Talk about being a martyr...manfred wrote:As to the method used, from the sources, as they had no scissors, we must assume knives were used for cutting and scraping (no soap, either), so it must have created a terrible rash. Plucking was used for longer hair, which is painful.
sum wrote:Lice - head, body and pubic - do not burrow under the skin. Articles on lice do not mention eggs on the skin. Hair is the site for eggs. Scabies burrow under the skin and cause a lot of itching.
There are many articles on the net about lice.
Is anyone aware of any reasons given by muslims to explain why Muhamad advised removing hair from the pubic area and armpits but not the head? Was hair on the head special in Muhammad`s eyes?
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Semen, sum, semen! I believe it originated with or before Aristotle but I can't find a definitive statement. However,sum wrote:Is anyone aware of any reasons given by muslims to explain why Muhamad advised removing hair from the pubic area and armpits but not the head? Was hair on the head special in Muhammad`s eyes?
The author of a medical text entitled Nature of the Child explained the mechanism thus: the flow of semen acted on certain kinds of porous flesh to cause hair to grow, much as a plant would grow from fertile soil. Because both men and women had semen, both sexes grew hair on their bodies, particularly on the head, where the semen was stored. But men’s bodies were different in two ways. First, they had greater heat, which made the skin more porous, and second, they had more semen. The beard could also be explained by the way semen flowed in the body. Stored in the head, it traveled to the rest of the body when necessary, particularly during sex. For men, the hair on the chin grew thick “when the fluid in its course from the head during intercourse is delayed by its arrival in the chin, which projects forward of the breast.” Presumably, men had sex facing downward most of the time. This made the face the repository of more semen and more hair growth.
Aristotle agreed that hot fluids were the ultimate source of hair, and that men with “strong sexual passions” had especially full, thick beards because of an abundance of semen. These men were also more likely to go bald from the depletion of semen through repeated intercourse. “That is why,” Aristotle concluded, “no one goes bald before the time of sexual intercourse, and also why that is the time when those who are naturally prone to intercourse go bald.”[my emphasis]
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