Do elves have body hair?

[Brogarn]

On the contrary, I think people who are creeped out by women with facial hair have issues - you'd probably be surprised by how many ordinary women have facial hair. Why do you think womens' razors and hair removers are so popular? We're not just making our legs smooth.

Keep your needles away from my bubble! It's happy in here. Women are all hawt and only have hair where I happily expect it (minus the unhappy experience of certain hairy moled history teachers. *shudder*) You just keep your reality to yourself!

 

[Moon-Lancer]

2nd that. elves only have hear on thier head.

 

[Iku Rex]

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Anyway, DnD elves don't have body hair. The Player's Handbook is quite clear on that.

 

[Dragonbait]

Would that mean the practice of shaving oneself (wherever) would be an attempt to emulate elven standards of beauty?

Interesting idea. Would human men grow heavy beards if they regularly deal with dwarves, or work in a field that dwarves are famous for, like metalworking, construction, banking (in Eberron) and so on?

I'm in the "no elven facial hair" boat.

 

[Pbartender]

I had an, um, adult discussion with a significant other about this topic. We came to the conclusion that elves had better durn well have some body hair, or else things would start to chafe in certain places.

Elves don't chafe... they glide.

 

[Sejs]

Maybe the body hair they have is very fine and light, such that you don't normally notice it. It's -there- but at the opposite end of the spectrum from dwarves.

Plus, that'd sidestep the chafing issue.

 

[Jon Potter]

Just askin'.

In my game they don't, but it's only come up as a way to tease the one (male) elf in the party.

And female dwarves have beards, too.

I don't think that culturally, shaving would be based on a desire to emulate elves so much as to emulate youth. That's how it works in the real world, anyway except for certain health reasons (such as methods to avoid fleas in desert regions, etc.). A female friend of mine calls shaving a way to "infantalize" women. Oddly enough, though, she still shaves, AFAIK.

I'm not an expert on the subject but I think that shaving of body hair didn't become extremely widespread until well after the pseudo-medieval periods most D&D campaigns are set in. Facial hair was popularized during the Roman era, giving soldiers' enemies one less thing to grab onto in hand-to-hand fighting.

At least that's what I've read.

 

[blargney the second]

Of course elves have body hair! They're descended from rabbits! (hint: notice the ears)

 

[werk]

Would that mean the practice of shaving oneself (wherever) would be an attempt to emulate elven standards of beauty?

Obviously elves have body hair, eyebrows, lashes and head-hair are seen in most reditions of them.

As for shaving so as to emulate elves, I'd probably look a little closer to home. It's done to emulate women.

 

[Moon-Lancer]

on an off note, if elves are supposed to be attractive, why are they so ugly in the phb.

and back on topic. I think they might have a very fine peach fuzz, almost invisible, and alwayse blond/clear (same thing)