Underarm Hair

[beowulff]

Holy crap.
Is this what GQ has become?

[MacLir]

@Kimstu

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.