# women with "treasure trails" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 26, 2010, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447 "2010-10-26T22:18:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447/1 "2010-10-26T22:18:47Z")
What % of women would grow a “treasure trail” (line of hair from the pubes to the navel) if the hair was left to its own devices? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447/2 "2010-10-26T22:22:13Z")
23.9% ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447/3 "2010-10-26T22:29:24Z")
Excellent. First post has the definative answer, and after only 4 minutes. I love the dope. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447/4 "2010-10-26T22:32:01Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > 23.9% That’s what my calculations came out to as well. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447/5 "2010-10-26T22:33:25Z")
Yeah! shoulda worded it better. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447/6 "2010-10-26T22:33:47Z")
I have an insufficient sample size. I’ll go to the mall and report back. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447/7 "2010-10-26T22:34:56Z")
now we just need a couple of pages to debate the mathematics used to derive that figure. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447/8 "2010-10-26T22:39:54Z")
87% of statistics are rectally derived. 😃 Generally speaking, if a woman has enough androgenic hormones to grow hair on her lip, she’s got enough androgenic hormones for a visible treasure trail. We ALL have hair there (unless we remove it), but it’s often fine like the hair on our backs, not dark like the hair on our legs. PCOS is a fairly common (about 10% of women of reproductive age) condition of excess androgenic hormones which will often make a woman extra hairy, including that area. Genetics can play a big role, too, either in having more hair or darker, more visible hair. Chances are good that if you can easily see the hair on her arms from a social viewing distance, you could see her treasure trail. So it’s somewhere north of 10% and less than 100%. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447/9 "2010-10-26T23:00:19Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Excellent. First post has the definative answer, and after only 4 minutes. I love the dope. **mhendo** doesn’t beat around the bush, does he? ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447/10 "2010-10-26T23:09:47Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > 23.9% Your numbers are off - I think you didn’t count Laurie in Moline because she has that operation scar that inturrupts her trail. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447/11 "2010-10-26T23:46:13Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > That’s what my calculations came out to as well. Given your username, I’m surprised that you came up for air long enough to crunch the numbers. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447/12 "2010-10-26T23:48:14Z")
Certainly not a GQ. MOved. **samclem** Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447/13 "2010-10-26T23:56:55Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] We ALL have hair there (unless we remove it), but it’s often fine like the hair on our backs, not dark like the hair on our legs. [/QUOTE] :eek: I don’t have hair on my abdomen, or on my back. But then, I’m like one of those hairless Chinese dogs- I have very little body hair. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447/14 "2010-10-27T00:07:41Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > … a visible treasure trail .. it’s somewhere north of 10% … 10%? Is that what the kids are calling “that area” these days? 😃 CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![sco3tt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@sco3tt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sco3tt)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447/15 "2010-10-27T01:37:26Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > 10%? Is that what the kids are calling “that area” these days? That old [Frank Black song](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/f/frank+black/ten+percenter_20055053.html) suddenly makes sense to me now. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447/16 "2010-10-27T01:56:24Z")
This puts a whole different spin on Roy Rogers’ theme song. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447/17 "2010-10-27T04:52:49Z")
I have very fine, light-colored hair. No hair on my upper lip, my eyebrows aren’t bushy, and I have to go without shaving my legs for about a week before you could easily see any hair growth. And yet I have a ‘treasure trail’. Funny story: I once shaved it off as a surprise for my then-boyfriend. When I showed him, he cried out, “WHY?!” “I thought you’d like it,” I said. “It made you unique!” he lamented. He was genuinely upset that I had shaved it. I regrew it and he was content. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447/18 "2010-10-27T06:25:34Z")
From what I have noticed because some of the hair is growing from left to right and some from right to left it can be more noticeable than arm hair. Not that I mind it unless it’s extremely dark. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447/19 "2010-10-27T12:47:44Z")
My wife has the upper lip hair which she plucks, but no treasure trail. I know this from my many years of intense study of that particular area while I’m down there for other reasons. ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447/20 "2010-10-27T22:27:21Z")
I grow a treasure trail, but it’s blond peach fuzz - just like my leg hair, and my lip hair. Only really visible in the right light. I still shave it all. I come from a fuzzy family but don’t have the necessary androgens to grow ‘terminal’ (dark, coarse, longer) hairs anywhere but my pits and pubes. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-treasure-trails/558447.md?page=2)