Years ago, it was mainly in the Mardi Gras season. Somewhere along the line, the “tits for beads” thing got expanded. Good for the gander, good for the goose, I guess. Anyway, women (and men) up on the balconies in the French Quarter would shout down, penis would ensue, beads would follow.
Later, it seemed like it spread into the rest of the year, since my trips to NO were pretty random, and I’d see that just about every trip. Guess it’s one of the touristy things to do for the Big Easy experience, or whatever.
BTW, we observed that stiff ones got more beads, while limp ones often got ridicule. So, we saw guys in a huddle of the crowd (so only those nearby and above could see, to avoid the cops I guess), priming the pump to get beads.
Haven’t been down much since the whole Katrina mess, so it might’ve gone out of fashion… don’t hop on that flight without checking.
Seen 'em, touched 'em, took a couple of 'em for a test drive. Hey, with damn near the entire world at consensus that a sissy guy like me must be gay, and things with females entirely stalled out in limbo when I was late teens, I had no reason not to check it out! But I don’t like male bodies much and emotional involvement with male people who do like male bodies also didn’t seem at all like a good thing for anyone involved.
But I came close. Freshman high school basketball, apparently one guy had an unfortunate experience in the post-game shower. I didn’t see it, but I heard about it later.
My point was that if there’s only one gender involved you don’t have to worry about who you’re grabbing, whereas if it’s mixed and the people playing aren’t very relaxed about it you could end up touching the “wrong” gender and getting a bad reaction as a result.
I don’t think it’s common at all that guys are walking around hard in the locker room (except for that one guy).
Why would you be stripping down to your birthday suit anyway? Showering hasn’t been mandatory after high school gym class in a long time. And besides that, who actually puts that much effort into gym that they’d be all sweaty and gross?
It always amazed me how insistent the teachers were in sex ed that circle jerks and mutual masturbation were common. It just blows my mind because I can’t think of anything that was more uncommon.
