# Butt Crack **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 29, 2002, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-crack/116515 "2002-06-29T02:51:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![benlormat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d26b3c/32.png) [@benlormat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/benlormat)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2002, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-crack/116515/1 "2002-06-29T02:51:26Z")
In my time I have seen way too much of what my father refers to as “Plumbers Crack”. It’s somebody’s ass crack stickin half way out of their pants when they bend over to do something. Maybe I’m blind, but I don’t recall ever seeing this phenomenon occur with females. I assume it’s because their pants are made to fit differently. Has anybody else out their noticed this? ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-crack/116515/2 "2002-06-29T02:58:27Z")
noticed it??!! we are taking bets on when a certain co-workers pants will give up the fight entirely and just let loose. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2002, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-crack/116515/3 "2002-06-29T03:05:11Z")
We have a major problem with this where I work. Ugh. I’ve threatened to start spackling up all the cracks if some people don’t start tucking in their shirts, getting pants that fit, or wearing belts. Either that or these guys need to quit and go get jobs as plumbers. I’ve seen it a few times on women, but usually it’s just their drawers peeking out, no ass crack visible. Although I’ve noticed that a lot of the women I work with wear fairly nice underwear. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Lectricity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9d8465/32.png) [@Lectricity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lectricity)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2002, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-crack/116515/4 "2002-06-29T03:05:34Z")
All I know is that first day of the first year of plumbers school, they have everyone line up facing the wall and bend down and touch the point where the wall meets the floor. The teacher then walks down the line and chooses who will make a good plumber and who needs to find a new trade. I have no idea how the teacher decides, or what it has to do with gender. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2002, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-crack/116515/5 "2002-06-29T03:27:00Z")
See [http://www.salon.com/mwt/style/2002/05/28/booty\_call/index.html](http://www.salon.com/mwt/style/2002/05/28/booty_call/index.html) > [@](#): > > | Just a few years ago, it was considered in bad taste to reveal your butt crack. Getting cheeky was an icky faux pas reserved for plumbers and the odd teenage boy with unresolved pant-to-boxer issues. Now, however, the tender cleft is in your face. Girls in low-slung jeans sit insouciantly on bar stools, “presenting” their rears like primates in heat. The jeans tug downwards, the butt balloons upwards, and at least an inch of crack blooms above the belt loops. Some have tattoos just above the crack, a titillating invitation to stare. Others brandish g-strings, which ride above the waistband – a hint of Monica Lewinsky. ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2002, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-crack/116515/6 "2002-06-29T06:23:07Z")
There are two categories of ass. There is “Fine sweet bootknockin’ ass” and there is “ass of sheer unspeakable horror”… None ever leave neutral impressions. I spent 7 years researching this. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2002, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-crack/116515/7 "2002-06-29T06:59:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cuate \* > \*\* > I spent 7 years researching this. \*\* I spent 10. You’re right. Happy, 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![madcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@madcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madcat)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2002, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-crack/116515/8 "2002-06-29T10:05:25Z")
As some males ‘mature’ they have difficultly acknowledging certain changes in their anatomy. So you get these guys who brag about wearing the same size pants they did in high school while said pants have either migrated up to their armpits(because they no longer have any butt to speak of) or down around their knees(charming ‘plumber’s butt’ effect).