i shave cuz i like the way it looks and i just plain don't like body hair, period...but it's nice to have the cycling "reasons" to back it up...effeminate? whatever...shaving my legs doesn't make me effeminate any more so than laying out in the sun makes me a lizard... i'm comfortable as who i am and don't need society to tell me what's ok to do with MY my hair, skin, etc... i could give a rat's fuzzy arse what people think...