We are disgusted by many different things: from rotting flesh to excrement to warts to rats. What do these things have in common? A first thought might be that what disgusts us is what is potentially poisonous or germ-laden. But we can be disgusted by quite harmless things, such as sagging flesh or internal organs; and many harmful things don't disgust us, such as arsenic or weapons. We get closer to the truth when we note the link to death: what disgusts are the things in which death is immanent--corpses, digested organisms, ripped flesh. But this is not quite right, since the skeleton is not disgusting. What seems to provoke disgust is the co-presence of death with pulsing life: the corpse being consumed by bacteria and worms, living things turned to dead pulp in digestion, bleeding wounds, scurrying rats in graveyards. My new book, "The Meaning of Disgust" [$35, Oxford University Press] demonstrates that it is the intersection of the living and the dead that turns the stomach, their terrible proximity.
Here are the things we find most disgusting:
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Oh, and those are blisters, not warts.
Back fat is way worse than back hair.
And feet aren't bad, but flaky cracked stinky feet with toes covered in toenail fungus are.
Oh....and feces is yucky, but the feces of carnivores and omnivores is FAR yuckier than the feces of herbivores like the one you showed above. The smell of the kind of feces your showed can be sour, but it ages quickly and then just smells like dirt. The other...not so much.
I'm assuming that those same people would be okay with someone who has hirsutism being disgusted by a physical/medical imperfection of theirs.
Some women like their men hairy. But, if your lady is not one of those women....hair is removable regardless of hormones.