I do find it quite strange that the greatest sporting event in the world has turned into a strip show in the minds of the American public. First there is the non-stop prime time airing of women in the teeny tiniest bikinis ever made (to the point they constantly have to pick the things out their butts) and now everyone on the web is getting hot flashes over a bronze medal rower (in the four, a less important event) who apparently had some wood if you look at his manhood in just the right way. Did any of you people going crazy over Henrik Rummel’s non-erection even watch the women’s 8 crush the field in perhaps the most dominant rowing performance in history (they have won every major race going back before the LAST Olympics)?
I suppose I should be glad that we have at least somewhat equal sexual exploitation going on, but really…
I’ve never played beach volleyball but I was a serious rower (and swimmer for that matter). Unlike in volleyball, the outfits worn in swimming and rowing are all about speed and comfort, not sex appeal. So no one was asking Mr. Rummel to wear those trow to show off his prick. Every rower in the world wears that uni.
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Anyone who thinks a guy who just raced an Olympic final was really thinking about some steamy porno scene in his mind’s eye needs to be checked into a mental hospital.
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Let’s give the penis a commercial moment. Have you ever had your heart rate maxed out for 6 minutes? I am talking 200 beats per minute, to the point that the most natural thing is to vomit. Then put your ass in this little seat where there’s all kinds of unnatural chaffing. Weird shit happens to your dong. The blood flow can get cut off, it can increase. Your member can end up sideways or backwards. When you stand up you really don’t know what the heck is going to happen or where your manhood is. If you can manage to stand after an all-out race you are damn thankful.
Anyone who thinks a guy who just raced an Olympic final was really thinking about some steamy porno scene in his mind’s eye needs to be checked into a mental hospital. Sure you can see the guy’s dick. Yeah it’s kinda pointed up and probably has a litte extra blood in the Johnson. But give the guy some Gatorade and leave him the heck alone.
About Tom Matlack
First, it doesn’t seem to me (a self-appointed penis expert?!) that the guy has wood. It looks like his business got all disrupted and is somehow all jammed upward.
Those shorts are CRAZY though. It’s not like I don’t know a LOT about every single one of those guys right now.
Agreed. They might as well be wearing body paint. As a “card-holder” of a dong, I can state it does weird things alot and can get jammed up during sporting activities.
Definitely not sporting full wood there. Looks like its probably a little engorged as Tom says because of the intense physical activity and rapid blood flow. Also, he is probably DYING to adjust that thing but does not want to get caught on TV fixing his junk.
It’s funny though how so much of the talk about the olympics centers on sex. From the early reports of some 150k condoms being distributed in the Olympic village, to the obvious sexual energy on display by these very young, very fit and gorgeous people participating in the crowning achievement of their lives, to the focus on beach volleyball/swimming attire, the whole world is abuzz over the sex on display in London.
And its all good.
Just need a technical definition on “full wood” please…
In the context of Sport and Lycra “Full Wood” is defined as “Tenting”!
There is no evidence of tenting, hence either semi wood, else he’s better off than most! P^)
I heard about the olympics supplying thousands of condoms to the athletes and actually having to supply more because they ran out.
I thought these people were supposed to be training and focused on their sport and going for gold…not going for pink, if you catch my drift.
It is just nice for once to see some manhood instead of barely covered female crotches and bottoms at the Olympics. If the male gymnasts wore tiny briefs like the women do I’d watch the Olympics. By the way, runner up is the man on the far right of the photo.
Male divers wear the skimpiest attire of all the olympics, so stop your whining.
Yeah, male divers are covered only slightly more than a woman on a beach in Brazil.
I have a good photo of it here.
