manscaping

manscaping

1. present participle and gerund of manscape

manscaping (uncountable)

1. (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.

   • 2024 August 29, Zoe Williams, “‘They handled me like a carcass!’: why are so many men now ‘manscaping’?”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Still, there is a certain taboo around manscaping. For the purposes of this article, I have spoken to men who get everything waxed, and men – one man, I love this man – who says he shaves his armpits so he doesn’t have to buy deodorant as often.