RedditorTWDTourist69 wanted all the ladies to fess up with their burning questions.
"Women of Reddit, what question about men do you wish to be answered?"
I've always wondered what the ladies want to know.
Stay Standing
Schitts Creek Pain GIF by CBCGiphy"How often do you guys accidentally sit on your testicles? I can't help but think it'd be happening to me all the time if I had them."
sophia1185
"Depending on the size of your testicles/thighs, but I personally never sit on them. I guess they're just not loose enough to get underneath my legs, which I'm very glad about."
Poekemoes
Anatomy
"How do you pee if you have an erection? Or is that not an option? Is it painful?"
GuavaMelon
"It's h*rd (pun not intended)! Depends how erect the penis is. Full mast = almost impossible, without rotating 90 degrees. Bound to make a mess. Flow is very low and it'll take forever to finish. Half-Mast: Doable, not as comfortable as normal, but generally fine."
Powercutters
Sit Here
"Do you guys actually like when a girl sits on your lap?"
OkCheesecake2811
"Easy yes as long as she is light enough to not cause legs to cramp. If not, still yes but she needs to be aware that we will NEVER say anything and instead suffer in silence but she should either shift around a bit to allow us to adjust or just do a quick tease then change positions."
Dakkon_B
Hold Me
"How normal is it for you to hug your best friends?"
a_living_being_
"If we haven't seen each other for a while, sure. most of the time it's more like a pat on the back coupled with a handshake, if that counts."
astroduck-maurice
"Bro hug. Time of embrace is dependent on three (3) factors..."
"a) Strength of bond (Super Bro / Bro)..."
"b) Length of time between seeing each other..."
"c) Comfortability of other friend to accept said warm embrace..."
"If it's been a few weeks since I've seen my super secure super bro he's getting a solid 3 seconds."
popalock85
Hold Me
love sexy GIFGiphy"Do you think about our boobs while hugging us?"
Separate-Piano-3033
"Not all the time, if we're interested in you then yes."
lilredx
Can we just hold one another? Make it easy.
Fried
"Do men actually like thighs?"
kikuu12
"There is entire TV series and books devoted SOLELY to thighs. Heck there is a RELIGION devoted to thighs. Yes, Yes we do."
Dakkon_B
Wet Parts
"Do your family jewels ever sweat like our boobs do?"
gay_idiot53
Absolutely. In fact, that is mostly the reason you will see us 'adjust' so much or spread our legs. That crap will glue themselves to your thigh and nothing short of manual adjustment will remove them."
Dakkon_B
"God yes. Testicle hygiene is extremely important. Don't put up with a guy who doesn't regularly wash them."
noughtagroos
Control
"Do you find the narrative of men not being able to control themselves when it comes to sex annoying and/or offensive?"
coolname-
"You can definitely control it, don’t let any man say otherwise. It’s disappointing rather than annoying or offensive because bad men have used it as an excuse so much that there are people who believe it."
AwesomeWaiter
"Hate it when I’m movies there is this scene where she kisses him and he accepts, but has a partner and says he’s a man he couldn’t control himself. Totally bs yes you’re horny but that’s only a slight inconvenience."
DescriptionMain3214
Take This
"I often want to get my hubby a 'small appreciation something' that would be the equivalent to flowers, chocolate, etc for us. What is a similar-intended gift that would make you smile?"
NotoriousM0N
"Initiate some token of affection. Women vastly underestimate the impact of something as simple as a hand on the back, or a 10 second shoulder massage. We don't need things - We can buy our own sh*t. We can't buy genuine affection, appreciation, or the feeling of being needed or depended on."
Necro138
The Great Divide
Art Peeing GIF by badblueprintsGiphy"When using a urinal - do you want a small divider panel or is it pointless?"
"Men I've polled give mixed responses."
"Signed - Female architect."
MzFrazzle
"Men who don't care about a divider, won't care that is there. Men who prefer to have it, would curse at the architect or the builder for cheapening out on a sad sheet of metal that does a lot of peace of mind."
bad_mech
Stamina
"Why is it that sometimes you can go for one round, but then other times you can go four rounds back to back?"
ikarleighh
"Sex drive and stamina, can vary day to day.:
lilredx
"Like everything in life, why can you eat alot and sometimes barely finish your plate, why can you go intense in the gym and sometimes barely be able to finish your reps, etc."
speckhuggarn
Self Care
"What do you guys do for self care. Like if you just need some time to yourself, or if you treat yourself to something special."
pamela9792
"Not enough, it's the reason male mental health is in such crisis."
"We do have hobbies like gaming/sports/projects but I find those more to be escapism than actual self care to address our feelings/needs and reflect on them."
davetherooster
Rosetta Stone
"I just want to understand what that secret, unspoken language you all have with each other is."
"It sometimes seems to me that just a single look or a nod at a guy you've never said a word to, is years of conversations?"
ally-sha
"The up nod is for the homies, the down nod is for fellow men. Eyes go wide and stare straight at you means 'wtf is happening?' but eyes go wide then dart in a different direction means “'ollow my eye point to see a grade-A booty'”.
tgrote555
Temp Control
"How are you never cold?? My guy friends/male relatives are always lounging around with their shirts off. I’d be freezing my a** off if I did that."
Geodudette2014
"(Some scientific explanation from the web) Partly this is because, for a given bodyweight, women tend to have less muscle tissue to generate heat."
"But the hormone oestrogen also has a big impact because it has the side effect of thickening the blood slightly. This reduces blood flow to the tiny capillaries supplying the extremities."
"A 1998 study at the University of Utah found that this can mean women have hands, feet and ears that are 3°C colder than a man’s."
