From: markbr@radian.UUCP (markbr)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Re: Hair etc.
Summary: now just a minute
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:14:45 GMT
Organization: Radian Corp. Austin, TX

In article <29E0DDAB.3091@noiro.acs.uci.edu>, cortese@hepxvt.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese) writes:
# In article <1992Apr02.163410.2689@demon.co.uk> Leo Smith <shaman@cix.compulink.co.uk> writes:
# >...what is the function of hair - long hair...
# >
# >... to act as a way of distributing the body scents?
# >
# >If so combing it will bring out all the nice new fresh ones.
# >
# >I don't think the association of hair and sex magic is a coincidence
# >either: I think you don't need to look much beyond pheronomes (have I
# >got that right?) for the link....
# >
# >Maybe hair also plays some further role in subliminal communication
# >as well.
# 
# There's at least a bezillion theories as to why we still have
# body hair in places like our armpits and nether regions.  The
# pheromone bit plays a large part in these.
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# can believe it!)  The ACTUAL answer (I'm not humble about this one) is
# far more obvious.
# 
# Have you ever seen a bald man after he's done jogging?  The air above
# his head is actually WAVERING from loss of heat.  There are just tons of
# little veins and arteries all over your scalp; that's why scalp wounds
# bleed like pigs.  And when there are that many blood vessels that close
# to the surface, they give off a lot of heat.  Bald men and men losing
# their hair have to wear hats even when it's not too cold out back home,
# because they lose so much body heat when it's even just nippy, more if
# there's a breeze.  Head hair acts as an insulation from loss of body
# heat from the head, the part of the body most fully and reliably
# supplied with LOTS AND LOTS of blood, aside of course from the heart,
# which is buried deeply enough in the body for heat loss not to be a
# problem.  
# 
# It isn't really needed for trapping body odors; your head just doesn't
# stink as much as the other hairy bits do.  It also grows MUCH more
# prolifically, and doesn't stop at a relatively fixed length like other
# body hair does (I KNOW it keeps on growing, but it does do so slowly).
# 
# Sounds good to me!
# 
# Blessings,
# Janis
#  
Now just one minute: just cause I don't have as much as you, what makes
you think that you shouldn't wear a hat? Look at *anyone* with enough 
excercise. I believe I've read that something like 80 or 90% of the heat
the body looses is through the head. In other words, it may not be *fashionable*but you *ought* to wear hats outside. Why do you think people *always* wore
them until the last 20-30 years?

Hmph!  
	mark

P.S., my wife wears hats, too, and she got hair at least as thick as yours.
 double hmph.


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