TGIF: By Popular Request, Manly Men With Chest Hair

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See?  I listen!  You have a lengthy argument about the olden days when men were men and chests were chests, and I provide you with images!  I considered a fanfic, but I can’t come up with a plot that revolves around chest hair (something 101 Dalmatians inspired about fur coats?).  I’m sorry!  Even my imagination has limits.

First, I mentioned this in a comment and then did some research to confirm it.  And, yep!  The reason men have less body hair is because of The Pill.  The pill messes with female testosterone/estrogen levels, making them need less contact with men to keep their hormone levels even.  And it mimics the experience of pregnancy to some degree, making you crave a nurturing type.  And, generally, kills a bit of that “I am ovulating and I want sex with a man who will get me pregnant!” part of the attraction process. So, in other words, the women of America went from wanting this, the man who can get you pregnant with a look and is just spewing testosterone everywhere but has no interest in making you breakfast the next day:

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To wanting this, the little boy man who can’t spare any testosterone, or get you pregnant, but can rub your feet and be a nice thing to lean on at night.  Not that there’s anything wrong with that (I think.  But feel free to disagree in the comments!), but it is different.

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And as America/Hollywood goes, eventually, so does the rest of the world.  India resisted a really really long time, but thanks to the liberalization and globalization and other buzzwords, our Indian movie stars are now following the messed up estrogen lead of the west and losing their TESTOSTERONE EVERYWHERE kind of looks. But let us today take a journey back in time to the golden eras when men were men and chest hair was chest hair.

 

Hello Sanjay!  I hate the hair on your head, but the rest of it is good.

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Head hair: Better.  Chest Hair: still good.  Also, “Baby you can light my fire”?  With that huge phallic candle?  FilmFare!  I expected more class from you!  Not sure why, but I did.

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Oh yeah, this is the good one.  See how tired and manly he is?  So manly that Raveena is almost afraid to touch him and yet desires it?  This is what I was saying about women craving testosterone to balance themselves.  She’s so un-testosterone-y, and she really really wants some of his.

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Salman, because he is a FOOL, gave up on the whole “manly” thing pretty early in his career.  Which means this is just a bunch of screenshots from Maine Pyar Kiya.  And will anyone complain about that?  Here he is posing on a bicycle.

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A different angle.  Notice this is also when he had actual muscles that looked like muscles.

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And finally, the classic shot.  Which is somehow on both the DVD case and the poster.  Isn’t Rajshri supposed to be a family company?  Also, again, testosterone craving!!!!  She is all woman, he is all man, she’s going to suck the testosterone out of him.

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You know how you can tell when I guy is really comfortable with his own manliness?  When he is willing to be surrounded in a womb like pink environment, and is still manly enough to dominate it.  Of course, Abhay is a Deol, but I always think of him as the weakest Deol. I guess even the weakest is still strong enough to take over any silly little pink bedroom he is put into.

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For comparison, let us take a look at the second strongest Deol.  Who is so manly that he is pulling off not only the chest hair, but proudly showing off armpit as well.

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(Yes, that website is still active and updating.  Link here: http://shirtlessbollywoodmen.blogspot.com/)

This photo is so great!  I mean, sexy, obviously, but also almost classy and arty?  Or am I crazy?

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And one more!  A candid, we have caught him coming out of the shower.

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Okay, this next one, brace yourself, it is WORLD CHANGING!!!!  I cannot BELIEVE how manly this particular man looks.  Like, to the point that I keep looking for evidence that this is a photoshopped.  Because, really?  HIM?  He is giving me those little flutters in my tummy?

ANIL KAPOOR????

 

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Now, someone I have no embarrassment or surprise over having stomach flutters with, Akshay Kumar.  Especially beautiful 90s Akshay.  With the bangs and the big eyes and all.

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He really embraced that whole casual male model look in his photo shoots.

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Okay, this shirt is a bit much.  I could do without it.  Not just because this is a chest focused post, but even besides that, I could do without this particular shirt.  Really, not great.

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I could do without THIS WHOLE THING.

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But this is very very nice.

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A candid look!  Bursting up out of the water to surprise us!

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And finally, a comparison.  One of these is more manly than the other.  Gee, I wonder which one?

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Oh Amitji!  Back in the day, before men had to be sculpted within an inch of their lives just to take their shirts off.

