Hair

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Though I am almost bald now and has not used comb or hairbrush since last decade at least, but yesterday I thought a lot about hair. I was returning to home from another station by train. It was almost three hours journey. A young girl about 8-9 years and her mother were sitting in front of me. The girl was pretty with her innocent face but the thing that most attracted me was her hair.

She had very long hair, little short from her waist. They were jet black, dense and shiny. They were so beautiful I could not help myself from looking at her again and again.
They descended from the train one station prior to me but I kept thinking about that girl and hair in particular, till my station came.

Theory of evolution says that organisms tend to adopt and improve with circumstances. And, in that process, they slowly discard useless things and develop useful ones. I have no reason to disagree with that either. The premise looks reasonable and can explain many things too. But, when I tried to apply it on human hair, I did not get any satisfactory answer.

Almost all parts of human body have some usefulness. Yes, there are some exceptions like appendix, but human bodies are in the process of losing them. I think that applies even to the hair all over the body too. As humans started covering their bodies, body hair lost their relevance and are in the process of extinction. Human female bodies are ahead in this process. Perhaps, their less exposure to hostile conditions over the time is the reason behind that.

Very recently, a study has been done which tells that even the size of human brain had been decreased by 5% in last 5000 years, because, due to development of helping means over the time, now human brain needs to work less than the past.

But, the question that kept me haunting was, why this theory does not apply on head hair and beard? What is their usefulness after all? Why there is absolutely no change in their status in last 10,000 years, at least?

With love,
Sanjay

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Hair loss, and excessive attraction to girls, is caused by an overabundance of testosterone. With the feminization of man hair loss will be a thing of the past.

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They say that the majority of bodily heat loss is through the head so we need an especially dense patch of hair on the head. Why men have beards and women don’t? Beats me, but it’s probably the same reason women have much less hair than men overall.

I remember asking a friend once what the survival advantage of armpit hair was. Why would the species have died without armpit hair? Women all over the globe shave their armpits and they seem to be getting along just fine. My friend just answered that it’s not needed for survival but it helps, but he didn’t go on to explain how it helps. I guess armpits are just like the head–a spot for heat loss–and therefore might need some extra hair… idunno.

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Zinnat

Evolution improves on two levels, strength and attractiveness, fighting and f… Well you take my point. The little girls hair will make her attractive to mates when she is older, being without it would not ~ mostly.

I don’t know why we find long hair attractive though, maybe it symbolises health and longevity, but maybe it only matters that we like it.

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I think that parts purely conditioned. If we lived in a society in which it was the norm for women to cut their hair and for men to grow it out, men would find women with short hair attractive and women would find men with long hair attractive.

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As to body hair, I didn’t ever quite know why I had so much chesthair. I have hairy arms and legs, but its real fine and light there, but it thickens on my chest, and a little on the back of my shoulder blades.

It wasn’t until I put on my issued body armor the first time it occurred to me evolution might be at play, as the friction spots sat exactly over my densest hair. Though armor has evolved a lot over time, the basic necessity of it conforming to the human body hasn’t, and in this respect, how it has always sat has been fairly consistent the last 4000 years.

Secondly, the hair does well in extreme cold weather. Likewise, in bright sun. I have vitigilo, recently grew a beard. It covers up the skin rather well, provides protection. Though vitigilo is hardly restricted to whites, we obviously are prone to it as we are light skinned to begin with, our ancestors had difficulty getting vitamin D, which light skin is a adaptation to. I’m taking massive Vitamin D supplements now (50,000 IU daily). The hair does wonders. Doesn’t attract women, but keeps the sun off me.

If you look, you’ll see in extreme climates an emphasis on facial and head hair, as well as cloth/wool coverings (hats, baklavas in the west). Middle east and far north.

Facial hair is also a indicator of nutrition and health. I have very, very rapid beard growth. Wish I didn’t, have to shave daily or else it looks like I haven’t shaved in days. I also don’t have any hair loss yet. Thought I would, only 32, maybe someday.

As to why women’s hair us so attractive, outside of a indicator of health and evidence that the woman cares for herself hygienically, and wants to be attractive, I don’t quite know. I really like nice hair, and pony tails in women. Weird ass fetish, strikes myself as odd. Why I like it, don’t know. Might just be sexual selection, like the big nose male monkeys.

