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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:07 PM
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Seriously, what are the differences between men and women?
I'm trying to understand the "traditional" male psyche, and failing miserably. In a way it makes sense to me--I was a tom-boy, to this day I have very "masculine" traits, and my brain came out androgynous on several "What Sex is Your Brain?" tests--but I don't get men and sexual things AT ALL. (Especially teenage boys, but those are BOYS, and numb ones at that, not actual men.)

Are men sex-crazed? Are women? Does it really matter?

How do men DEAL with those *things*, anyhow?

:popcorn:
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:08 PM
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1. Women have vaginas.
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:09 PM
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3. No shit, sherlock.
:P

I'm rather glad I do, never mind the blood that comes out of it. I'd probably foul up any man-bits.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:22 PM
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16. And I, as a man, have a penis. Wanna see?
:rofl:

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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:26 PM
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19. Dude, underaged person you're talking to.
Edited on Wed Feb-07-07 10:26 PM by seawolf
Might want to insert (*snort*) a "when you're legal" disclaimer.

Oops, nope, you weren't responding to WIMR.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:36 PM
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22. GAAAAAH!
:puke:

I should have put in a sarcasm tag at the time, I do agree. I don't freely show it...

Nor am I Haggard, but couldn't you have said upfront you're a minor?! We don't have pictures, you know... :wow:

Besides, somebody else already said the "V" word and FOX comedies have been saying both the V-word and P-word for years now...



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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 11:02 PM
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28. I don't think Blue-Jay's a minor.
And I know I'm not. (18.)

WIMR, though, is. (I think she's 14-15.)
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 06:32 AM
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40. 15, TYVM!
:P
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:08 PM
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2. Men have dangly bits. Women are packaged somewhat more neatly.
I have no idea how they deal with the dangly bits hanging around all the time. I think it would get tiresome, but they seem to like it.
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:10 PM
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4. It ain't easy, I'll tell you that.
But at least we don't need special underthings for the dangly bits.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:11 PM
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6. Like the special underthings for women's saggy bits?
Oh, that sounded bad, even to me. :crazy:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:28 PM
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20. Some more special than others




Never thought I'd post this twice in one day. :crazy:

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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:12 PM
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7. I think that's actually a good psychological metaphor as well.
"Dangly bits"...BWAH! :P

My little cousin asked me one day how boys deal with their junk. I said it's because they're boys and they'd freak if suddenly they woke up emasculated. She thought about that for a minute, then said, "Still, it'd get in the way. Yuck."

:evilgrin:

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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:11 PM
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5. Didn't they cover this info in Health class?
:P :rofl:
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:13 PM
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8. Not in enough detail.
I am viciously detail-oriented. Not to mention hormone-charged right now.

:P
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:13 PM
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9. A higher testosterone count.
What things did you want to know about?

Demonstrations can be arranged when you're legal. ;)
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:15 PM
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11. No demonstrations, thanks all the same.
The biology movie with the infrared camera work on the male during sexual arousal was more than enough of a visual.

*gags*
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:23 PM
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18. *snort* *sob*
I'm so LONELY! ;)

Chill. I'm not nearly lonely enough to stalk underaged girls. Don't think I ever will be, either.
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:41 PM
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23. Good.
I'd kick your ass, quite frankly.

:P
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:13 PM
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10. Women smell better.
And they can have babies. ;)
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:15 PM
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12. Smell better? I don't think so.
Ever smell this?

*holds nose*
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 11:03 PM
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29. You obviously haven't spent much time in men's locker rooms.
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 06:32 AM
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39. No, I haven't.
:P
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:18 PM
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13. every five seconds, our brains have to cycle
through sex, beer and sports

it doesn't leave much time for paying attention to you, except of course for staring at your breasts, which makes the sex part of the cycle last 4.99 seconds of every 5.
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:19 PM
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14. Just as I suspected.
:P

Don't worry, there's nothing to stare at here. Just vague, nebulous things of no size whatsoever.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:23 PM
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17. size doesn't matter
guys have a special bone in their necks that forces our head to tilt to breast level no matter what.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:21 PM
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15. It's easier to understand in Montana, where men are men,
and sheep are nervous.

Redstone
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:41 PM
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24. Shit, that made me laugh.
:rofl:
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:49 PM
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26. If you PROMISE to not give me a hard time about it, I'll send you the source of that
comment. It's a "Politically Incorrect Map of The United States" that I did back in 1990 for Spy magazine. They bought it, but went out of business before it got published.

You'll have to PM me an email address, and promise to not get offended by anything you see.

Redstone
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 11:03 PM
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30. Hey, could I get a copy of that for myself?
Sounds funny.

(As soon as you say yes, I'll send the address.)
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 11:06 PM
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31. Sure. But it's 11 x 17 inches in size, so you may want to take it to a Kinko's or
some place like that to get it printed.

Trust me, there's something to offend EVERYONE on that map.

Redstone
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:34 PM
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21. Snakes and snails and puppy-dog tails. That's what little boys are made of.
Sugar and spice and everything nice. That's what little girls are made of.
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:47 PM
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25. I think it's a good question.
I'm a completely normal and liberal-minded woman but I do not want to see pictures of naked men, nor do I want to imagine their dangly bits, not generally, not unless I've made a gentleman's acquaintance and been impressed by his brain. The male of the species I think has these priorities reversed. It makes it easy to ridicule them and easy to pity them but also a pain in the ass to be an average looking but wonderful woman. WIMR: men are just like teenage boys except taller, more bald, and with man boobs. :P
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 06:31 AM
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38. Oh dear.
:cry:
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otherlander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 10:50 PM
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27. Being a man sounds easier.
Edited on Wed Feb-07-07 10:51 PM by otherlander
No one expects you to shave your legs, or laughs at you if you get a crew cut. The cops don't care if you don't wear a shirt.
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Chan790 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 11:08 PM
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32. This may be a generational thing...
it's my experience that men think about sex constantly and nearly-universally say so.

Women think about sex constantly and many (or some) lie about it.

No, it doesn't really matter. There is no right amount of sex thoughts or sex. Just what's right for you. If you're happy with your sexual quantity, than screw what other people think.
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 11:09 PM
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33. I don't remember, but I think it was some pretty worthwhile stuff.
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 11:09 PM
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34. The 1 inch between the faucet and the back of the bathroom sink backsplash....
Women CLEAN that area. Men...not so much.

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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-07-07 11:18 PM
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35. Women are better at getting me a beer and cooking me dinner.
:evilgrin:
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Crabby Appleton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 02:55 AM
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36. We get paid more for doing the same work
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 02:59 AM
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37. Most women look good naked, most men don't
Everything else is pretty much the same, when you get right down to the bottom of it...
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buddhamama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 06:50 AM
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41. Locking...
This is not appropriate.

Sincerely,
buddhamama- DU Mod
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