Fantasia Salon / Spa and Wig Specialists

I write a lot about hair loss from the female perspective. Because that is the area Fantasia specializes in and I know a lot about it.

So, I thought just for a change, it might be interesting to look at it from the male’s perspective.

Recently, the Morris Plains-based company, Rogaine, conducted a study among nearly 4000 men. Most men say that if given a choice between keeping their spouse or significant other and losing their hair - they’d say, take my wife, please…

A group product director for Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Products Company says that hair loss and the way we perceive it has changed drastically in the last several years - it’s now top on the minds of guys. Men are making grooming and self-improvement a higher priority. For many, maintaining and regrowing hair is less of a taboo and more like working or or buying new clothes.

This study revealed that younger men were the most hair conscious with one in 4 men between the ages of 18 and 34 concerned about hair loss. According to the makers of Rogaine, this age group is representative of a new group of guys that are increasingly taking steps to regrow hair at the earliest signs of hair loss. No major comb - overs happening anytime soon for these guys!

Fifty percent of the men would rather deliver a large public speech than lose their hair and five percent of them would rather fall off a cliff. Only about twenty percent would give up watching television if it meant keeping a full head of hair but, twenty-two percent said they would give up their vacations. Almost ten percent said they would even give up sex in favor of keeping their hair. And we think women are vain?

Roughly sixty percent of the men would rather experience a demoralizing event in pursuit of keeping the hair they have. Twenty percent would rather get dumped than lose their hair and five percent were willing to trade in their significant others for flowing locks. Again I say - and we think women are vain?

To say that men are concerned today more than ever about hair loss would be a severe understatement. It would be more accurate to say they are consumed by it, and in some cases, even more than sex!