{"id":1457,"date":"1999-05-05T15:39:00","date_gmt":"1999-05-05T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2020-05-15T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T19:48:42","slug":"comment-on-letter-the-pits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/?p=1457","title":{"rendered":"Comment on letter &#8220;The Pits&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The following was submitted on 1999-5-5 as a Letter to the Editor of the National Post:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One theory about why we have armpit (and groin) hair: the hair shafts<br>provide a larger surface area to enhance the diffusion of pheromones<br>(chemical sex attractants) emitted by the apocrine sweat glands located<br>at the bases of the hair shafts. Thus, shaving one&#8217;s armpits would<br>reduce sexual attraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suspect women, likely unconsciously, want other women to shave because it reduces their sexual attractiveness and thereby lessens the<br>competition. This might help to explain the vicious personal attack on<br>Julia Roberts (&#8220;The Pits&#8221;, letters, 4 may 1999), presumably for failing<br>to conform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following was submitted on 1999-5-5 as a Letter to the Editor of the National Post: One theory about why we have armpit (and groin) hair: the hair shaftsprovide a larger surface area to enhance the diffusion of pheromones(chemical sex attractants) emitted by the apocrine sweat glands locatedat the bases&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","category-opinions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1458,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}