Male bald: After all, germ-free
All who sit on the Olympus of masculinity, they have: hair. Full, voluptuous, perfectly styled and mostly billowing hair. James Bond, David Beckham, John Wayne, Lenny Kravitz, Lothar Matthew. Nothing is sexier? that has hammered us advertising and Hollywood for decades? as a man who runs his hand through his full head hair. Or a beautiful woman who drives a man through the full hair. You can hide six-pack and chest-grooming under the shirt. Head hair is not, the thrones up there for everyone.
Hair has the pop cultural weight of a mammoth. No wonder hair loss in men often equals a mental meltdown? and society often does not accept the severity of the situation, or rather: it is ridiculed. The balding man, however, feels as if he is going through the five stages of dying: negation, anger, negotiation, depression, acceptance. No joke. But once he has combed through this purgatory (haha), he wears the flesh cap like the shiny armor of Sir Lancelot.
Why a bald man so stress the man:
Well, we do not want to rinse the matter softly? The reasons for baldness are complex. However, some points dominate today:
1. Balding undermines masculinity
Thanks to the ideal image: in our culture, full hair stands for attractiveness, power, strength and thus the epitome of masculinity. Unfortunately, this image is as perverted as Barbie's ideal image, with long hair, long legs and big tea-jugs. Freudians even go so far as to interpret hair in men as a symbol of its genitals? And now do not laugh: Hair loss then works like castration.
This is the fiasco: Most men would like to carry a sense of attractiveness AND masculinity. Does the beautiful hair flute, gets this feeling tremendously one in the Easter basket? And already it happened: One believes in the eyes of potential partners not to be sexy anymore. No more.
2. A bald old one
Again, our culture makes everything funny. Think about it, how often in advertising "eternal youth" is preached as an ideal condition. The American psychologist and author Gershen Kaufman calls this the second major reason for the deep black mood in hair loss? Balding means getting old.
According to Kaufman, many people are ashamed of this: men often just like women. In your mid-twenties you want to be young, good-looking and hip? not old, rheumatic and already drowsy after the news. Although in Berlin-Kreuzberg you probably now pass by as a style revolutionary.
3. A bald head leads to change
Then there is the point of love change, because many do not like it, if it does not come in the form of a forced relocation to Fiji. Over all the years of life we do not look very often in the mirror and what is there to see often has hair. Still. You can not imagine that otherwise.
A bald not only changes how we see ourselves? we are even more afraid of what others perceive. Most of the time you get used to a certain self-image and appearance. This is completely transformed by the clear-cut up there.
Why you should just stand by it
Well, the bald man is guaranteed nothing that you take lightly? and society helps with oh so encouraging platitudes as "bald is sexy" about as much as tanning oil on the beach in Rio. By the way, nobody wants to hear such slogans in this situation.
However, the truth is that genetic hair loss can not be stopped even with miracle drugs. Helping does just one thing: accepting oneself and building up new self-confidence. That's the only thing that matters and makes you sexy. This sounds a bit boring unfortunately, so we have listed here a few advantages that convince:
- Bald is Power: Look at Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Or Lex Luthor from Superman.
- Bald = Mustache: The motto is "Above short, below long". With a bald head you can finally leave a lush full beard, or even better, a mustache in the style of Walter White from Breaking Bad.
- Bald is germ-free: According to researchers from the universities of Oxford and Reading, man loses hair so that he is better protected from parasites and fleas. great, is not it?
