Article: Psychiatrist seeks meaning behind facial hair in book `One Thousand Beards'

Psychiatrist seeks meaning behind facial hair in book `One Thousand Beards'

There are those with infamous facial hair: Satan, Hitler, Ho Chi Minh, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden.

There are those with revolutionary beards: Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Osama bin Laden. And religious beards: Christ, Moses, Zeus, Rastafarians, Amish, Sikhs, Jews, Muslims . . . and Osama bin Laden.

While statistics show that 90 percent of men shave at least once a day, those who don't choose not to for a reason, conscious or otherwise. That's what Allan Peterkin, a Toronto-based psychiatrist, posits in his new book, One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair.

"The gesture ...

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