Heinz- Everyone in your family has a beard? What are you a Hassidic Jew? Are you part of some Southern "Beard" culture.
If that's the case, then its a question of culture, but it does not dismiss from the theory that girls prefer men without beards, a position made earlier by DammitBoy.
Culture here matters by being a structural choice that determines who you fuck. Certain people from certain cultures won't fuck someone from another culture. Yes, you will get people who will jump cultures and fuck around. I admit, in my single days, I was culturally polygamous. But depending on culture, you will have certain people who simply won't fuck out of their culture.
Interesting to point- that culture matters in a variety of ways. Take Black folk. Black women are generally more adverse to fucking outside their race than Black males, and will often receive more shit from their peers for going outside their race. Black guys will often seek out and congratulate dudes who fuck white chicks. At the same time, black dudes and black culture has developed a rather strange label for homosexual male tendencies "going on the down low." Why? because black homosexuality is something that is culturally unaccepted or at least black homosexuals are subject to significant prejudice.
Twinkiegorrilla- you are in denial of the fact that you're probably gay gay. Why do I say this, because your avatar is "twinkiegorilla" which is a very gay name.
I am not saying that's a bad thing. I am not making a judgment that gay or straight is better. But perhaps you are straight and just choose a gay name.
But as my mother-in-law says, "Some guys are just gay and some just wish they were."
Twinkie, you've picked a gay name so I fear that you are either gay or wish you were gay.
Good luck with figuring out your gender preferences, dude. Its hard for some folks. Be happy. My advice, either go gay or change your avatar.
Also, I have been been visiting on and off for the past couple of weeks.
Darth- Santa Claus plays with Elves. Total homo.
Mr. T and Chuck Norris are possible double Y chromies- the same kind of guy that if they were in prison and you were in prison, they'd fuck you in the ass.
And yes, sorry, but if you fuck someone in the ass in prison, you're gay. Sorry Darth, but you were in prison with Mr. T and Chuck Norris, chances are you're the bitch.
Alternative argument is that both Chuck Norris and Mr. T are awful actors who would not have gotten their parts unless they played up to a macho issue. Macho issues are often also favored by the brutal type of homosexual and don't really appeal to women as much as regular guys.
Why do I offer that argument. When asked what do you fear most from the opposite sex, men generally said, "ridicule" - reflecting esteem issues. When women were asked, they answered "murder." In otherwords, women are worried about violence.
As a big guy and generally of a non-violent tendency, I have had to deal with women who have frequently expressed their fear that I would beat them to death simply because I am a big guy. Do women care about these things, yes.
But, as the problem of beards point out, this is a probablistic vs deterministic finding. Some women like the idea of a macho guy who can protect them. Some women are into muscles. But muscles, like fast cars, are generally not that impressive to women past the age of 21.
But again, Dammitboy's data is probablistic. 80%. Not everyone, but most.
Suaside- you'll note that "shaved face" is a relatively new phenomena. You'll also note that throughout history women have generally been subordinate to men. The development of women's rights and even women's suffrage corresponds with a modern era in which, yes, men are shaving.
Now ask yourself, coincidence? I don't think so.
What Dammitboy has said, and I agree with, is that there is a correlation among women who prefer guys who are clean shaved. I offer a causal explantion to explain why:
(1) Women like men who shave, and
(2) homosexuals like men who don't.
But as you accurately point out, women do like a beard if it tickles. Its hard for a woman to identify if a beard is the scruffy type or the tickles type, short of touching them. But they will normally touch the beard before they let the guy go down to lick the holiest of holy holes.
I will assume most of the girls you dated kissed you and touched your beard before you ate them out.
Don't you think in this tiny gesture they are exploring a question?
(a) Will this beard give me a rash on my inner thighs? or
(b) Ohhh... this will make the deed all the more kinky.
Fair enough, there are some women who prefer the burly guy who is double y chromie type- (Chuck Norris, Mr. T or your average trucker, biker dude). But historically, most men didn't shave because they didn't have time too, there were no mirrors, and generally they didn't have to because the woman was going to fuck them regardless of whether they wanted too. We are talking about sexually repressed times for women.
These days, women have greater liberty and choice. Sure the guy with the beard that tickles might be a turn on. I have a friend with a beard who is married to this wonderfully hot blonde and I can't imagine that he doesn't go down on her. But he also takes good care of his beard.
You take good care of your beard.
But do most men? Probably not.
Most men are a lazy bunch of shitbirds who would rather watch TV football then utilize moisturizer on their beards to please their girlfriends. In fact, many of these same men would think its "Gay" to utilize such products.
You and others like you, are smarter than that. You know that the beard can serve as a useful sexual device, an incentive for the woman to actually do you. You might even be seen as a generous lover (a plus in the your bonability factor).
Asshole bearded dude who is too lazy to shave or take of his face just has a scruffy face that feels like sandpaper on her vagina. Yeah, that's someone she's going to want to sleep with.
We can also add the socio-economic dimensions as well. Generally speaking clean shaven guys have better jobs. Bearded dudes work as truck drivers, bike repair people, or other types of blue-collar labor. Some are intellectuals and college professors, but these are generally cleary distinctive in manner, dress and attitude.
In a democratic and equal world, where women's rights have been promoted- the world we live in- generally speaking women will prefer the man without the beard than with the beard.
Why- oral sex.