quote: Although both men and women look at the image of George Brett when directed to find out information about his sport and position, men tend to focus on private anatomy as well as the face. For the women, the face is the only place they viewed.
Coyne adds that this difference doesn’t just occur with images of people. Men tend to fixate more on areas of private anatomy on animals as well, as evidenced when users were directed to browse the American Kennel Club site.
The whole study's kind of interesting, but, you know, naughty bits intrigue me.
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"Dude, you know TL?" "Yeah." "I think he watches our crotches." "What?" "I think he watches our crotches. He gets this look in his eye." "What kind of look?" "What?"
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"What kind of look?" "What?" "What kind of lo -- hey. What were you just doing?" "Nothing, sorry, got distracted." "Distracted by my crotch?" "What? No. Come on, man." "You were just staring at my crotch." "No I wasn't. Come on." "Dude, I just saw you. Your eyes were bolted to my -- hey. Up here. I'm up here." "I'm sorry." "What's the deal?" "It's infectious."
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quote:Originally posted by TL: "What kind of look?" "What?" "What kind of lo -- hey. What were you just doing?" "Nothing, sorry, got distracted." "Distracted by my crotch?" "What? No. Come on, man." "You were just staring at my crotch." "No I wasn't. Come on." "Dude, I just saw you. Your eyes were bolted to my -- hey. Up here. I'm up here." "I'm sorry." "What's the deal?" "It's infectious."
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I'm sorry, I haven't read a word you've typed. I was too transfixed with the crotches present. Posts: 1960 | Registered: May 2005
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Jakob Nielsen, the guy who did the study, is a pretty solid researcher.
In this case, he used a device that tracked people's eye and pupil movements, then plotted what people were paying attention to. Don't ask me how it works, though. I've been too distracted by crotches to do well in my Usability Design classes. Posts: 353 | Registered: Sep 2003
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Maybe a self-defense thing? If you know where the person's crotch is, you know where to kick in self-defense? That's the best non-sexual thing that I could come up with.
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Uhh, it's just not me. Checking out crotch bulge is really honestly not part of my visual summarization of people I'm looking at.
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quote:Originally posted by TL: This is all going to get out of control unless someone stops us or we stop oursleves.
A very appropriate comment in a thread about crotches. How often is that said and a crotch isn't involved?
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I'm going to try to avoid this in the future. I'll focus on watching my own crotch instead. I know I don't mind.
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Ooh, that's a good diversion tactic MC. Can I use it too?
quote:Originally posted by Joldo: . . .
I'm trying to find a non-sexual reason for men to focus on the crotch first, but I can't.
Could it be something along the lines of instinctually trying to determine the gender of another species? The study said it happens with animals too, so maybe way back in the fire and wheel days you had to know whether an animal was male of female to know whether you should be afraid of it, so we are genetically predisposed to looking at crotches? I dunno, probably way way off, but my best guess anyways.
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I dunno, maybe determining if it's worth fighting? If it's a mother mammal and will fight to protect young or if it's a male and is hunting for food? Well, that example doesn't apply across the board, but could be a reason why a human male would need to know the gender of a potential aggressor.
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I think a psychological explanation fits the bill better. Men are taught that the crotch/genitalia is important, the measure of a man, and it's a method of identifying "masculinity," perhaps.
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quote:Originally posted by vonk: Ooh, that's a good diversion tactic MC. Can I use it too?
So . . . you're going to distract yourself by watching MightyCow's crotch?
That's the plan!
Also, I've recently learned, thanks to several Hatrackers, that everyone everywhere is always looking at crotch. Namely David Bowie's.
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