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Going bald is rubbish. Having all your hair fall out makes you look like, at best, a former leader of the Tory Party or, at worst, a pervert from another planet. It’s not alluring, it’s not sexy, and as a reminder of fast-disappearing youth and time’s winged chariot, it’s only slightly less effective than sending yourself a telegram every day that reads ANOTHER DAY NEARER THE GRAVE!

So it seems slightly bizarre that for some sections of society – most notably builders, homosexuals and members of far-right organizations – baldness is a very cool and sexually attractive thing. A big shiny pate gleaming in the moonlight is apparently a massive turn-on. The look that blighted the middle years of Philip Larkin is cultivated by the chicer van driver. It’s all very strange and makes about as much sense as trying to get women by knocking your own teeth out and replacing them with dentures.