Hair has great social significance in human beings. It grows on most areas of the human body, except for the palms of the hands and the feet, but hair is most noticeable in most people in a small number of areas that are most commonly trimmed, plucked, or shaved. These include the face, head, eyebrows, eyelashes, legs and armpits, as well as the pubic region.
The highly visible differences between male and female body and facial hair are a notable secondary sex characteristic.
Hair has had social and sexual significance in a number of societies, as a sign of manliness in men, and femininity in women when in "right" place, and as a sign of effeminacy in men and unfemininity in women when in the "wrong" place. Where the right and wrong places are differs from one culture to another.
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See also:
Hair as indicator
Growing and removing
Concealing and revealing
Hair, power, and status
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