do butt hairs serve a purpose?

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Does hair around the b hole serve any purpose? Did it in the past? It’s it more just an aesthetic thing? Are there any draw backs and down sides to having hair around the b hole?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Traits that aren’t detrimental aren’t necessarily bred out of a population. So, while ass hair may help with friction or maintaining a suitable microbiome for bacteria, the real answer is that our pre-human ancestors were much hairier and somewhere along the way random mutations in DNA led to populations with less hair; then, eventually, the hair we have left hasn’t been harmful enough to be bred out – which would require either a random mutation for less or no hair to spread by either being more beneficial or just chance, or extinction, the ultimate breeding out.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Of course it does. all body hair does, but in the western world, we treat it like a cancer and we look at it as something we shouldn’t have. It protects your anal cavity and acts as a screen for microbacteria to not easily enter your butthole. It also reduces friction and helps with farts.

Anonymous 0 Comments

There was a TIFU from over a decade ago by a guy who decided to shave his butt one day. He proceeded to attend University classes like normal on a hot day and discovered that the butt hairs were preventing a terrible case of swamp butt. And that it was extremely, unbearably uncomfortable.

Anonymous 0 Comments

This thread should answer everything for you

TIFU by shaving my butt
byu/BabyHooey intifu

Anonymous 0 Comments

But hair acts to prevent chaffing. It allows but cheeks to softly rub without rubbing raw bare skin.