title: Are bald men more virile than their well thatched contemporaries?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To test the popular assertion that bald men are more virile than their well thatched contemporaries
  
  
  METHODS
  Secondary analysis of data from a case-control study in a community setting between 1994 and 1997 among men below the age of 70 years, using in-person interviews and categorisation of baldness, with subsequent completion of a questionnaire by the participant. We analysed risk factors for baldness using unconditional logistic regression.
  
  
  METHODS
  Baldness; history of ejaculations between the ages of 20 and 49 years; total number of sexual partners.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There was no significant association between baldness and the frequency of ejaculations, but bald men were significantly less likely to have had more than four female sexual partners.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In the population studied, bald men appear to be no more virile than their well thatched contemporaries.
authors: Department of Dermatology, Epworth Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. rodney.sinclair@epworthdermatology.com.au.
authors: Rodney D
authors: RD
authors: Sinclair
authors: Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic (MEGA) Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors: Dallas R
authors: DR
authors: English
authors: Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors: Graham G
authors: GG
authors: Giles
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000505:Alopecia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D004542:Ejaculation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012747:Sexual Partners / Q000523:psychology*