From: cortese@hepxvt.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese)
Subject: Re: Hair etc.
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 7 Apr 92 23:11:11 GMT

In article <4412@radian.UUCP> markbr@radian.UUCP (markbr) writes:
>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.
><stuff deleted> 
># 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?

I may have also been *fashionable* to wear them initially, too.  Corsets
were once worn and are now out of fashion, but I won't be wearing one
soon.

I was talking about knit wool caps when the temp dips below 40!

>Hmph!  

Double hmph! 

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

TRIPLE HMPH!

I hope (right!) this doesn't get any worse . . .

Blessings,
Janis C.

Janis Cortese           ||   "The United States is the only country to  
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