Yup. Sucks, doesn't it? I don't think leg hair is inherently gross, but at this point we've become so used to your smooth, silky gams that the alternative has lost most of its "appeal." It's like how right after you eat a delicious meal at a fancy restaurant, the cold Taco Bell in the fridge doesn't seem as fantastic as it did when you were paying 89 cents for it.
In case you're not following the analogy (and who could blame you?), your hairy legs are the cold burritos. I don't think any guy I know--at least any born after 1956--prefers hairy legs to shaved, and even if one did, I doubt he'd admit it. No one likes Godfather III the most; no one likes hairy legs on their lady.
If you're sick of shaving, the best you can reasonably hope for is that your man won't notice or care, which is possible. But I wouldn't draw his attention to your new fur, or ask him which he prefers, because you already know the answer.
If it's any consolation, I hate shaving my face, but I do it, because the face-hair my body produces and sarcastically calls a "beard" is more akin to a raccoon pelt that's been run through a laundry press. I guess what I'm saying is, I feel you sister. And you feel smooth and approachable.
I just want to add that while they may prefer shaved, they aren't going to not have sex with you just because you are a little "furry" either. I once said "I didn't shave my legs...wanna fuck anyway?" and was attacked with reckless abandon despite the fact that I felt like chewbaca...
So try to shave but don't worry if you don't.
I have never shaved my legs. It has never once, not ever ever ever, in years of sex and dating, put a guy off. Maybe it's because I tend to go for the decent guys/girls, the ones that you can have a laugh with, who you've spent enough time with casually to know that they're not some raging conservative or something, but I have never had anyone have a problem with it.
Although I've never shaved, and that does make the hair quite blonde and quite soft, even though I'm a brunette. It's about an inch long all over and I'm 22. I'm not a super looker, but I've had fun with sex both in and out of relationships, and I can tell you right now that unless you go for the guy who is solely all about looks, it won't matter in a relationship because you'll love each other beyond physicalities, and it won't matter for casual sex because, let's face it, unless you've gone for an asshat, you're choosing to sleep with someone, and that's always an awesome feeling. I doubt anyone would say no, if you're getting right down to the deep and dirty. If you stop them and say "excuse me, before you penetrate me wildly and wonderfully, I feel I should tell you about the slight fuzz of hair I have below my knees that you won't even feel. If you want to stop, I totally understand" absolutely no one is going to say "yeah, that's gross. No sex for me, thanks. I'll get my coat."
I genuinely do not understand why we as a species pretend to be something we're not. Yes, the media tells us this and that, and yes, advertising is designed to make us all feel awful, but at the end of the day, I'm a rational, capable human being and I don't understand why, if it doesn't get me clean or enhance the natural pieces of beauty I have (like lipstick on full lips, or mascara to make my blonde eyelashes stand out) I should buy into this bullshit and pretend I'm not a natural, curvy, human woman. Le sigh.
I started shaving when I was 13, because I started growing very black hair on my very pale legs. Not shaving doesn't mean you will have thin light hair. That's a myth. Yours may not be very noticeable, but mine was, and it embarrassed me, so I removed it. On the other hand, I have never had to use mascara because my eyelashes are also long, full, and black. :)
Perhaps not blonder then, but you know what I mean, if you let hair grow back after you've shaved it, for a while it's all prickly and darker-looking as opposed to having a natural, softer end to the hair. Shaving also means you're more likely to have split hairs grow, which also makes it look darker.
Mine embarrassed me too, but then I thought about why it embarrassed me, and realised it was a societal thing that I frankly didn't give a monkeys about. It wouldn't have mattered for me if it was thick or thin or whatever, seriously, because it's not about an aesthetic thing for me. It's the fact that that is what is natural for me and for all women if they would just allow themselves to be treated like people instead of beauty icons with a whole heap more superficial pressure than men.
Not saying that everyone who shaves is sheeple, I understand why some people do it. Sometimes people can be cruel and it's expected and some have an aesthetic preference for it, but most are just doing it because it "feels right" because "you should", because "it's gross not to." That's social conditioning talking, not your inner opinion because that would sound a lot more positive as opposed to getting rid of a negative.
You really have to understand yourself and think about whether it comes from an external place or from your own personal internal feeling. I'd rather put up with a bit of pathetic bullying and know that I'm not just changing my body for the rubbish reason that it's because it's what is expected. :) One person at a time can change the world.
Anon, its a shame you didnt put your name, we have some similarities doll.
I do want to say though, I shave my legs, I like when they feel smooth and sexy, for myself and sometimes, for others. : )
I usually shave (I like the clean feeling, especially in summer- my legs feel dirty otherwise), but sometimes I let it go. I have never had a man object or, unless I point it out, even notice.
You gotta do whatever makes you comfortable, that's it.
Michael, I'm legitimately shocked that not once did you make a joke out of the fact that this girl typed "hair leg" instead of "leg hair".
AHAHAHA! I didn't even notice either! :P
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