@danielle for me it's just part of the general mess and chaos of the body. I enjoy the ritual of shaving, and all of the oils and soaps and creams and splashes and scents. My beard annoys me if I let it grow more than a few days, though, so I'm not Stockholm-y with it, I guess. I don't feel any particular horror.

After all, there's fingernails, head hair, pubes... All of them grow in the same kind of way.

I don't discount that someone else may feel radically different, tho...