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Bearded men are more attractive to women, study says, unless they're squeamish about hair-borne bugs
CNN ^ | January 14, 2020 | Sandee LaMotte

Posted on 01/15/2020 6:40:03 AM PST by C19fan

hen it comes to love, as the song says, birds, bees, even educated fleas do it.

But that old, catchy Cole Porter tune certainly didn't consider the impact of fleas -- educated or not -- and other creepy hair crawlers on a woman's ability to love a man with a beard.

According to a new study, if a woman runs screaming from hair-dwelling creatures such as lice, ticks, fleas and the like, she's likely to find men with beards much less attractive.

It's on an unconscious level, of course. But from the viewpoint of her inner animal brain, who wants to pucker up to a mouth fringed by a thicket of hair that might contain tiny, squirmy, maggot-like creatures?

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: beards; women
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1 posted on 01/15/2020 6:40:03 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Leave it to CNN.


2 posted on 01/15/2020 6:40:49 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: C19fan

Think of it as a “man-carpet”.


3 posted on 01/15/2020 6:41:25 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: C19fan

Not. Bearded men are guilty.


4 posted on 01/15/2020 6:42:36 AM PST by RealVirginia
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To: C19fan

Scruff OK Moses beard not OK.


5 posted on 01/15/2020 6:43:43 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: C19fan

My wife abhors facial hair of any type.


6 posted on 01/15/2020 6:44:02 AM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: C19fan

I don’t know how they’ve managed to make beards look girly but they have. Give it a minute, even this lone indicator of testosterone will end up dyed purple and rolled up into a bun. It has to be estrogen in urban water supplies. Nothing else makes sense.


7 posted on 01/15/2020 6:44:21 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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Well I guess I'll be unattractive then. I grew a beard once in my late 20’s, absolutely hated it, it was uncomfortable and a pain to keep clean. I shaved it off and have not had as much as a stray whisker in the last 25 years.
8 posted on 01/15/2020 6:45:02 AM PST by apillar
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Beards came from the special operators in the middle east wars. It became a rugged look that every homosexual now employs as part of their homo uniform.


9 posted on 01/15/2020 6:46:02 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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Another MAN-HATE meme from CNN. Why on earth post this crap, huh?

Sheesh!


10 posted on 01/15/2020 6:46:16 AM PST by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
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These women need to learn about the mites that live in everyone’s eyebrows and eyelashes.


11 posted on 01/15/2020 6:46:46 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: C19fan

I resisted the urge to post the clip from South Park’s Angelina Jolie episode.


12 posted on 01/15/2020 6:48:21 AM PST by treetopsandroofs
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“...a mouth fringed by a thicket of hair that might contain...’

That’s ridiculous. If you keep it appropriately manly like mine is then they would just fall off because there is no way to hang on to all that smoked fish, fried chicken, bacon, and hamburger grease.


13 posted on 01/15/2020 6:48:36 AM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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“who wants to pucker up to a mouth fringed by a thicket of hair”

No comment.


14 posted on 01/15/2020 6:49:08 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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My guess is the length of the beard makes a lot of differences. I think previous studies have shown long stubble to short-cropped beards doing best with the ladies.


15 posted on 01/15/2020 6:50:22 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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I was thinking about the joke about the flea in Willie Nelson’s beard.


16 posted on 01/15/2020 6:50:46 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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No girl wants to get kissed and brushed off at the same time


17 posted on 01/15/2020 6:51:16 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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Don’t like them.


18 posted on 01/15/2020 6:51:48 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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19 posted on 01/15/2020 6:52:32 AM PST by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Fun stuff.

https://www.healthline.com/health/eyelash-mites#overview

If I were to be held upside down up to the bridge of my nose in a vat of water for several minutes every day for a couple weeks, wouldn’t they all drown?

I suppose the inkers and piercers would want MORE of them, though.


20 posted on 01/15/2020 6:52:42 AM PST by treetopsandroofs
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