Idan kana ganin gwagwarmayar da maza ke yi na cire gashin fuska zamani ne, mun samu labari. Akwai shaidun archaeological cewa, a cikin Late Stone Age, maza suna aske su da dutse, obsidian, ko clamshell shards, ko ma amfani da kullun kamar tweezers. (Oku.)
Daga baya, maza sun yi gwaji da reza tagulla, tagulla da ƙarfe. Wataƙila mawadata suna da wanzami a ma’aikata, yayin da sauran mu za mu ziyarci shagon aski. Kuma, tun daga tsakiyar zamanai, kuna iya ziyartar wanzami idan kuna buƙatar tiyata, zubar jini, ko duk wani hakora da aka ciro. (Tsuntsaye biyu, dutse daya.)

A cikin 'yan kwanakin nan, maza sun yi amfani da reza madaidaiciyar karfe, wanda ake kira "yanke-maƙogwaro" saboda ... da kyau, a bayyane yake. Zanensa mai kama da wuka yana nufin dole ne a kaifi da dutse mai honing ko strop na fata, kuma yana buƙatar fasaha mai yawa (ba tare da ma'anar mayar da hankali kamar Laser ba) don amfani.

ME YASA MUKA FARA ASKI A WAJEN FARKO?
Don dalilai masu yawa, yana fitowa. Masarawa na dā sun aske gemunsu da kawunansu, wataƙila saboda zafin rana kuma wataƙila a matsayin hanyar da za su hana ƙurajewa. Yayin da aka yi la'akari da rashin girman gashin fuska, fir'auna (har ma wasu mata) sun sanya gemu na ƙarya don yin koyi da allahn Osiris.

Daga baya Girkawa suka karbe aski a zamanin Alexander the Great. An karfafa wannan al'ada a matsayin matakin kariya ga sojoji, tare da hana abokan gaba kwace gemunsu a fada da hannu.

MAGANAR FASHION KO FAUX PAS?
Maza suna da alaƙar soyayya-ƙiyayya da gashin fuska tun farkon zamani. A cikin shekaru da yawa, an ga gemu a matsayin maras kyau, kyakkyawa, larura na addini, alamar ƙarfi da ƙwazo, ƙazanta, ko magana ta siyasa.

Har zuwa Alexander the Great, Girkawa na dā sun yanke gemu kawai a lokacin baƙin ciki. A gefe guda kuma, samarin Romawa kusan 300 BC suna da bikin "aski na farko" don bikin girma na gaba, kuma kawai suna girma gemu yayin da suke cikin baƙin ciki.

A lokacin Julius Kaisar, mutanen Romawa sun yi koyi da shi ta hanyar cire gemunsu, sannan Hadrian, Sarkin Roma daga 117 zuwa 138, ya dawo da gemu cikin salo.

Shugabannin Amurka 15 na farko ba su da gemu (ko da yake John Quincy Adams da Martin Van Buren sun taka rawar gani sosai.) Sa'an nan kuma aka zaɓi Abraham Lincoln, wanda ya mallaki gemu mafi shahara a kowane lokaci. Ya fara wani sabon salo—mafi yawan shugabannin da suka bi shi suna da gashin fuska, har zuwa Woodrow Wilson a shekara ta 1913. Kuma tun daga wannan lokacin, duk shugabanninmu sun kasance masu tsabta. Kuma me ya sa? Aske ya yi nisa.