• @EatYouWell
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    431 year ago

    Men, if you have an issue with being too warm, and are hairy, that’s likely correlated. During the heat wave this summer I did total body hair removal, and my comfortable temperature range went from like 72F to 80F

    But, I have both hyperhydrosis and sweat triggered eczema, so staying cool is medically necessary for me.

    • @Maalus
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      341 year ago

      I’m hairy as fuck and cold all the time

      How do I get more fur

        • @Maalus
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          41 year ago

          Got a cat but he saps the heat from me. The animal has such cold paws sometimes, and knows how to warm them up with a human present. Just 5 mins tho, then he goes away for no reason

        • @Maalus
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          11 year ago

          Hair transplants work by redistributing hair from somewhere else on your body tho. So I would be even colder there

            • @Maalus
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              11 year ago

              It’ll just get rejected and they’d have to amputate. Or shave.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Being fully hairless just makes my clothes feel stickier in hot weather. Fine hair helps wick moisture. But ya, better than being fully furry if your hair grows in like a gorilla.

      • @EatYouWell
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        21 year ago

        It’s just something that takes a bit of getting used to, but after a few weeks I didn’t notice the weird feeling anymore.

    • cobysev
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      31 year ago

      I’m covered in thick fur from my head to the tips of my toes. I usually run hot and feel most comfortable in 65-68 degree temperatures.

      I did a full hair removal one summer - everything from the neck down - just to see if it would relieve me of the heat. Unfortunately, my hair also grows ridiculously fast. Not only did it fully grow back in less than a week, but it came back thicker! I now have fur patches in places I used to just have a few fine light hairs. Now I’m extra miserable in the heat.

      Bonus cruelty: I was in the US military for 20 years and kept getting stationed in hot places, including a deployment to Africa and a deployment to Iraq, both during the summer. I actually developed a heat rash in Africa from sweating too much.

      • @EatYouWell
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        11 year ago

        Hair doesn’t grow back thicker when shaved; that’s an old wives tale. The reason it feels thicker is that the ends of the hairs haven’t been worn down yet. You can use a piece of denim as kinda sandpaper to smooth them out.

        But yeah, I had to full body shave like every 3 days, so I just started using an epilator.

        • cobysev
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          11 year ago

          Hair doesn’t grow back thicker when shaved; that’s an old wives tale.

          People have been telling me that all my life, but that’s exactly what happened to me. It doesn’t grow thicker each time I shave, it was just a one-time thing. But where I used to have blonde peach fuzz, I now have thick, bushy, black hair. And it didn’t change until I shaved it.

          I was 28 at the time, so it wasn’t a puberty thing either.

          • @EatYouWell
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            21 year ago

            I didn’t start growing my beard until about that time, so it could have been natural.