# Incas and body hair

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incas-and-body-hair/42640>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 25, 2000, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incas-and-body-hair/42640 "2000-11-25T11:27:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![howardsims](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e8c25b/32.png) [@howardsims](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howardsims)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incas-and-body-hair/42640/1 "2000-11-25T11:27:07Z")

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Lat night I had dinner with a friend of mine who is 100% of Inca descent. She mentioned that Inca’s do not have body hair and rolled up her sleeve to show a completely smooth arm. Inca men do not have facial hair.  
Two questions immediately popped into my head but due to the nature of our relationship I didn’t feel comfortable asking:  
(A) Do Inca women not have to shave their legs?  
(B) Do Inca’s not have any public hair?

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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incas-and-body-hair/42640/2 "2000-11-25T17:28:20Z")

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I did a couple of searches on Yahoo and Google and came up with the same answers

Yes they do have some hair. It is very sparse. Yes they have facial and pubic hair it is just not a lot. Kind of akin to a teenager that only shaves once a month.

It also said they have an extremely low rate of male pattern baldness and Blood Type B was very rare

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incas-and-body-hair/42640/3 "2000-11-25T18:27:16Z")

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You would probably be interested in reading these two threads in this same forum:

[native american facial hair](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=3610)

[Native Americans and Facial Hair](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=9357)

The consensus seems to be that Native Americans are less hairy (but not completely devoid of facial hair) because they are descended from asians who have that characteristic.

N.B. The first thread is an older thread and so might be heard to read since some HTML tags didn’t translate correctly when the SDMB switched to new board management software.