The Indians around here (the real Indians here in America, not the bootleg South-Asians from India) used to pull their hair our except a braided area, and cover the rest in paint.

That’s chief Logan, the local Mingo Chief here before the people in my town here genocided his family, starting Lord Dunmore’s War, which itself was the first acts of the Revolutionary War. The histories tell us they hated head hair, but it wasn’t apparently to keep lice off them, because they walked around in thick, lice ridden wholly blankets.

I mean, literally polled their hair out. They had metal knives, could make stone blades, and pulled it out. Fuck that.

What’s funny is, we have a Optometrist here in town from India, and the old Mayor back in 2008 decided we should have a Native American Heritage Month, and made a plaque up, and awarded it to the Indian Doctor, completely oblivious he was from India and not a native american. It got real awkward, but nobody had the courage to say anything, so the Indian doctor accepted the prize on behalf of all Native Americans. I bet its hanging on his wall still, good conversation piece.

Here is the newspaper article, the newspaper was nice about it and hid the fact the mayor was a crackhead:

weirtondailytimes.com/page/conte … l?nav=5006

Same mayor ran off after embezzling money from the city.

weirtondailytimes.com/page/conte … -jury.html

I should point out, he was using steroids, straight testosterone (I went to talk to him as soon as I got out of the army, a few months before that reward)… I saw how his face was flushed and gave up talking to him. Stuff is $300 a week in pure form. He still had a full head of hair, so doubt this hypothesis some guys have that its from too much testosterone. Guys using steroids in the gym should be bald, while Woody Allen would look like a monkey with hair all over.

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Hair loss is caused by DHT, a byproduct of testosterone. If someone has high testosterone but low DHT they dont go bald.

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc52vCJ83LA[/youtube]

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Uhhhh… Not quite Trix’s, it has the effects in both directions in Eunuchs, depends on their age. It can slow hairloss, or increase it in them.

My extreme facial hair growth comes apparently from my moms hormonal balance in the womb, but this doesn’t determine balding.

This chart should explain everything to you Zinny:

I can’t figure out what’s going on in this graphic, but is apparently explaining all our questions.

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Is there anything you don’t know, Ferg?

What the fuck is your deal man?

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If it were purely conditioned, I don’t think the preference would be as pervasive as it is across cultures. I do think there is come conditioning involved, but I also think the conditioning is a byproduct of a natural predilection. There are some cultures in which women traditionally have short hair, but they generally seem to be in harsher environments where longer hair may not be a good idea.

Hair also protects the scalp from the sun and could even cushion blows to the head.

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No… Like, Trix’s had info I didn’t know, caused me to look into it.

Actually, there is yet one more component… I think the scientist missed in creating this mockup. Arc ironically has the info I sent her.

Arc, umm… I think its in the book, in the PM, under INTJ, one of the two brothers theorized INTJ Contributors use Testosterone and Serotonin as their main neural chemicals for processing. I know the serotonin sequencing, but if you come across the testosterone sequencing, can you link the brain region and crainial nerve it relates to?

If I had a very early exposure to testosterone in the womb that resulted in heavy beard growth after puberty set in, my personality type might be a side effect of this. Its something I should look into, I just can’t remember which of their books they said it in, or the details. I could be remembering it wrong.

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gib

Sure, but men do like hair and majoritively longer hair, evolution just cares about what is attractive.

Long and good quality hair shows equally good and quality health, and we want to mate with that.

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i believe shorter hair women are more attractive, and longer hair men are attractive.

I believe this is the most practical natural state.

Men are hunters, the long hair prevents them from sunburn.

Also, during sex, a woman with short hair is easier to bite her ears.

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Why are you biting ears?

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Tixie,

That seems to be slightly besides the point.
Secondly, what you proposed, has not happened yet, and I am not sure as about the future.

With love,
Sanjay

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If I were in bed with a chick who could move like Holyfield, I’d bite her ear off too.

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Ear biting, ear nibbling, not ear-ripping, dubstep, alarm-clock music, Judas Iscariot or Tyson.

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Fish in Antartica are undergoing random sexchanges. It’s only a matter of time.

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Its why I don’t eat fish.