Men in lingerie shops - yay or nay?

[safiya6]

Could I please ask the MN jury...If you were to go into a lingerie shop which was quite small with only one or two customers and there was a man sitting there on his phone, would this put you off shopping or taking things into the changing room?

just 'older' men mairead?

Yes, I'm 65, so my age-ish.

I like to torture my son (18) by trailing around underwear shops and departments when we are out shopping together…

Unless they're having a wank over the lingerie I don't see the problem

No not at all!

Why is everybody saying he could be buying for his partner? He could be buying for himself!

Just sitting there, probably bored out his mind. Wouldn't care

Actively following women around or having a sniff at the kickers. I'd be out there quick as fucking lightning

I am mystified as to why this should bother anybody.

It does annoy me a bit in department stores when whole families are camped outside the changing rooms for ages, but apart from that, I don't think of any shop as a "women only space."

It’s a shop not a woman only safe space. Men have as much right to be there are anyone else. If he was invading your personal space or making inappropriate comments it would be different.

But whose husband was it?

I’ve never heard of anyone referring to a shop as a “women only space”.

I do think hanging about in a shop to take a phone call when you’ve already been served is taking liberties though. The staff were probably more annoyed that they hadn’t finished shopping and then left instead of taking up space until they finished the call.

Sorry it was my DH who my friend knows obviously. She said he was going on and on on the phone with no self -awareness and driving customers out because it's a very small shop.

OMG nay.

I agree with a pp, taking a call, maybe loudly, went you have made a purchase is irritating, especially in a small shop.

I think a person staying in a small shop to to take a phonecall is quite rude. The type of shop/sex of the customer is irrelevant.

As long as he was waiting for his partner and not just sat in a lingerie shop perving.

So is this thread going to take much time to get to the bit about why your DH was in the undie shop?

I might briefly do a double take if I saw a man in a lingerie shop but I wouldn't actually care if they were minding their own business

I agree he should have left the shop once he had completed his purchase.
I would be less concerned about what type of shop he was in and more concerned about the arrogance of someone chuntering on and having to hear one side of a tedious conversation in a small shop.

Are you sure it wasn’t a priest who had got ‘lost’ in the lingere section?

Bonnie 😂😂😂

[b]No wouldn't bother me but I hate it when there's men in the sex toy section in Ann Summers watching what I'm buying. But not if he was just sat there minding his own business.[/b]

My wife and I have been shopping for sex toys together in Ann Summers. Would the presence of a man there make you uncomfortable or only if they were watching what you're buying. Genuine question.

Mairead: "people shouldn't look at inanimate objects without my approval"