Whats wrong with hairy legs

[mayble]

Actually hair harbors all kinds of bacteria and other nasty "bugs". This is why they shave the area of the body being worked on before surgery. Needs to be as germ free and sanitary as possible.

I don't believe this is true.
Hair washes just as easily as skin does, and an unshaven skin surface is less likely to be infected than one littered with microscopic nicks and scrapes of a razor.
As for surgical procedures, that's 99% convenience and tradition.  Remember the old days when women were routinely shaved during labor?  Thank god those days are gone.

 

[mockturtle]

That's right, Mayble.  It is no longer standard protocol to shave hair around an IV site, for instance, as research has shown that the shaved area is more prone to infection than is an unshaved site.

 

[gojo]

I guess we're just another species of the animal kingdom. We should leave mother nature alone and do as we were given.

I'm going on my third week of not shaving.

 

[mockturtle]

I don't often shave my legs in the wintertime when I'm wearing long pants most of the time. But in summer I do, simply because it looks better to ME.

 

[flying kurbmaster]

a friend just had some kind of surgical thing and they didn't shave him, instead they painted some kind of disinfectant over the area, now he developed a rash, a reaction to the disinfectant, you can't win.