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Here, have some Deewar!  Where he is all “whatever” about gorgeous Parveen Babi leaning on him.  Also, I love that she is wearing more clothes than he in this shot.

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Shower Scene!!!  Two manly men, hanging out.

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Poor Amitabh, his gentlemanly modesty is affronted.  He most have been attacked by raging hordes of hormonal women not on The Pill, desperate for his sweet sweet sperm.

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And finally, a little treat for us all that I did not think existed, Hairy Prabhas!

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Oh, and of course, because objectification is nothing without subjective rankings, who “wore” it best?

 

I think I will have to go:

Amitabh

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Sanjay

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The Deols

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Akshay

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Salman (if he had kept it up into maturity, THEN he might have ranked higher)

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Prabhas (sorry, you would have been higher, but this is a very competitive list)

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And Anil Kapoor, I refuse to think about that photo ever again because it is making me re-examine major parts of my identity.

134 thoughts on “TGIF: By Popular Request, Manly Men With Chest Hair”

  2. Now you know I need to jump in and point out that pink has not been a girl color for that long in the USA, and was not a girly color at at in other parts of the world.

    http://www.pinkisforboys.org/blog/when-did-pink-become-a-feminine-color

    Also, women have hair in their armpits, too, and the modern preference for bodies like grown-up babies of all sexes is rather disturbing, that being said, is Shah Rukh naturally hairless or was he an early adopter of manscaping? Is the disappearance of all those manly chests his fault

    Also — no love for Jackie Schroff? Oh, well, the old lady will make do with Anil. So, so fine. All that energy.

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    • Shahrukh, sadly, was always a less hairy fellow. And thus does not qualify for this post. In early films, you could see a kind of slight shading, but that was it.

      Although if someone else has evidence to the contrary, I am happy to be proved wrong!

      Also, any ranking ideas from you? Anil on top, and then?

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    • Agree on pink not being a girly colour. My dad had a pink shirt and a huuuge pink bath towel that I remember. Growing up red was considered a girls colour and black was considered boys. Somewhat. Kinda. In India it was more about what colours you couldn’t wear if you were dark skinned.

      I find this namby pamby blue and pink definition quite absurd honestly.

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    • In India women have threaded their hair since at least 3 millennia. But yeah men have been gloriously beastly not that there’s anything wrong with them not having chest hair like SRK 😘 though even he did have slight hair in the middle of his chest…

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      • Yeah, shahrukh and aamir had that natural small fuzz kind of look. Which makes me hope that the current totally hairless effect is less painful for them than for others (poor Akshay!)

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          • I don’t know, I think Akshay has spoiled me. If it’s not sweater vest level, just doesn’t even count for me.

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          • Akshay is not my ideal. Baba is. And I have appreciation for all variants. And anyway my point was that aamirs chest was not as scant or nonexistent as srks

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          • Agree with that.

            Backing up, if Baba is your ideal, I need you to rank the options on offer here after him!

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          • 1. Sanju baba
            2. Sunny and Salman as Prem
            3. Amit
            4. Shashi 💋💋💋
            5. Prabhas
            6. Akshay
            7. Anil

            Special mention: kamal Hassan, suriya, karthi, maddy, Aamir, Hrithik in kaho na pyaar hai as Rohit (rowr)!

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          • Oh yeah, that little bit of hair peaking out under the yellow tank top.

            Excellent list, especially appreciate the extra kisses for Shashi.

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          • *peeking

            And hrithiks scene in that island. Opened tuxedo. Zomg. I think a lot of us grew up that summer 🤣🤣🙈🙈

            Chaschi kappu 😍💋 always gets extra kisses. I love his chest and his curly hair and his tooth that peeks out when he smiles! Love the opening song of silsila with him and jaya ufffffff

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          • Poor Jaya, downgrading from Shashi to Amitji in Silsila! And lucky Raakhee, upgrading in Kabhi Kabhi.

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          • What!! Downgraded! No way. It’s a equal grade. Cmon it’s Amit. He makes up for lack of dimples with simply spectacular sex appeal.

            And he’s a poet in kabhi kabhi. Cmon! I love Shashi in that too. But lovers must never be torn asunder.

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          • Poet in Kabhi Kabhi, play write in Silsila, too emotional! too much in his own head! I want Shashi, who’s all carefree and Punjabi and happy. I mean, if we are talking marriage here, not just a one night stand.

