about testicle scratching?

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Dp is lovely in most ways. He has a bad habbit which is scratching his balls. He only does it when we are at home alone.

It never really bothered me before. Dp washes his hands before cooking/eating.

We now have have a 9 month old ds. I have said to dp that I don't think it is a good idea for him ( dp) to scratch his balls when ds is in the room as he will pick up this habbit.

I dont understand how he came to have this habbit as his mother was very strict about manners when dp was growing up. I feel like a nagging mother by saying "dp hands out of your pants please) constantly. I am tempted to call mil and ask her what she did when he was young ( hopefully that threat would encourage dp to stop)

I don't think dp is always aware of what he is doing, it's like a compulsion.

I grew up without a father so I'm not sure what consists of normal male behavior and what is a bit strange.

Aibu to ask dp not to scratch his balls when ds is in the room?

Sillybeardy can you enlighten me on the leg jiggling thing?

It's not normal for men to do this in front of people.

It's bloody rude if they do. I'm with you, OP - get him to stop it, its foul.

I like a quick scratch of my lady garden, however, I don't do it in public. If DP told me to stop, I'd laugh, as would he if I told him to not touch himself in his own home.

Very bizarre to ask a person to stop what is kinda natural

Yuk, fortunately my sons and husband do not partake in this habit in my presence. I have however always said to them to do what they like with their bits in the privacy of their own bedrooms

It is normal Aunt

They don't do it in company with people they don't know well none of the men I know do.

I think op would like her DH to stop doing it in front of their son!

I don't go in for the leg jiggles personally. That's just a recipe for disaster balls wise. Jiggling leg = juggling balls! You'd just need to rearrange even more!

ynbu. i never saw my dad scratching himself when i was growing up.

its pretty ekk having some one do that in front of you .. ughh

It's not normal among men with manners, Feminine.

It's bloody rude.

You can defend your mannerless oaf husbands if you like, it's all the same to me.

Stop clutching your pearls ffs. He's scratching a part of his body in his own home...as is his or hers want

no ones saying its nor normal or its dirty

just have some manners and dont do it infront of people.. even your wife/children.

aunt mine only does it with me about. Its still normal.

Are you wearing a crinoline by any chance?

Are testicles particularly itchy things then? Because I don't sit in the living room absent mindedly cupping my fanny or scratching my mons. I don't know any woman that does. I scratch anywhere that happens to have an itch, but I don't find myself spending an evening with my hands down my pants. An itch is an occasional thing, not a nightly event.

I certainly wouldn't sit in the living room cupping my genitals while the kids sat watching spongebob. So what's the difference? Serious question. Why is it no big deal for a bloke to tickle his genitals in front of his family and if it is no big deal, would it be no big deal (to you and to him) for you to tickle yours in the evening too, in front of the family?

I am genuinely curious

Gosh-I'm married to an abnormal man & we have an abnormal son!

Hands down pants to scratch?-in company?-yuk!

The only males in my house that don't hold their balls are the dogs; and that's only because they can lick theirs.

"Are testicles particularly itchy things then? "

Good question!

Can help wondering if all these scratchers don't wash or wear badly fitting clothes!

Yes blokes scratch their balls. However not all do it in front of people. Even their own families. The males in my family do it in provacy. They descretely remove themselves from the room, have a scratch, have a wash and come back.

The men I know don't scratch, scratch scratch...they just place there hands there!

Maybe that is why I'm not too fussed.

Us blokes need ball bras. If we were well supported and comfortable I'm sure we wouldn't need to do it.

ball bras. interesting

Imagine plugging that on dragons den

boxer shorts with built in ball support.

I've been with the same man for 36 years and I've never seen him do it and I never saw my father do it either. I'm therefore surprised to see so many posts saying that all men do it.

some woman place their hands in between their legs between thighs I mean- when their legs are crossed. Just somewhere to put them?

not near their genitals. I think its similar.

I don't think its sexual? maybe a man can let me know.

None of the males in my family do it in company. They don't scratch or cup or otherwise fiddle with their hands in their pants. That does sound a bit odd if it's an everyday activity.

Think of it the same a nose-picking. You can do it, just don't do it in front of others?

(Your ds I mean, not your dh. You can't tell a grown man how to behave but you can tell him it's making you feel a bit sick, or whatever and see if he has the sense to stop all by his little self).

Do you remember a few years ago when Jeremy Paxman raged against Marks and Spencer because he said their underpants were no longer supportive enough?

I can't have been the only woman who, instead of thinking "Yes yes tut tut their standards really have gone downhill," thought: "Urgh, yuck, who's got Old Man's Dangly Bollocks then?"

I do wonder how long it will be before men have testicle implants. Imagine how big they could get. They would definitely need ball bras then.

< gets sketch pad out and starts designing >

If he had a ball bra maybe he wouldn't have dangly bollocks ...