Study: Men who don't shave have less sex, more strokes

[placebo139]

Get out those razors boys!


http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/06/offbeat.health.shaving.reut/index.html

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Men who don't shave every day enjoy less sex and are 70 percent more likely to suffer a stroke than daily shavers, a new study shows.

A team at Bristol University who examined the link between shaving, coronary heart disease and stroke in 2,438 middle-aged Welsh men, said that men who did not shave every day were more likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke.

Over the course of the 20-year study, there were 835 deaths, they reported in the American Journal of Epidemiology. In all, 45 percent of the men who shaved less than daily died, compared with 31 percent of those who shaved at least daily.

Many of the excess deaths were due to higher rates of smoking and the poorer lifestyles of men who did not shave daily but the scientists said this did not explain their substantially raised risk of strokes.

The findings show that men who don't shave every day are less likely to be married and are more likely to be blue-collar workers. They also have fewer orgasms, tend to be shorter, and to suffer from angina.

"The association between infrequent shaving and death is probably due to underlying smoking and social factors, but a small hormonal effect may also exist," Professor Shah Ebrahim, of the department of social medicine, said in a statement.

He said the association with stroke did not fall away after discounting lifestyle factors and remained unexplained.

Ebrahim told Reuters the link between circulating sex hormones and beard growth was first established when a man on a remote island in the Hebrides noticed that his beard grew vigorously when he was about to rejoin his girlfriend on the Scottish mainland.

He said the low frequency of orgasm in men who did not shave regularly might be because they had low levels of testosterone or might simply reflect the fact that they were unmarried and had less opportunity for sex.

One possible explanation for the raised risk of stroke was that levels of circulating sex hormones in the body might influence the atheroma process in which fatty deposits build up in the arteries.

 

[Lizardman]

wow I guess its true you can turn anything into a meaningless statistic.

 

[Padawannabe]

:Q

 

[Jugernot]

I should be dead any day now... I shave mmmmaaayyybbbeeee once a week.

 

[Xionide]

i heard if you dont open yourself up and rub your pleen once in your lifetime then you live half as long. JK i just like saying spleen, Say it with me now ssspppplllllleeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnn.
much better

 

[placebo139]

Originally posted by: UberVoodooFX9700
i heard if you dont open yourself up and rub your pleen once in your lifetime then you live half as long. JK i just like saying spleen, Say it with me now ssspppplllllleeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnn.
much better

i was wondering for a second what the heck you meant by pleen... 😱

 

[AvesPKS]

I will definitely agree that men who have less sex are destined to have more strokes...

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

i think the link being implied is in the wrong place. they're suggesting:

shave everyday == less strokes!

what i think it may be is that men who shave less have perhaps less ambition, and/or are less worried about health issues, and of course then you are more likely to have more strokes. same deal with sex. a charismatic, confident, freshly shaven young man is alot more likely to score than some scruffy hippy computer nerd. i just don't think it is the actual ACT of shaving itself that is the root of the problem.

who the hell comes up with these surveys? damn, hook me up with a job...😉

 

[Zebo]

Good news for women everywhere🙂

"Honey, If you don't shave I'll not give you any nookie also you will die sooner."

 

[bacillus]

LOL@Carbonyl

 

[tcsenter]

How in God's name would anything think to ask men about their shaving habits, thinking there may be a correlation to less sex and more strokes?

Probably paid for with a $2 million federal grant.

what i think it may be is that men who shave less have perhaps less ambition, and/or are less worried about health issues, and of course then you are more likely to have more strokes. same deal with sex. a charismatic, confident, freshly shaven young man is alot more likely to score than some scruffy hippy computer nerd. i just don't think it is the actual ACT of shaving itself that is the root of the problem.

They specifically mention the disparity falls along class lines. As in, men who go to work in business attire shave because they're required to, men who build cars or houses don't shave because nobody cares if they haven't shaved in a month.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: tcsenter
How in God's name would anything think to ask men about their shaving habits, thinking there may be a correlation to less sex and more strokes?

Probably paid for with a $2 million federal grant.

what i think it may be is that men who shave less have perhaps less ambition, and/or are less worried about health issues, and of course then you are more likely to have more strokes. same deal with sex. a charismatic, confident, freshly shaven young man is alot more likely to score than some scruffy hippy computer nerd. i just don't think it is the actual ACT of shaving itself that is the root of the problem.

They specifically mention the disparity falls along class lines. As in, men who go to work in business attire shave because they're required to, men who build cars or houses don't shave because nobody cares if they haven't shaved in a month.

ah, i didn't read the link 😉

 

[tcsenter]

ah, i didn't read the link

You were heading in the right general direction. There is no single 'magic' bullet here to explain the disparity. Some of it is attibutable to class lines, some of it is attributable to personality, the extent of one's social skills, among other contributing factors.