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          • Love is love. And love doesn’t care for types. I didn’t want Shashi to die because he and jaya really loved each other. And Amit and Rekha deserved to be together too. 😍

            And him and Rakhee breaking up was heart rending. Poor them. Obviously compromised in happy but not passionately ecstatic marriages.

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          • It’s a time honoured tradition for me to pine for lovers to be together. And to be heart broken that/if they are not.

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  3. I was afraid to actually see the post and thus skipped right to the comments. I was apprehensive of seeing nightmare visions of Anil, Akshay, and Shashi Kapoor and Amitabh in the shower, and it looks, from the comments above, that you hit all those hairy spots, and I am thankful to have missed them. 🙂

    For the obligatory Bahubali reference, you can post different screen grabs from the Patta Bottesi song, where Prabhas is hairless when he is bare-chested, and more importantly, when matching tattoos with Tamannah, but, in other parts of the song, when he is wearing full sleeves, you can see that his arms are quite hairy, indeed. I feel sorry for these poor men having to wax all of that off.

    Regarding Joyomama’s point above that women have armpit hair, too, (as well as on other parts of their bodies), I recall a post way back in the 2001-2 time frame, on a now defunct forum, where, in discussing some film with Rani, the poster (non-Indian) noted that “Rani seemed to have forgotten to shave that morning,” since underarm hair was visible when she raised her arms in one portion of the song picturization, but that she kept her arms firmly to her sides for the rest of the song. I can’t remember which film it was, though. Considering the amount of flak the actors get for the occasional shot of them showing sweat stains under their arms (in the non-air conditioned studios of Mumbai), I guess we can’t be surprised at the devotion to waxing.

    Here’s a question for you all: Why, in Hollywood films, is it OK to show perspiration on the actors’ faces (to show physical exertion), but not anywhere else on their bodies? I find it particularly funny when the scene is about some huge physical effort, resulting in all that facial sweat, since in real life, such exertion will produce underarm sweat first before the face. Oh, well.

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    • That is an excellent question! I feel like, at least in the shirtless male scenes, you will see sweaty bodies and faces. But you are right, if there is a shirt there, then the face is sweaty but nothing else.

      Maybe because all the sweat is artificial? that is, they are on some highly air conditioned set with make up and stuff to hide the sweat. So to show exertion, they just spray water on the face for fake sweat and don’t spray it anywhere else.

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      • Oh, yes, of course the “sweat” is artificially sprayed on, but it’s just as easy to spray under their arms as on their faces. I guess because it will turn off the audience.

        Tell me, is it safe for me to see the actual pictures. I notice some mention of Prabhas, so at least tell me which photo of his you used. I definitely don’t want to see Akshay in a small bathing suit in a swimming pool, showing all his body hair (and he had a ton!), nor that infamous Shashi/Amitabh pic, nor any of Anil, so … You are responsible for making sure I won’t have nightmares.

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        • Thank goodness, Prabhas is last. So just scroll straight to the bottom and don’t look at anything along the way. If you want to be daring, Sanjay and salman are the first 2, that should be safe too.

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  4. The list of hairy men and there is no Sunil Shetty on it? He and Akshay were my first thoughts (maybe because I had a crush on both and I have seen too many photos of their hairy chests. But really, especially when there still was this page about Bollywood men butts). I found nice photo of Sunil but don’t know how to put it here.
    My favourites:
    Prabhas
    Deols
    Amitabh / Sanjay / Salman
    Akshay (I love him but he is too hairy)

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  7. Interesting theory. I read up on it too and turns out it’s not just the pill but there is another theory too. It may be that in peaceful countries and in peace times women are less in need of testosteroneIsh jungle men cause they feel more safe. And in more dangerous countries they prefer strong jawed strong men who will protect them. I like this theory more cause the pill theory makes strong men seem like ass****s.

    Sean Bean and Jeffrey Dean Morgan have chest hair right? And of course delicious Henry Cavill who plays Superman has effing glorious chest hair. So maybe America is changing.

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    • I am so out of tune with America pop culture, I don’t even know who the latest universal heart throb is.

      there’s also the phenomenon of teen girls always wanting the threatening-but-not-too-threatening kind of guy. The Leo in Titanic/Aamir in QSQT types. And there’s a new 13 year old girl born every minute, desperate for a new guy to love!

