How far is one prepared to go for love?

Three useful little words that meant nothing to me until a few days ago! When an old friend mentioned these 3 little words, I was blank, nothing sprung to mind, what could it be? After a bit of education and explanation, I can tell you I was rolling on the floor with laughter, the tears coming out of my eyes.

.....And this is how it all started.
There is an old friend of mine, purely platonic, we go way back to school days when I was a drum majorette. He lives in another country (obviously I am not going to mention names) and so we keep in touch via technology. A few months ago, his wife came to him and said, Honey, you know how I always go to wax my legs and bikini line, well I was thinking...

Next week I have an appointment but this time I want you to come with me. There's a new thing on the market, fantastic everyone's getting it, even Mr. Ginger had it done, it's time for a back, sack and crack wax, ooo I can't wait. After a lot of begging and pleaing and I promise this and I promise that, he finally surrended and gave in because he loves his wife so dearly. Which makes me stop and think. I ask myself, just how far is one prepared to go for love? I think if I told my husband he had to go for a wax, he would tell me which bus stop to get off at, never mind the fact that he wouldn't actually know what kind of wax this really was.

Then again, why do woman have to go through all that trouble (and pain) of waxing their bikini line? Ok bikini line acceptable, but then there are all those other fancy hairdos and hairdonts, you know those ones I mean, which are named after countries...hmmmff. Why do these women do it, is it because they want to look or feel better for themselves or are they just trying to please their partner? I mean there is a line to draw, when does it start to go beyond the point of ridiculous?

SO this fashionable back, sack and crack wax is apparently a real clean up for men. As my friend said, chicks dig it. I beg to differ. Ok I know a lot of men wax their backs, acceptable, or a load of sportsmen to speed themselves up, but as for the rest of the wedding tackle, why do they do it? I am not exactly going to go around interviewing and asking men if they wax their sack, but I am seriously curious as why it appeals so much to some men and some women.

Thinking about the procedure itself, how could someone even think of letting hot wax go near there, and then what sort of positions do you have to lie in to let the therapist apply it, do you need to help, do you need to stretch the skin? Do they shout out four letter words? I think it's all nuts! And then there's the ripping the wax off part, I shudder to think. Can the sack rip? It's certainly not something for the faint of heart. So curiousity got the better of me and I had to ask my friend, but whyyy why on earth would you do that? And this is when he answered me and I started laughing uncontrollably.

HIM: " I gave it a go once, almost shot my eyeballs across the room and blew my spleen out through my doet it was so sore"
ME: Through snorts and shrieking with laughter, sorry what is doet?
HIM: Oh that's an 80's slang term for anus
ME: OMG! But why did you do it?
HIM: Didn't believe it was as sore as people said. Turns out it is!!!"

Oh well, I spose each to their own, but it certainly makes you wonder, what people only do and what's more, what they go through to please their partner, must be true love or am I going nuts?