# Are men going bald at a younger age? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 20, 2023, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-going-bald-at-a-younger-age/982943 "2023-04-20T01:47:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-going-bald-at-a-younger-age/982943/5 "2023-04-20T11:27:38Z")
> [@UDS1](#): > > they look younger at that age than they did in the past. > [@Did people just look older in the past?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-people-just-look-older-in-the-past/641029): > > I’ve been watching some old '70s childhood favorites on Netflix as background while I level my WoW character, and today I was watching Emergency! One of the rescues was a man they described as “in his late 40s”–I swear, the man looked 60. Wrinkles, graying hair, balding, scrawny…he looked like an old man. I’ve noticed that a lot of people on TV shows from the '70s and earlier look a lot older than their modern counterparts–for example, I think Darrin on Bewitched was supposed to be in his 20s, b… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-men-going-bald-at-a-younger-age/982943)._