manscaping
English
Verb
manscaping
- present participle of manscape
Noun
manscaping (uncountable)
- (neologism) The practice of, or results from, trimming or shaving a male's hair, typically other than the hair atop and behind his head. The term applies most frequently to facial hair, including that of the eyebrows, ears, and nostrils; somewhat frequently to shoulders and back; less frequently to buttocks and pubes; infrequently to arms and legs.
- 2010, Lisa Jean Moore & Mary Kosut, The Body Reader: Essential Social and Cultural Readings, →ISBN, page 297:
- From this perspective, manscaping with the motive for sexual appeal seems part of this ever-escalating effort of advanced capitalism to domesticate all dimensions of sexuality (and nature).
- 2014, Lisa Jean Moore & Monica J. Casper, The Body: Social and Cultural Dissections, →ISBN:
- In addition to stacked-abs exercises, teeth whitening kits, and penile enhancement pharmaceuticals, manscaping is part of the ever-expanding list of tasks in the male body project.
- 2016, Tie Domi, Shift Work, →ISBN, page 143:
- I was also in charge of what I considered to be an important part of the dressing room etiquette: manscaping.
- 2017, Erin Kenny & Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols, Beauty around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 219:
- Manscaping is one grooming technique often sought out by the metrosexual, young, urban men with disposable incomes who care deeply about their appearances.
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