I'd like to say its the machismo of straight razors, or mastering a nearly lost art from my grandfathers era, but the real truth is that nothing else makes me feel cleaner or fresher. I find it much quicker and easier than using a disposable and I get near on zero irritation from my straight.

I see it as the equivalent of Romans visiting the baths for a good strigiling to clean the skin 2000 years ago, or the male equivalent of our wife's facial!

I can't ever see me foregoing this one pleasure!!