Why is my hair smooth and soft compared to the other hairs?

    • ramble81@lemm.ee
      10·
      10 months ago

      If I had to pull an educated guess out of my follicle rich posterior, I was gonna say for protection too. Given that we started walking upright having a denser concentration (even pubes aren’t that dense) blocks a lot of direct sunlight for heat, and helps keep warmth in for cold climates.

  • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works
    20·
    10 months ago

    They’re growing from different types of hair follicles. Why do we have different types? I don’t think anyone knows for certain. Possibly something to do with the development from the full body hair of our ancestors to the partial coverage we have today.

  • Chee_Koala@lemmy.world
    20·
    10 months ago

    Not all human races share this trait. I saw a documentary about aging Chinese males and hairloss (don’t know their race but the procedures were in china and they had genetically Asian traits), and a lot of them could use pubic hair from their own body to substitute, as it is much closer to their head hair when comparing hair characteristics. Very cool.

  • Pasta Dental@sh.itjust.worksOP
    13·
    10 months ago

    This post is made semi-jokingly, but it’s still a real question of mine btw. In other words: why is ball hair all fucked up when head hair is so smooth?

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      I think there’s even more questions that spring forth from this also. Like, it’s not just head hair Vs pubes, but also the soft downy hair on arms or women’s faces. Moles that have hair coming out of them, they’re weird too. And I’d love to know why my toe knuckles have been getting hairier with age.

    • RBWells@lemmy.world
      52·
      10 months ago

      If you sat on your head, maybe your head hair would be fucked up too! There are different follicles all over our body, there is a bigger difference between, say, arm hair and head hair, than there is between pubes and head hair. We evolved that way, I’m not sure there’s a “why” beyond that. People with long head hair and short sparse body hair were more likely to reproduce.

  • sir_pronoun@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    10 months ago

    I for one am happy I don’t grow a long, smooth mane between my legs. Still not happy with pubic hair, though.

    If I had to guess it would be thicker and curlier because it supposedly has to do this job of spreading pheromones and not get too much in the way of action. Also, you get more friction from moving your body in those places, so hair too thin might not cut it, and break off. Or something.

    I really want to get laser hair removal, btw. Evolution has been leading up to lasers, everyone knows that.

    • Foreigner@lemmy.world
      7·
      10 months ago

      As someone in the middle of getting laser hair removal, I say go for it if you can and find a good place to have it done. I’m very happy with results even after just a few sessions.

    • swab148@startrek.website
      2·
      10 months ago

      I don’t grow a long, smooth mane between my legs.

      Speak for yourself, I want to look like 1970s Cher down there.

  • ivanafterall@kbin.social
    7·
    10 months ago

    Also, hair stylists really should be more specific. You said you style hair, suddenly there’s a difference!?

  • Apepollo11@lemmy.world
    63·
    10 months ago

    Fact 1 - sexually active people subconsciously look at peoples’ crotches when meeting them.

    Fact 2 - evolution doesn’t fine tune things if they’re good enough to get the job done well.

    So the fact that pubic hairs are unsightly crazy-looking things might not be because they are fine tuned to be like that - it might just be because they do their job well enough and they just ended up looking like that.

    What job could that be?

    To confirm visually that you are sexually mature.

    That may literally be it - a localised fuzzy indicator of whether or not you’re able to make babies.