This post is courtesy of the editors of Elle.com. Men with facial hair: pay attention.

Thanks to the World Cup, Men's Fashion Week, and Wimbledon, on top of the never-ending stream of hunkiness coming from Hollywood, there's been a lot of opportunity to man ogle of late. But yesterday, when we caught a glimpse of one particularly attractive male specimen who dabbles in facial hair, sporting a rather rugged beard (looking at you, Chris Pine), the ELLE.com office erupted in a heated debated. Do whiskers make a guy hotter or does it take away from a man's general clean-cut splendor? Below, our arguments:

FOR

Megan Cahn: Nothing is creepier than a guy with a clean-shaven face—like he's going to try to sell me some stocks. He probably was in a frat and works out in an actual gym, also creepy. A guy with smooth skin is like a guy with a high voice—luckily David Beckham has a beard to combat the latter. Beards are manly, sexy, and a little badass. Plus, who wants a pretty boy who has to spend all that time in the bathroom? Beards are also fun to scratch while you're laying on the couch watching TV together and you don't have to deal with face burn from making out if he doesn't shave for one day, you just have a nice soft padding. Baby faces should be left to babies, period.

Men that look better with beards: My boyfriend, Ryan Gosling, Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Affleck, Justin Theroux, Jared Leto, Michael Fassbender...

Victoria Hoff: I am pro beard AND pro long hair. (You can call that the Brooklyn double-whammy.) There is a guy with major scruff in my neighborhood who wears his long, flaxen locks in a man bun from time to time and I melt when I see him on the subway platform—mainly because he looks like Jared Leto's long lost twin. There is something so sexy about a dude rocking serious hair—it's bohemian, free-spirited, and masculine. There is a very important distinction between different kinds of beards—think more 1969 and less 1899—but I do appreciate the effort all around. Perhaps my inexplicable attraction just confirms that I was either born about forty years too late or I should be living in a cabin in the Pacific Northwest. (Or, well, Brooklyn.)

Erin Toland: Beards are sexy as hell, especially combined with long hair that has just a touch of grease. Beards remind me of all things masculine and strong, even if the man wearing it is neither of those things. It's a longing that's been cultivated over years of watching movies with insanely sexy leading men wearing them. I beg my husband to grow a beard, but alas, his job demands that he's clean shaven. I'm relegated to vacation stubble which I take willingly.

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AGAINST

Danielle Prescod: Personally, I think that men with beards are disgusting. It makes them look like vagrants—and that's an undesirable trait in a man. I prefer a man that looks like he thinks about his grooming (like these fellows).

Beards immediately age a man. It terrifies me when I see teenagers with facial hair as I, myself, would like to look young and spry forever. I would also prefer that any potential mates also be young and spry, thus we will pass these desirable traits on to our offspring. It is just science: survival of the fittest and the fittest are beardless.

Kate Winick: Beards are an evolutionary LIE. They lend masculinity to the weak-chinned, gravitas to the inconsequential, and ruggedness to the totally useless. Ladies, protect yourselves! Do not fall prey to the mysterious-looking gentleman who looks as though he could lift your entire body under his arm and carry you off to a bed he built with his own two hands. His furniture is from Ikea, he knows nothing of vintage truck engines, and he most certainly does not have a country house where you'll make pancakes and walk around in his flannel shirts. Men who look good without beards should be proud of their bone structure, and men who look significantly better with beards should have to carry around a small card to warn you that your male children will be unattractive until they hit puberty.

Except Joe Manganiello. Joe clearly possess abilities in every relevant area and thus can do whatever he wants with his face, especially if he is putting it anywhere near mine.

Justine Harman: I think it depends. If the fellow can actually grow a beard—and not some patchy, desperate jowl jacket—it can be super sexy and inviting. I, however, am not into the woodsman look. Seems scratchy and overwrought. It's facial hair not a bonsai tree. There's nothing effortless about a perfect beard. That sucker takes work.