Humans are horny. We like bodies, especially fit ones. That’s life.
http://goodmenproject.com/good-feed-blog/much-ado-about-womens-asses-in-the-olympics/
yeah, seriously… this was the last straw for me. women’s crotches/asses, and now men’s junk (“OMG, is he having a *gasp* ERECTION?!?!”). For the love of god who gives a flying F*CK!!!? I seriously wanna defect. (and for the record… I think I might get a little wood too if I’d just competed in the olympics…)
I think Nancy just read my mind.
women’s crotches/asses, and now men’s junk
heyyyy, it aint junk. it is a wonder ;P
” men’s crotches”
It might be an erection, it might be a partial, it might be flaccid (and that’s just how he rolls), it might just be all twisted and bunched up after an epic rowing event. Really can’t tell those things from a pic alone.
There is a lot at work here.
Penis being more readily visible than labia/clitoris + Belief that men are always horny + Misinformation/Confusion over the way the penis works (people think it’s so simple that the complexities are ignored) = “OMGEleventyOneWTFBBQ!!!!! I can see his wang! He must have sex on the brain!!!”
well said Danny. too much at work for me to figure out, other than the guy just had the race of his life.
Danny, is “camel toe” any sort of equivalent here?
In terms of “seeing an imprint of one’s genitals” yes it is.
However again even taking into account the social expectations and acceptableness of men wearing tight clothes versus women wearing tight clothes (ie women are expected to wear tight clothes to show off their bodies while men are denied them because they make us look funny) which set of genitals is more likely to reveal an imprint?
If this was camel toe that camera would have had to have been closer to show it.
And also even if it was a camel toe what’s the likelyhood that people would jump from “I can see an imprint of her genitals” to “was she thinking about sex during the race”?
Let’s move the camera up a bit to the chest. If this were a pic of four women and one of them had her nipples poking out would people be talking about what she was thinking about during the race? I don’t think so and neither would they talk about a guy’s chest that way either.
Move the camera back down again and we are back to thinking that since we can see an imprint of his penis he must have been thinking something sexual. For all we know that could be his flaccid state and it just got pushed around in his shorts.
Thank you, GMP, for giving me a valid excuse to look at this handsome athlete and ponder his penis for a good minute or two. If you’re someone who doesn’t regularly spend time wondering about the state of another man’s wang, shame can motivate you to come up with a reason outside of yourself for making you look, think, dream about, or envy him. Besides, wouldn’t ‘camel-toe’ produced by testicles caught on permanent public record be more embarrassing? I’m horrified enough by the frequent uniboob created by my sports bra and I have .05% chance of it showing up on the AP.
I’d bet a dollar there are more (real) American erections during wartime than Olympic events.
Weenies are weenies and have a mind and uniqueness all their own. Right? Maybe if men wore this type of clothing more often people would be used to seeing men look like men (rather than Ken dolls) and it wouldn’t elicit this childish curiosity amusement. I don’t have a penis but to me this looks like a flaccid penis lying upward rather than downward. That it thrills me to see it is my own personal happiness. Will we ever recognize his face and honor him and the team for their great accomplishments? I don’t know. I don’t watch the Olympics but after this I think I may start. My mouth waters. And that is just how it is. And ode to the penis.
but to me this looks like a flaccid penis lying upward rather than downward.
i agree thats what it looks like to me too. Some men while exercising prefer it in that position
I agree. I think both penis and testicles just got jammed upward.
I think next Olympics someone should motion that rowers get a 1 minute reprieve from cameras to get their business in line?
Spoil Sport!
I hear that the IOC are looking to change the medals, due to popular demand – Gold, Silver, Bronze and Wood…to be awarded as Audience Participation! P^)
In general, it’s only once every four years that men, sports, lycra and crotch focus comes together for two weeks! The other 206 weeks you hear nothing!
If the IOC are savy on marketing, when it comes to Brazil in 2016, they should have crotch cam in the boats … and on the handle bars of the bike races! …. and in the athletics, straight down the track with a very big zoom … and slow motion option …… I’m sure that would get the viewing figures for the men’s 100 meters to a new high and a global increase in advertising revenues! P^)
PS – you should google polish cycle shorts …. It allows comparison, but could result in an international incident.
