In Reply to: Question about Balinese culture posted by lisss on Sunday, 25. October 2009 at 18:32 Bali Time:
HUSBAND'S body hair LOL. He worked in Bali around 20 years ago during construction of the Four Seasons resort in Jimbaran bay & the male workers were fascinated by his hairy chest & would ask to touch it. As someone else mentioned, there is a general fascination with the physical attributes of tourists that are so different from their own - red or fair hair, fair skin, blue eyes (& hairy chests it seems). They were particularly baffled by my hubby's hairiness - he is half Chinese & they seemed to think that no Asian man should be hairy!