Of course, it's an institution of higher learning in Sydney, Australia that's decided to announce that we've attained 'Peak Beard' - i.e. in the coming years, we'll see a lot of hirsute men trading in their unkempt mouth-pubes for a more sophisticated appearance.
My one main problem with this medusa-esque approach to facial hair is simple: if it's bushy above, is it bushy below? - and do we want this? And if it's bushy above and NOT bushy below... well... erm, next please. I'll say this about the research by the University of New South Wales - I bet if we are flooded with images of men who manscape, there will not be a similar phenomenon of the bush becoming sexy. I don't know about you, but here's one situation where the principle of 'negative frequency-dependent selection' will not apply.
[photo from the first link in post]
