# A couple of questions for straight guys **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 6, 2009, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658 "2009-02-06T02:30:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658/21 "2009-02-06T04:16:42Z")
A bunch of them. I had two brothers and two stepbrothers. Before I got the stepbrothers, my two best friends and I would score a porno tape, somehow, somehow and watch it when we were in junior high and something had to give. Masturbation was the inevitable result and we didn’t care. I had seen them naked many times before. I also witnessed circle jerks during camping trips/all night bonfires although I refused to participate. I have posted this before and nobody believes it but I will share again. After my high school was obliterated by a massive fire my senior year of high school, everything went to hell and penis contests were quite the rage with judges and everything. Some were shooting for the low side and others for the high side but their were many freak shows taking place to pass the time months before graduation. I am not sure how you would go through becoming an adult without seeing another erect penis anymore than you could go without seeing your mother, sister, or other female relatives naked at some point. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658/22 "2009-02-06T04:21:19Z")
not seen another guy’s erect penis. Nope. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Buttons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@Mr\_Buttons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Buttons)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658/23 "2009-02-06T04:34:29Z")
Seen plenty of peni(ses) in locker rooms, swimming showers/etc… thankfully, none have ever been standing up to salute the flag at any of those times. So mark me down as another nope. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658/24 "2009-02-06T04:34:36Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > A bunch of them. I had two brothers and two stepbrothers. Before I got the stepbrothers, my two best friends and I would score a porno tape, somehow, somehow and watch it when we were in junior high and something had to give. Masturbation was the inevitable result and we didn’t care. I had seen them naked many times before. I also witnessed circle jerks during camping trips/all night bonfires although I refused to participate. > > I have posted this before and nobody believes it but I will share again. After my high school was obliterated by a massive fire my senior year of high school, everything went to hell and penis contests were quite the rage with judges and everything. Some were shooting for the low side and others for the high side but their were many freak shows taking place to pass the time months before graduation. > > I am not sure how you would go through becoming an adult without seeing another erect penis anymore than you could go without seeing your mother, sister, or other female relatives naked at some point. Circle jerks? Penis contests? Let me guess - British boarding school graduate? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658/25 "2009-02-06T04:37:56Z")
Never. Thank God. ---
**Author:** ![Alienhand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Alienhand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alienhand)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658/26 "2009-02-06T04:38:33Z")
Yes, several in fact. The circumstances were pretty much all the same though. We, the group of close friends, were stoned (or otherwise) in our hangout and someone would have their ‘flavor of the week’ with them or just a willing participant was about and would just unzip n whip it out, ya kno, cuz they were horny. According to established protocol, they would go behind the chest freezer, open the lid to block the view and penis would ensue. At the time, it didn’t really seem all that odd…Kids, drugs impair your judgement. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658/27 "2009-02-06T04:54:02Z")
I certainly have. If you spend enough time in Bangkok bars, there’s not much you won’t have seen. I recall this one particularly seedy bar in Patpong II where some guy was doing the girl doggy style across the bar. And I defy anyone to walk into After Skool Bar in Soi Cowboy, especially late at night, and not see someone with his todger out. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658/28 "2009-02-06T04:54:31Z")
> [@not\_alice](#): > > Don’t you have gym where you go to school? > > If you say “home schooled” OK, but then I would say you seem smart enough from your postings here to realize that when you are missing out on a particularly important aspect of socialization in our society (behaving in a locker room, not seeing another erection, not that there is anything wrong with that), then you will find a way to complete your education which comes not just from books but from social interactions as well. > [@Mr\_Buttons](#): > > Seen plenty of peni(ses) in locker rooms, swimming showers/etc… thankfully, none have ever been standing up to salute the flag at any of those times. Seriously. I’ve seen probably hundreds of penises in locker rooms, while changing on the rugby pitch, while doing naked beer slides, etc. Not once have I seen an erect penis in a locker room. **not\_alice** , are you trying to whoosh by stating that seeing somebody else’s erection in a locker room is an important aspect of socialization? Because it looks like 80% of the straight guys in this thread are missing out, too, by your definition. But, to the OP, I’ve probably seen half a dozen erect penises. They were all during group sex. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658/29 "2009-02-06T04:58:18Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Three, I think. > > The guy who introduced me to the concept of masturbation, when he demonstrated. > > The guy I passed that concept along to, when he was learning the rope. heh Dude. No offense but I’m genuinely curious - in what social circles do young guys teach each other about masturbation through demonstration? That wouldn’t have been considered a normal part of growing up by myself or any of my friends (that I know of). I do remember the first time I heard about masturbation - I was about 8 years old and it was at a friend’s house when there were several boys playing video games. He briefly described what the word meant, some child-like snickering followed, and that was that. There was definitely no demonstration. ---
