This is how internet-borne culture takes precedence over common sense and reasonability. We can all log on and read through hours and hours (and hours) of material created by people of all age ranges, walks of life, etc. about the same damned topic. We can peruse through pictures of all manner of shaving tools, the old and rusted, the gleaming modern wonders made from space-age supersteel. We can click on the links and window-shop in all the on-line stores and make shopping lists and buy all the creams, oils, colognes, soaps, towels, etc. until our women scream at us to finally stop, knowing it will never be enough (except for that last one..).
I see this BBS nonsense way too much. It's building the mystique and allure of the most difficult to use shaving implement available. So let's try to give it a rest. How do you get baby butt smooth skin when you're a 40 year old man with the face of a.. forty year old man? I don't care how close those hairs are cut, you're not that smooth. It hurts many of us to shave that smooth. It's just too damned irritating. Yeah we can do it.. but should we? Some of us can. Good for them. Now newbies can get disappointed.