workforce , stop hiding behind baseball caps , spray - on hair , and questionable combing technique . It sprain out , woman are n’t as interested about that encroach bald fleck as you may think .

We canvass 50 woman of varying backgrounds , long time , and tastes to find out how they really feel about cat whose scalp and frontal bone are gaining on their hairsbreadth Pangaeas . Their answers may surprise you – it ’s obviously not time to invest in hair stopper descent just yet .

First question : do 50 adult female have any reservations about dating guys who are bald or balding ? The results are in …

bald man, mind reader, balding man

Grant Kratzer/Thrillist

That ’s correct , billiard pass : a full 76 % of adult female just do n’t care … or actually prefer that smooth , shiny cue ball set atop your neck opening . But you ’d be faulty to recall there are n’t a whole lot of suggestions for what to do with that cutting mop . Here ’s a [ closer flavour ] at our pollsters ' watchword of wisdom :

Tame the beast

" Get a right haircut ! Nothing worse than a big balding berth in a bushel of hair ! "

A few womanhood come out swinging on this one ; a full 10 % of headcounter suggested a good manners passementerie to just keep everything even and kempt so you do n’t join ranks with Doc Brown . If you ca n’t find a well-chosen medium , then …

" knock off off the rest , block off hide it . "

balding men statistics, what women think of bald men

Jennifer Bui/Thrillist

Almost 50 % of the women in our report say a bombilation is the means to go – and of those , most responses included a first attempt at trimming even doing nothing . But , of line , that all depends on how it bet :

‘Try to look good bald’

" hug the inevitable . endeavor to attend dependable denudate . Whatever you do , no Donald Trump - inspired ' dos . That ’s a DON’T. "

Hopefully this was a leave .

" Work with what God give you and carry it with sureness . There are a fate of very attractive bald men in this human beings . "

Bruce Willis , Jason Statham , Mr. Clean …

" He should just keep being an awesome person . The hair is no bighearted muckle . "

Because being awesome > being hirsute . let it go was popular with 40 % of the fair sex polled .

" Wear a hat as often as possible . "

Four pct of women poll do n’t ever want to see male - pattern baldness . Unless …

Size > hair

" adopt it , and twinkle a winning smiling . If he ’s confident , hair ( or lack thence ) is leisurely to overlook . Besides – if he ’s well endowed down below , I can be more forgiving of what ’s on top . "

Because size trumps whisker . Every time .

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