# What do we call a male 'camel toe'? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 6, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105 "2006-12-06T19:17:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105/21 "2006-12-06T20:24:34Z")
Lunch box. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105/22 "2006-12-06T20:28:04Z")
Another for moose knuckle. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105/23 "2006-12-06T21:05:07Z")
Mooseknuckle. Not sure where I heard it first, but it fits. So to speak. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105/24 "2006-12-06T21:08:22Z")
I hereby suggest it be known as [The Labyrinth](http://www.trashfiction.co.uk/bowie_labyrinth_inside2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105/25 "2006-12-06T21:13:40Z")
Package? ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105/26 "2006-12-06T21:18:19Z")
Camale toe ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105/27 "2006-12-06T21:18:39Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] Nooooo. That’s the gender-bender…or the mangina. [/QUOTE] Those are for the view from the front. Fruit basket is specifically reserved for the view from behind. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105/28 "2006-12-06T21:28:17Z")
I don’t disagree, but whether or not it can be seen from a particular angle doesn’t change the act itself. ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105/29 "2006-12-06T21:41:43Z")
Ahhhhh, I see. So you would use the terms _mangina_ and _gender-bender_ to reference the act itself regardless of the viewpoint. I, on the other hand, would only use these terms to describe the physical manifestation of “tucked junk” when that act is coupled with a particular view. It seems that your mental entry for this activity is independent of the observer’s location while mine is crucially tied to the (in)ability of the observer to see the banana and kiwis. English - a wonderfully nuanced language. ---
**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105/30 "2006-12-06T21:43:20Z")
Around these here parts, we call it a mule knuckle. As in, “In the movie _Labyrinth_, the audience gets treated to several minutes of David Bowie’s mule knuckle.” ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105/31 "2006-12-06T21:45:36Z")
[QUOTE=Ol’Gaffer] Ahhhhh, I see. So you would use the terms _mangina_ and _gender-bender_ to reference the act itself regardless of the viewpoint. I, on the other hand, would only use these terms to describe the physical manifestation of “tucked junk” when that act is coupled with a particular view. It seems that your mental entry for this activity is independent of the observer’s location while mine is crucially tied to the (in)ability of the observer to see the banana and kiwis. English - a wonderfully nuanced language. [/QUOTE] Correct. The visibility of the pressed beans and franks have nothing to do with the method of delivery. Englishes be fun. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105/32 "2006-12-06T21:52:41Z")
I like the symmetry - camel-toes and moose knuckles. Sheer poetry. (I didn’t say it was good, non-gross poetry.) **yancy** , my husband gets a similar effect when he wears his Superman costume. He wears an athletic supporter under the costume so as to not frighten small children. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105/33 "2006-12-06T22:13:14Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] I like the symmetry - camel-toes and moose knuckles. Sheer poetry. (I didn’t say it was good, non-gross poetry.) **yancy** , my husband gets a similar effect when he wears his Superman costume. He wears an athletic supporter under the costume so as to not frighten small children. [/QUOTE] And so he doesn’t clothesline/bludgeon them with The Hammer. Give reverence to the junk, woman. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105/34 "2006-12-06T22:18:25Z")
[QUOTE=yanceylebeef] I have called it a [Tron](http://www.tronguy.net/TRONcostume/) . Scroll down, you’ll see why. [/QUOTE] Dear God, that’s disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105/35 "2006-12-06T22:41:04Z")
[QUOTE=McNew] Dear God, that’s disturbing. [/QUOTE] Really it is. It appears that his ass is crying. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105/36 "2006-12-06T22:47:47Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] Really it is. It appears that his ass is crying. [/QUOTE] OK, I have to ask now (re: TronGuy pix): WTF is wrong with his ass in that picture? It looks as if there’s a third butt cheek right in the middle, or as if he took a shit in it, maybe having mistaken it for his Fremen stillsuit costume. It’s the exact opposite of a moose knuckle; while the one is a crevice where no crevice should be, the other is a protuberance where there _should be_ a crevice. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105/37 "2006-12-06T23:18:21Z")
Groinana. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105/38 "2006-12-06T23:39:21Z")
Of course, mooseknuckle is a [BAND NAME!](http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=64529901) Though now I want to change my band’s name to Tron Guy. I was feeling kind of low until I saw that guy’s site. Now I know that no matter how dorky I feel, I’ll never, ever match that. ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105/39 "2006-12-06T23:46:04Z")
You would think that at some point during that incredibly long and painfully detailed process, the thought may have occurred to Tron Guy that perhaps, just perhaps, a costume whose main component is a full length skin-tight body sock is not the best choice for an, ahem, “slightly” overweight middle-aged gentleman with oddly shaped nether regions. I did, however, enjoy how he mentioned towards the end that the judges were not particularly enthusiastic of him returning the following year in the same costume. In fact, it appears as if they were practically begging him to pick something else. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105/40 "2006-12-06T23:53:50Z")
In UK it is a Lunch Box, I beleive after a sports commentator remarked on receiving letters about Lynford Christies ‘physique’ and offered Lunch Box as a non rude joke explanation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-we-call-a-male-camel-toe/383105.md?page=3)