Here is another beautiful one from my bald friend and Fifty Plus Traveller- Clement Ilango:
BALD IS BEAUTIFUL -
My tour guide in Prague ( Czech Republic ) that I visited a decade ago told me that almost half the Czech men were BALD - either totally hairless or had a big patch of baldness surrounded by hair or had a receding hairline . Baldies cannot be missed in other European countries too ( like Spain , Germany and the UK ) where thirty percent of men naturally go bald by the age of 30 and a whopping 50 percent by the age of 50 . ( Is their DNA to be held responsible ? ) Ten percent of the world population of men is now bald .
Some like Buddhist monks and even nuns , Haj pilgrims and members of the Hare Krishna Movement are deliberately bald . Intentional head shaving was found in ancient cultures too such as Egypt , Greece and Rome . Egyptian priestly class and even some Egyptian women ritualistically removed all body hair . Beautiful Queen Nefertiti had shaved her head bald .
There was ,however , a time in recent past when baldness was a no no , particularly if young men were seen with it . Their value in the marriage market was low . In frustration bordering on despair some youngsters and popular film stars took to wearing wigs . Some others looked for solutions including treating their bald pate with onion juice . Widows in some cultures were advised and in some cases coerced to shave their heads .
This perception does not hold good any more ....
Rejoice , baldies ! A recent study has found that women find hairless males to be more successful , stronger and so more attractive and desirable than guys with a full head or thinning hair . ( It is a different matter that this research was carried out by a scientist who is bald himself ) . Watch baldy Micheal Jordan , rockstar of basketball ball , in action and you will stop associating virility only with hair. Who could have looked more macho than Yul Brynner who was bald like an egg ?
Women , reportedly , have reasons to love bald men . They find them super sexy and their gaze more intense . They are convinced that baldness highlights the natural beauty of their men's features . They love running their fingers on smooth shiny heads . They do not have to periodically remind their bald men to visit a hairdresser . Such men do not spend hours hogging the bathroom to style their hair . Women are happy too not finding shower drains clogged with the hair of their men !!
Don't forget , celebrities like Mahatma Gandhi , Lenin and Nehru were baldies too . Stalin often cleared his smoking pipe by knocking it on the head of Khrushchev's bald head !
A few days ago a movie was released in India ( an Odia film called ' Bala ') based on the routine embarrassment and societal pressure faced by young baldies . Bald men were invited to watch this film for free !
Vowing to flaunt balding and work towards eliminating the taboo and stigma around it a few hundred men have formed an association in Kerala , a southern state in India . It is likely to be named Bold Baldies Association of Kerala . Good luck to them .
PS - yours truly is also a baldy . Loving the clean aesthetic look .. - RCI
My tour guide in Prague ( Czech Republic ) that I visited a decade ago told me that almost half the Czech men were BALD - either totally hairless or had a big patch of baldness surrounded by hair or had a receding hairline . Baldies cannot be missed in other European countries too ( like Spain , Germany and the UK ) where thirty percent of men naturally go bald by the age of 30 and a whopping 50 percent by the age of 50 . ( Is their DNA to be held responsible ? ) Ten percent of the world population of men is now bald .
Some like Buddhist monks and even nuns , Haj pilgrims and members of the Hare Krishna Movement are deliberately bald . Intentional head shaving was found in ancient cultures too such as Egypt , Greece and Rome . Egyptian priestly class and even some Egyptian women ritualistically removed all body hair . Beautiful Queen Nefertiti had shaved her head bald .
There was ,however , a time in recent past when baldness was a no no , particularly if young men were seen with it . Their value in the marriage market was low . In frustration bordering on despair some youngsters and popular film stars took to wearing wigs . Some others looked for solutions including treating their bald pate with onion juice . Widows in some cultures were advised and in some cases coerced to shave their heads .
This perception does not hold good any more ....
Rejoice , baldies ! A recent study has found that women find hairless males to be more successful , stronger and so more attractive and desirable than guys with a full head or thinning hair . ( It is a different matter that this research was carried out by a scientist who is bald himself ) . Watch baldy Micheal Jordan , rockstar of basketball ball , in action and you will stop associating virility only with hair. Who could have looked more macho than Yul Brynner who was bald like an egg ?
Women , reportedly , have reasons to love bald men . They find them super sexy and their gaze more intense . They are convinced that baldness highlights the natural beauty of their men's features . They love running their fingers on smooth shiny heads . They do not have to periodically remind their bald men to visit a hairdresser . Such men do not spend hours hogging the bathroom to style their hair . Women are happy too not finding shower drains clogged with the hair of their men !!
Don't forget , celebrities like Mahatma Gandhi , Lenin and Nehru were baldies too . Stalin often cleared his smoking pipe by knocking it on the head of Khrushchev's bald head !
A few days ago a movie was released in India ( an Odia film called ' Bala ') based on the routine embarrassment and societal pressure faced by young baldies . Bald men were invited to watch this film for free !
Vowing to flaunt balding and work towards eliminating the taboo and stigma around it a few hundred men have formed an association in Kerala , a southern state in India . It is likely to be named Bold Baldies Association of Kerala . Good luck to them .
PS - yours truly is also a baldy . Loving the clean aesthetic look .. - RCI
