“I love beards. Do you think you want to grow yours out…maybe?” That’s what my girlfriend, now fiancée, asked me back in 2013 over coffee, about a month into our relationship. When we started dating, I was sporting some solid stubble. But apparently, that wasn’t enough. At the time, researchers from the University of Queensland had just determined that women found stubble to be sexier than a clean face or a full beard, based on a study of 8,000 females.