\n\u2022 Only 50% of American men surveyed report that their father had facial hair.
\n\u2022 Today, 64% of American men say they have facial hair.
\n\u2022 Mustache may be a French word, however, only 40% of French men say they have facial hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The #1 reason men grow facial hair? It gives them more confidence.<\/strong> 80% of American women are okay with, and even attracted to, men with facial hair.<\/strong> The goatee wins as the preferred form of facial hair among American women.<\/strong> Growing facial hair for a cause can lead to romance!<\/strong> Women around the world agree that Johnny Depp sports the best facial hair.<\/strong> U.S. men think Sean Connery has the best facial hair.<\/strong> The Zoosk Facial Hair Survey was conducted online by Zoosk in October 2012 in the U.S, Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Mexico, Sweden, and the U.K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Learn what daters really think of facial hair. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[903],"tags":[793,804],"class_list":["post-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dating-statistics","tag-infographics","tag-novemeber"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\n\u2022 40% of American men (and 44% of men worldwide) say when they have facial hair, they feel more confident.
\n\u2022 Other reasons why men grow facial hair? 36% of American men say they feel more attractive, 15% feel more sophisticated, and 9% feel more intelligent with facial hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u2022 It must be an English-speaking thing — 80% of American women and 69% of women in the UK and Canada say that facial hair on their man is a-ok.
\n\u2022 However, the majority of women in Australia, France, Mexico and Denmark prefer clean-shaven men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u2022 36% of American women say they prefer men sport a goatee (as opposed to a beard or mustache).
\n\u2022 Men take note! Women say the \u201csoul patch\u201d is the least-preferred form of facial hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u2022 63% of American women say that they would be more open to romance with a man who grew facial hair for a worthy cause.
\n\u2022 French women feel the opposite way, with only 27% saying that they would feel more romantic with a man who grew facial hair for a cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u2022 More than 50% of the women surveyed around the world say Johnny Depp is the celebrity with the best facial hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u2022 45% of American men say Sean Connery as the celeb with the best facial hair. Johnny Depp comes in 2nd place with 26% of the votes among men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/dq1eylutsoz4u.cloudfront.net\/2012\/10\/zoosk-facial-hair_revised.png\" "\\"Zoosk-Facial-Hair_revised\\"\/")
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