been out playing pool with your no-account friends again, haven't you?!"

There was a commercial several years ago for Nissan like this. The husband was out driving, and he eventually heads home. He smears lipstick on his collar, rumples his shirt, and sprays perfume on himself. His wife shakes her head and asks if he was out driving.

 

[dpittman70]

I swear I was looking at Porn and not Shaving Soaps!

Very similar to my statements when my wife sees me looking at the computer.

 

[mharris127]

There are days when I enjoy being divorced!

Never married in my case but yup, I am enjoying it.

 

[BarbaGnosa]

Hmmmm, interesting to see this thread explicitly acknowledging shaving as a kind of sex-substitute. I've been thinking about that.

I've had other pursuits before which became highly, and unexpectedly, sexualized -- tuba. In high school I became a very accomplished tuba player: all state, Tanglewood, Juilliard Pre-College. And I would lust in an acquisitive, admiring, but not completely unsexual way, for a particularly hot tuba, or find myself unusually erotically fascinated by people because they happened to play tuba (and play it really well), or imagine myself dating (and making love) with tubas/playing somehow involved. After being away from it for many years, I recently began playing again and reacquainted myself with the tuba scene, and discovered that the newly minted tuba player of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra was a woman just graduating from conservatory. She soon became literally the darling, diva, and for many tuba players' an obsession driven by her tuba talents and prowess, as well as qualities of a more explicitly carnal nature.

Bizarre, but not rare: obsessions and sexuality tend to have a lot in common. One of my richest examples: I once visited a very religious community in which was located a renowned guard dog training facility where I observed a guy who just three years earlier had been a homeless, drug addicted and dealing street teen, become transformed into a powerful, loving, commanding, inspiring, religious alpha man-dog. I was fascinated to see this otherwise shy, meek, quiet young man in religious garb and regalia transform before my eyes (almost like in a werewolf movie), and certainly in the eyes of the dogs into alpha man-dog, and to watch the dogs respect and love him, and he them, and how he used that relationship to train them. He was a well respected, up and coming dog trainer, a rising star literally saved from the streets and a troubled youth, a shining example of how God and religious communities and good, wholesome, decent work could save the lost. Later, when hanging out at the dog trainers' dorm, over dinner I mentioned this transformation, and how his relationship and interactions with the dogs shared aspects one would typically associate with passion, romance, devotion, love. He blushed and demurred, saying simply it was good for him, good for the dogs, and his dogs were good for their new families and owners -- which all seemed true. Nonetheless, I was not completely surprised when I went to the restroom and found graffiti on the walls prominently featuring human-dog erotica (among every other graffiti subject).

It's true in sports, in business, in probably every area of human endeavor. And, now that I think about it, there's whole subcategories of porn focused on explicit eroticization of shaving and shaved people and parts. That I've not yet seen explicity mentioned on B&B. What I do see is open expressions of lust, desire, admiration, worship, genderized shaving (masculine/feminine scents, shaving like a man, macho razors, svelte curvaceous and seductive brushes, facesturbation, etc.), joy, satisfaction that if you simply replaced one word would be perfectly at home in love or erotic literature, art, advertising, sex-ed, STI discussions, etc.

It's been a while since I've been focused on a domain where so much behavior seems to me so sexualized, both explicitly and implicitly, eroticized and sublimated. Kind of fascinating. I wonder if others have been thinking about this, or -- better yet -- discussing it? As a former student of cultural anthropology who's studied a bit of psychology and psychoanalysis, and as a marketing and media professional, I'm thinking there's lots of there there, and, this being B&B, someone must be discussing it...? Obviously on this site it's going to stay clean and family friendly, which suits me: My interest is academic, research, business: I'm looking for discussions of phenomena, data, analysis, interpretation -- sociological implications and applications. How do people learn about shaving and to shave? From whom? How do people perceive themselves, gender roles and performance vis a vis shaving? What makes shaving masculine, feminine, sexy, gross, hip, uncool, super/sub cultural, un/fashionable, old fashioned vs. vintage vs. cutting edge? What leads people to choose their shaving tools and techniques? What are their explicit criteria of choice, of evaluation, of pleasure? How attitudes and behaviors are associated and change with various sociodemographic factors? How to use that information to market shaving products? How to define and target markets? Trends over time? Data and marketing resources, services, firms? etc. If I knew the market research and strategy people at Gillette or Art of Shaving I'd expect them to know, but I don't... yet.

 

[Price]

Hmmmm, interesting to see this thread explicitly acknowledging shaving as a kind of sex-substitute. I've been thinking about that. I've had other pursuits before which became highly, and unexpectedly, sexualized -- tuba. In high school I became a very accomplished tuba player: all state, Tanglewood, Juilliard Pre-College. And I would lust in an acquisitive, admiring, but not completely unsexual way, for a particularly hot tuba, or find myself unusually fascinated by tuba players with special talent. It's been a long time since I've been involved in an interest area where so much behavior seems to me so sexualized, both explicitly and implicity, eroticized and/or sublimated. Kind of fascinating. I wonder if others have been thinking about this, or -- better yet -- discussing it online?

Someone's bucking for a custom title.

 

[seanusa]

I guess I'm lucky, I converted my wife to DE a couple of months ago and while not as obsessed as me she still enjoys looking over my shoulder at pics, posts, and general shavery.

 

[BarbaGnosa]

Someone's bucking for a custom title.

His dudeness, duder, or el dudorino...
Hot tuba, Dude -- don't knock it til ya try it.

 

[Greg1911]

Who knew Tubas could be considered hot?

MORE importantly...are there any groupies out there for tuba players?

 

[BarbaGnosa]

who knew tubas could be considered hot?
More importantly...are there any groupies out there for tuba players?

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