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August 22, 2005
male camel toe
I was out of control this weekend, languidly absorbing all the cold pumped out of my new air conditioner. Took the bastards a week to get it to me though. I had intended to go out to the D.C. Eagle this Saturday, but two pieces of lasagne and two glasses of wine at a friend's house hit me with a one-two punch and I was in bed by 11:30. Sunday brunch with the gurls, some City of Heroes during the heat of mid-day, then off for a bike ride up the C & O Canal Towpath bike trail along the Potomac. It was a good day for butterflies, and I saw a catfish and a bass in the clear, low water.
I love my biking tights, except I feel odd in them, even though I can change clothes and get nekkid in front of my teammates and their gurl/girlfriends after a match or practice, I feel wierd with my sack bulging out in public in bike tights. Does one tuck the scrotum and penis downward, or have them pointing up? Any way you tuck it in bike tights, you get a bad case of male camel toe. Is it OK to go into say, Starbucks, and order a passionfruit tea with my package all out and obvious? It's not that I have an erection or am remarkably huge, it just feels huge when I'm in these tights, and I feel self-conscious in them.
Hmmm...I'm not too pleased with being on Bigmuscle and Bigmusclebears.com lately. Membership on these sites these days seem like a frivolous expense, and I think I'm not going to renew my membership when it comes up. Plus I could use the extra cash. In a lot of cases, it seems like some sort of show and tell but don't touch thing, while on others I am perplexed by profiles that say, "I have a monogamous relationship and am in love with my partner..." and yet he's showing his weiner and puckering rectum for all to see. And in other cases some guys are using their profiles as a sort of blog. I have a blog, and don't need to pay for it (so far) to have one or to read other blog/profile pages. And then there's the whole confusing ettiquette for the 'I Like' favor system. Someone will correspond with you and seem interested in at least chatting with you, and yet not 'I Like' you. I don't get that either. I'm on those sites to hook up, not read someone's journal or learn about his wonderful monogamous relationship. Anyway, the returns from those sites have not justified the expense or time spent on the site, so when my membership dues come up again, I'm outta there. I'll stick with meeting people in person from here on out.
Posted by jimbo at August 22, 2005 10:08 AM
Comments
The "I Like" section on BMB is just another variation on the continuing high school cafeteria scenario that we seem to continually re-create in our lives. As in "this is me and these are my way cool friends, nyah-nyah-nyah, losers!".
The same sorority-pledge behaviorial patterns are responsible for such joys as Friendster, and for certain bloggers listing reciprocal links in hierarchal order.
I think it's very wise to stick with meeting people in person. You can certainly cut through that class-ism bullshit if you don't know all the entire rest of the clique before you meet the person.
Posted by: Mark at August 22, 2005 11:34 AM
In order to properly judge the appropriateness of the bike tights in public, I believe it will be necessary for you to post a picture of yourself wearing them....
Posted by: Jeffrey at August 22, 2005 11:39 AM
BM and BMB are pay sites? I had no idea!
Posted by: stebbins at August 22, 2005 12:22 PM
dammit, you beat me to posting a bm/bmb.com rant.
notice the recent HUGE proliferation of headless profiles? what the fuck?
and what's with all the germans? eww. ;)
Posted by: johnny at August 22, 2005 12:50 PM
biking princess here, i highly highly highly recommend going out and finding a pair of pearl izumi biking shorts - they're like baggy shorts with chamois liner. i have two pair and love them, while i don't have bulge problem i don't like my fat thighs in bike shorts. with these shorts you get the tighty bike thing with publically personable shorts. here's an example: http://www.rei.com/online/store/ProductDisplay?storeId=8000&catalogId=40000008000&productId=47864267&parent_category_rn=4927689&vcat=REI_SEARCH
you can often find them cheaper tho.
Posted by: kiri at August 22, 2005 1:25 PM
People actually meet off of BMB and BM??
wow - who knew???
Posted by: Andy at August 22, 2005 1:47 PM
I think if lactating mothers are allowed to breast feed in Starbucks, you should be able to order a Passionfruit tea with you package out and obvious. You might even want to seek out the Starbucks featuring lactating, breastfeeding mothers . . . it's sure to cause at least some temporary shrinkage.
Posted by: Boo Augustus at August 22, 2005 2:00 PM
Ummmmmm,
Not to be the mother here, but does not the use of appropriate undergarments lessen the impact of the male camel toe? I am talking jock strap here.
Yes, while I do not wear underwear myself, I do not swath my huge ass in lycra. But I would imagine that a jock or other appropriate undergarment (corset?) might preclude the male camel toe look.
Just my thoughts.
Now get you elbows off the table.
Seamus
Posted by: Seamus at August 22, 2005 2:09 PM
Oh Jimbo, you don't get the full benefit of bmb and bigmus UNTIL you put the puckering rectal shots online! Didn't you read the fine print?
Posted by: homer at August 22, 2005 2:33 PM
I have actually met buds to go snowboarding with on BMB and BM. I'm one of those guys that says he's in a relationship and just looking for friends to snowboard, play darts, drink beer, etc. and so far most guys have been good about that. Plus, I have also been able to reconnect with friends on the East Coast who have found my profile.
