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Are bald men more virile than their well thatched contemporaries?
Author(s) -
Sinclair Rodney D,
English Dallas R,
Giles Graham G
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja13.11360
Subject(s) - logistic regression , population , psychology , male pattern baldness , demography , medicine , environmental health , surgery , sociology , scalp
Objective: To test the popular assertion that bald men are more virile than their well thatched contemporaries Design, participants and setting: Secondary analysis of data from a case–control study in a community setting between 1994 and 1997 among men below the age of 70 years, using in‐person interviews and categorisation of baldness, with subsequent completion of a questionnaire by the participant. We analysed risk factors for baldness using unconditional logistic regression. Main outcome measures: Baldness; history of ejaculations between the ages of 20 and 49 years; total number of sexual partners. Results: There was no significant association between baldness and the frequency of ejaculations, but bald men were significantly less likely to have had more than four female sexual partners. Conclusions: In the population studied, bald men appear to be no more virile than their well thatched contemporaries.