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Is male pattern balding unattractive to women ?

Asked by AllAboutWaiting (377points) April 1st, 2011

Do women find men who are balding unattractive and avoid dating them ? Is it overlooked in many cases because the man is wealthy ? What circumstances allow the balding to be overlooked ?

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Jude's avatar

You want my honest opinion? When they’ve lost a lot on the top, why not shave it all? Shaved looks sexy on most men.

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

I agree with @Jude.
Just shave it all off.That can be very sexy.
Money has nothing to do with it.

Judi's avatar

I have a friend who is a plastic surgeon. He had the balding on top with full hait on the sides. I told him “Embrace it!” there are a lot of hot bald guys and he is in the appearance business. He finally did and his whole attitude followed. People treat him differently and I think business has improved too.

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

Shaving my face is a pain in the ass. You want me to triple the stuff I have to shave? (I have a big head)

Sunny2's avatar

Some women find how someone looks more important than who they are. Their value scale is based on external features. I personally wouldn’t worry about such shallow thinking. How one looks changes as life goes on. Physical attraction is not the end-all if you’re looking for a good relationship. Look for women who are more genuine than that.
I guess the answer is: some women will avoid dating a man because he is balding, but those woman ar not worth worrying about.

cazzie's avatar

Balding can be sexy, it completely depends on the guy. If he lets something so shallow get to his ego, it will show and he’ll look insecure and that is NOT sexy. I agree with Judi. It can be majorly studly. You know it’s caused by an excess of testosterone, right? A balding guy is simply too sexy for his hair.

Combing over, implants, wigs…. all very NOT sexy.

blueiiznh's avatar

@cazzie now i have the song I’m Too Sexy in my head!

marinelife's avatar

It depends on the man. I am not overtly attracted to baldness, but I think there are bald sexy men.

Pied_Pfeffer's avatar

My fiancĂ© is going bald. The only time I give a thought to it is when a question like this comes up. I have very high standards when it comes to personality; the looks are just the packaging that goes along with it. Also, I’ve seen photos of him with a full head of hair. The way he looks now is much better.

syzygy2600's avatar

What circumstances allow the balding to be overlooked ?

Being rich.

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tranquilsea's avatar

My hubby was going bald when I met him (I was 20 and he was 22). He kept his hair fairly long until 12 years ago when I convinced him to just shave it off. I’ve been shaving his head now for all that time. We have, um, quite a good time doing it lol.

Baldness has never bothered me. My hubby was broke when we married. His personality meant much more to me.

Aster's avatar

I like it a lot (male pattern baldness) but I don’t know why. (;

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

Oh and by the way, it’s not a bald spot. It’s a solar panel for a sex machine.

cak's avatar

I have major love for my balding husband. He shaves his, usually. I love it more than when he has hair! I also love that he loved me without hair. I could lose it all, again, and he’d still love me just the way I am.

@Adirondackwannabe My husband LOVES that answer. I just woke him up just to tell him. he and I both laughed. Excellent. Wish I could give you more lurve!

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

@cak Hey lady, I don’t see any lurve. Fess up.You can still click the button. Seriously, it’s protein growing on top of my head. It has nothing to do with my heart or soul. That’s what makes me who I am.

cak's avatar

Crap, senility is setting in. If it helps, I clicked it more than once. Still only one lurve. :-P

(I did give you lurve for that one, too!)

erichw1504's avatar

Based on the majority of the responses in here, I have decided not to adopt the Trump hairstyle when I get older.

cak's avatar

@erichw1504: That’s just scary.

creative1's avatar

I never had a problem with men having male pattern baldness, hair is only just hair it doesn’t make the person.

erichw1504's avatar

The real question: Is female pattern balding unattractive to men?

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

@erichw1504 The idea of a chrome dome is kind of hot, but it doesn’t give you anything to grab on to while she’s going down, so I’m uncertain about the overall utility.

creative1's avatar

@erichw1504 Men I find are very visual people so I would say yes it is unattractive to men.

@Adirondackwannabe Oh too too funny I love it!!!

Coloma's avatar

Our physical beings are prone to all sorts of decay.
We are in a process of decay from the moment we are born.

I’d much prefer as healthy bald man to a jerk with a full head of hair.

We are far too obsessed with the physical instead of the persons inner qualities.

Stupid and dysfunctional.

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

@Coloma GA, but wasn’t it you complaining about micro penises?

Coloma's avatar

Humorously yes. ;-)

The words are just so funny. lol

Better a micro penis than a micro brain or micro morals. haha

creative1's avatar

@Coloma Isn’t that the truth

Coloma's avatar

My ex husband was well endowed, yep, he was a big dick! lololol

MyNewtBoobs's avatar

What circumstances allow the balding to be overlooked ? Having a very talented tongue.

creative1's avatar

Intelligence always gets me

Coloma's avatar

@creative1

Yes, give me brains over brawn, spawn? haha

JustJessica's avatar

It looks amazing on Jason Statham.

For the average man I say you should just shave it all off. Bald men are very attractive!

JilltheTooth's avatar

I have so much of my own hair that I honestly don’t care how much (or little) he has. I only care if he cares. Then he’s not attractive to me.

Aster's avatar

Poor Donald. He combs ALL of his thin top hair FORWARD and do we get to see the part in the back? nope. If he combed it backwards I would bet we woulld see he has no hair on top. I imagine he put a lot of thought into what on earth he could do with that “hair.”

Neizvestnaya's avatar

I’m a female attracted to males and I don’t find male pattern baldness attractive. Having said that, it’s not a deal breaker if the man is a treasure in every other way.

I’ve only ever dated one man with any kind of hair loss issue and he was so awesome that his lack of hair didn’t turn me off at all. In fact, I tried to picture him with a full head of hair and couldn’t.

So to answer your question as to what would it take for the balding not to be an issue?
Great Intelligence
Great charisma
Great integrity
Great confidence
Great compassion
Great sexual prowess
Thinks I’m great too

Coloma's avatar

Male pattern passive aggressiveness is a bald deal. hahaha

Okay…this inspires a poem from my archives.

The Bad Haircut

Thinning hairs upon my head
some cling to life and some are dead
she cut my fragile fronds so wrong
some too short and some too long

A mule and plow might be preferred
to trample ‘cross my wispy herd
what evil scissors did she wield
to kill my sparsely planted field

Silky stalks and tender shoots
torn from my scalp by dying roots
A seasons growth, without a trace
harvested, above my face.

lemming's avatar

Love it @Coloma.

I think that a man being bald, and this is just my opinion, seems to women that he is just about ready to settle down. So you mightn’t find woman who want to have fun with you so much as women who want to be your wife.

Coloma's avatar

That poem was inspired by my balding ex after a haircut massacre some years ago now.
I used to call his bald spot his ‘crop circle.’ -
Yep, lots of alien activity went on in his head. lol

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