"(Personal experience) Often we just don't care about being cold or we act like we're not freezing to portray ourselves as 'strong' or 'manly.'"
Noschu1302
Token of affection
"Do you feel emasculated when a woman performs a typically male-assigned gender role? (ie. buys you flowers, opens the door for you, proposes to you)"
still_on_a_whisper
"Dude, if my SO would buy me flowers, I would be over the moon. That’s deeply romantic to me."
Ok-Lobster-Username
"My partner makes more than I do and supports us financially. While I still have a 9-5, I do almost all of the child raising stuff such as cooking meals, bedtime, etc. The roles are reversed in our case. I love it. I absolutely adore having a strong, powerful woman in my life. But it takes a secure and confident man to be able to do that. You gotta fully let go of societal expectations."
First Move
"Is it actually attractive for a woman to make the first move? I've been called weird or trying too hard because I try to initiate a conversation."
Suspicious_Opinions
"It’s usually really awkward for a guy to think of how to start a conversation with a girl. If you like a guy and he’s been wondering if you like him, then yeah it’s a pretty attractive trait that most guys like."
adsxz6_has_adhd
Men are weird. What did you learn ladies?
Any questions you'd like to add to the list? Let us know in the comments below.
First things first... watch "Fatal Attraction." And do everything the opposite of Glenn Close; then grow from there. Learn the difference between flirting and crazy.
Ok Crazy
wo glenn close GIFGiphy"Broke into my building."
"Ayo hold up that's creepy don't you thing what If he was some obsessive lover and tried to kill you if you rejected him."
Dear Mama...
"Texted my mom saying I broke his heart."
- 221034kb
"Some guy did that to my mom too! Told her he had traveled across the country to forget about me and just needed her advice to help him get over it. He had been talking about going on that trip for way longer than that so that was almost certainty an exaggeration. Also I'd been dating someone else for over a year at that point. I'm sure it sounded very romantic in his head."
"Amazon Woman"
"I met a guy through Tinder, he lived about an hour from me, he got upset with me and blocked me on Snapchat after I had told him I found someone I was interested in dating who lived closer. Fast forward about a year or so later and I get a text from a number I didn't recognize. Turns out it's this guy again (we had exchanged numbers previously), the guy I was dating didn't work out so I decided to chat with this guy a little more. He joked about visiting me a bit but I never gave him my address."
"Fast forward a couple months of chatting and I'm off work to study for an exam and I get a knock on my door. And what do you know, this dude FOUND MY APARTMENT in a city he was not from AND he brought his lizard, not in a cage or with a leash or anything. Just hidden in his shirt when he walked into my apartment."
"We just sorta awkwardly talked for a couple hours, when he left he texted me and told me how pretty he thought I was and called me an "Amazon Woman" cause I'm so tall. I responded with "I didn't like that you randomly showed up at my apartment without asking" and then he got upset, said some more ridiculous things and I blocked his number."
- ZaymeJ
basic knowledge...
"Some guys lack basic knowledge. Walking home from the bus stop one night - about a 2km walk to my place. As I'm walking along, I see there's a guy slowly walking slight quite a ways behind me - maybe about 600m. Suddenly he starts sprinting toward me, I think it's to catch another bus or something, but no, it's just private cars on this road."
"I try speeding up but I'm tired and frankly unsure of what's happening. By the time he catches up to me, he's like 'sorry, I didn't mean to scare you.. I say, "you really need to be careful about interacting with women in the street at such an odd hour of the night."
"He says something like, 'I know, I just wanted to talk to you.' He didn't give off too much of a threatening vibe so I kept walking and he made conversation. Thank God his house was before mine, so he couldn't figure out where I lived. Took my number, texted me immediately to see if I received his number, and then thankfully I didn't have to see him again."
People Share Which Social Norms Absolutely Baffle Them | George Takei’s Oh Myyy
Scared
"Carving my name into his leg and we didn't even date or anything of the sort."
Boys, boys, boys, it's like you've never met another living human. I mean, my words are gone. I don't want to know more, but I must. So let's...
Fists
Seth Meyers Lol GIF by Late Night with Seth MeyersGiphy"Well he offered to beat the crap out of my ex on our first ever meet. There wasn't a second meeting."
- Pohtate
the good guy
"Endlessly trying to convince me (oh, so romantic) why he was «a good guy», he wasn't.The thing is it became a huge red flag. See, I was the dumb one for not recognizing a good guy when he stood in front of me. I was to blame that he was so intense and so into me. It was my doing. His words. Oh, and then I was a c**t for not wanting to be with him. Red flags, from here to eternity. Yeah, a good guy. Sure."
Where to Begin?
"So many stories to choose from ha. A guy I thought I was friends with confronted me that he wants to be more, even though right at the start of our friendship I made it clear I had zero interest in him. Quite frankly I found him really unattractive. He proceeded to guilt me saying I'm shallow, disappointing blahblahblah."
US
"Said that God has a plan and that plan involves 'us'. They refused to take no for an answer and they always kept touching me even when I told them to stop, as I hate being touched due to Autism. They kept asking around for stuff about me, and said his prayers would be "rewarded."
"Couldn't seem to comprehend that I wasn't interested or that I didn't care for things that "all women love." Kept telling me how to dress and act too, saying things like "It's not what God intended. Fun fact: I'm Atheist. You can imagine they weren't too fond of that idea..."
You Don't Own Me
Good Bye Reaction GIF by MASTERPIECE | PBSGiphy"Tried to scare off or even fight any other guy that was interested in me, even though we weren't dating."
Ok, ladies, I'm sorry. That's all I got. Men, what in the name of God?! Please pay attention to this thread. It will help us all.
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