What does it mean when a man has a lot of chest hair?

Nowadays, men with hairy chests are synonymous with sexiness and a manifestation of overflowing male hormones. Moreover, with the change of aesthetic tastes, many people think that men with hairy chests have become fashionable, especially in European and American countries.

1. Aesthetic Change

When men and women all over the world began to cast envious eyes on "Metrosexuals", a fashion undercurrent began to surge in Western society. Almost neutral men began to fall out of favor, and people's aesthetic standards for men returned to traditional ones. "Men" with densely covered chests once again attracted attention, and women shouted: Men should be manly!

If you've ever tried to hide your chest hair and had to put up with turtlenecks and the like, you can breathe a sigh of relief. Because according to some European and American media, your time has come: hairy chests are fashionable again.

2. Hairy chest men are back in fashion

Miranda Fettes writes in The Scotsman: "To have chest hair, or not to have it, that is the question. In the past the answer was simple - magazine covers were full of men showing off their smooth chests. But the fashion pendulum has swung back, and today more and more male models have impressively lush chest hair." And according to The Guardian, researchers at the University of Cambridge have also confirmed the appeal of hairy chests. They interviewed 700 women aged 19 to 65 and asked them which type of male appearance they found more attractive. The results found that most women think: "broad shoulders, thin waist, with tufts of thick chest hair, athletic, flexible body."

3. The cognitive cycle of male aesthetics

Before the 1970s, a thick chest hair gave a man a gorilla-like sex appeal, and this masculine image also filled the screen. For example, Tomkinson recalled: "When I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, chest hair was the only fashion accessory for men. I was in a relationship with a man like Sean Connery, and like the sexiest James Bond, they were cool, dangerous and sexy, proudly holding their hairy chests."

But after that, things got worse for hairy men. By the 1990s, if you had a tangled chest, you were not seen as a sex god, but at most as a fat walrus tenor. Those men with hair had to cover up their modesty with turtlenecks or button-down shirts.