Esther Calixte-Bea was 11 years old the first time she waxed her chest. The dress she’d planned to wear for sixth grade graduation had a scooped neckline, and she worried her classmates would notice ...

Sometime in 2012—between the release of Magic Mike, the rise of One Direction, David Beckham’s underwear ads, and the Lochte/Phelps showdown at the Summer Olympics—men got the idea that they should ...

A woman with a hairy chest decided to chop off her insecurities about it — by letting it all grow out. Esther Calixte-Bea has had abundant, curly body hair — including on her torso, legs and armpits — ...

We love summer fashion, including crop tops, tank tops, and short shorts, but there's another staple of the gay summer wardrobe we haven't talked about yet: Hairy chests! Whether you have a full chest ...

Today, I'm going to tell you a fairy tale. Once upon a time, there was peace in the land. Men had hairy chests. Women, as a rule, did not. In fact, the more hair a man had on his chest, the prouder he ...

Sometime in 2012—between the release of Magic Mike, the rise of One Direction, David Beckham's underwear ads, and the Lochte/Phelps showdown at the Summer Olympics—men got the idea that they should ...

Given that I come from a clan of hirsute Russian Jews, it is a particularly personal disappointment that my chest is bare, save the circum-areolar growth and few stray hairs in the center that ...

My own father told his grandchildren that the reason I, their dad, had so much hair on my chest was because I was related to bears, a legend (like the best ones) that they delighted to believe in as a ...

If you look at some of our relatives, we primates are a fairly hairy bunch. Primates tend to have all sorts of interesting facial and sometimes even shoulder hair, so humans are not odd in this regard ...