Do you shave your armpits?

Once a month, am not very hairy.

Probably not as regularly as I should.

My daughter (young adult) has NO armpit hair!!!! It's just never grown!

Mine got lasered off years ago. Touch up once every year or two

No, they're sparse but they do get impressive length

I shave my armpits very rarely, maybe once or twice every 6 months or so, but I’ve never had a lot of hair there so I get away with it.

Not for about 10 years.
I do legs and bikini line though!

Once a month I can get away with.

Every day, same with my legs. Even if I'm not going anywhere I'll shave at least my armpits.

Sometimes, but probably not as often as a really high-maintenance person would think I should. I rarely have my armpits on show anyway as I'm too fair-skinned to feel comfortable with a lot of bare skin in summer, and it's very light coloured hair. I do think shaving them makes it easier to keep them clean and smelling nice, but that purpose doesn't require them to be absolutely stubble free at all times.

Needs whole public educational message!
No deodorant-no travel
Wash your clothes properly
Wash yourself properly

Every few months. I don’t card about people seeing in Woman Has Completely Normal Hair Shocker, but it does get to a point where the deodorant is less effective.

@Tartareistasty - Precisely. I would love to see a notice at major rail stations "No deodorant - No travel".

If anyone is honking after less than a day, that's abnormal

It's quite not. Everyone has the bacteria there but at different levels. It can be influenced by hormones etc.
For some people, it's no issue, some people have more and more active ones.
Some people shave because they have moe active ones an antiperspirant reaches skin better, hence controlling it better. Some people are fine with hair. Everyone has different ecosystems on and in their bodies.

Let's also not forget others smell you before you can smell yourself.

Going by public transport experience, "honking" after a day is not only not abnormal, but pretty common.

@seddon

If anyone is honking after less than a day, that's abnormal and isn't to do with armpit hair. And how often you shower plays a role in whether you stink or not a lot more than body hair.

I'm allowed an opinion, thank you, thread police constable. Just the same way the person I replied to is.

You seem to think you know how other people's bodies work better than they do. People you've never even met. That's quite a superpower!

Like many others on this thread, I have noticed that my armpits move to the 'whew, need a shower' stage more quickly when they're hairy. I acknowledge that some on this thread have the opposite experience - just because they're different to me doesn't mean they are wrong.

This is the frustrating thing, that people don’t understand this.

Always waxed as feel like hair underarms makes more smelly. Discovered home lazer and wish I'd done it years ago

@onefinemess

Now I'm interested to hear whether the men in your culture also shave with no hair on their body as @AllProperTeaIsTheft asked and what the culture is. Is this a sarcastic response or true?

How very arrogant of you to presume you know my mind better than me.

For your information, I grew up in a country where porn didn't exist and where there were no societal expectations for women to shave, quite the opposite in fact.

There, hope that helps with your impressively offensive ego.

Care to enlighten me about any other aspects of my culture?

Surely shaving cream is the secret? While I don't shave every day I certainly do weekly and have never had irritated skin.

Mid-40s now. Definitely felt peer pressure to shave as a teenager. Now I do it because I prefer it. Either ever day or every other day, depending on how rushed I am, all year.

I must admit, I find armpit hair unpleasant-looking on both men and women, so I'd rather not have it shoved in my face all day. It's just not an attractive feature of the human body, imo! But of course I wouldn't say anything to anyone about their hair, as it's none of my business.

If you don't shower daily, your armpits will smell stronger.

If you do shower daily, you'll smell of anti-perspirant.

Had fudge all to do with shaving.

What if you get hit by a car I'd be mortified

I can promise you that when I was in a car accident, I was not thinking about body hair when they were freeing me from the wreckage; my focus was more on not dying

I don’t feel under pressure to do it as DP doesn’t care and I’m not worried about what strangers think, but I shave my armpits all year round even though I rarely wear anything that shows them. I don’t think it makes a any difference to hygiene - if sweat doesn’t have armpit hair to cling to it just clings to your clothes instead - but for some reason I find the physical feeling of dragging a deodorant stick over hair really horrible! It’s like fingernails down a blackboard for me. I have a slightly weird sensory aversion to products touching dry hair of any kind.