What is the point of body hair?

[bfldworker]

What is the point of body hair? I am one step short of looking like the missing like to humanity. It doesn't serve any purpose outside of secondary sexual characteristics. It isn't meant to keep you warm or cool like animals, it is annoying in the summer when it gets stuck from sweat. Armpits stink more and the groin gets a smell. So what the hell is the point???

[mattsmith48]

What is the point of body hair? I am one step short of looking like the missing like to humanity. It doesn't serve any purpose outside of secondary sexual characteristics. It isn't meant to keep you warm or cool like animals, it is annoying in the summer when it gets stuck from sweat. Armpits stink more and the groin gets a smell. So what the hell is the point???

Well actually a long time ago when our ancestors were still living in the jungle they kinda needed hair eventually they started wearing some kind of clothing hair became less usefull and over a few generations they started losing some of it but it was still somewhat attractive. Now its just a useless vestige of the human evolution like the appendix or the wisdom teeth. Now most women are more attracted to men with less body hair eventually over multiple generations humans evolve to have less and less body hair until one day its totally gone. until then just shave the hair that annoyed you.

[NZPerson]

Body hair stops chaffing and in the case of vaginas stops dirt coming in to the holes etc, its become abit redundant know seeing as we wear clothes but its interesting because females tend to not walk around naked if their shaved because they get chaffing so yeah. It also wicks sweat away from the body otherwise not important at all.

[ska8er]

Body hair regulates temperature and
traps body odor. It is part of the skin
that holds the sweat glands.

[bfldworker]

Body hair regulates temperature and
traps body odor. It is part of the skin
that holds the sweat glands.

I would buy that if everyone was hairy. But if it is meant to regulate body temperature then please explain why a lot of people dont have body hair all over.

[bfldworker]

Well actually a long time ago when our ancestors were still living in the jungle they kinda needed hair eventually they started wearing some kind of clothing hair became less usefull and over a few generations they started losing some of it but it was still somewhat attractive. Now its just a useless vestige of the human evolution like the appendix or the wisdom teeth. Now most women are more attracted to men with less body hair eventually over multiple generations humans evolve to have less and less body hair until one day its totally gone. until then just shave the hair that annoyed you.


You must not be all that hairy. I have hair everywhere. Back, chest, arms, legs, top of hands and feet, neck. If I were to shave it, by the time I was done I would be on a milk carton. I have given up on removing it. I just try to keep it trim where I can.

But it is still a mystery to me.

[Hermes]

I think if you look across the animal kingdom generally you find that often mature males have some highly visible sign that says to females "mature male". It is usual for the male to be more highly coloured and show off for the females who are, by comparison, usually drab. I am thinking, for example of a lion's mane, a stag's antlers, a peacock's tail etc. In such cases females often choose which male they will mate with rather than the other way round.

I think body hair in humans is an artefact of that. In humans we have swapped to doing things the other way round. Girls dress in bright clothes and wear makeup and guys dress is drab by comparison. This goes with our social convention of girls showing off and guys choosing them. This is social change rather than a biological one, though.

As to why guys are not universally hairy, once you remove it from breeding success there is no evolutionary pressure to retain the charactertic.

[ska8er]

I would buy that if everyone was hairy. But if it is meant to regulate body temperature then please explain why a lot of people dont have body hair all over.

Body hair in various places serve certain purposes.
The hair on the head shields the sun and helps cool
us-that's y we sweat-pube hair and pit hair send out
hormones especially during puberty-that's y we need
a deodorant. Hair every where else helps maintain
temperature. Everyone has hair in one place or
another other than if u have a medical condition.
If u r not hairy it is the make up of ur genes to
have or not to have but we all have some. If
someone else has the answer Id like to know too.

[Kevgpdx]

Like, science and biology wise, I don't know the purpose of it. I do think body hair looks good on guys. It just seems more masculine to me. I am a hairy guy too and like the body hair that I have.

[bfldworker]

Like, science and biology wise, I don't know the purpose of it. I do think body hair looks good on guys. It just seems more masculine to me. I am a hairy guy too and like the body hair that I have.

Live in Florida and then tell me how you feel

[Bluebyrd]

Well actually a long time ago when our ancestors were still living in the jungle they kinda needed hair eventually they started wearing some kind of clothing hair became less usefull and over a few generations they started losing some of it but it was still somewhat attractive. Now its just a useless vestige of the human evolution like the appendix or the wisdom teeth. Now most women are more attracted to men with less body hair eventually over multiple generations humans evolve to have less and less body hair until one day its totally gone. until then just shave the hair that annoyed you.

If only the like button existed in P101

[West Coast Sheriff]

It's just part of the human body haha

[mattsmith48]

You must not be all that hairy. I have hair everywhere. Back, chest, arms, legs, top of hands and feet, neck. If I were to shave it, by the time I was done I would be on a milk carton. I have given up on removing it. I just try to keep it trim where I can.

But it is still a mystery to me.

I dont know how much i have I started shaving everything almost as soon it came out i only leave it on legs and armpits