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"BEING thin on top hasn't stopped Sean Connery from being voted the world's sexiest man. But for every Bruce Willis and Vin Diesel there's a William Hague and Bobby Charlton.

Some men just can't cope with the "fall out" when their hair disappears.

Teacher James Campbell claims it has ruined his life. The 61-year-old tried to sue Falkirk Council, saying pupils' taunts of "baldy" destroyed his confidence and made him scared to walk the school corridor.

His attempt to have his case heard under the Disability Discrimination Act were kicked out by an industrial tribunal.

Studies have shown employers are more likely to hire a man with a full head of hair than one whose thinning locks may make him look older than he is.

Joanna Vallely took to the streets to find out how Edinburgh men coped with hair loss and whether they saw their baldness as a disability – or an additional source of sex appeal.

'Everyone remembers my Afro'
LEE SHARP (pictured above), 32, manager of clothes store Xile in Princes Street Mall, used to be famous in his primary school for his eye-catching Afro.

The youngster grew his hair until it was several inches tall and wide, and his school mates used to love coming over and touching it.

These days, fashion-conscious Lee, from Leith, hasn't got a single hair on his shiny pate – and he says he is equally proud of his grown-up look.

With a broad grin, he recalls: "I had the Afro in primary school. I was so proud of it and it got a lot of attention, obviously with the Jackson Five having Afros.

"My mum is white so she was quite proud that I had it too. I was quite attached to it until the fashions changed and the Afro style was out."

Lee's once beloved hair started to recede when he was about 20 and he began shaving it immediately, which he now continues every two weeks.

Lee is just as happy with his clean shaven look. "I think black people get away with it better. It's a kind of rough and ready look. I think it suits me."

'I feared I'd lose my pulling power'
THOUGH the four-times married deputy council leader Steve Cardownie is not known for his retiring nature, when the 55-year-old started losing his hair in his early 20s he admits to suffering a temporary loss of confidence.

"In your very early 20s you think it might have an impact on your ability to pull so when I was going away to nightclubs with my mates I felt I'd be the one least likely, but that's just with being so young.

"Unfortunately it's not put people off marrying me! I suppose I must have compensatory features. "