Expert Explains Why A Beard Is Technically Pubic Hair On Your Face

Sorry to those fellas with a bush on their face, because it turns out that beard on your face is technically pubic hair.

Sounds crazy, but Huffington Post argued the case with a few reasons why: 

- The word puberty is a direct descendant of "pubertatum," which is the Latin word for "age of maturity" and manhood, as well as "pubertis" the word for "adult, full-grown, manly". The Middle English term for pubic hair was "neþir berd." So, etymologically speaking, any hair that grows in a place it didn't before puberty is pubic.

- Dr. Bobby Buka, founder of Greenwich Village Dermatology says that "The concentration of sebaceous glands is high in several areas," he said: the face, groin and armpits. "So the hair characteristics in those areas are very similar, in terms of thickness of shaft and quality of hair."

- Apparently groin hair has stayed thick (while most of our body hair has thinned out over time) so that it can release pheromones to attract mates, and beards do this also. "Your signature smell comes more from beard hair than from scalp hair. The base of a hair follicle is much bigger on your face, which is why it looks thicker on your face than your scalp hair. But it’s considered the same type of process, slightly different growth rates but same morphology otherwise," Dr. Buka said.

For what it's worth, does Buka himself refer to beard hair as pubic hair? "No, I do not," he said. So keep that beard thick and luscious fellas.