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Created | Updated Sep 16, 2006
Armpit Hair:
A new discussion on the usefulness or otherwise of armpit hair was started by Apollyon making a rather simple question asking:
"Why does hair grow so much more densely in the armpits than most other part of the body?"
RodtheBrit remembered a reason he had been told but like everyone else din't believe it:
"Don't know the modern explanation... It used to be 'friction reducer'"
The downfall being:
"you got a funny look if you then asked about pubic hair."
Traveller in Time suggested:
The armpit and pubic hair are to preserve feromones. The smell they have is a measure for your health.
Beard and chest are to visually show you are a healty male.
Which met with approval from others immediatly.
Azhar added:
And indeed I think that 'fresh sweat' in these areas can be very attractive ... I read recently that Napoleon sent messages to Josephine not to bathe for the three weeks before his planned return...
But was countered by Blatherskite with:
Your armpit and your groin are the two warmest places on the surface of your body, for the simple reason that they're completely enclosed by flesh on all sides. Next in line... your butt crack, and there isn't a time in all of history when butt sweat was considered sexy.
Other ideas that they were the only areas that didn't get much friction were suggested by numerous people but as Zubeneschamali noted we lost our hair on the African planes before heading out much later.
However after 80+ posts no concenseus has been reached though almost all known ways for genetics to work from sexual pressure to the hair reducing friction theory.
Seems fiiting to end with the Billy Connoly quote ""I was trying to think of a primeval reason for foot long nasal hair..." first mentioned by Orcus.
A new discussion on the usefulness or otherwise of armpit hair was started by Apollyon making a rather simple question asking:
"Why does hair grow so much more densely in the armpits than most other part of the body?"
RodtheBrit remembered a reason he had been told but like everyone else din't believe it:
"Don't know the modern explanation... It used to be 'friction reducer'"
The downfall being:
"you got a funny look if you then asked about pubic hair."
Traveller in Time suggested:
The armpit and pubic hair are to preserve feromones. The smell they have is a measure for your health.
Beard and chest are to visually show you are a healty male.
Which met with approval from others immediatly.
Azhar added:
And indeed I think that 'fresh sweat' in these areas can be very attractive ... I read recently that Napoleon sent messages to Josephine not to bathe for the three weeks before his planned return...
But was countered by Blatherskite with:
Your armpit and your groin are the two warmest places on the surface of your body, for the simple reason that they're completely enclosed by flesh on all sides. Next in line... your butt crack, and there isn't a time in all of history when butt sweat was considered sexy.
Other ideas that they were the only areas that didn't get much friction were suggested by numerous people but as Zubeneschamali noted we lost our hair on the African planes before heading out much later.
However after 80+ posts no concenseus has been reached though almost all known ways for genetics to work from sexual pressure to the hair reducing friction theory.
Seems fiiting to end with the Billy Connoly quote ""I was trying to think of a primeval reason for foot long nasal hair..." first mentioned by Orcus.
