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Men with hands down the front of their trousers

111 replies

youworkedhard · 14/06/2025 15:44

Am I being unreasonable in thinking this is absolutely disgusting and unhygienic. I keep seeing young men out in public with one hand inside their trousers and very obviously on their dicks. My husband thinks it’s disgusting too and I rate his opinion.

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PigglyWigglyOhYeah · 15/06/2025 21:52

MemorableTrenchcoat · 14/06/2025 18:23

And how could you prove they were actually touching their genitals? And not just, say, scratching an itch in that region over their underwear?

Anyone who has been properly brought up knows you don’t go around scratching your genitals in public, however bloody itchy your bits are. Or is this another thing the revoltingly rude and utterly selfish TikTok generation now think is perfectly acceptable?

MemorableTrenchcoat · 15/06/2025 21:54

PigglyWigglyOhYeah · 15/06/2025 21:52

Anyone who has been properly brought up knows you don’t go around scratching your genitals in public, however bloody itchy your bits are. Or is this another thing the revoltingly rude and utterly selfish TikTok generation now think is perfectly acceptable?

Perhaps, but if we’re going to start criminalising it, we’re going to have to be able to actually prove it, no?

PigglyWigglyOhYeah · 15/06/2025 21:59

I’m not criminalising it. Society - as in everyone passing these specimens on the street - should be making it abundantly clear to them that it’s unacceptable. Unfortunately, our society is not like that any more and people who behave in anti-social ways can just crack on, as no-one is bothered enough to tell them off. Added to which is the over-riding ‘I can do whatever I like, fuck everyone else’ attitude of many.

BrickHare · 15/06/2025 22:12

Jc2001 · 15/06/2025 21:28

Does it happen a lot on the estate you live on?

Mainly outside the court I work from.

lazyarse123 · 15/06/2025 22:21

Petitchat · 14/06/2025 16:34

This is why I don't start threads nowadays.
Some people just take simple comments to ridiculous levels!

And there must be some strange relationships where women never ask or value their husbands opinions.....

Edited

Exactly. Mn is getting worse for this attitude. It's perfectly obvious what op meant.
Apparently you're supposed accept what a bunch of horrible women say but not the man you actually know.
Yes it is horrible that men do it in public and my dh thinks so too, I just asked him.

RowsOfFlowers · 15/06/2025 22:22

Grim

BilderbergPoop · 15/06/2025 22:32

I didn’t think this was grim but if your husband thinks it is then I definitely do.

scorpiogirly · 15/06/2025 22:33

It's vile. I hate it!

OonaStubbs · 15/06/2025 23:18

Why do they do it?

Do they realise how disgusting and vile it is or are just unaware?

BMW6 · 16/06/2025 12:18

OonaStubbs · 15/06/2025 23:18

Why do they do it?

Do they realise how disgusting and vile it is or are just unaware?

Because they can.

They don't give a shit.

Gingerbis · 17/06/2025 07:24

PonyPatter44 · 14/06/2025 17:50

I work in a prison. Lots of the men behave like this, and i challenge it every single time I see it. Its now got to the point where I can walk onto the landing and see men literally whipping their hands out of their pants when they spot me. It is both gross and hilarious. I take it very seriously, though, precisely because they're all going to go back out on the streets one day. Being told quite firmly that it's disrespectful and unacceptable might occasionally make a few of them stop doing it.

What happens if they refuse @PonyPatter44 ?

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