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why is pubic hair less perfect than other hair? ie, it has thick bits and thin bits, why isn't it straight?

what's the point in that Aye?

If pubic hair was straight, it would poke your eyes out.
Rocket

Speaking as a male, most of you seem to have forgotten about a few less obvious peices of pubic hair. The stuff on your head would in a horse be it's mane, EVERYTHING else is pubic hair. this means that you beard and mustache, the stuff under your armpits, the hair on your back and front, all of it is pubic hair.

Maybe the curliness has something to do with sticking to shower walls. They love their shower walls, don't they? But how do they get up there?

don't forget the stuff on your palms.

I've noticed that, altho the hair on top of my head comes in dark brown, my beard comes in with a slightly reddish tint. (So if you see someone with beard color that comes out a naturally different shade than the hair on their pate, it is safe to assume their pubes match beard. Or maybe I'm just a mutant?)

see post no three for the explanation of why your beard is a different colour to your hair.

I'm sure there's somethign about it having to be curly so that when you are shaving, you have to wipe off the razor more often... plus it's supposed to catch stuff before it gets to places stuff shouldn't, for example, nose hairs....

xyroth,

Originally in that post above, I was going to say something rude to you about the differences between humans and horses. For example, the lack of tails in humans, and the way horses do not seem to grow tufts of longer, curlier hair under their armpits or crotches. I don't think horses are covered with pubic hair. I don't understand how horses having long hair down their necks and short hair covering the rest of their bodies explains why hair comes out brown on top of my skull and reddish under my jaw.

However, all this makes me think of two points that may prove more interesting, if less relevant.

#1. I have heard that, contrary to superficial appearances, all humans have hair follicles all over their bodies, with the exceptions of their palms and the bottoms of their feet. Although some people appear to have bare chests, or women appear to have bare faces, there are actually small hairs there if you look up close.

#2. When the veterinarian gelded my mother's second horse, he threw the testicles far off into the pasture and declared, "The cats can fight over those." This anecdote has no relevance, but I enjoy telling it.

Horses, lions, it doesn't matter. the main point is that the hair on your head is like your mane, the rest is your fur. hence the bald guys with a thick red beard.

I don't think you can relate d horses to da peeps. Anyway is culy to trap more pockets of air to keep warm. Genetically peeps from hot places have less pubic/body hair. Women gen. have less as instinctive gender sign for mating purposes, see lionesses have no mane.

and, apparently, on the cheeks of your bottom...

I've never checked if it's red there. Have to ask my wife.

what do you think of shaving?

I don't think of shaving, I just do it.

yeah but, why is it sort of malformed - less perfect than other pubes, sort of the stuff of cheap matress filling....

who can tell!

Pubic hair serves an entirely different function than the hair on your head. Pubic hair is intended not as a decorative insulating material, but rather as a friction reducer. If you have the occassion to do so take a strand of pubic hair and compare it to the hair of your head. Rub them both between thumb and forefinger. Notice that the pubic hair has more of a tendancy to slide instead of rolling, this is especially noticeable if you compare a lock of head hair to a lock of pubic hair. The sliding effect reduces friction against various parts of your body thereby preventing chaffing and other sundry unpleasantness. The slide is acheived by the additional thickness of the pubic hair as well as its shape.

The general curliness noted in pubic hair locations is intended to allow air to pass freely between the strands and in close to the skin keeping it drier and less likely to harbour nasty buggies. The hair on your head is finer and generally less curly because a major portion of the heat lost from your body occurs from your head. Finer, more dense hair helps insulate your head in colder climates so that your body retains more heat and you therfore fail to freeze to death in the very first snow.

Yeah, but what about the people in movies who basically have pubic hair for public head hair? why is it they have nasty wiry thick stuff like that on the top of their head?


It doesn't make sense if the explanation you put is true

The people in movies? Okay.

Variations in head hair type are varied evolutionary responses to predominate forms of climate. People from Southern Latitudes tend to have a more curly/coarse head hair structure. Again it all has to do with heat, in warmer climates it is less advantageous to have a thick head of insulating hair than it is to be able to keep a cooler head.

I'm still not quite sure what you mean by 'people in movies' though.

Like in Remmber t/titans the Daughter of the coach (not the assistant coach) she had massively thick curly pubic like hair