# Circle Jerk!? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 30, 2002, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853 "2002-03-30T01:45:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853/81 "2014-07-22T18:24:15Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > This thread is starting to confirm what I have always suspected but could never prove. Some of my formative years weren’t the typical American Dream like lifestyle. It got a lot more normal after that but somehow I will always miss those days (not the circle jerks at all, just the anarchy and general deviancy). Sounds like it. When I was that age, guys got called fags for wearing a pink shirt. I’m pretty sure that participation in a circle jerk would’ve aroused some suspicion. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853/82 "2014-07-22T18:48:47Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > This thread is starting to confirm what I have always suspected but could never prove. Some of my formative years weren’t the typical American Dream like lifestyle. It got a lot more normal after that but somehow I will always miss those days (not the circle jerks at all, just the anarchy and general deviancy). It wouldn’t make a good episode of the Wonder Years or even Glee but it just goes to show you that experiences can differ wildly from one location to another even within the same general area. Between your claims of 6-hour sex sessions and circle jerks and many other stories you post here, I gotta say you are one massive bullshitter. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853/83 "2014-07-22T19:02:23Z")
Wait’ll he tells you about the shit-eating contests! ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853/84 "2014-07-22T20:34:06Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Between your claims of 6-hour sex sessions and circle jerks and many other stories you post here, I gotta say you are one massive bullshitter. You’re done. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853/85 "2014-07-22T21:15:58Z")
> [@GrandWino](#): > > You’re done. Wha? Oh geez, is that a rules violation? Damn. If so, I chose my words poorly to express my thought, which was that I view his posts with a dubious eye. But I stepped in it.:smack: ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853/86 "2014-07-22T21:27:20Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Wha? Oh geez, is that a rules violation? Damn. If so, I chose my words poorly to express my thought, which was that I view his posts with a dubious eye. But I stepped in it.:smack: I was simply referencing a well-known bullshitter on these boards. But you’ll still probably catch a case… ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853/87 "2014-07-22T21:45:34Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > They may have just taken some serious football coaching advise. Don’t blow your load before a game because you can’t waste the energy (yes, that is real advise that has been given to many high school players even if it is highly questionable). Complete and utter BS. I’ve been involved in competitive sports as a player, coach, and parent and never once has anyone involved in the program in any way shape or form ever given this advise (well there was that one guy on the registered sex offender list). What I do know is that male teen athletes seem to be more homophobic than the norm. There is absolutely no way that 30 guys would sit around with their erect dicks out and stroke one off. And you say you are from Louisiana just a bit off of East Texas… you would have gotten “accidentally shot” when you first mentioned the idea of it to the group… It was a hunting accident… the queer just happened to be in the wrong place, I swear. I think you are confusing “serious football coaching advise” with the movie Something About Mary. Were you on the football team, or are you just telling us what you heard about them? I heard about some amazing orgies with the cheerleaders from our school. Apparently they were quite welcoming to anyone and everyone who was there (maybe even some farm animals) and somehow managed to graduate from good families with honors degrees and lots of extra circular activities… (i.e. it was complete and utter BS just like your claims). ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853/88 "2014-07-22T22:23:58Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Between your claims of 6-hour sex sessions and circle jerks and many other stories you post here, I gotta say you are one massive bullshitter. > [@Ambivalid](#): > > Wha? Oh geez, is that a rules violation? Damn. If so, I chose my words poorly to express my thought, which was that I view his posts with a dubious eye. But I stepped in it.:smack: You’ve been here long enough to well know the rules…reserve names that scathing for the Pit, **Ambivalid**. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853/89 "2014-07-23T03:07:56Z")
> [@GrandWino](#): > > You’re done. Pull up your tactical pants after you finish your circle jerk. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853/90 "2014-07-23T03:43:17Z")
