Chicks dig beards. Thats why I gave up shaving last summer.
Yea, well... apparently my wife didn't get the memo. So no shavee, no lovee. I've been thinking about the straight razor lately - unfortunately I'm a bit too lazy for that. All the ridiculous "37.5 blades" crap is annoying, and yes they're expensive as crap. But it's a quick and easy out.
Maybe old hippy chicks, but most women don't "like" a man to have a beard.
Subconsciously they like evidence of functioning gonads. Shaving so close that nothing has grown back by 5pm looks creepy to them.
Hey, I invented the beard!
Back in 1998, my then-girlfriend thought a beard might be less prickly than the stubble I otherwise always had (my facial hair was so tough, it seemed I could mangle my face without denting a hair on it). And she seemed to like the result.
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