Smooth like Brüno: More than 80 percent of USF male students manscape, says NY Times
July 9, 2009 at 7:59 am by David Warner
For USF men, the new mantra seems to be “Take it off. Take it all off.” According to a New York Times article about the rise in heterosexual manscaping, a University of South Florida grad student has done two (yes, two) studies that show a high percentage of male USF students prefer to go smooth like Brüno.
Little research has been done on male body depilation. But a 2005 study published in the journal Sex Roles found that 63.6 percent of 118 men at the University of South Florida said they trimmed or removed body hair below the neck to be hygienic and attractive. And in a yet-to-be-published survey of 364 male students at the same university, more than 80 percent said they engaged in body depilation, said Michael Boroughs, the lead author of both studies and a graduate student in psychology.
What’s more, he added, there was no statistically significant difference in the number of gay and straight men who tamed the hair on their chests, abs and groin.
Nice to see those research dollars being put to good use.
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