# Ear hair

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ear-hair/92497>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 9, 2001, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ear-hair/92497 "2001-11-09T20:10:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![insider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@insider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/insider)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ear-hair/92497/1 "2001-11-09T20:10:31Z")

</div>

Why is it that as men get older they grow more and more hair in and around their ears? Does it have something to do with hormones or what?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ear-hair/92497/2 "2001-11-09T20:17:20Z")

</div>

i don’t know what causes it, but like i said in another thread, my wife has standing orders to kill me in my sleep at first sign of it!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ear-hair/92497/3 "2001-11-09T20:29:27Z")

</div>

It’s worse than that. Our eyebrows and nose hairs also get bushier. Mmmmm… sexy old men…  
It’s all to compensate us for male pattern baldness. Isn’t Nature grand?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ear-hair/92497/4 "2001-11-09T22:20:16Z")

</div>

[list][list][list][list][list][list][list] **WARNING!**  
…;)[sup]don’t use new razor[/sup]

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ear-hair/92497/5 "2001-11-09T23:36:45Z")

</div>

Cecil says:  
[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4\_124.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_124.html)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![geepee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ebca7d/32.png) [@geepee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/geepee)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ear-hair/92497/6 "2001-11-10T00:44:41Z")

</div>

Its because when you get older your hair doesn’t fall out it falls thru your head and out your ears and nose. :wally

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ear-hair/92497/7 "2001-11-10T21:00:50Z")

</div>

A few years ago a study reported in the popular press found a link between ear hair and heart attacks. The easiest supposition was that hormones influenced both similarly.