I’m also doubting the circle jerk stories. I remember one of my friend’s birthday parties from early in high school days. Someone smuggled in a Playboy and was passing it around, and I distinctly remember thinking “What am I going to do with this? If I look at it, I’m going to want to jerk off, and I’m not even going to go into the bathroom with everyone in the room assuming that’s what I was going to do.” As the magazine went around the room, you could kind of tell that everyone else was having very similar thoughts. We all did a sort of manly “Hah! I have better porn that that stashed in my back pocket… If I had any porn… Which I don’t.” The idea that we’d all get in a circle and whip it out in front of each other seems about as likely as the idea that a girls’ sleepover might turn into a lingerie-wearing, pillow-fighting lesbian encounter. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2014, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853/91 "2014-07-23T03:45:23Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > … about as likely as the idea that a girls’ sleepover might turn into a lingerie-wearing, pillow-fighting lesbian encounter. Ah, man. Don’t tell me they don’t. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853/92 "2014-07-23T04:20:36Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > **Shagnasty** must live in a parallel universe or something, because seriously? Most guys that age are embarrassed to even change in the locker room. Who the hell jerks off in a group environment? Agreed. I went to a coed prep school but lived in an all-male dorm. The testosterone level was sky-high, and we were all pretty horny, but nothing like that ever, _ever_ happened that I heard about. I do remember _National Lampoon_ had this spoof _Boys’ Life_ cover, though, around that time: [http://www.auctionzealot.com/members/biggestkahuna/129boyslife.jpg](http://www.auctionzealot.com/members/biggestkahuna/129boyslife.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853/93 "2014-07-23T11:25:00Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > The idea that we’d all get in a circle and whip it out in front of each other seems about as likely as the idea that a girls’ sleepover might turn into a lingerie-wearing, pillow-fighting lesbian encounter. So you’re saying it happens constantly, eh? ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853/94 "2014-07-23T11:53:02Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Between your claims of 6-hour sex sessions and circle jerks and many other stories you post here,. . . My favorite is the time he made out with his friend’s girlfriend without her knowing by switching with his friend in a pitch black bedroom. Best to not think too much about the stories. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853/95 "2014-07-23T13:36:42Z")
I’ve lived in Louisiana. I don’t find the story told here to be unbelievable. I probably even have cousins who participated in such things. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853/96 "2014-07-23T15:59:22Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > Like unicorns, Sasquatch, and **women’s orgasms.** ( Bolding mine. ) [Oh, allow me to disavow you of this concept.](http://www.amazon.com/The-Hite-Report-National-Sexuality/dp/1583225692) 😉 I got ahold of it at 13, in 1975. Read it cover to cover. More than once. Some chapters were…quite…heavily read. Sure informed my personal life. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853/97 "2014-07-23T18:07:44Z")
We are THIS far in the thread and NO ONE is gonna point out that the only one with expiernce in this is **Shagnasty**?!? SHAG NASTY It’s perfect! ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853/98 "2014-07-23T18:48:55Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > ( Bolding mine. ) > > [Oh, allow me to disavow you of this concept.](http://www.amazon.com/The-Hite-Report-National-Sexuality/dp/1583225692) 😉 > > I got ahold of it at 13, in 1975. Read it cover to cover. More than once. Some chapters were…quite…heavily read. Sure informed my personal life. Uh, yeah… thanks for the cite. I know they exist. I’ve provided quite a few, thanks. Wuz a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853/99 "2014-07-23T18:53:56Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > Complete and utter BS. I’ve been involved in competitive sports as a player, coach, and parent and never once has anyone involved in the program in any way shape or form ever given this advise… Back off a bit, this is a [well known meme/debate](http://www.neilbaum.net/sex-before-athletic-events---facts-and-myths.html)in the sporting world and has been around for literally over 1900 years: > [@](#): > > An area that is associated with myth and misinformation is the topic of sex before athletic events. Plato wrote in 444B.C. that Olympic competitors before races should avoid sexual intimacy. In 77 AD, Pliny the Elder wrote to the contrary that: “Athletes when sluggish are revitalized by lovemaking.” Thousands of years later the controversy continues. Muhammad Ali was opposed to sexual intimacy and would abstain for weeks before a title bout. However, “Broadway” Joe Namath, the Hall of Fame quarterback from the New York Jets was a proponent of sex, lots of it, before a football game. Both of these athletes were at the top of their games; so what is the truth and what is the advice for our readers who are weekend warriors? And that is just one of thousands of cites I was able to quickly find. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853/100 "2014-07-23T19:00:21Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > [Oh, allow me to disavow you of this concept.](http://www.amazon.com/The-Hite-Report-National-Sexuality/dp/1583225692) 😉 Allow me to disabuse you of the idea that you have used the word “disavow” correctly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circle-jerk/100853.md?page=6)