As odd as it might sound, acne as an organism and as an environmental function might have a symbiotic purpose in the development of age by controlling and tapering out of control hormones when one is growing in order to reduce the incidence of premature reproduction.

Basically, Dale F. Bloom contends that acne evolved to keep us from having babies too early and even wrote an article about it in the journal Medical Hypothesis.

The article here states that basically, acne came about as a naturally developed way to prevent people from reproducing too young, before they were ready, by making their skin less attractive and making them less likely to reproduce.

This may sound like God’s way of playing a cruel joke or a natural yet inhumane means of controlling hormones, but there is some logic to his theory!

You see, children in agrarian societies and even our own modern societies are truly being trained every day in order to learn and adapt to their environment for survival. Most teenagers, regardless of what they might tell you or their parents, are not yet ready to fill the shoes of an adult when it comes to earning a living, paying bills or having children.

Perhaps this was evidenced naturally and the need for a symbiotic balancing of reproductive desires was needed to keep children too young from having young before they were able to feed and defend them.

It makes sense, and yet is quite cruel!

Acne is Nature’s Way of Trying to Keep You From Getting Laid?

So the theory says, anyways!

Unfortunately, children in modern societies are hitting puberty so early that this doesn’t even matter any more. Most kids become pubescent at the age of 12 whereas in many primitive agrarian societies in Paraguay and other third world countries, puberty doesn’t strike until 15 or 16.

So much for the population control.