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      • I know everyone loves Henry Cavill and Gal Gadot. Both of whom are immensely attractive in the traditional sense as well.

        Yes. That phenomenon is there too. The reason why Korean boy bands exist 😘

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        • And anyway that pill theory is too biological and easy and doesn’t speak to the cultural shift where James Bond who once saved the world is now seen as an ass****. It amazes me. But that shift has happened.

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          • Well, there’s also the bigger Pill theory, that women were finally freed from biology, able to life their own lives and take care of themselves, and therefore wanted more of a partner kind of a thing and not a James Bond.

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          • So women don’t want sexy one night stands anymore? 🙃 I thought the point of the pill is that women could James Bond it out without consequences 😅

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          • Maybe it’s a double thing? women want the one night stand with James Bond, but the married like with a sensitive supportive type, and the media can’t handle the whole idea of female desire and one night stands?

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          • Haha. Is it that simplistic though. I do think women’s tastes have changed…or they don’t want to be seen as lusting after the James Bonds of the world 🤣😊

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          • Maybe it’s that 60 years ago women were embarrassed to admit they wanted something different than James bond and now they are embarrassed to admit they want him? that is, women’s desires have always been a mixed bag but society keeps trying to say everyone has to want the same thing all the time.

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          • That maybe true. Men have no qualms admitting they like two or even three types of women.

            Like my dads three favs were(and these were his names for them) Guddi (jaya Bhaduri) mumu darling(Mumtaz) and Zeenie baby(Zeenat Aman).

            While my mom just stuck to Amit. I was like why no variations. She used to say I’m loyal unlike your pappa 🤣🤣🤣

            Cmon the number of times she’s seen deewar and not once felt a twinge of attraction for Shashi!?

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          • does anyone watch Deewar for Shashi? Sharmilee or even Suhaag, sure, but Deewar?

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        • Oh, a friend of mine was telling me about a friend of hers who is really into K-pop. And she showed my friend a video and was all “now, watch out, it gets a little sexual”. And they did the very tiniest little implication of a pelvic thrust!

          We decided best not to show her anything Indian, if all you know is K-pop, some of those Salman hip moves would probably make you catatonic.

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  8. I agree about the pill theory and the dangerous countries theory. I have another theory entirely of my own.

    I think this swing back towards the regular man, chest hair and all, is somehow related to the body positivity movement. I don’t know if you’ve kept abreast of social media trends but in the last year alone, there have been a tonne of social media celebrities that grabbed headlines and followers for going au natural. Photographing oneself with leg hair and armpit hair is suddenly the new cool.

    So my theory is that as more and more women reject the magazine-imposed standards of beauty, the demand for more natural looking men has also gone up.

    Oh and Margaret, I think you totally went a little lazy on this post. For a TGIF post, this is very incomplete. The list has only one south indian actor and no Sunil Shetty.

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  9. Prabhas — is that from Varsham? I think that’s the movie where he is gloriously WET all the time in the rain and with abundant chest hair.

    Then Abhay

    Deols over Akshay. Sweater vest level is a bit too much for me.

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  11. Did you know THIS existed??? CANNOT UNSEE!!

    Also, this–

    See what’s happening here:

    wait, is that…? Did he use conditioner or something??

    Maybe there should be another post dedicated entirely to pictures like this

    Also, you forgot him:

    And why would Hritik wax this off? He looks like a big bodybuilder girl without any hair on him!

    Working hard to find our south favs topless. Maybe i’m searching in the wrong language

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  12. AAARGH! Now the comments have been invaded by just the type of pics I was trying to avoid.

    Anyway, I just wanted to say, about the “pill theory” — assuming you are using “theory” to actually mean “hypothesis”, I wanted to tell you that there is actual scientific proof of the pill changing men’s testosterone levels. It was first noticed in Scandinavia, some time in the 80’s, I think, and spurred by that, studies were done in the U.S,, too. Basically, the widespread use of birth control pills by women meant that a lot of estrogen was being injected into the environment, both into the ground water system and into the atmosphere, through women’s waste products. This in turn reduced the men’s testosterone levels as all the estrogen in the environment was disrupting their hormonal chemistry. (Of course the actual studies are more complex, but I just wanted to summarize them in a nutshell for you.)

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