PPS – there is even a YouTube compilation of Meddle Winning Performances by rowers, and it’s odd, but it’s always coxless crews that perform best!
Regarding keeping the penis and sac in place, Im surprised that groinless tights and bodysuits that allow more give in the groin area for men, havent been developed yet. See figure9a for an example from the 15th Century CE
http://bit.ly/Nf7rQt
Under the tights/body suit, the athlete could wear a tight jockstrap of some description to hold his jewels in place if he desires. To the tights/body suit, could be attached a fabric triangular codpiece with ‘elastic’ attachments. The ensemble allowing freedom, flexibility and coverage
On a slightly related point, I noticed a few nights ago, one American track athlete was clearly wearing a cup of some sort, it gave him a very pleasing form in the body suit
I don’t know Jameseq, 9a looks far too practical to me. You know how we don’t like to do things the easy or smart way and, besides that, think of the horrified responses to a frontal pouch on a male. Oh, the humanity!!!!
I remember one adult gay friend telling me how exciting it was for him as a pre-teen when he went to a professional baseball game and saw the male players had these large wonderful areas in the front of their pants. Only to find out years later that all that bulge was not business but a cup. Oh dear.
So, Jameseq, in summation, I think you have great ideas that will never float; that could even depress youngsters later in life because no good idea goes unpunished.
And I also want to know when and for what reason males stopped wearing apparel shaped like women’s short skirts, like that one on the page after the 9a page, showing the “Very wide sleeved surcot, fur trimmed, light green.(1858-1875)” a garment open at the hem. Just wondering.
Now, back to that wonderful picture . . .
[luckily im finally, a third of the way through cataloging my links - only another 50 to 100 hours urrgh. My notes were in such disorder i couldnt add to Tom M's Oscar thread or Joanna S' two clothing pieces]
Why did men in Europe stopped wearing unbifurcated overgarments (that is skirts and dresses)?
Well broadly speaking, it was just a fashion change (as happened with the short shorts I wore in the 1980s – good luck getting them back young men). Men’s fashion changes and clothing styles in Christian Europe were often influenced by the needs of land warfare.
Unbifurcated clothing for men, started to disappear from the dress of the very influential Swiss Guard and Landsknechte mercenaries (although they still wore the “landsknechte waffenrock” – google it for images, as posts go into moderation with more than one link). With unbifurcated male clothing almost completely disappearing by 1650 from military and hence other men’s dress
However some men in Europe did continue wearing unbifurcated clothing until the early 1800s eg. the wagonners frock of rural workers in England, and especially the SouthEast European Fustanella. Which both (though the fustanella did not go without a fight) fell victim to the ‘new social order, redesigning the world along supposedly rational lines’ theories eg. like temperance of the 1800s
Corrections:
“Unbifurcated clothing for men, started to disappear from the dress of the very influential Swiss Guard and Landsknechte mercenaries ” should be, “During the 1500s Unbifurcated clothing for men, started to disappear from the dress of the very influential Swiss Guard and Landsknechte mercenaries ”
“However some men in Europe did continue wearing unbifurcated clothing until the early 1800s” should read, “However some men in Europe did continue wearing unbifurcated clothing, but the number gradually started to reduce from the early 1800s. The decline accelerating from the mid 1800s onwards”
I just remembered something and since I like taking something mildly relevant and going into left field here goes.
Any of you ever watch Power Rangers (the show started in the States in 1992 so there is plenty of room to say, “I used to but….” and not get clowned over it if you don’t want to fess up)? A few years ago I came up with a thought I honestly kept to myself because I was too scared to actually look it up or talk to others about.
