Shellshocked: baldness and the male psyche

Apparently there are certain E.D. drugs on the market which come with the diabolical side effect of causing baldness. If this is true, then these drug companies have a wonderful sense of humor. They know full well that going back to Samson in the old testament, a full head of hair has been linked to sexual prowess. James Dean, Cary Grant, Elvis, Patrick Duffy--all men with mighty quaffs! On the bald side--Sean Connery. I'll give you Sean Connery.

But he's interesting. James Bond himself lost his hair? But that's just it!You never saw Sean Connery actually loosing his hair. He was Bond one day, then he was shock white, with a beard in Hunt for Red October (dope flick) the next. By the time he became the pissy old Irishman in The Untouchables with a horse shoe of distinguished grey, there was no telling what the real Connery looked like anymore. But it's the gradual, and public, transition into baldness that throws some men into such irrational states where they can conceivably opt for hair over a functioning libido.

Surely everybody's favorite Bond, even in the throes of hair loss, never failed to rise to the occassion but that's not to say he never felt the pressure. I gaurantee there was a moment when a team of publicists had talk Sean Connery out of hair plugs: "But Sean, you're British! We don't do such things to our bodies!"




We've all seen the lengths that men will go to when faced with gradual but inevitable hair loss. What man in his right mind leaves a braided pony-tail hanging off his shiny, bald skull? While baldness has been shown to indicate high testoterone levels, studies are still ongoing about it's effect on brain functions.

*Lisa from the fabulous blog womenhavingitall
, who stated in a previous comment that women, "don't care about baldness" prompted me to write this post.

I'd like to ask her:

Did you feel the same before you got married?