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1. How do we get others involved? I might be the only guy out there who loves male pattern baldness, but I’m certainly not the only guy out there who is bald. There’s a HUGE audience and millions of potential participants in these baldness related discussions. And it’s not like this is a boring subject matter. I find it incredibly fascinating. And as much as I would love to move on with my life and not think about my MPB, every time I look in a mirror, I am reminded that I am bald. Not only that, my wife often reminds me of how much she loves my MPB. She tells me how sexy she thinks it is and kisses me on my bald head at least twice a week. I wouldn’t mind it if she were to kiss me there more often. And I am sometimes teased good-naturedly about being bald. I love that and wish it happened more often.
   At the very least, I would have expected someone to comment on how strange it is that I intensely love male pattern baldness and tried to talk me out of it, or shame me for feeling the way I do about it. Truth is, MPB is only a small part of my life, but it is a very pleasant reality for me. All the more so, because it is irreversible and almost impossible to hide. Unless I am wearing a hat, my MPB is the first thing people notice about me. I’m stuck with it and I couldn’t be happier. On a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is maximum pleasure, my male pattern baldness rates a 15 or maybe a 20. 🙂 When the subject comes up, that is. After all, there is far more to life than MPB. But like I said, the subject of MPB comes up quite often. For instance, this morning my wife showed me recent photos someone had taken of me with my infant grandson. One of the photos showed me looking down at my grandson and smiling. It was a closeup shot of the top of my bald head, all shiny with my entire hairline around the horseshoe fringe of hair. I had never seen myself from that angle. I love that photo! My wife said she would have a permanent color print of it for us. Our grandson is beautiful and male pattern baldness is beautiful.

   • I wish I could get my responses to go through. You’re not alone…and thankfully, neither am I. I love my MPB horseshoe. I think a well-kept horseshoe looks classy.
     Thanks for your encouragement.

2. I’m sorry there has been so little response to this blog. After all, there are millions of potential participants out there and male pattern baldness is not a boring subject. Actually, it is extremely interesting and very fascinating. To me, at least. Am I the only guy out there who loves MPB and couldn’t wait to go bald? How is it that no one has questioned me why I love MPB? Why hasn’t someone tried to analyze my weird wish or talk me out of feeling the way I do? After awhile it seems like you have covered all the subjects relating to baldness, but that is not true. Yet. I’ve read all the commentaries and all the contributed remarks and can say that there are other related topics to be addressed. I suggest topics like: ‘things to avoid and avoid doing to prevent baldness’, or for weird people like me: ‘What you can do to accelerate hairloss and bring on MPB’. Or ‘The latest developments in hair loss prevention. Just to name a few. If I think of other subjects to cover, I’ll tell you.
   I also suggest simple surveys like: How bald are you on Norwood scale? When did you notice you were going bald? How long did it take you to go bald? How do you feel about going bald? On a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 means you hate MPB and 10 means you love it, how to you feel about being bald? If a cure for MPB were to become available, how likely would you be to take the ‘cure’? That last one is easy for me to answer: I would refuse to take the ‘cure’. You couldn’t pay me enough to take the ‘cure’, unless there was a sure fire way to immediately reverse the ‘cure’ and go bald again. Male pattern baldness beats a full head of hair any day!

3. Here is another survey question: ‘What was the first thing you did when you realized you were going bald?
   You could provide simple multiple choice answers and let us choose one or more responses, or allow space for a short response. I suspect this site gets hundred or maybe thousands of visitors, even though few are willing to respond and participate. A single question survey might be a good way to elicit participation from otherwise timid or reluctant visitors. It might ‘break the ice’, so to speak.
   I am a shy and private person, but the anonymity of the internet emboldens me. I’ve never openly admitted that all my life I’ve had an irresitible urge to go male pattern bald. Except to my wife. This site gave me an opportunity to ‘confess it all’. It is a safe place where I can tell my story and talk about how I really feel about MPB. A few days ago my wife saw me visiting this site and asked me how I really feel about MPB. She asked me if I was still looking for a ‘cure’. I reassured her that I have NEVER looked for a cure and that I love interacting with other MPB ‘sufferers’ like me. I reminded her that I have always desired to go bald and that I love being male pattern bald now more than ever. She that said she regrets not telling me how much she loves bald men, early in our marriage. I said I would have loved to know that, but I would still have had to wait until my 50s to go bald. She said “Maybe not. If I had known how you felt, I would have prayed for you to hurry up and go bald and am sure that God in heaven would have granted our wish.” If nothing else we could have shopped around for supplements male body builders use not to build muscles, but are also known for accelerating hair loss in men like me who are prone to MPB. She said she would have helped me in any way she could, to go bald. She said it would have thrilled her for me to go male pattern bald the first year or two of our marriage. This is something she really wanted, but never admitted to me until years later, after I had finally begun going bald.
   Like you said, having a loving and supportive wife makes all the difference.

4. I guess there is not much new to say about male pattern baldness that hasn’t already been said on this site. We start to repeat ourselves. Well, at least I do, anyway. Sorry.
   I would love to see new participants tell their story of how they went bald and how they feel about it and how they are dealing with it. Or not dealing with it. I would love to hear from someone out there who, like me, loves MPB and has already gone bald or hasn’t yet but wishes he could.
   I’ve already told my story, but apparently my story isn’t quite done, yet. During a very recent family get together someone snapped a photo of me from behind showing the back of my head, almost identical to last year’s photo from the same angle and guess what? My hairline in back has receded noticeably these last 12 months. I’ve shed more fringe in back, just what I have been wishing for. At this rate I will be a perfect Norwood 6 1/2 in another year or so. Not only that, I have even less residual ‘fuzz’ on top and shave it off only when I get a haircut, every six weeks or so. I can’t see the back of my head (except with a mirror), but my wife can. She is the one who told me my hairline had receded more. She knew I would be pleased and of course, she is right about that. Soon I will have a perfect MPB hairline, something I have always wanted. It’s about time for my next haircut. I really look forward to each haircut, as my MPB always looks best immediately after I get it cut.

5. Well, I hope I didn’t find this site too late. Like Eric, I too have always wanted to lose my hair. I know it sounds strange, but it’s something I recognized early on in the men in my family whom I admired. I never saw it as anything but a sign of masculinity. I had horrible cowlicks, and I was so happy for those to quickly disappear during college, and then to continue to the NW6/7 I have now in my mid 40s.