**Author:** ![atomicbadgerrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@atomicbadgerrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atomicbadgerrace)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658/30 "2009-02-06T05:04:26Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > Dude. No offense but I’m genuinely curious - in what social circles do young guys teach each other about masturbation through demonstration? That wouldn’t have been considered a normal part of growing up by myself or any of my friends (that I know of). Huh, really? When I was in middle school, it was common for some of the boys to hang out at one another’s homes after school, before the parents got home, and watch porn/look at dirty mags, and jerk off together. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658/31 "2009-02-06T05:07:15Z")
Twenty seven years of working in prison means I’ve seen more erect penises than Jenna Jameson. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658/32 "2009-02-06T05:13:45Z")
Never. None of my schools before high school had gym showers. High school did, but almost everyone just waited until they went home. It was an all-guys school, and the general impression was that there was no need to shower after gym, because “Who are you trying to impress?”. I have occasionally seen other penes in various contexts (showers at camp, for instance), but never really tried to have a good look, and never noticed any erect ones. ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658/33 "2009-02-06T05:31:55Z")
> [@Mr\_Buttons](#): > > Seen plenty of **peni** (ses) in locker rooms, swimming showers/etc… thankfully, none have ever been standing up to salute the flag at any of those times. If you want to get all Latinate with it, it’s actually **penes** because the word is not penus. Not that I have any problem with people just saying penises. Valete, Vox Imperatoris ETA: **Santo Rugger** , I think he was commenting more on the fact that I’ve not seen an unerect penis in a locker room, either. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658/34 "2009-02-06T05:33:33Z")
I have not. Joe ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658/35 "2009-02-06T05:45:39Z")
> [@atomicbadgerrace](#): > > Huh, really? When I was in middle school, it was common for some of the boys to hang out at one another’s homes after school, before the parents got home, and watch porn/look at dirty mags, and jerk off together. In all my years in school that has never happened. Jerking off together? That’s kinda gay. ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658/36 "2009-02-06T05:51:08Z")
Nope. Come to think of it, the dicks in the locker room in high school are the only ones I’ve seen, and we had PE at the end of the day so showers were fairly rare and I didn’t have to see many. I may have many regrets in life, but not seeing more than one penis my whole life is not among them. ---
**Author:** ![not\_alice](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_alice/32/7283_2.png) [@not\_alice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_alice)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658/37 "2009-02-06T05:56:21Z")
> [@Santo\_Rugger](#): > > **not\_alice** , are you trying to whoosh by stating that seeing somebody else’s erection in a locker room is an important aspect of socialization? Because it looks like 80% of the straight guys in this thread are missing out, too, by your definition. Actually no. I was wondering if we were being whooshed by Vox never having seen anyone naked and I just was wondering how he could have missed all those guys in gym class. It was participating in gym class, including changing and showering that I suggested was part of the socialization process. ETA: I see Vox already clarified that. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658/38 "2009-02-06T06:03:50Z")
> [@not\_alice](#): > > Actually no. > > I was wondering if we were being whooshed by Vox never having seen anyone naked and I just was wondering how he could have missed all those guys in gym class. It was participating in gym class, including changing and showering that I suggested was part of the socialization process. > > ETA: I see Vox already clarified that. I am gay and was homeschooled. I’m glad I missed that particular socialization. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658/39 "2009-02-06T06:05:31Z")
I’m female, but we never showered in gym class. We changed clothes, but showering wasn’t a part of the process. There wouldn’t have been much time for it anyway, I don’t think. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658/40 "2009-02-06T06:05:34Z")
The showering after gym class is not something I think a lot of teenage guys enjoy or feel is an important part of socialization. I remember it as something to be endured and gotten through as quickly as possible. There was always the one guy that was hung like John Holmes, though. That guy was happy to stay in the shower all day. That was the guy who created life-long self-esteem problems for everybody else. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-for-straight-guys/484658.md?page=3)