Of course, that is a click-bait title but like most click-bait titles, there is a grain of truth. In order to justify the deliberately ridiculous conclusion in the title, a different question needs to be answered.
Why do humans have so little Body hair?
Both men and women lost most of their body hair as they branched off from their evolutionary cousins (Chimpanzees for example). A generally accepted theory on why humans lost body hair is that it helped them better regulate their temperature as they migrated into the hot plains in Africa. As an added benefit, it also helped humans get rid of hair dwelling parasites that continue to haunt our evolutionary cousins to this day (side note - human pubic lice is now considered an endangered species). So, humans in general lost their body hair and human females just happened to lose more than men. That leads to the question - Why did females lose more body hair than men?
| Body hair patterns on men and women. |
Why did females lose more body hair than men?
One of the leading theories behind women being less hairy is that men strongly preferred women with child like characteristics. That could be because having a child like appearance is an indicator of youth which in turn is usually correlated to fertility. This preference for juvenile characteristics put evolutionary pressure on women to lose most of their body hair and retain high pitched child like voices through their adulthood.
Well, that explains the assertion in the title of this article that all men are technically pedophiles.
Well, that explains the assertion in the title of this article that all men are technically pedophiles.
It is important to note that the above theory is just one of several proposed theories. For example, another somewhat similar theory behind women being less hairy is that women with less body hair were able to display more of their skin which is akin to advertising their youthfulness and fertility.
