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My face will get badly scratchy even with a 5 o'clock shadow.
My guess is this beard-wearing craze has mostly to do with rebellion against the baby-boom/gen-X generations of parents and grandparents. It's a millennials thing. I first noticed this beard thing around 1995 when young fellows started to sport little goatees. I thought that looked crappy even then. Now, it's largely a long biker-beard thing. Male faces are commonly looking like a string mop head.
Clean-shaven was the norm for the baby-boom and gen X in their youth save for a mustache and long sideburns here and there.
I favor laws that says beards must be at least covered up in food-handling employment. I don't want beard hair in my food as a restaurant patron.
Looking at CNN on TV today, virtually all men in elected positions from federal to state are clean-shaven still.
Here in Lawton, OK, virtually all male (most of them here) cops are clean-shaven.
Hair becomes scratchy when it is cut or when it is dry. Your 5 o'clock shadow is scratchy primarily because you shaved. Hard truth.