Ever notice how the female rangers always had the little mini skirt thing going? I kinda thought that was because those “female” rangers were male stunt actors in costume and when you wear something that tight you have to account for little Johnny and Suzy wondering what that thing in the front of the Pink Ranger’s costume is…
Do show producers think Johnny and Suzy aren’t ready for the big talk on how some girls have penises too (and that some boys don’t have a penis)?
Or am I the only one that considered this?
Didn’t watch those Power Rangers, I’m older, no, really older, but I bet you are correct on that assumption. I did a search online and those little skirt flaps do that kind of job. Oh what a vicious web we weave . . . when we try to hide the weenie.
Tom is going to kick me out of here if I don’t behave. Sorry.
Although you are forgetting about the yellow ranger in season one. Girl in U.S., Boi in Japan. (And that is not a typo. The character’s name was Boi.) I’m sure that little Johnny and little Suzy did get some interesting talks, especially if their parents didn’t know the history of sentai.
P.S. I did watch Power Rangers, and I am not ashamed to admit it!
Anyone who thinks a guy who just raced an Olympic final was really thinking about some steamy porno scene in his mind’s eye needs to be checked into a mental hospital.
No they just need some education on how the penis works. They need to learn that seeing an imprint of it doesn’t necessarily mean sexual thought (and by extension an active desire to have an erection).
Are people really that out of touch on how penises operate? I thought people had them all figured out.
Danny – people in general are still mystified by penises and how they work!
As observed by one person – An act of God, such as an Earthquake killing thousands, gets little attention – but one semi visible penis gets everyone looking, commenting and wondering. We know less about plate tectonics, but we all seem to be preoccupied with how the earth moves for others!
Jameseq, I am really enjoying that link re: men’s clothing changes. ” . . . and by 1376, they were so short that the Mainz Chronicles reported the following: “in these days, the folly of mankind went so far that young men are wearing skirts so short that they cover neither their private parts nor their behinds.’” Italian Renaissance clothing, 1st half of 15th century.”
But get a load of this:
“The development of this new, incredibly body-emphasizing fashion was countered by regular decrees by the authorities – the so-called dress codes. Dress codes prior to 1350 were against luxury – the “arrogance” and “opulence” of clothing. Dress codes of the 14th and 15th centuries attempted to inhibit the new fashion. In 1356, for example, the city council of Speyer passed a law that prohibited men from wearing skirts which were not at least knee-length. Complaints and decrees could be found in almost all larger cities and carried on until the end of the 15th century.
Italian Renaissance clothing – the leggings are tied together to make tights, 2nd half of 15th century.”
Even then, the complaints of men’s attire and what is visible and those decrees, mind you.
I still say the penis is a magical device of great wonder and pleasure and individuality and I will never see too many of them in pictures such as this that we are discussing. I come from a time when you not only didn’t see them but you certainly didn’t talk about them. I don’t know why all men don’t place them in the position this man has, seems to me it would be secure, less sweaty and not hinder leg movement. The penis is a marvel and it will always be interesting to me.
The problem seems to be that instead of everything being all lumped together downward his is upward and the glory of that part of the anatomy is more clearly defined. I will go on record that it is not an erection, not one in the making and not one in full glory. It is simply his lovely anatomy in a natural state, lucky man, and we are all a bunch of sillies. And furthermore, it certainly doesn’t require a decree, though he definitely has set the bar high for the rest of the athletes and that may be unfair. Danny and Jameseq, I have thoroughly enjoyed this interaction and learned some things too. I don’t normally go online and chat away like this. Thanks everyone for not bashing me on anything.
It’s aii Joanna’s fault. Whining about how everyone was looking al the beach volleyballs players butts. LOL Seriously, you have to realize that most of the people watching the Oympics usually dont watch rowing, or diving , or track and field or whatever. Therefore, people are going to be drawn to what gets their intrest.
Actually, just watching the Men’s diving, with their teenie-weenie speedios, they look like the cast for the ‘Magic Mike ‘ sequel.
It’s called a moose knuckle on a man, get it right ladies!