Maybe he waxed it in solidarity with Harrison Ford and the rain forest.

Nair microwave wax.

I swear to god if they do this to Naveen Andrews there will be hell to pay.

Post-Island Jack is a gym gay?

He's totally smooth in that ninja-fighting clip from Speed Racer. So I'm guessing he shaved for that role. Blame the Wachowskis.

Shaved or not, I still love him and want to have his babies.

@Koreanish: LOST island of the gym gays, anyone?

... I can see the pitch now: plane crashes onto an island of neverending late 90's style circuit parties, zaniness ensues

@azoth: Twinks on a Plane

As my co-worker pointed out, in addition to stealing the body hair, the island also sucked all the tan right off his hairless torso. He also looks a little softer than before. Pasty, hairless, pudgy people - obviously, the island is the place where government workers are created.

I've got it! He got off the island by SWIMMING to freedom! So he shaved his bod like the swimmers do!

I know I could do this "Lost theorizing" thing!

hair today, gone tomorrow. sorry.

Um, because Hurley said Jack's in heaven. And obviously, there's no chest hair in heaven.

This post made me realize: Jack appears hairless in a flash-forward that comes after we see Juliet shave his chest/abdomen on the island pre-surgery. So in his first flash-forward of the episode, there's hair... then he's shaved in island-time... then flash-forward with no hair. OK my head's going explode now.

@Scooter34: The flash-forward does take place at least 2 years after the island, so it's reasonable he would be pale. What's not reasonable are the 600 other 'mysteries' this show has brought but now misplaced.

I wonder if this was in Ben's "Box with anything you ever wanted..."?

I take back my Speed Racer theory. Speed Racer was filmed in June/July 2007. This episode of Lost was shot after the writer's strike this year. Plenty of time for Matthew Fox to grow back his chest hair.

So maybe the writers did intend his smooth torso to have some meaning. Like he's all clean-cut and comfortable before embarking on a paranoid drug binge that results in a scraggly beard. Or maybe they just wanted us to see the appendectomy scar.

I've given this way too much thought and now I must take a shower.

That STD he got from Bai Ling finally caught up to him. You can't tell in the clip, but his balls are as smooth as a snow globe.

Oddly, I rewound to look for the appendectomy scar in the flash-forward and completely missed the changing body hair.

@azoth: Where do i sign up?

@el smrtmnky: Get These....naaaaah too easy.

Don't hate on those dynamite pecs - furry or not, it works.

What's the f*ck is wrong with a little chest hair? I hate this man-scaping trend. Okay, Robin Williams needs to man-scape, but, oh to run my fingers through some of Foxy's chest hair.

I just love the thought of writers walking up and down the picket line dreaming up fantastical subplots for Fox's chest hair. Start looking for crop circles in his happy trail.

BTW, Team Hair - That man is enhanced by fur.

They shaved his chest so that you could see the appendectomy scar.

This isn't rocket science, people.

@pdn: Damn you, Occam's Razor!

Matt with fur: beargasmic.

Matt without fur: kinda porcine-y

@extracrispy: No! Only want to have babies with UNshaved Jack. He looks all jiggly.

They even 'scaped away his Happy Trail. Ladies, I think we need to storm ABC and put a stop to this madness.

We want furry Jack!

@pumpkinsoup:

I agree with you - Jack looks horrible without his manfur. I don't want to have fantasy sex with a blubbery cueball.

@Smirk: Definitely less appealing bald.

Well, this is the island on which Kate has shaved armpits after being incarcerated in a bear cage for days, the men always have rakish five o'clock shadow, and Claire wears tanktops immediately after childbirth, so, you know.

There's no chest hair in heaven?
*sobs*
@claris:

Gawd can we stop already with all the fucking endless hair free, metro-sexual manscaping!! Arghhhh!!!