What’s the deal with young guys walking around with hands down their pants?

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I seem to see this a lot. Young teens or guys in their 20s - walking along in the street or talking to their friends - with their hands down the front of their pants. When did this become socially acceptable?

Don't blame the clothing

I find it gross, imagine if 30 year old women did it!

I think you'd find there wouldn't be many men objecting.

Funky that made me chuckle.

sneaky it was meant as a kind of joke, but when i say i say i blame the trackies, if you think about it, it was the trackies that enabled them to develop the vile habit. It’d be tricky in jeans.

At least the sight of their underwear/arse on show with their waistbands down around their thighs is becoming a less frequent sight.

I thought they were holding their trousers up

They are halfway down their bums after all

But I soon realised that not every male can have lost the elastic on their waistband so it's actually a bizarre fashion thing

It's bleurgh

When I worked with 16-21 year olds I encountered this frequently. Lad's would sit with their hands down their pants whilst talking to me and I got verbally abused for asking them to stop it on more than one occasion! So grim. One lad even tried to shake my hand after he'd spent 40 minutes finding himself at the other side of my desk - I refused and told him why, he just rolled his eyes at me and spat on the floor on his way out (something else I find utterly revolting)

I will say, it tends to be a certain 'type' of young man that does this in public. Often the ones trying to restrain a Staffie whilst spitting and catcalling women. Where I live, anyway. I didn't realise it was a prison thing that caught on, like the low slung trouser trend.

*finding himself should = fondling himself!

Ah! I remember that. Boys and make staff in a sports specialist college.

No borstal or prison for any of them. Just a habit they got into and couldn't seem to break.

I did ask that the staff stop doing it but the only thing that stopped them was their being told they had to wear non sport clothing when not coaching/taking practical session.

Nothing stopped the students... and I noticed recently, on telly, that at least one of them still does it, as a professional player, in his national team

I too was told it was a comfort thing, a default position. And older colleague said it was a bit like a daytime continuation of a night time habit and reminded me of the army wake up call of "Hands off cocks, on socks"!

Oh comfort. Its like sucking your thumb, I see. That will account for all the young men and women I see sucking their thumbs for comfort while going about day to day life.

Yup! They do seem to believe that 'comfort' makes it OK!

I usually look them in the eye, then look at their hands and back to their eyes and say "I can wait" Then I don't speak until both hands are visible.

But it did get tiresome when a Crotch Comfort Clutcher asked to borrow my pen. They never seemed to understand why I refused, or why the girls in the class would laugh at my terse "I think not!"

@Roomba
Lol at him digging around finding himself 😄 seems just as fitting a description as any!