But I do have a problem with all the headless shots. What's up with that? Don't send me a message or an "I Like..." and then not post a shot of your face. I could care less about dick or ass shots. But I guess that's just me. I didn't realize that people actually hooked up.....
hmmmm, awkward!
Posted by: TonkaManOR at August 22, 2005 2:42 PM
Eh BMB and BM are sites that you have to take at face value. Not everyone on there is looking to only hook up; and some people enter into relationships, but like keeping the option open by keeping their profile. Most of the ones that are looking to hook-up are incredibly vague or creepy, with looks that could haunt a house, and possibly no head.
I think more than anything, people have those crazy profiles for an esteem boost. They want to be complimented on their nice puckering hole. It's a strange validation of who they are, most likely. Regardless of if they have a monogamous whatever.
That said, there is no membership fee, the only membership is a voulentary donation for slightly upgraded privleges.
Posted by: Kevin at August 22, 2005 2:53 PM
Well if you're quitting the see and be seen sites (which remind me vaguley of a less august version of National Gallery), I think you can amply rebalance your exposure by walking into Starbucks with your package front and center. After all to quote Stewie: "Oh that? That's my package. God delivered it, I signed for it."
Meeting people in person definitely cuts down on the psycho/lack of social graces factor.
Posted by: copperred at August 22, 2005 2:59 PM
No way will I wear a jockstrap with padded bike tights. It's sort of a repeat of the same purpose, and waffled cotton fabric (jockstrap) causes chafing. Chamois 4-evah!
I will not post a picture of my puckering hole anywhere.
Headless people are creepy.
I have been paying for the extra benefits, but will lay off of that when the dues request comes up.
And perhaps I'm assuming too much that it is a hook-up site. And my friends tell me there are more efficient hook-up sites online. But from a technical point of view, it's too much work for the percieved results. I think I'll just stick to Friendster and real life and have it at that.
Posted by: jimbo at August 22, 2005 2:59 PM
There's nuttin' wrong with featuring your package publicly. God gave you a scrotum - not a courier bag.
Posted by: sean at August 22, 2005 3:50 PM
you think its bad to see that stuff on bigmuscle? take a look at other sites like manhunt.net! "Just looking for friends, have a boyfriend (he is on here too)".... nice shot of your erect penis there by the way, and thanks for letting me know you are horny all the time....
its almost as bad as all those massage therapists who are adamant about only giving "nonsexual massage". uh huh...whatever mr. SilverSpring....
Posted by: GURL at August 23, 2005 11:20 AM
Jimbo, you have perfectly nice genitals.....so shove em in the bikeshorts and do what you gotta do! Quit thinking like a pilgrim, who knows you might get a date out of it :)
Posted by: GURL at August 23, 2005 11:26 AM
"and waffled cotton fabric (jockstrap) causes chafing"
They're not all waffled cotton anymore. Or. Uh. So I hear.
Posted by: chrisafer at August 23, 2005 11:51 AM
Yea, sometimes BM and BMB can be a bummer. But woof, long hot biker shorts are really cool. WOOOF
Posted by: BT at August 23, 2005 12:52 PM
It's not just bm and bmb - hotornot and all similar sites are the same way. The ones who say they're in a relationship while posting their genitals are either covering in case the bf/partner/husband finds out, or protesting too much.
Posted by: sam at August 23, 2005 2:18 PM
Maybe a loosely tied fanny pack will help hide the toes.
Posted by: schitzo at August 23, 2005 3:27 PM
But then that'll bang on my 'nads when I pedal.
Posted by: jimbo at August 23, 2005 3:34 PM
LOL speaking as someone that has trained for 2 AIDS ride now, go wherever you want in your cycling gear. I've gone for bike rides and gone to restaurants for lunch, went into target once while on a ride.
I think the key is to be with someone else that is similarly dressed it feels less wierd. But after a while you just get used to being dressed like that.
Anyway I bet you look hawt in cycling gear :)
Posted by: Scott at August 23, 2005 3:55 PM
Thats weird, I've had a profile at Bigmuscle for almost a year and haven't paid anything. I thought it was just donations.
Posted by: Mike at August 23, 2005 10:26 PM
I've belonged to BMB for at least 3 or 4 years, and I've never met one person for it. But then, I'm dead inside.
Posted by: Joe.My.God. at August 24, 2005 8:49 AM
There's been lots of discussions of camel toes lately. I'm glad people are finally talking about such a sensitive issue. A lesbian friend of mine asked me what one was the other day. I felt kinda weird having to explain it (especially to a woman). Luckily, I was eating a burrito so I just pinched the end of the tortilla together, told her something like that would show through her panties and then she completely understood (and also told me she was no longer hungry for lunch).
One of the worst male camel toes is when you come out of the ocean all soaking wet and your penis is on display. I don't wear tight bathing suits either. It's just unaviodable when wet. I always have to do the tug thing just so people can't see my bizness.
Posted by: durban at August 24, 2005 10:05 AM