Grex Homme Conference

Item 15: Men's issues?

Entered by mcpoz on Wed Apr 5 00:25:55 1995:

Either men don't have issues, or they are macho enough to not discuss them.
58 responses total.

#1 of 58 by aruba on Wed Apr 5 06:05:45 1995:

Damn straight!  And we split infinitives whenever we damn well please, too!


#2 of 58 by brighn on Wed Apr 5 21:26:40 1995:

More like too macho to discuss them.
Sigh.


#3 of 58 by mcpoz on Thu Apr 6 01:06:55 1995:

We certainly can't stand for any split infinitives.


#4 of 58 by huggie on Mon Apr 24 15:42:41 1995:

men only have issues when they want to discuss them otherwise
just leave us alone . if i have something to say im not going
to die unless i divulge this info. basicaly ill tell when i
get damn good and ready to!!!!


#5 of 58 by brighn on Mon Apr 24 16:38:22 1995:

<brighn regards huggie with an upraised eyebrow>
A bit hostile, aren't we?  Nobody asked you to divulge.  Calm down.


#6 of 58 by mcpoz on Mon Apr 24 23:12:45 1995:

Not talking is another "Mens issue" all by itself.


#7 of 58 by remmers on Tue Apr 25 10:39:27 1995:

This is true.  But I don't want to talk about it.


#8 of 58 by mcpoz on Wed Apr 26 00:07:39 1995:

Great!


#9 of 58 by marcvh on Sun Jun 11 11:51:38 1995:

So, who saw the game last night?


#10 of 58 by llw on Fri Jul 28 01:36:49 1995:

One big issue is the vagina being used as a dangling carrot made difficult
to reach.


#11 of 58 by chelsea on Fri Jul 28 14:09:47 1995:

Hey, you're confusing metaphors there, buddy. Methinks I've spotted 
a rare case of vagina envy.


#12 of 58 by mcpoz on Sun Jul 30 02:36:05 1995:

Is there some subtle hostility just waiting back there at the fringe of
detection?


#13 of 58 by aruba on Wed Aug 2 04:53:06 1995:

I don't know about vagina envy, but I think womb-envy is a very real thing.
Perhaps the most divisive thing between men and women is that women can have
babies and men can't.  That has a great deal of impact on what our goals in
life are, for instance.
   Tim Allen says that men like to use tools and build things because they
can't have babies.  I think he might be right, though I've lived so long
without considering the possibility of having a baby that I can't really
imagine what I would feel if it were a possibility.


#14 of 58 by brighn on Wed Aug 2 08:36:41 1995:

See "Life of Brian" -- there's a part in there I love where a male character
argues for the right to have babies, even if he physiologically can't.  
(Hey, folks, it's Monty Python, what do you expect?)



#15 of 58 by aruba on Wed Aug 2 23:05:34 1995:

"You haven't got a womb!  Where's the fetus going to gestate?  You can't
just put it in the bath!"


#16 of 58 by jonny on Thu Nov 2 04:35:37 1995:

Question.  I'm still going through puberty.  What is the average size of an
erect penis?


#17 of 58 by bruin on Thu Nov 2 12:14:40 1995:

Contrary to popular belief, about 8 or 9 inches, and the bigger it is when
flaccid, the more average it will be when erect.  Also, men with large members
don't necessarily get more!


#18 of 58 by bubu on Wed Nov 8 21:54:47 1995:

Thanks for ruining my day bruin


#19 of 58 by brighn on Thu Nov 9 05:19:03 1995:

What?  8 or 9 inches?
Wherever did you get that number.

ALl the stats I've ever seen (from medical reports, not common survey)
say the average is 5.5 to 6 inches.  Black penises are slightly longer,
Asian penises slightly shorter.  9 is simply huge.


