i don't shave my legs very often i just lack time and motivation. only if someone else is going to see them do i feel the need for them to be hairless. and since i only seem to own pants and a few long skirts i only shave my legs when i'm in a relationship or when i'm going to a doctors appointment and i have to wear one of those horrible ass flashing robe thingies.

i dont mind really fine and light colored leg hair on a girl but mine is way to dark in contrast to my skin for me to feel comfortable not shaving it when others will see my legs. plus the feeling of 4 silky smooth legs rubbing up against eachother under silky sheets..................................um.............ya..........................i obviously have mixed feelings about this issue. you do not have to shave your legs if u don't want to. i know many lesbians who don't and nude models too oddly enough...........oh drawing class :) if you can feel comfortable showing off fuzzy legs go for it.

oh and i don't like or understand makeup either. i've been told i'm to femme to not shave my legs or wear makeup but i don't care. each to their own, i think.

I just seriously hate having hair on my legs I shave them at least every other day.

Though it does't bother me if other women have hair on their legs just as long as it isn't a lot ad looks like mens legs

I used to shave when I had PE at school as my teacher got annoyed if you didn't wear shorts. The only reason I did it was because I didn't want to stand out, basically so I shaved maybe the night before I'd have it. Now, though after several months of not having PE at school, I haven't shaved once. I don't feel the need to; if I'm not going to be exposing my legs very much then why should I? I wish I had the confidence to just not do it at all and it's something I hope to work on.

But really it's all down to what you're comfortable with - I'm off on holiday soon and will be wearing swimwear a lot and I know if I don't shave I'll feel a bit self-conscious so the easiest thing for me to do at the moment is to shave if I know I'll feel like that. In an ideal world noone would worry about things like that...

I don't wear makeup either which for some reason amuses my mum and sister... and according to my mum I should shave because of 'personal hygiene' and 'because you have to take some pride in yourself'. Hair's natural, I have such difficulty understanding why people hate it so much.

A couple of years ago, I was very very concerned with hair and always worried about whether I was too hairy or not. It was weird. I decided I absolutely must get over it, so I made myself leave my legs unshaved for three months. It was probably one of the best things I could have done for my psyche and self confidence.

I've shaved since, of course, and I do when I feel like it. It's nice to never feel pressured into shaving by anything or anyone. I usually shave if I'm going to be wearing a dress or skirt somewhere that would make other feel kinda weird. I have one very, very hairy friend and she always has her enormously hairy armpits showing off out of her little tank tops, and I feel weird about that, so I try not to weird people out with my body hair.

I've never dated any women who were opposed to leg hair. Most of them actually think it's hot. I kinda think leg hair's hot too, but shaved is also hot.

What about armpit hair ,what do you guys think of that?

i don't really care. Some chicks i've seen have really long leghair, though and it looks gross. Not just because it's on a woman..I don't like looking at men with really hairy legs either.

I shave mine, but sometimes I forget. I've gotten less self-conscious about leg hair though.

I got a dick like a mule...with a big dick.

I don't like having leg hair so i shave when i can, yet i don't think i could be with a girl who didn't shave every so often although i could live with it, i suppose. It's not gonna keep me from dating someone but if she just refused to shave based on feminism and such it would be a bit much. that doesnt really make an important statement. it just perpetuates the stereotype of being a dirty feminist hippy

armpit hair on the other hand...i don't grow it so i've never had the problem and don't know much about it but i think it's gross when women and men alike have it out there.

Of course all of this is linked to society and what we see as normal and i can admit that.

Each to their own. But personally don't understand what leg hair has to do with feminism. Be a feminist, absolutely, but can't you have smooth legs at the same time? Same as make up, my right to vote and have equality in the world bears no relation to me wanting to feel sexy by wearing make up if I choose to.

So...no you don't have to shave your legs. You don't have to wear make-up either. Whatever makes you feel comfortable - but I don't think it makes you more of a feminist than a lipstick lesbo. And as an aside, when it comes to hair and the bikini line...I draw the line there, feminist or not, this should be trimmed, plucked, waxed AT ALL TIMES!! :-)

I like shaving my legs because when I do, I feel they are more sensitive to the touch than when they are hairy.  I feel the same way about points north of my legs. 

I like women I am with to shave as much or as little as they like.  The more comfortable they feel, the sexier they are.  I don't want my girlfriend thinking about whether or not her legs are shaved and what my response will be, I want her to enjoy the moment.  That's much more attractive.

