by Robert Codey

Created on: July 24, 2009   Last Updated: June 08, 2010

How do women really feel about dating bald men? Take it from a bald man, they don't mind at all.

I used to have a full, thick shock of dark brown, almost black, hair. As luck and genetics would have it, by the time I turned 19 I began to lose much of my hair. Initially it began falling out in the front, leaving my "parted in the middle and feathered back" style of hair looking rather silly with just a few sparse hairs falling down onto my forehead. By the time I was 33, my hair was thinning throughout the top of my head and I had a bald spot on the back of my head the size of a tennis ball. And I have to admit that I wasn't exactly the apple of most women's eye at that point.

In 2002 my favorite basketball team, the New Jersey Nets, made it to the NBA Finals for the first time. The team's Captain and star player, Jason Kidd, had a shaved head. And it was Jason Kidd who almost by sheer will alone had led the New Jersey Nets to the NBA Finals. In tribute to their Captain, the entire team (except for one player) shaved their head.

I had always contemplated shaving my head, but was still in love with what few, remaining locks I had left on my head. The excitement of having my team make it to the NBA Finals for the first time gave me the excuse to do what I had been contemplating doing for a long time.

I shaved my head.

I was working in Manhattan at the time, and I remember on that first day with my shaved head in the city I was wearing a white polo shirt. As I walked through the city streets, I noticed people pointing at me from across the street, others giving me long looks as I passed them in the street.

"I look like a freak!" I thought to myself. "Why else would all these people be pointing at me and looking at me like that?"

After a full day of thinking that I looked like a complete freak and everyone was laughing at me, finally a girl walked up to me and said, "Excuse me, are you Andre Agassi?"

That was it! That's why everyone was pointing and looking at me! It wasn't because I looked weird. They had thought I was Andre Agassi. The U.S. Open was currently underway in New York, and people thought I was Andre strolling the streets of Manhattan between matches.

And Andre Agassi doesn't seem to have too much trouble attracting women, does he?

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