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Just for kicks, here’s youparklikeanasshole.com.
This is actually one of my brother’s obsessive/anxiety things. Not staring, but being scared that he will stare (at men and women alike). Poor guy.
I almost never stare at crotches. The boobies get in the way. 
I’ll admit I’m a crotch watcher not so much on guys though mostly just the ladies.
Except when watching Borat I just couldn’t help myself.
Hehehe, my husband’s company has a guy that does these sorts of studies, but I don’t think he discovered the crotch connection.
I’ll send him the link!
Cheers,
G
The Crotch Connection! Yet another excellent band name. The board is on fire tonight!
And that’s not the only thing on fire! :eek:
You can stop staring at me now. Thanks.
I’ve long suspected that men were a whole lot more interested in men’s penises than women were. Vindication!
Yet men still persist in believing that women check out their packages.
We do, but I think I do it pretty much automatically, in the way one dog has a quick sniff of another’s bum when they first meet. I’m not sure it has anything to do with any sexual interest. YMMV, of course.
But women do check out guys’ packages. I can’t believe that in the picture linked in the OP there was no interest in the guy’s crotch at all from the women - especially as a baseball player, he’s got his crotch stuffed out to there with his [del]codpiece[/del] jock strap.
Yes, the original article also mentioned that men spend time looking at animals’ crotches, too. No joke.
But it was George Brett - he’s not the most handsome of players. I bet if they had used a younger, hotter player the ladies would have been checking the package out. I know I do…
If you look at the old gaze studies by Alfred Iarbus/Yarbus you’ll find plenty of gaze centered on faces, especially eyes, nose, and mouth. Even with full human figures, though, none of the subjects in Yarbus’ studies spent any substantial time looking at crotches.I spent a lot of time going through his studies for a certain thing that I wrote.
So — either things have changed with people, or this study is suspect.
Alfred L. Yarbus Eye Movements and Vision Trans. Basil Haigh Plenum Press, NY 1967
Here’s one illustration from Yarbus’ book. Note the almost complete absence of crotch-gaze:
http://www.diku.dk/~panic/eyegaze/node17.html
(There’s another copy of this on Wikipedia, but it’s not as clear)
For the record, George Brett had a highly publicized hemorrhoid problem.
The men, being baseball fans, knew this, and were obviously scanning his crotch for evidence of the offending blood vessels.
You know, you can get a cream for that. Ask your doctor.