Most men, including me, have grown facial hair once or twice and for different personal reasons. As a boy, I saw Marti and Castro.
However, according to published reports, facial hair isn’t a functional physical human trait in the way we thought it was for many years. It’s only ornamental and one worn for various reasons.
In fact, of all the physical features on the human body including other kinds of hair facial hair is the only one that is purely or primarily ornamental. That is, it doesn’t actually do anything or perform any kind of specific physiological function. Just take a look at what the rest of our hair does for us.
Body hair helps with thermoregulation. The hair on the head protects your scalp from the beating sun but also traps heat if you’re in a cold-weather climate.
Eyelashes are like screen doors for the eyes, keeping bugs and dust and little debris particles out whenever they’re open. Eyebrows impede sweat from getting in your eyes.
Armpit hair, technically called “axillary” hair, collects and disseminates pheromones while acting like the WD-40 of body hair, reducing friction between the skin on the underside of the arm and skin on the side of the chest as we walk and swing our arms.
Pubic hair also helps reduce friction, as well as provides a layer of protection from bacteria and other pathogens.
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