Should men
shave their facial hair? This apparently trivial inquiry leads us to
profound wisdom about sexes and their roles.
Hair in men, animals and plants serve a very important function of
temperature management. Human facial hair appears with puberty when
brain begins to fire on all cylinders. But it does not happen in
pubescent girls skeptics may object. They forget a simple fact that male
brain is larger and heavier than a female brain. Hence nature has
evolved extra foliage for it.
There was a historical time when a female face could launch a thousand
ships. Then Alexander the great had a brain wave that a flowing beard
was a handicap in hand to hand combat. His army men began to shave. This
clean shaven, handsome, smart and victorious army slowly and steadily
swept the beards away, initiating erosion in the equilibrium between the
sexes. With face as symbol of womanhood gone women began to take care of
their breasts. Its symbolism as object of attraction for men blinded us
to its real function – breast feeding of infants.
Alexander could not conquer the world but his idea of shaving conquered
the civilized males all over the world. In the animal world male and
female complement each other as equal but non-identical partners. We,
the homo-sapiens or wise animals, are the exception. Here male and
female are competing partners; equal and identical in thinking and
behavior. The human sexes desperately striving to imitate each other are
breaking homes – the building blocks of society.
Science in the twentieth century discovered that not breast feeding
leads to breast cancer and that breast feeding is ideal for infant and
mother for emotional reasons too. The risk factor of shaving every day
is waiting to be discovered soon. Not only our physiology but our
psychology too suffers from these unnatural indulgences.
Men’s testicles are another example of a human organ and its extreme
sensitivity to temperature. It hangs outside the body and maintains its
temperature by adjusting its distance from the body. Using a tight
undergarment in a tropical country like India has resulted in drastic
reduction in sperm count.
The conclusion is very obvious. We go against nature at our own peril. A
bottle feeding mother deprives an infant of the purest food and
emotional bonding and strengthened immune system and puts the mother at
risk of breast cancer. Likewise shaving of facial hair by men is also
interference in nature. The consequences can not be good.
Since men pride themselves on their superior brain they should take the
initiative to correct this irrational aberration in our behavior. It is
urgently required for the wellbeing of our infants, men, women and human
society.
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