Talk:body hair

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body hair

"androgenic hair" - but women can have body hair too so this can't be right, can it? Equinox ◑ 21:41, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

• "androgenic hair" does not preclude women, it includes post-pubescent hair growth on the human body including public hair in men and women, chest, leg, arm, and facial hair in men, armpit hair in men and women, and lower leg hair in women.Lucifer (talk) 21:51, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Delete, what's more it would even meet Luciferwildcat's most stringent SoP criterion of using the primary sense of body and the primary sense of hair. Mglovesfun (talk) 21:54, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

In the common phrase "unwanted body hair" would vellus hair be considered body hair?Lucifer (talk) 22:52, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

obviously not just any hair on the body but this specific biological manifestation of it and clearly woman also have body/androgenic hair simply in a different amount and pattern

Okay. Presumably vellus hair is body hair because it's hair on the body. The only exception I can think of is hair growing on the head. I cannot imagine anyone calling head hair "body hair" even though head is part of body. Not sure about beard/moustache! Equinox ◑ 00:17, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

• Keep but correct to the common meaning, that being hair found on the arms, legs, torso, and trunk. I've never heard of hair on the hands or feet being referred to as body hair either. bd2412 T 00:34, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

I am iffy on whether the hands count, I have heard both yes and no but foot hair is definitely body hairLucifer (talk) 00:42, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

That is an even better analogy, eyelashes, eyebrows, nares, and ear hair, neck hair come to mind as well. I think a beard or stache are generally not considered body hair even though they are androgenic hair but regardless of what hair they are they are definitely hair whose purpose is that of a secondary sexual characteristicLucifer (talk) 00:38, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

I hate to bring it up as well because this term stands on its on merits but per coalmine since bodyhair also exists this is clearly just the common spelling of bodyhair and the existence of a one word compound really gives this term more legitimacy as generally deducable but nevertheless extand word and we do cover all words here don't we?Lucifer (talk) 00:46, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

@Luciferwildcat: Is it possible to break up that comment into two or three sentences in a logical way and without spelling errors? It's really difficult to figure out what you mean. --BB12 (talk) 01:17, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, I am dislexic that's as good as it gets, feel free to ignore me forever, some people give up trying to understand my spoken word through my learning disability too and if you get too frustrated or simply cannot understand well that's your decision.Lucifer (talk) 02:24, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the explanation. I have a tendency to get mixed up, so I will just try to work harder at understanding. --BB12 (talk) 03:37, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Keep per COALMINE; improve the definition as needed. - -sche (discuss) 01:23, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

The entry should be speedily kept per COALMINE. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить)} 04:29, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Keep. It’s not SOP because not any hair in one’s body is body hair. Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV 04:46, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Keep: in some cases hair and body hair are used together:

• Nails, hair and body hair are cited more often because they are subject to growth and death. (Michel Feher, Ramona Naddaff, and Nadia Tazi, Fragments for a history of the human body, part 3, 1989)
• She eventually began to pull out her eyelashes, hair, and body hair. She often felt ill and withdrew from outside events. (Rose Wood, Dysinhibition Syndrome: How to Handle Anger and Rage in Your Child Or Spouse, 1999)

In those citations, hair naturally means head hair, and body hair must be a separate term. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 04:53, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Kept. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 06:01, 16 August 2012 (UTC)