it's my understanding that hair is considered a sensual, even sexual, organ in the cultures whose women are more or less required to wear a hijab. it's interesting that the protestant church you went to thought along the same lines. to the best of your knowledge, is this a widely practiced protestant precedent?

[I'm pretty sure it all goes back to Old Testament / Torah requirement that Jewish women cover their hair after marriage. (Men are supposed to cover up too.) Christians and Muslims, both derived from Judaism, followed suit. Lay Catholic women were required to wear veils until Vatican II (and nuns, obviously, were required to wear whole wimples.) It's still most noticeable among protestants Quakers, Anabaptists, the Amish, Plymouth Brethren and other "old fashioned" denominations (many of whom wear their scarves, lace caps, or bonnets in public) but you'll also still occasionally see it in mainstream Protestant church services. Thanks, Dani. --fl]

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I personally find long hair, on both men and women, to be sexy. So yeah, they're sort of comparable.

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