![]() ![]() If you think we didn't try to get several young modern-day stars to recreate this when I was at Cosmo, you'd be dead wrong. I was surprised when romantic partners liked it - or I was until I saw Burt Reynolds’ iconic 1972 centerfold for Cosmopolitan, which is being reshared following the actor’s passing at the age of 82. The curly layer of shag I sported felt like a gross aberration in contrast, like part of an unsightly body made to be hidden. Having grown up in the 1990s, I only knew a cinematic standard of male beauty defined by smooth, hairless abs and pecs (think Brad Pitt in Fight Club). I didn’t accept this state of affairs right away. That Tecate could live in my chest hairs for months, and I’d never know. So much so that if I live to be 80, I’ll be indistinguishable from a small sasquatch. I’d been a few years out of school by the time I had what I considered “total coverage.” Somehow, though, I’m getting hairier still. It wasn’t until college that the first sprigs began to sprout along my sternum and encircle the nipples. Like all men with a thick blanket of torso fur, I wasn’t born this way.
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