A lot of men want hairless chests, so they shave their chest BUT then naively assume that you're not going to ask them about it. As if somehow the Swedish No-Hair Fairy came to them at night and plucked each follicle while they snored away.
Men like yours are caught between thinking they look sexier with a smooth torso and being completely ashamed/ embarrassed by the fact that they spend time in the bathroom shearing themselves like a sheep in spring time.
Guys, you can't have it both ways.
He snapped at you and is hurt because he can't tolerate you knowing him to be a chest shaver. Ultimately, that's his issue not yours. I don't know what your tone was when you said, "You shave your chest hair?" but I'm guessing it was the content not the decibels that crushed him.
As such, there's nothing you did wrong or need to backpedal from. Rather, he needs to accept his aesthetic needs weren't gifted by DNA and so he's taken action (and a Norelco buzzer) into his own hands.
Lucky me then, that I am naturally hairless wahahaha.
But I do remember a time when chest hair was considered very hot.
Ugh, the guy sounds like a whiny crap. -_- Your "tone was inappropriate"? What? You'd have to try REALLY HARD to have an inappropriate tone when casually asking about shaving one's chest hair. Jeez.
I've got a hairy chest, but never had any complaints about it. I guess I would shave it if a chick wanted me to, but doing it unprompted, without "better sex" on the table seems like an extremely gay thing to be doing.
Well, back in the 70s, possibly very early 80s, a man having a hairy chest was considered extremely sexy. Shaving or removing it even for better sex with a hot woman would still have been considered gay.
FG is spot on I think, some men can be pretty sensible about that kind of thing.
My boyfriend has hairy chest and tummy and I absolutely love it. He shaved when we started dating, but he soon realised that I liked it au naturel.
My first husband had a naturally hairless chest and I liked it that way but later when I remarried, my second husband had a hairy chest and I liked that, too so really, hair is hair today and gone tomorrow or vice versa and really means nothing in the bigger scheme of things.