# Underarm Hair

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underarm-hair/758829>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 30, 2016, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underarm-hair/758829 "2016-06-30T21:23:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underarm-hair/758829/21 "2016-07-04T15:28:15Z")

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Holy crap.  
Is this what GQ has become?

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**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underarm-hair/758829/22 "2016-07-05T14:39:17Z")

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> [@Kimstu](#):
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> Not in terms of protecting mucous membranes from bacteria, certainly, because there aren’t any mucous membranes in the armpit. As **silenus** noted, it may serve to reduce skin-on-skin friction from the movement of the arms against the body, but people who remove their underarm hair don’t seem to be particularly bothered by that friction.

As a competing example, at one time my main exercise was a NordicTrack which involves extended arm motion.

In a word, dreadlocks. Not that large; I’m not **that** hairy, but definite cohesion. The big problem was that they formed with my arms down, so when I reached up for something … :eek:

Trimming solved the problem.

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