As everyone knows, men grow beards (largely) to stave off the embarrassment of losing their hair (on the head), thereby keeping the illusion of youth and potency.

An interesting twist to this occurs with men who HAVE hair, but shave it off regularly as a sign that they are somehow aligned with neo-punk culture and so on.

This falls right into the hands of men who are BEGINNING to lose their hair. They shave it ALL so as to give the (false) impression that they really do have a full head of hair…so much in fact, that they practically HAVE to shave it off.

The avant garde French “philosopher”, Michael Foucault, is an interesting sub-species of this no-hair phenomenon. He actually had no hair PLUS he didn’t sport a beard. But his sexual potency was never in question, so that explains his appearance.

Men don’t ordinarily shave their legs. Not that it matters to men after the age of 55 or so, because at about that time, the hair falls off naturally from their legs leaving an unattractive shining skin like the underside of an eel or something.

The full story of men and hair has never been told in full. It would make an interesting study.