There is a common concern that engaging in self-pleasure may lead to unwanted palm hair. We checked whether such fear is justified.

Question, can hair on the palms grow from masturbation, takes users of resources with questions And answers. IN Media, as well as in women's And men's magazines they telllike parents scare likewise children. They play up this fear in the movies: in particular, Captain Mauser from “Police Academy" and Dean Winchester from "Supernatural"

Hair - These are appendages of the skin, thread-like processes consisting of epithelial cells and forming the outer covering of mammals, including humans. Hair grow from hair follicles, popularly called hair follicles - they are normal located on the skin over the entire surface of the body, with the exception of just a few areas, including the palms. Absolutely all hair follicles are laid During the intrauterine development of the fetus, after birth and as the person lives, new ones do not appear. No amount of human sexual behavior can return him to the period of embryonic development and contribute to the formation of hair follicles on the palms.

However, several cases of hair appearing on the palms have been documented in science, although they are in no way connected with masturbation. In 1976, in the scientific journal Archives of Dermatology, Scottish doctors described unique patient. As a child, he injured his right hand, his little finger had to be amputated, and during the treatment the boy underwent autodermoplasty - a plastic surgeon took a piece of skin from the lower part of his abdomen and sewed a graft onto his palm. During puberty, as hair grew on the rest of the body, the transplanted area of skin also became covered with hair. The patient lived quietly with hair on his palm until one of the hair follicles became inflamed and formed carbuncle. Doctors prescribed antibiotics to the patient, and the inflammatory process was defeated. The photograph posted in the magazine shows that the patient’s hand does not have a little finger, and the inflamed area of the palm is partially covered with hairs.

An extremely rare genetic disease called limited palmar dysembryoplasia can also cause hair growth on the palms. As can be seen from the word “dysembryoplasia”, we are talking about an error in embryonic development and this has nothing to do with subsequent human sexual behavior. In 1975, American scientists described four generations of a French-Canadian family affected by the disease. All the men in this family had small areas of skin covered with hair on the proximal (that is, closest to the wrist) part of the palm and on the medial line of the longitudinal (that is, from heel to toe) arch of the foot. This feature did not cause any discomfort to the patients. This, according to the authors of the article, is the second documented case of such a pathology, the previous one was described in 1973. In the first case, the pathology developed not only in men, but also in women - the patient himself, his maternal grandfather, his mother and one of his daughters had hair on the skin on both palms. However, this disease is so rare that others There are no described cases of limited dysembryoplasia of the palms in the scientific literature. Even on the website of the US Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center (GARD), which collects all available information on the topic, page information about this pathology exists, but not a single section has been completed.

Thus, you should not give up masturbation due to fears that unwanted hair will appear on your palms. In addition, modern researchers agree that this activity is extremely healthy - masturbation improves both physical and mental health, in particular promotes reduction of menstrual pain and lower back pain during pregnancy, reduces risk of developing certain types cancer, increases immunity, improves sleep, prevents anxiety and depression.

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