Congratulations on making it so long in your experiment! Shaking that conditioning is really hard to beat.

I find it really interesting what strong reactions shaving or not shaving engenders in people, especially men.

I stopped shaving many years ago. I still don't find it aesthetically pleasing (I am also of the pale with dark body hair type) on myself or others, and I epilate once in a while when the fancy takes me (no stubble that way), but I find that the longer it's been the less I really think or care about it. But I do remember back when I shaved even a day's worth of stubble was the cause for alarm...