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Old Oct 20, 2012, 08:17 PM
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Amen! Double standard much?

Tip: try a comfy pair of shorts underneath. Obviously nothing involving thick fabric, zippers, pockets etc, just a lightweight elasticized waistband kind of thing.. I dunno, like jammie shorts? Silky sorts to not get ride-up?
I will try shapewear shorts underneath skirts, that should be a good solution. Much less expensive than a lipo and does not make the skin look wrinkled.

In re: double standard: there is a double standard. It is evident in what happens as people age. When I was in my twenties, I had a number of lovers older than my parents, more than twice my age. One of them I was madly in love with. They somehow were able to get a beautiful 20+ year old girl into bed. How often does the reverse happen? Sometimes, but not as nearly as often as "older man, younger woman" couples. D. is 14 years older than I am and back then, it was a huge difference but now the difference is barely perceptible. His wife, if I can call a wife someone who sees him only several times a year? Some 20 years younger than he is. They went to school for a second (in her case, third) degree together. And it is not unheard of - it is not as if he were the only man to be married to someone 20 years his junior. The guy I was so in love with is 28 years my senior and his oldest son is one year my senior. So these things just happen and happen rather frequently but the opposite is rather rare, which shows a pervasive double standard. It is much easier for a man to age. They do not even care to cover the grey. They can get away with the grey. The man I was so in love with was grey-bearded. How many women with flowing grey hair do you see coupled up with young men in the streets? Not many.

Women, from their end, discriminate based on an immutable physical characteristic: the size of a male package. Women, at least many of them, prefer mightier packages. That makes it tough for men who are less favorably endowed, as evident by the flurry of spam emails in my work inbox (my personal accounts are with GMAIL and Yahoo that are both effective spam filterers, but Outlook mail at work... horrendous is the word) - emails that promise bigger erections. Every day I receive multiple emails promising bigger erections... I do not receive spam emails promising breast enhancement, even though breast enhancement is at least technically possible, whereas bigger erections (outside of smoking cessation) are not possible. So I conclude that there are more hang-ups about men's size than about breast size in women. I take the amount of junk mail as an indicator. A market indicator, so to speak. And with breasts, there is at least some variety of tastes: my father and another guy I know prefer small-breasted women. They find them esthetically better and more arousing. That is fair: a variety of tastes matches the variety of human form. I have not seen a woman who would say that she would actually prefer a smaller erection. Indiffirent, sure, but a preference? So life is unfair to men, too. Also, and I am basing my judgment on my sole point of contact with pop culture - the displays of cover pages of magazines in the grocery store while I am waiting in line - men are just as concerned with their belly size as women these days. And that's a huge shift! I do not recall seeing "Men's Health" with advice on how to trim the belly even ten years ago. "Cosmo" with countless advice on sex - yes, has been a staple, but not "Men's Health". That's a new thing! In the past, it was mostly a gay man's concern - not any more.

These are just my observations - I am not trying to lead to any conclusion.