#20 of 58 by bubu on Sat Nov 11 16:18:49 1995:

Thank yo Brighn for putting me back into the"average" catergory


#21 of 58 by brighn on Sat Nov 11 18:19:12 1995:

No prob, Dan, it shook me up too...
I read somewhere, Penthouse Forum I think, that 9 inches puts one into
the 90th percentile or such for penis length... maybe even 95th...
But I remember stats poorly, so that may be wrong.
I just remember the white penis stats b/c mine ranges from 5.5 to 6 
inches, depending on how excited I am...  making me perfectly average.  :)


#22 of 58 by popcorn on Sat Nov 11 21:58:05 1995:

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#23 of 58 by brighn on Sat Nov 11 23:31:02 1995:

*laughs*  Yeah, but after a while one just gets curious...


#24 of 58 by bubu on Sun Nov 12 21:54:11 1995:

I guess after ya live with it for 27 some odd years you just gotta check and
see huh? 


#25 of 58 by jonny on Tue Nov 14 02:12:18 1995:



#26 of 58 by jonny on Tue Nov 14 02:35:51 1995:

At what age does the penis stop growing?     Sorry for such lame questions.
          :)


#27 of 58 by brighn on Tue Nov 14 04:04:11 1995:

I assume you mean in a more general sense... that question can be read two
ways. I suspect the same age as the rest of you, 17 to 21, depending on the 
person... (thoseare the ages I've heard...)


#28 of 58 by bubu on Wed Nov 15 21:16:01 1995:

I dont know if I completely agree with that Brighn....  I have noticed growth
on myself even over the last few years...I am 27 now for those who dont know.
Hmmmphhh...Maybe it just depends on how much you use it.....


#29 of 58 by brighn on Wed Nov 15 22:14:01 1995:

I dunno, maybe I should measure mine again.  It *is* a muscle after all, 
so it would make sense that the more you use it the larger it is, but that
seems more like macho folk knowledge than actuality.  And I did measure mine
when I was 16 or 17... never occurred to me that it would grow some since
then... *shrug*
Then again, none of my partners have complained, so I guess it just hasn't
mattered...


#30 of 58 by bubu on Wed Nov 15 22:16:57 1995:

        I didnt even notice till my wife said something....She would know we
were highschool sweethearts....and she is the only woman who has ever seen
it so....(well except mom when i was but a baby)


#31 of 58 by headdoc on Sun Nov 19 17:47:17 1995:

This is more information then I needed to know.  But it did make me smile.
It just dawned on me.  I never heard about a woman measuring her vagina.
Wonder why?


#32 of 58 by bubu on Sun Nov 19 19:01:15 1995:

Hmmmmm....


#33 of 58 by brighn on Sun Nov 19 20:36:16 1995:

How precisely would you do that, Audrey?
I think it would involve a caliper, and most people don't have
calipers lying around... tape measures, yes, calipers, no.
(Unless there's a grease monkey in the family, but then you wouldn't
want *tht* sort of caliper *there*...)


#34 of 58 by mcpoz on Sun Nov 19 22:36:44 1995:

Guys begin to make visual comparisons in the showers in gym class. 
Immediately in a class of 30, 29 guys get worried.  The analagous comparison
is not available to females. 


#35 of 58 by scott on Mon Nov 20 00:57:53 1995:

Well, women are supposed to obsess over breast size.  So do men.


#36 of 58 by bubu on Mon Nov 20 21:25:46 1995:

I think I'm glad I didnt go to school with Marc....
<bubu chuckles>


#37 of 58 by popcorn on Mon Dec 11 15:46:13 1995:

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#38 of 58 by brighn on Tue Dec 12 00:01:28 1995:

Now that I think about it... most of the women I know with large breasts
brag when the topic comes up, and most of the women I know with small
breasts amicably joke about it.  Scanning my head for actual obsessing,
and until I get into the DD+ range, where it's usually related to 
weight, I can't think of hearing any women obsess abou tit.
(gee, I should edit those last two words to move the t, but somehow
the typo works... :)


#39 of 58 by bubu on Tue Dec 12 21:41:58 1995:

How come now Brighn.  I don't believe for a second that was a typo....


