As sage thinker Andrew “Dice” Clay as soon as mused: Get a gaggle of ladies collectively and you will find they seem to be a LOT dirtier than guys are. Women inform one another all the things and accomplish that in excruciating element. On the flip facet, they’ve this loopy concept that males are additionally dishing the grime to their man associates about their relationships and intercourse lives. For the women, it is occurring over Cosmos; the blokes, within the locker room.

That can be nice, if it had been true.

For one, males do little or no conversing within the locker room as a result of that might require different guys. That’s simply not one thing guys need to do when they’re half naked. Not that males do not speak. They simply do it elsewhere, such because the Frisbee golf course, on their surfboards or whereas ingesting at a sports activities bar.

And it is not that guys do not focus on their relationships, notably their intercourse lives. They simply do not say as a lot as girls. Hard to imagine? Tell me, when was the final time you noticed a lady stroll right into a room solely to have a bunch of males laughing? Probably by no means, however it occurs to males in relationships on a regular basis.

It could appear unusual that a gender whose members don’t have any issues burping or scratching their crotches in public have a code of ethics. But we do, at the least with regards to “locker room talk.” Here are the principles:

If you care in regards to the lady, you do not convey her as much as the guys EVER.

That’s as a result of each dialog that a man has with one other man relies on this idea: How a lot ammo am I giving my buddies to make use of towards me later? When a man has a significant dialog with one other male good friend, he finds all the things he is mentioned, constructive or adverse, will get thrown again in his face if the connection ends badly. Smart guys study from this expertise.

“Back in college, I met this one girl and had one of those awesome first dates. You know, the kind where you feel you and the woman don’t have to say anything, you just both get each other,” says Hugh Billingsley, a San Diego based software program engineer. “I made the mistake of telling my college roommate, ‘I really feel like she could be the one.’ Problem is, by the third date, all the romance was gone and she basically dumped me. After that, anytime I even mentioned a new woman, my roommate would cackle in a high pitched voice, ‘I really feel like she could be the one! I really feel like she could be the one,’ like some pirate’s annoying parrot.”

Billingsley’s case is just not distinctive. I do know a man who as soon as went on a really steamy first date with a lady he met at an open mic night time at a espresso home. The subsequent day, nonetheless feeling the glow of the night time earlier than, he stupidly informed his brother all about it. Every week later, the man was singing on the coffeehouse and was excited when the woman confirmed up. Unfortunately, the brother launched himself to the woman as my pal’s brother including, “Do you sing? I hear you’re real good at hitting those high notes.”

My good friend did not get a second date.

To sum up, if a person does speak up his present flame to his associates, it is both to say, “Yeah, I met this girl,” “Yeah, we’re getting married,” “Yeah, we’re having a kid” or “Yeah, we’re getting divorced.” Otherwise, she by no means comes up in dialog.

“To be honest, the less a guy says to his friends about a woman he likes, the better,” says Stephen Douglas, a southern California mortgage dealer. “If you’re happy and he’s not, your happiness is like twisting a knife in his heart. If you’re miserable and tell your friend, he feels like your bad luck will rub off on him.”

That’s why the one time a person talks about his intercourse life with one other man is that if one thing extraordinary happened usually one thing terribly dangerous.

Here’s an instance of one thing we’d share. One of my associates was not too long ago relationship a lady and, after three weeks, they lastly determined to get it on. It was then that she determined she had “something important” to inform him she did not have a left hand. He had by no means observed the lacking appendage, so she felt compelled to level it out earlier than they bought bare.

For him to inform me about this may appear in poor style, however it was one thing fairly extraordinary (would not you say?) that he was dying to inform somebody and it is not one thing you confess to a priest. I’d wish to inform you extra, however the man clearly actually likes her as a result of he is refused at hand out any extra info.

While it is one factor for a man to speak about his personal intercourse life, the blokes who really need to know the intimate particulars of one other man’s intercourse life are normally married.

Sad however true some married guys need to dwell vicariously and get a style of what they suppose they’re lacking. Admittedly, the typical single man’s first intuition when he meets a man like that is to magnify any such conquests to provide the married man the misunderstanding he is dwelling a wild and loopy single life.

However, since married guys normally cannot hold any secret from their wives, his tales destroy the one man’s probabilities of ever being fastened up with the spouse’s single girlfriends. It normally solely takes one expertise like this earlier than a man learns to close up and keep away from locker room speak altogether.

David B. Moye is a San Diego based author who discovered all in regards to the human psyche throughout his 11 month stint as a telephone psychic.