Poll: Comparing penises in the shower.

[ReservoirAngel]

They did, I was friends with a lot of them. It was funny seeing them all admit to being bisexuals around the time we started college. I don't think they did it originally though because they were attracted to males, I think it went from "hah, this is funny seeing you uncomfortable" to "huh, this is funny, I feel uncomfortable".

I had a friend like that. He used to "pretend" to hump guys against a wall because "it weirded them out". Let's just say, nobody was surprised when he was found snogging some dude one day, and nobody's really mentioned shit about it since. It was painfully obvious from the start anyway.

Glad to hear at least your PE teachers were as bad as mine, mine made jokes about homosexuality. I'm not gay myself, but I imagine it would've been difficult for anyone to tell people that they are gay with the (probably) homophobic PE teachers and impressionable school kids.

This is the main reason I tried (note that word, TRIED) to keep my sexuality secret when it did come out. Aside from the whole "tricked then beaten into unconsciousness" thing from my 'classmates' (aka pricks who hated me for being a gay nerd) there was also the P.E teacher from then on using EVERY (and I do mean every) euphemism for homosexual under the sun to refer to me as. After the school learnt which way I swung, he never called me by name again.

Basically, P.E teachers are just roided up balls of hatred and unresolved issues that they then take out on their innocent students. He made my life hell for about 3 years because I liked other guys. Luckily soon after I left, he got fired. The crime? Punching a Year 8 student in the face.

I hated him.

 

[PhiMed]

Well, there was a fair bit of discussion rather than any real comparison, but yeah, I can't remember even one shower experience with guys my age, where there wasn't an exclamation about someones gentleman sausage....

I've gone on record as saying we didn't do this, but now that I think of it, there were quite a few times when a particular person walking into the shower would result in "God damn, Tito! Does your little bitty-ass girlfriend let you near her with that thing?"

Not the classiest of situations, but a bunch of dudes standing around naked and soaped up isn't exactly classy, either. And also, it was extenuating circumstances. He was big as in, "if he was an X-Man that would be his superpower mutation" big.

 

[iLikeHippos]

"Also, male kids LOVES to smack each other on the balls with either their fingers or wet towels.
Oh, it's a fact all right. Mmmmmhmmmm. Happens every day by every kid, and it's PERFECTLY NORMAL!"

Basically what I thought would follow up after that paragraph, OP.

 

[Tangouser]

I only have one rule: Keep your head raised in a public shower.

 

[Eisenfaust]

never happened to me, everyone covered themselves up...

on the other hand, whenever it was referred to, i never assumed it'd be "standing in a circle comparing" as the op puts it, as opposed to someone mentally comparing themselves to comeone else they happen to see...

or, alternatively, "hey, everybody look at jimmy! he's got such a tiny cock! HAR HAR HAR" or whatever... never anything so formal

 

[ReservoirAngel]

"Also, male kids LOVES to smack each other on the balls with either their fingers or wet towels.
Oh, it's a fact all right. Mmmmmhmmmm. Happens every day by every kid, and it's PERFECTLY NORMAL!"

Basically what I thought would follow up after that paragraph, OP.

My interpretation was that that scene would devolve into "can I touch yours dude?" and from there, if you've seen any porno in your fucking life, you know where that would have ended up.

 

[nohorsetown]

In my high school experience, the only kids who ever got nekkid for showers / took showers regularly (the rest of us only showered after swimming, and with shorts on) were these two badass South American dudes who absolutely kicked everyone's ass at every sport imaginable. They might have compared wangs; I dunno, because I wasn't staring at naked dudes. "Not that there's anything wrong with that. Some of my best friends are naked dudes."

But yeah, wang-checkin' certainly wasn't prevalent. If my teacher was waxin' poetic about it, I might be a little suspicious of his intentions. "Not that there's anything wrong with that. Some of my best friends have intentions."

 

[Jonluw]

I had a friend like that. He used to "pretend" to hump guys against a wall because "it weirded them out".

Oh, god. That's just like middle school. There was this whole... may I call it "humping-culture" among some of the boys in class.
Practically every recess they were going at it, humping each other, moaning. It's completely astonishing how these guys were not looked down upon.

 

[KeyMaster45]

Who the hell has showers after P.E?

I was always told this would happen yeah, but there never was any showers in any of our schools, we just carried on with our day.

I think its an American thing.

I assure you it's not. My entire time in school we never once used the showers. Yes every school I went to had showers in the locker rooms but they hadn't been used in years and had been converted into make shift storage areas. I think the idea of showering in the locker rooms (at least here in the states) is a hold over movie/tv trope that got its roots from a time when they did shower off after PE class. (you know when they were actually doing something physically strenuous, not just sitting in the bleachers for an hour while the football team practiced)

What about the south?

Nope, I grew up in the south and we do not take part in that.

 

[iLikeHippos]

"Also, male kids LOVES to smack each other on the balls with either their fingers or wet towels.
Oh, it's a fact all right. Mmmmmhmmmm. Happens every day by every kid, and it's PERFECTLY NORMAL!"

Basically what I thought would follow up after that paragraph, OP.

