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From: henry@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Bizarre Theory #242:  Gay Males and Baldness.
Message-ID: <1054@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 26-Aug-86 11:24:36 EDT
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In article <3309@ism780c.UUCP> marty@ism780c.UUCP (Marty Smith) writes:
>In article <658@sdcc12.UUCP> wa60@sdcc12.UUCP (paul van de graaf) writes:
>>	From my own observations, I've noticed that a large segment of the gay
>>male population have thinning hair.  It's usually quite fine hair and tends 
>>to start to bald at the top of the head.  Elton John, an admitted bisexual 
>>and baldy, is the sort of guy I'm talking about.

>I doubt this because I remember reading somewhere that male patern baldness
>is directly related to an increase in the level of the male sex hormone
>testosterone.

I think it has a *lot* more to do with stress.  If everyone told you 
that the only thing you knew how to be was wrong, you'd feel a lot of
stress.  

At least we don't have to use grecian-formula-16 ;-)

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