I don't have a beard anymore. I tend to get rid
of it whenever the summer comes.
Anyhow, I tend to suck the food out of
my beard when I have it, so it's not really
a problem.
My beard is usually a matter of warmth/
laziness/image. The image is seeing myself
as a swordsman, thus (not apparent in the
picture, as I had been dancing) a goatee and
handlebars. My wife used to rather insist on me
keeping it, as I don't like to shave every day, and
the scratchiness would bother her. I don't think that
I ever thought about it in quite the light that you
put it.