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In 1975-76 I was an exchange student in the USA, Senior year in High School. An important part of the 'culture exchange' aspect was me visting school classes at different levels to tell about life in Norway. A couple of times we touched this shaving thing. When I told that as far as I knew, my three years older sister had never shaved her legs, and I didn't know about any girls my age back home that shaved their legs, the horror in the eyes of the girls made me laugh... "Do they really want to look like apes? I tried to convince them that none of the girls I knew looked like apes Smile | :)

Before arriving in the USA, I expected to meet a culture more or less similar to my home culture, especially since I ended up in the Midwest with lots of people of Norwegian descent. This body panic - for being seen, for being touched, for having hair where it should not be, ... - was one of the cultural elements that I wasn't prepared for, and I still hadn't fully adjusted to when I returned home. There were a number of cultural differences that also came as a very big surprise, but this was one of the essential ones.

Today, we have picked up much more of the hairless style - even teenage boys may shave anything below their nose nowadays. I my days having a hairy chest was the true sign of a Real Man! Other kinds of hair distinguished boys from men; noone would dream of shaving that hair away! Today, they do.

To illustrate it: One of the laughing stories among one of my friends is about one guy who had a beautiful hair and beard. He was getting married. We have a quite strong tradition of "Last night with the boys", aiming to get the bridgegroom so drunk that you can do your little pranks (like shipping him on a boat across the ocean, the day before his wedding). This guy begged is friends before the party: Please, please, leave my hair and beard alone! ... That was respected. He got really drunk, and at his wedding night he didn't have a single strand of hair on his body from his throat down to his toes.

My generation laughs heartedly of this little prank, but teenagers say "Eeeh... So what? What's the point?" Well, not all of them do, but hair is no longer a sign of masculinity, as it was 40-50 years ago. I never shaved anything but my chin, and my wife for 19 years never shaved. I suppose that if she had been eager for some sorts of activity, I would have suggested some shaving, but she wasn't too eager about that, so we left it the natural way. Even though some American teenage girls could have mistaken her for being an ape.
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