Spam question: Are men THAT obscessed???

[roadie gal]

I was just frustrated and caffeine deprived when I sent that note out this morning...

Most of the men I've known weren't particularly obscessed with size. Or, as Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes so aptly put it, "It ain't the meat, it's the motion..."


With the number of emails I get, though, you'd think there was an epidemic of micropenis and that was all men (and women) thought about.

[Mr. Bloom]

I was just frustrated and caffeine deprived when I sent that note out this morning...

Most of the men I've known weren't particularly obscessed with size. Or, as Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes so aptly put it, "It ain't the meat, it's the motion..."


With the number of emails I get, though, you'd think there was an epidemic of micropenis and that was all men (and women) thought about.

Caffeine deprivation is a terrible thing, ain't it?

It's amazing what Outlook "Rules" can do to clean up the Inbox... Using "Rules", I don't get a single Viagra or Enlargement spam message (and I'm glad...I thought someone was trying to tell me something )

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Well said, Flybye.

[Velobambina]

Kind of a tangent but on a local news show a few months ago, the DC-area AIDs/HIV rate was being discussed. The "experts" on the show mentioned that there has been a rise in AIDs/HIV rates among local folks 60 and older. The reason---Viagra and similar medications---according to the "experts."

I've never found perfection particularly interesting, especially when it requires changing your appearance to fit someone else's version of "beauty." I agree w/Flybye, as well. Sounds trite but it's so true that beauty comes from the inside. How you treat other people is what matters.

[sgtiger]

I agree with Mr. Silver that men are not as obsessed as those ads would have you believe. It's just a form of marketing and as with any marketing these companies are trying to create a need: in this case, by exploiting the insecurities of some. I still remember all those douche commercials from my childhood about that "not so fresh feeling." In jr. high, I made the mistake of using one of them. Yeow! Not good. The cleansing agent gave me a very unpleasant tingly/burning sensation and the perfumes gave me a rash. Never again.

[IFjane]

What is weird about this whole thing is that I get tons of those emails through the filter at my office (a public school network), but very few in my personal email (gmail).

And I have to agree with Zen, I have never received one suggesting I enlarge my breasts - good thing, since I would have to decline and offer to donate to some underdeveloped country.....I mean....individual.

[Zen]

Kind of a tangent but on a local news show a few months ago, the DC-area AIDs/HIV rate was being discussed. The "experts" on the show mentioned that there has been a rise in AIDs/HIV rates among local folks 60 and older. The reason---Viagra and similar medications---according to the "experts."

That may have something to do with it but did I think there's more. That demographic includes those who came of age during the 60's along with the BCP and sex without so much risk. The worst that could happen back then had a cure. Now those people are losing spouses to death and divorce and are back into a dating population of sorts. It's sort of an "it can't happen to me, I'm an old man/woman" sort of thing.

[Trek420]

That may have something to do with it but did I think there's more. That demographic includes those who came of age during the 60's along with the BCP and sex without so much risk. The worst that could happen back then had a cure. Now those people are losing spouses to death and divorce and are back into a dating population of sorts. It's sort of an "it can't happen to me, I'm an old man/woman" sort of thing.

Riiiiight, "it's a Gay disease, it can't happen to me."

Nope, it's a virus, it doesn't care who you are.

Now back to original subject, I was going to make a crack about Humvee drivers over compensating.

[Mr. Bloom]

I was going to make a crack about Humvee drivers over compensating.

Now, that's a theory with merit...