I don't care one way or the other with regard to being with someone, I am more concerned about how they feel about themselves.  If they feel comfortable and confident about the way they have their legs (furry or not) then so do I.  I would tend to be more irritated if they had their legs one way or the other just to make an impression.  I just want a woman to be themselves.

As for me, I over the years have been furry and clean shaven depending on life at the moment.  Sometimes in winter and really busy with work I just didn't shave then in spring felt more like I wanted to shave.  I sort of feel like hair just comes and goes and I don't really get attached to it one way or the other. 

It's funny you bring this up because a few years ago when I came out to my mom...as a feminist, (the lesbian thing came a bit later) She asked me ifI was going to stop shaving. I brought this up in a group of about 6 other women in this feminist group I was in and only me and another girl shaved. They all used reasons like protecting against cancer in deodarant with shaving, and generally not giving in to beauty standards.

Earlier this year I did my own lil experiment and tried not shaving my armpits and legs, I could last a little bit longer with my legs since my hair doesn't grow in that thick, but I could not take the armpits at all. I had to shave! I just can't stand armpit hair my friend's girlfriend doesn't shave under her arms and the first time I noticed we were at dinner and it grossed me out (sorry to all those non shavers) so I just can't get with that. But, to each its own, I just can't get with that.

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I have barely any hair on my legs, and what I do have is blonde.

I never shave or wax. I'm comfortable with my leg hair.

I used to shave my pits, but thought it was a waste of time. Also, I discovered that I like the feel of my pit hair, it's so soft.

I shave, i kind of find it thereputic :) I wouldnt be too bothered if a girl i was dating didnt shave hers though. tbh id probably quite respect her for it :)

We,me and my girlfrind,shave but personally i do not think it has nothing to do with feminist because I don not like hair in men either I think they should shave too.And yea I know sometimes it a pain in the ass but a like to touch my girlfrind legs without hair and that is why I do mine too.

Ooh, I do not like hair.  If I had the money I would remove all the hair on my body below my eyebrows.  It's like a phobia with me.  I'm glad I don't have a lot of hair on my body to begin with, and I shave everything. :)  I just love the way it feels.  I have no concern about looking prepubescent; it's the way I like my body to look and it's easy.  I wouldn't wax--that hurts.  Ooh, and don't wax your eyebrows, go Egyptian! Egyptian threading that is.

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I don't currently have a GF, but if I did, yeah, I'd want her to be smooth, too!

Me and my girlfriend were just having this conversation. The hair on my legs just started growing back and it was a little stubbly. She was rubbing my leg and I said don't joke on me because of my stubble. She said "Baby I'm black, I don't care."

I bring this up because when I was growing up, I was usually the only black girl in class. And all the girls in my class shaved.  My mother did not want me to shave because she said the hair on my legs was beautiful. She said that she never could grow hair on her legs as pretty as mine. That's when I noticed that my cousins, and aunts who lived in a predominately black area did not shave their legs, armpits, nada. Well I was surrounded by white girls, who shaved, and they were picking on me because I was hairy. And all of the guys I dated were white, although it didn't seem to matter to them as much as the girls. It did not matter that my mom thought it was pretty, something had to be done. I snuck into my bedroom one night with a razor and some nair and TORE MY LEGS UP! They looked so awful when I was done I cannot even begin to describe them. Well needless to say my mom taught me how to shave after that because she saw how important it was to me.

 I've only dated one girl who shaved her legs.  I love them hairy or smooth as long as they're girl legs. Same goes for the bikini area.  I thought I really needed the armpits to be shaved, but I've recently discovered that that doesn't really matter to me either. Whatever makes the lady comfortable is good with me, just as long as she is confident in her own skin.

I must be a masochist because I started waxing and enjoy the rush of the cloth strip ripping the hair from my legs as I scream with pain/pleasure(?). Bonus points if I draw blood! I usually like to trim but as for my legs and armpits I used to shave now I wax, which I find fun fun fun funnnnnnn unnn.

I want to date a girl who trims and is aware what going on with her body hair. I don't want to find things living in there such as micro organism settlements or and crazy crap like candy. Before I get too gross, the point is I just want her to be nice and clean.