#40 of 58 by mcpoz on Tue Dec 12 22:58:59 1995:

Some women must obsess over it because of the high incomes commanded by
plastic surgeons.  But this must be relatively rare - perhaps much less than
1% ?


#41 of 58 by bronco on Fri Mar 29 18:27:35 1996:

  hello guys,  well I'm new to Grex and this discussion.  I read all the data
previousley enterd in this room.  Myconclusion is that  White guys do measure
ther dicks, and so do blacks.  Heres my thought being  a straight guy I have
often wonderd how many ghuys actually do measure there penis?  I measured mine
when I was younger and thought it was rather average about 6 inches but tell
my fellow guys is it the size  ofr is it the girth of a mans penis that is
the most effective?  Now I have to agree with bubu that it dose get bigger
with excersise!  laugh  i excersised it a lot in my youth and even some now
at age 29.  Do you think that is normal to be you know  at age 29?
   I dont have glasses yet tho???? 
  Really I know it sounds taki but I 'm actually ther are guys out there who
arent ashammed of the size, and were open enough5tto talk about it somewhere!
  any thoughts???? 

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#42 of 58 by chelsea on Fri Mar 29 20:30:49 1996:

Such a deal about a little bit of wrinkled dangling flesh.


#43 of 58 by headdoc on Sat Mar 30 17:22:13 1996:

Oh Mary, you do have a way with words. ;-).


#44 of 58 by scott on Sun Mar 31 14:28:44 1996:

Yes, well, you have to work with what you have... ;)

(And I might add the ridicule from women is Sexual Harrasment!)  ;)


#45 of 58 by headdoc on Sun Mar 31 20:28:12 1996:

"Harassment". . implies systematc persecution by besetting with annoyances,
threats or demands. Well certainly no threats or demands here, Scott. 
Annoyances, perhaps, but not to the point of persecution.  But you are correct
about having to work with what you have. . .A really good conductor does not
need a big stick to make wonderful music.


#46 of 58 by bubu on Sun Mar 31 20:35:02 1996:

Well I am not huge in this department, well not even big....
My wife and I have a wonderful sex life so I would have to agree with the
doc...About the conductor ya know..


#47 of 58 by beeswing on Sun Mar 31 20:46:34 1996:

  ::blush:::


#48 of 58 by bubu on Sun Mar 31 20:50:23 1996:

Sorry Bee
<bubu hides in a basket>


#49 of 58 by beeswing on Mon Apr 1 03:02:17 1996:

 well now I've been virtually deflowered...


#50 of 58 by scott on Mon Apr 1 17:15:10 1996:

Hmm... "systematic"?  Does that mean that random, one-shot acts of harrassment
are OK?


#51 of 58 by chelsea on Tue Apr 2 00:03:52 1996:

No, it just means it's not harassment.  Check out the definition.


#52 of 58 by scott on Fri Apr 5 01:12:46 1996:

Hmmm, but what are they then?  

I would assume there's a term, but I can't come up with what it might be.


#53 of 58 by otter on Sun Apr 7 08:24:53 1996:

Are we still in the workplace? "Grounds for termination" comes to mind.


#54 of 58 by clees on Tue Apr 23 06:54:30 1996:

Try being offensive or crude, blunt, abusive as long as it is
being considered an insult.


#55 of 58 by bronco on Thu Apr 25 15:41:53 1996:

  laugh, it seams like there are more women in here than men?
but thats ok.  


#56 of 58 by bubu on Thu Apr 25 20:20:02 1996:

Hey who knows men better than woman?


#57 of 58 by headdoc on Thu Apr 25 20:40:36 1996:

And we never know how many there are out there "lurking".  


#58 of 58 by clees on Fri Apr 26 16:09:43 1996:

They are everywhere and they are watching you(r b--)


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