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Five reasons to grow a moustache this month:
  1. To pay homage to the golden age of adult cinema.
  2. To “take it back” from dictators and pedophiles.
  3. To monumentalize your affection for Frida Kahlo.
  4. For warmth.
  5. Because it’s Movember, the month-long “mo”-growing bonanza. Its Australian founders’ mantra says it all: “Whether you’re stopping or going / just you remember / to keep that mo growing / whilst in Movember.” Pogonotrophy-practising participants often raise money for men’s-health causes—last year, 9,315 “Mo Bros” collected $1.2 million (Aus.) for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia—though for many, the mo is a cause in itself. But be warned: the Movember committee long ago renounced all responsibility for “food/beer encrustments.”

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