2007-08-07 04:22:37 · 21 answers · asked by tbryan@talk21.com 1 in Beauty & Style ➔ Hair
Pubic hair does go gray, it just takes a while. The hair keeps the sweat off your body.
2007-08-07 04:27:47 · answer #1 · answered by faewhisper 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The hair on the body in the genital area and under the arm will go gray if it manages to stay in tack. The reason it goes go gray is that as the body ages so does the hair itself, and as every thing slows down so does the production of melanin, which is the pigmentation of hair.
As for why we have these areas with hair, is for the absorption of sweat. Sweat can create a breeding ground for bacteria, and the hair helps to pull the sweat away from the body, to allow for a natural cooling. These are if you will called hot spots. When we are young they take our temperature by the rectum, when we are old the temperature is taken in the arm pit, and of course we don't have hair in our mouth, thought some mornings we may wake and feel we do...LOL..but that is the area that our body temperature is also taken...
I am surprised you didn't ask why do we have eyebrows, and if that question does arise, The answer is they are there to help the sweat from our foreheads to follow away from our eyes...
Did you also know that we have four different types of hair on our bodies? They are superfluous, barb, pubic, and down. Thought that might be interesting to you also.. just a little trivia for you
2007-08-07 17:07:45 · answer #2 · answered by Vera A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pubic hair does go grey.
I think hair under the arms and genital areas is to help keep heat in as it around areas of appendage as opposed to the trunk of the body which is warmest.
2007-08-07 04:47:06 · answer #3 · answered by Dave C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hair under the arms serves no point but pubic hair prevents genital infections. the hair keeps the bacteria from coming into your genital area.
2007-08-07 04:27:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
we've the comparable style of hair follicles as a chimp - our hair only grows very thinly in virtually all component to the physique - yet there is greater often than not hair everywhere in the physique - for adult men and for women human beings, its only that in the time of specific aspects it keeps to be particularly heavy and thick growth. One thought is that under-arm hair easily keeps sweat - there are physique odour in sweat, and physique odours serve a efficient attractor - much less so in recent times as we use physique spray - however the arm pit are at an appropriate distance from the nostril, and is a competent section for amassing sweat.
2016-10-14 07:17:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pubic hair does go grey and underarm and genital hair are there for hygenic purposes.
2007-08-07 04:28:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know why it doesn't go grey. I'm not even at the greying stage.
I know the purpose though. Ventilation. Those areas sweat alot, and the hairs evaporate the sweat easier so it doesn't become a breeding ground (not a problem though nowadays; unless you don't wash).
2007-08-07 04:29:21 · answer #7 · answered by Equinox 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The hair acts as an anti-friction agent, for those long walks across the baking plains our ancestors used to undertake.
2007-08-07 04:31:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pubic and underarm hair does turn gray. As far as its purpose, who knows?
2007-08-07 04:31:24 · answer #9 · answered by Jeffrey P 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it can go grey. I don't have any hair under my arms or genital area though thanks to Mr. Razor.
2007-08-07 04:28:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