My interpretation was that that scene would devolve into "can I touch yours dude?" and from there, if you've seen any porno in your fucking life, you know where that would have ended up.

[Insert any sort of pun and/or phrase on getting an erect penis, such as "Let's get that crane moving", or "That whistle needs polishing..."]

Than the Bow-Chicka Wow-Wooaahh music starts to play.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

I had a friend like that. He used to "pretend" to hump guys against a wall because "it weirded them out".

Oh, god. That's just like middle school. There were this whole... may I call it "humping-culture" among some of the boys in class.
Practically every recess they were going at it, humping each other, moaning. It's completely astonishing how these guys were not looked down upon.

This guy was in secondary school. He did it the ENTIRE 5 years he was there. Secondary school ENDS when you're about 16. How he thought humping other 16 year old men was in some way "just fun to mess with them" is fucking beyond me. Also beyond me is how he never got his arse royally handed to him on a platter accompanied by a note reading "fuck you".

Essentially, this guy, despite only being bisexual "because its conveniant" was the gayest person at our school. And this is a school that I went to! Me! The guy who dressed in skinny jeans, waistcoats and scarves whenever possible!

We're still waiting for him to just admit he doesn't like boobs at this point, we really are.

 

[hoof ardet]

This isn't just an American thing, I was stationed in Korea for a while and played sports with some local college students where this came up. At the end of it all we hit the dorm shower and sure enough, everyone started looking at my junk. Like... it wasn't a gay thing or over the top... and I'm sure part of this was because I was foreign... but yeah it happens EVERYWHERE.

 

[jamesworkshop]

Who the hell has showers after P.E?

I was always told this would happen yeah, but there never was any showers in any of our schools, we just carried on with our day.

My thoughts exactly. The only time i heard of guys showering was when they were filthy from football practice.

The only time another guy has wanted to compare penises with me was my gay friend. He wants me so he thought showing me his would prompt some sort of gay "Penis off". All i thought was "Yep. Thats a penis" lol.

Sounds a bit like that.

As for the topic I can't say I have ever heard of this phenomena as being described literally but I have heard it figuratively expressed

 

[Jonluw]

I had a friend like that. He used to "pretend" to hump guys against a wall because "it weirded them out".

Oh, god. That's just like middle school. There were this whole... may I call it "humping-culture" among some of the boys in class.
Practically every recess they were going at it, humping each other, moaning. It's completely astonishing how these guys were not looked down upon.

This guy was in secondary school. He did it the ENTIRE 5 years he was there. Secondary school ENDS when you're about 16. How he thought humping other 16 year old men was in some way "just fun to mess with them" is fucking beyond me. Also beyond me is how he never got his arse royally handed to him on a platter accompanied by a note reading "fuck you".

Essentially, this guy, despite only being bisexual "because its conveniant" was the gayest person at our school. And this is a school that I went to! Me! The guy who dressed in skinny jeans, waistcoats and scarves whenever possible!

We're still waiting for him to just admit he doesn't like boobs at this point, we really are.

Discussing stuff like this across school systems is hard. When I say "middle school", I refer to what we call "Ungdomsskolen" which starts the year you turn 13 and ends the year you turn 16.

Also: It would appear that I, despite not really being interested in making out with dudes, have certain gay personality traits. Praticularly when it comes to clothes. For example, I think waistcoats are bloody fabulous. It's a pity I'm absolutely horrible at composing outfits and such.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

I had a friend like that. He used to "pretend" to hump guys against a wall because "it weirded them out".

Oh, god. That's just like middle school. There were this whole... may I call it "humping-culture" among some of the boys in class.
Practically every recess they were going at it, humping each other, moaning. It's completely astonishing how these guys were not looked down upon.

This guy was in secondary school. He did it the ENTIRE 5 years he was there. Secondary school ENDS when you're about 16. How he thought humping other 16 year old men was in some way "just fun to mess with them" is fucking beyond me. Also beyond me is how he never got his arse royally handed to him on a platter accompanied by a note reading "fuck you".

Essentially, this guy, despite only being bisexual "because its conveniant" was the gayest person at our school. And this is a school that I went to! Me! The guy who dressed in skinny jeans, waistcoats and scarves whenever possible!

We're still waiting for him to just admit he doesn't like boobs at this point, we really are.

Discussing stuff like this across school systems is hard. When I say "middle school", I refer to what we call "Ungdomsskolen" which starts the year you turn 13 and ends the year you turn 16.

Yeah I'm getting confused. 'Secondary school' here starts in Year 7 when you're 11 and ends in Year 11 when you're 16. And it's 5 years of HELL! *dramatic music*

Seriously, it's a pretty uniform opinion that Years 7-11 of British education are Hell on Earth due to douchebags being assholes to you. And if you don't think that then you were one of the douchebags.

 

[Ledan]

Nope.
In middle school everyone changed out of sight even. Never saw anyone completely naked.
In my boarding school, nope.
Except for the one time that we went marching in the mountains. The unspoken rule was: don't talk about it and don't stare at each other. We were in a bastu and the only showers in the place were communal. Oh, and the bastu place was co-ed, so us guys had to pretend that we weren't seeing the girls half-naked. Really akward, but everyone acted as if we were all fully clothed.