Percepção dos pelos corporais femininos: uma análise evolucionista exploratória
Despite being behaviors performed by men and women, hair reduction and removal is still, in terms of frequency, more practiced by women and signified differently between the sexes, whether within gender constructs or in social and sexual contexts. The aim of this work was to investigate the percepti...
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| Resumo: | Despite being behaviors performed by men and women, hair reduction and removal is still, in terms
of frequency, more practiced by women and signified differently between the sexes, whether within
gender constructs or in social and sexual contexts. The aim of this work was to investigate the
perception of individual characteristics of women in conditions with and without body hair and as
possible within a context of attractiveness and selection inter and intrasexual. Four photos of women
with hair were used, made by the models themselves and these photos were treated in Photoshop for
digital hair removal. The participants, 191 women (M = 26.8; SD = 7.42) and 140 men (M = 29.84;
SD = 7.66) had access through the online questionnaire to two pictures of women with hair (original)
and two hairless (treated) in legs and armpits and provide their first impressions of the age, personality
traits (Big 5) and sociosexuality of the observed models. As a result, we found that men and women
perceived models with body hair with higher levels of extroversion and openness than in relation to
models without body hair. Only female participants perceived models with body hair as having a
higher level of emotional stability. Only male participants perceived the models without body hair
with a higher level of agreeability and the models with body hair with a higher level of sociosexual
attitude. No difference was found for age and conscientiousness between the groups with and without
body hair for both sexes. In fact, the gender of the participants influenced the perception of certain
analyzed traits. Our results are only partially in line with our predictions. We expected that hair
removal would be more related to traits stereotypically related to femininity (high agreeability,
conscientiousness, emotional stability, and sociosexual restraint). However, we found a relationship
only between agreeability and the absence of body hair and an inverse and unexpected relationship
between the presence of hair and the perception of greater levels of openness, extraversion,
sociosexual attitude and less neuroticism. We conclude that body hair in women may represent for
those who observe it something related to nonconformity and/or tolerance to diversity, as well as
more pronounced sexual aggression and social and sexual behavior – probably due to the influence
on body hair and these characteristics of androgenic hormones (such as testosterone). Hair removal,
on the other hand, seems to generate a perception of greater agreeability for men through the
exploration of a bias and to be a relevant behavior in intrasexual selection and the expression of
neuroticism among women. We believe that body hair has the potential to represent a particular construct, with biological as well as cultural significance. The present work aimed to broaden the
scientific knowledge about the subject, as well as to deepen the discussion on subjects of high social
interest. It is hoped that the results of this study can also bring important contributions to the feminist
debate and provoke reflections about attractiveness norms in women. |
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