All About Hair

Hair is the most important part of our body image, and we spend a lot of time and money on making it look right, or on fighting the loss of it. We all know about ‘bad hair’ days and over the years I, like many, have experimented with different hair cuts, styles and some colours. But how often do we think about the function of hair, of why it is actually growing on our body and head?
In the book ‘Direktiven’ (Directives) [1] Billy dedicates two chapters to our hair. On pages 92 to 97 in the chapter titled ‘Parasiten, Reinlichkeit, Schamhaare, Flöhe, Läuse’ (parasites, cleanliness, pubic hair, fleas, lice), Billy explains that we can usually keep parasites at bay because we have adept fingers and hands, little hair and the habit of washing ourselves with soap and water. As a rule our basic hygiene measures keep us free from parasites and it is not often that we are befallen by fleas, lice or diseases. But it does happen occasionally, and Billy states that if we really want to be clean, then we should remove the hair from those areas, where they naturally hinder good hygiene and constitute a breeding place for parasites, where hair has not disappeared yet and have remained as an inconvenient vestige of the early development of the human body.
All About Hair