I've said this before, and I'll repeat it again: hair in itself is completely meaningless! What causes the problem for all of us is that the loss of facial framing RADICALLY alters your appearence, and makes you look OLDER !!! For those rare few individuals where going bald doesn't make them look any older, then MPB is not a problem. However, it may become a problem as they age and the "shaved head" look suddenly doesn't look as good anymore.

I am a very health conscious, holistic, and spiritual person; so I have never bothered hanging around with what I would consider the "superficial" crowd. In my 20s and early 30s I used to think anybody who worried about hairloss was superficial and not spiritually connected. Then, in my late 30s I started to realize that even the people (women especially) whom I considered to be "on my level" and not the superficial type still possessed the inclination to stereotype people based upon their hairloss. Most people are completely unaware that MPB has nothing to do with a lack of health; they actually are under the assumption that balding people should be taking better care of themselves, and then they would grow their hair back.

Once I realized this it became unequivocally clear that even those people who are not superficial and on my level will unconsciously discriminate against those of us with MPB, without even realizing it! If a woman thinks you must be eating bad and not taking care of your health because of your thinning hair, she will be less attracted to you -- NOT because of the hairloss, but because she thinks you are not health conscious and she wants to be with a man who is !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's a vicious circle of unfair discrimination, and it's therefore no suprise that many of us are willing to pay thousands of dollars for a HT to overcome it!

I agree. I lost most of my hair at a very early age (before I was 20) and I was sometimes asked what disease I had. Guys made fun of my hair loss, but it was the women who really thought I was sick and stayed away from me.