I've had similar discussions with friends/family members often and there are so many different opinions out there, but here are my two cents: in Austria (europe), it is more or less expected of girls to start shaving as soon as they start with puberty and I started shaving my armpits when I was about 13. I had an older sister so I knew what to do from watching her shave her legs,... I didn't really want to shave my legs, but she told me I had to so I did. my mum sometimes shaves her legs and armpits, mostly only im summer, so I had a great example that I don't have to do it, but all the girls in my class did shave so I did too. now, I shave my armpits about once a week, mainly because of the smell. in winter, I can easily go a month or two without shaving my legs. I have supersensitive skin, so if I just shave with a normal razor, my legs break out in a rash for a week and it itches really bad, so that's not an option for me. I use one of those lady shavers (http://www.shavers.co.uk/shopping.php?node_id=7) when I shave, which is mainly when I wear skirts or dresses in summer. I feel like I need to absolutely shave my legs when someone else is going to see them because I have really dark hair on my legs and my legs are really white and I just would feel very self consious if I didn't shave. BUT I hate that I feel that way, because, really, it's just hair. I used to shave all of my legs, but now I only shave up to the knees, because it's less work and I'm lazy like that. I once tried shaving a small part of my lady parts to try it and because my sister told me I had to and hell, I'm not doing that again!! it itches so much and honestly, I think having no hair at all there looks so childlike that that kinda freaks me out. I do trim, because to me it feels better, but I don't even shave my bikini line because growing the hair back just hurts and I never go to public pools anyways, so only very few friends and my family see my bikini line.

I think that's a great discussion and reading all of your comments made me feel that no. 1, I'm not the only one who doesn't care about leg hair, and no. 2, that there are enough girls out there who, were they my girlfriend, wouldn't freak out about me not shaving my legs. I like the feel of my legs when they are shaved, but most of the time, that silky feeling is not worth all the things you have to do to get there and what comes afterwards.

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i hate body hair! for some reason my uber-feminine mother never shaved her legs. shed wear these skirts with high heels and youd see her and go "wow!" then look down and be like "is that hair on her legs?". i remember asking her why and she'd say that god put the hair on her legs for a reason and she'll never shave them. this was coming from a woman who did shave her pits, had breast implants and gotten a tummy tuck. so odd, maybe she didnt want to maintain it. i snuck and shaved my legs when i was like 10. i wish i didnt start so early because my hair grows thick. i always have a stubble issue. i wax now. ive done it so much it doesnt even phase me.

I definetly agree that it can be a waste of time and its what society or technically, the penus society that is, says its a must..I gotta say though that hair anywhere but the top of your head should be a crime. I don't wanna sound like a hypocrite or shallow by any means but a womans body is a temple and there shouldn't be any weeds or bushes within the vicinty to block the view of the body of the temple.

I'm like a freak when it comes to body hair. I shave my legs pretty much everyday. And I make sure I shave my armpits every single day. I'm kind of obsessive about it, but I have dark hair and it makes me really uncomfortable if I don't shave my legs.

As for dating a girl who doesn't shave. I don't think I'd like it. I like the feeling of nice smooth legs. A little stubble is fine, but when I touch a girls leg I don't want it to feel like a dudes.

I do mind, only because I'm completely obsessive compulsive about my leg hair. My legs have to be smooth at ALL TIMES! I mean, I wouldn't mind slightly hairy legs but if they haven't shaved in weeks or months, I'm out!

I enjoy cuddling and hairy legs would be a total turn off. Sorry!

I do not care whether the other person does or does not.

Personally I do not shave my legs on a regular basis because I feel like it is something I have been brainwashed to do and it is a hassle. Arm pits I shave way more often because it is quick and I have been doing so since I was really little.

Men have hairy legs and men are gross. Women are supposed to have smooth, beautiful shaved legs. I always shave my legs and it would be a turn off if a girl didnt.

For most women, maybe it looks better to have leg hair removed. But those who are not hairy at all, then not shaving is okay.

People can't tell if I wear shorts and don't shave unless they get really really close. (close enough to get kicked if I feel violated)

So I shave pretty much for the smooth feeling other than the look.

I don't shave anything.  Nothing.  Nada.  Zip.  I did when I was younger- up until I was sixteen or so.  I was going through a pretty negative body image period and I just thought, Fuck it, I'm never gonna be pretty anyway, why bother shaving?  So I stopped.  And it was one of the most empowering personal decisions I've ever made.  I realized- after the initial stubbly growing-back period- that I really liked the way I looked with natural body hair.  I also realized that I liked the way it felt, and I liked not having to waste time and fuss around with blades and shaving creams.  It's not really a statement for me anymore.  It's just the way I wanna be.

And for the record?  I think that women with natural armpit hair, and leg hair, and public hair, are sexy as hell.  (However, I draw the line at back hair.)

Leg Hair? umm Please Shave, wax, something. 

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