Sa tunok sa ilang buhok sama kalantip sa ilang huna-huna.
Sa kalumoy sa ilang buhok sama sa bawod sa dagat
ang matag hagtik sa kuwerdas sa ilang gitara.
Sa galukot nilang buhok ang labyog sa akong sampot
duyog sa tambol sa ilang sonata.
Sa galukot nilang buhok ang labyog sa akong sampot
duyog sa tambol sa ilang sonata.
Ang matag lugas sa ilang buhok ang inusnos
sa mga debuho nga nipilit sa kuwadro.
Sa mga salag sa ilang buhok masikop
Sa mga salag sa ilang buhok masikop
ang kaidlas sa kabakaba sa matag
kidhat sa lente sa ilang mata.
Sa kataas sa buhok nga migamot sa ilang bagul-bagol
diha nako masudlay ang kagawasan nga wala
nabatonan sa akong buhok nga gipamub-an.
-- GENALYN G. OMAPAS
Cebu City, Philippines
Sa kataas sa buhok nga migamot sa ilang bagul-bagol
diha nako masudlay ang kagawasan nga wala
nabatonan sa akong buhok nga gipamub-an.
-- GENALYN G. OMAPAS
Cebu City, Philippines
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Scientists view long hair as playing a large part in any animal species' natural selection, since hair length is frequently a sign of health. Freudian psychoanalysts also see it in a sexual light, as a representation of the id's release from the suppression of the superego. Hair is signaling gender differences as well as ideological differences. Opposite sexes and opposite ideologies tend to have opposite hair, for example hair lengths.
Culturally, long hair—particularly amongst men—typically signals the individual's separation from structures., although there are exceptions, such as the Thai people. Ways of life often viewed as more rigid, such as religious cultures, often have explicit rules regarding hair length. For example, one passage in the New Testament of Christianity considers long hair shameful for men, while encouraging it for women. Also, Buddhist monks shave their heads as part of their order of worship. Even outside religious structures, cultures often associate long hair with ways of life outside of what is culturally accepted. Subservient cultures, for example, are sometimes detected by their rulers through hair length, as was the case with the Irish under English rule and the Moors under Spanish rule in Medieval Spain.
Anthropologists speculate that the functional significance of long head hair may be adornment, a by-product of secondary natural selection once other somatic hair (body hair) had largely been lost. Another possibility is that long head hair is a result of Fisherian runaway sexual selection, where long lustrous hair is a visible marker for a healthy individual. For some groups, however, short hair is the selected trait. Some Psychoanalysts and Freudian commentators argue that long hair represents the id and aggression, and that cutting the hair is thus akin to castration. Hair is thus considered to be a potent sexual emblem, both for men and women, having many parallels with intercourse. Further connections made with sexuality are made with the fact that historically, adulterous husbands would cut off their wife's hair if she threatened to reveal his secret, thus violating the role of her husband.
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