# How do I ask this guy a question---any males here to assist?? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 28, 2014, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321 "2014-12-28T02:56:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321/21 "2014-12-28T06:01:47Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Don’t ask ‘How are you shaved balls?’ “Did you shave your genitals to make them look even better? Because, ring a ding ding!” ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321/22 "2014-12-28T06:59:32Z")
Thank you so much for this awesome thread. There is NO WAY you can bring this up without being awkward and inappropriate. Stop creeping on random guys at the gym and go play on Grindr like a sensible gay man. ---
**Author:** ![rock\_party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@rock\_party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rock_party)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321/23 "2014-12-28T07:07:31Z")
Shave yours and next time you’re in the shower together face him, shake your junk and say, “You inspired me.” Or the old favorite: “May I push your stool in for you” ---
**Author:** ![rock\_party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@rock\_party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rock_party)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321/24 "2014-12-28T07:22:40Z")
Shave yours and next time you’re in the shower together face him, shake your junk and say, “You inspired me.” Or the old favorite: “May I push your stool in for you” ---
**Author:** ![rock\_party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@rock\_party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rock_party)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321/25 "2014-12-28T07:28:50Z")
Shave yours and next time you’re in the shower together face him, shake your junk and say, “You inspired me.” Or the old favorite: “May I push your stool in for you” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321/26 "2014-12-28T07:45:14Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Ask him if he likes Gladiator movies. Well, he’s already seen a grown man naked! 😃 The next question should be, “Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?” ---
**Author:** ![Boogly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Boogly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boogly)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321/27 "2014-12-28T08:55:32Z")
IMHO there is nothing you can do to bring up a shaved pube area with someone you don’t know, especially if you are waiting for some time to pass while awaiting responses from The Dope. If you are gay maybe the best way to find out why to find out why the guy went Kojak style is to befriend the wife/girlfriend. Get in nice with her and ask how/what the difference is. I don’t know why we need the rated PG version, is there an R rated version that would add more info to work with? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321/28 "2014-12-28T09:05:54Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Ask him if he likes Gladiator movies. [Yes](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lSk4AbYU4tY/SBOnRPtacsI/AAAAAAAAASo/sPOKjUYc6sQ/s1600/NLOct72.jpg) that’s [the ticket](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lSk4AbYU4tY/SBOnRvtactI/AAAAAAAAASw/kymtM84QfTo/s1600-h/NLNov72.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321/29 "2014-12-28T10:03:29Z")
Isn’t it obvious? He shaved his balls because he just watched Austin Powers. > [@](#): > > **Doctor Evil:** The details of my life are quite inconsequential … Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15-year-old French prostitute named Chloé with webbed feet. My father would womanize; he would drink; he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament … My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon … luge lessons … In the spring, we’d make meat helmets … When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds — pretty standard, really. At the age of 12, I received my first scribe. At the age of 14, a Zoroastrian named Vilmer ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum — it’s breathtaking … I suggest you try it. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321/30 "2014-12-28T12:38:01Z")
Does it not surprise anybody that the OP hasn’t returned? Gotta love these holiday trolls :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321/31 "2014-12-28T16:13:51Z")
No no no a thousand times no. You never look at another guy’s genitals. That is why the Urinal Code was developed and one never ever stands next to another guy while peeing (exception, horse trough urinals in stadiums). ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321/32 "2014-12-28T17:07:42Z")
While posters like this are very often one-post wonders, I gotta say that as a pediatrician I am surprised by how common it has become for male teens to shave now. And I assume young adults as well. But yes the code is that men do not look, or at least admit to looking and comment on, another man’s genitalia in the locker room. Public pubics are ignored from middle school on. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321/33 "2014-12-28T17:27:54Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > While posters like this are very often one-post wonders, I gotta say that as a pediatrician I am surprised by how common it has become for male teens to shave now. And I assume young adults as well. > … I had a thread in Feb 2013 about [genital shaving among women.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=682593) Apparently, it’s very common. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321/34 "2014-12-28T17:41:55Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I had a thread in Feb 2013 about [genital shaving among women.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=682593) Apparently, it’s very common. Here’s some numbers. That survey has 82% of gay men and 66% of hetero men have removed their pubic hair at least once before. From the few conversations I’ve had about it with my guy friends, that seems about right. It’s pretty common. I’m 39 and my friends are in the same age range -5 to +10 years. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321/35 "2014-12-28T19:08:05Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Thank god for battery operated shavers. That’ll keep the squirrels away from your nuts. Meanwhile, back at the gym… > [@Joey\_P](#): > > Oooh, even better, the OP should ask him if he got a vasectomy. _ick_ Sure. The OP must think he and his wife just Rent that kid. :smack: Or maybe it isn’t a kid. Maybe its really a Dwarf who scouts out local gyms for them for a potential fourth. While the guy and his wife chat with the receptionist, the Dwarf scurries around under the benches of locker rooms that smell like soap-scum, unwashed sweats, and feet… just for peeks to see who has shaved that week. New Years Resolution: find a way to lose weight that Doesn’t involve throwing up. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321/36 "2014-12-28T19:55:23Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > That is why the Urinal Code was developed and one never ever stands next to another guy while peeing (exception, horse trough urinals in stadiums). For training purposes: [The Urinal Game](http://www.gamefudge.com/The-Urinal-Game) ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321/37 "2014-12-28T20:15:46Z")
I’m totally shocked by this post. Floored. The Jacksonville Jaguars are 3-12. They have FANS?? OMG. ETA: I like for the SO to have hair. I prefer a little trimming so it’s shorter, but I was never into men with bald genitals. Ain’t manly, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321/38 "2014-12-28T21:04:39Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > ETA: I like for the SO to have hair. I prefer a little trimming so it’s shorter, but I was never into men with bald genitals. Ain’t manly, IMHO. Hey, you shave 'em like you see 'em. (For all we know, the Jaguars do too.) ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321/39 "2014-12-28T22:11:25Z")
> [@seal\_cleaner](#): > > “Yeah, I am sure if straight guys are honest, they would say that they think other guys are atttractive in the private areas too…” > > No. This. > [@Joey\_P](#): > > TLDR “Dude at the gym shaved his junk, should I ask him why he did it?” > > NO. > > You even stated that he’s married and you’re not interested. If someone at a gym asked me that question I’d report them to management and hope to get them revoked or ask if I can get my subscription terminated because I’d be ridiculously uncomfortable. Catch a glance, whatever, I don’t care, but specifically coming up and commenting on them, that’s strange…asking me if I did it as a joke, that’s fucking insulting. > > The only way asking him why he shaved could possible be acceptable would be if you were gay, you were sure he was gay and you were using it as some kind of ice breaker (ETA and there was some sort of chemistry all ready happening)…which is how I was reading this until you got to the part about you not being interested, his wife and the part where you said that you weren’t going to ask him to shave yours…that’s where it just got creepy. > > So, to reiterate…no, don’t even mention it, in fact, just stop looking. And this. It’s a gym, not a bathhouse. Unless you have the idea that he is gay and interested, it’s not appropriate to be commenting on his private parts. Most people are embarrassed enough in the locker room without engaging in a discussion about the nuances of their genitalia. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321/40 "2014-12-29T02:25:35Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > I prefer a little trimming so it’s shorter, but I was never into men with bald genitals. Just a little advice: When discussing men, never use the words _shorter_ and _genitals_ in the same sentence. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-ask-this-guy-a-question-any-males-here-to-assist/708321.md?page=3)