Bald Virility

Baldness may mean virility, at least in later life. This hypothesis was baldly put forward by Anatomist James B. Hamilton of Yale, with detailed evidence. Hamilton himself has a goodly thatch of brown hair, but he is only 32.

Hamilton examined the heads of a group of 54 men who had failed to mature sexually or were rendered sexless by accident. Not one of them was bald, though 43% of normal men lose much of their hair in middle age. The unmasculine also had much less dandruff than normal men.

When male sex hormones were given medicinally to these sexually deficient men, they quickly began to lose their hair and develop dandruff. In two cases the hormone treatment was interrupted: loss of hair ceased, then began again when treatment was resumed. But cautious Anatomist Hamilton pointed out that a hereditary inclination to baldness may have been partly responsible.

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