# Body hair et all.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-hair-et-all/51261>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 22, 2001, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-hair-et-all/51261 "2001-01-22T14:56:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Doubleclick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Doubleclick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doubleclick)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-hair-et-all/51261/1 "2001-01-22T14:56:12Z")

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Why?

I know we covered the ‘eye brows’ thingy in a discussion before, and it is obvious that we have hair on our head to help keep heat in, but why have hair any where else?

I can understand fine hair on the body as an evolutionary thing. (We don’t really need it, so it slowly goes away.) But why do we have a whack of hair under our arms and on our…um…‘you know’?

I can’t for the life of me think of a reason.

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-hair-et-all/51261/2 "2001-01-22T15:24:42Z")

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[This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=53933) is from a couple of weeks ago, including a link to a Cecil column.

Apparently, it’s for dry lubrication, meaning your armpits and private parts will rub together or separately and the hair helps skin not stick together.

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**Author:** ![Doubleclick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Doubleclick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doubleclick)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-hair-et-all/51261/3 "2001-01-22T15:30:49Z")

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Thanks!

I thought this was talked about before, but I couldn’t find it.