2007-11-13 20:12:09 · 8 answers · asked by Brett L 2 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Underarm hair (also called axillary hair or armpit hair) is the composition of hair in the underarm area. This hair, as most of the other body hair, normally starts to appear at puberty and growth is usually complete by the end of teen age. The release of pheromones from the axilla at this stage of human development suggests association of armpit hair with sexuality. The positive response to olfactory stimulus in mammals and the consequent intensification of the sex drive caused by release of pheromones offers useful clues as to the purpose and importance of axillary hair in humans.
It has been suggested that the hair itself acts with a natural "anti-friction" quality between the upper arm and the thorax.
So it acts as cushion and to avaoid anti-friction and also to give sexual attaction to the other partner. viz.a viz -
2007-11-13 20:21:25 · answer #1 · answered by Jayaraman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you assume it is just for warmth? I guess that's one possibility.
I found two probable answers. One is to help you give off a smell to attract a mate, the other is to reduce friction between your arm and body...to keep skin from rubbing against bare skin, causing a sore which could get infected.
Or maybe there is no purpose to it, you just wish there was a purpose for every part of you. What is the purpose in having a pinky toe, or earlobes, or hair on the outside of your nose?
2007-11-14 04:20:48 · answer #2 · answered by goneresistance 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know where I heard this from but I heard it was to keep the smell close to the body so you dont go stinking up the place. Or it might have been to carry the sweat away from that place so youre not wet all the time. Sweat would dry quicker spread over hair than on the skin right?
2007-11-14 04:18:40 · answer #3 · answered by noonienoodles 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you wanna look at it as serious well body hair including underarm hair is there to keep the body at homeostasis meaing keep the body temperature level. hair can be there as a form of insulation to keep you warm or can help with colling the body down
but really armpit hairs is manly there to piss us all off
2007-11-14 04:17:44 · answer #4 · answered by Cheekydevil99 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's all geneology. maybe things that we are born with is believed to not existing in the future. there are many people now who have no wisdom teeth or the surfacing symptoms. it won't belong until humans won't have underarm hair!
2007-11-14 04:17:11 · answer #5 · answered by Kenton C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To keep deoderant makers in business it seems.
2007-11-14 04:15:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not to keep them warm its to aid cooling oddly enough.....eskimoes(innuits have little or no body hair apparently
2007-11-14 04:15:24 · answer #7 · answered by Kevin o 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people have no idea... just a weird part of life i guess.........
2007-11-18 03:50:46 · answer #8 · answered by Jessy:) 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