A question of etiquette

Mytch wrote:

Sorry, is anyone else having trouble envisioning anything but the character in trichy's avatar being caught in this situation?

I was having fun imagining Chumpy's avatar doing a motorboat.

Smile, thumb up!

I suppose women who wear low-cut tops might be interested in getting a certain kind of attention from someone. You could be that person. I certainly am not.

I have done this many times and usually just say "I've made my decision".

Oh come on, with my wife, it's "wow you have great breasts. Wanna go have sex now?"

With someone you're not involved with. Ooof.

I guess I agree most with the smile, look away, pretend nothing happened.

Otherwise, I'd say, "Sorry, autonomic response."

And I do believe, for hetero men, that looking at the boobies is clearly an autonomic response. Explaining this to said woman really depends on her sense of humor. If she has one...you're golden.

Wikipedia says:
The autonomic nervous system (ANS or visceral nervous system) is the part of the peripheral nervous system that acts as a control system functioning largely below the level of consciousness, and controls visceral functions.[1] The ANS affects heart rate, digestion, respiration rate, salivation, perspiration, diameter of the pupils, micturition (urination), and sexual arousal.
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Roo says, "Heart beatin'....lungs breathin'....lookin' at boobies. All part of the function of the Autonomic Nervous System."

I didn't catch ooogaba observation in that list.

St.Hillary wrote:

I always assume that's the case. If I'm wearing a shirt that shows some boob crack, it's because I looked at the girls before getting dressed and thought to myself "My, these boobs of mine sure look great today. I think I'm going to wear a lower cut top to share this magical gift with the world and make it a better place!".
Kannon has witnessed me saying something similar to this more than once.

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St.Hillary wrote:

So, did you just get caught staring at someone's cleavage?
In most cases, you should probably default to looking away and muttering a simple apology. Unless the lady is like me and will comment on if you're enjoying the show, and will expect a funny response.
I don't understand the ladies that get overly upset about it. If you're putting your cleavage out there for the world to see, I will look at it.

No guy ever apologize for looking at cleavages. 99% of them just look away and pretend nothing had happen.

In my opinion, girls wear things to impress other girls. I stare at other girls boobs/butts all the time........they never got offended... but on the other hand.... when a guy does it... it always depend on if the guy is hot or not. If he isn't, it's GROSS and I do get offended because he is prob gonna go home and "do something".

So my opinion is.. just look away and pretend nothing happen. If you are gonna do it, make it fast and don't get caught.

Yes we are putting it out there for others to see but the truth is..... those particular ones..... not EVERYONE. Sucks that it doesnt' make sense but that's how we are.

After 25 years, my wife is still amazed that I'm infatuated with her boobs.

"Aren't you sick of them by now?"

"Umm, no." Squeeze!

jinniee wrote:

In my opinion, girls wear things to impress other girls. I stare at other girls boobs/butts all the time........they never got offended... but on the other hand.... when a guy does it... it always depend on if the guy is hot or not. If he isn't, it's GROSS and I do get offended because he is prob gonna go home and "do something".

How many times must we explain this to women. We don't do that to a girl we oggled at the mall. We have the INTERNET for that!

If he isn't, it's GROSS and I do get offended because he is prob gonna go home and "do something".

We really don't masturbate to every nice pair of oogaba we see, you know. We would like to, but there are so many fantastic boobs out there and so little time!

There was this bit on a science show a couple of years ago here in Belgium. They attached a camera to people's heads that followed their viewpoint. An excuse I can't remember was used to justify this, but in reality they wanted to show two things:
1. Both males and females look at the other gender's face first and foremost
2. Following common sense, men usually look at oogaba, behind and legs (can't remember in which order, but I'm probably close to target)
3. Less known fact: women look at the groin to check out our equipment This is done subconsciously but without exception. Then our buttocks and chest follow.

IT'S SCIENCE BABY!

I think I saw/heard one similar to that:

The assessment, as I recall facial beauty first, and hip to shoulder ratio.
Men are looking for a specific hip to waist ratio to indicate a likelihood of surviving childbirth, and other fertility indicators like breast development. This order flipped sometimes.

Women were assessing facial beauty and waist to shoulder ratio, and signs of testosterone production like chin and brow development. Again the importance of facial beauty versus signs of virility flip-flopped.

The flip-flop in the first thing assessed between facial beauty and health/fertility/virility seemed to indicate that there was a weighing of benefits going on.

I would avoid any insinuation that "she was asking for it." Some women are really touchy about that sort of thing and there are other reasons to wear a low-cut top.

Instead I would go with dejanzie's implied reaction, which is to scream, "STOP STARING AT MY PENIS."

Wait, who's screaming that at who now ?

Instead I would go with dejanzie's implied reaction, which is to scream, "STOP STARING AT MY PENIS."
dejanzie in 2030 wrote:

Kids, this is how I met your mother...

Certis wrote:

When my wife catches me, I just grin and say "I'm oogling you" and then she laughs. Or at least smiles. Or rolls her eyes.

In public, I've never been caught. I'm a ninja.*

[size=9]*I just checked out your wife's breasts.[/size]

Wow. You are good. [size=8]Regardless of what Carla says.[/size]

She may at that point be feeling both grossed out and victimized. Humbly apologize—and mean it—and walk away.

Little known fact: I grabbed my wife's butt the first night I met her. It's all about confidence baby, let the oogaba oogling continue!

MrDeVil909 wrote:

The thing with showing off the breasts is she probably wants people to notice, but staring like a creep can still be unpleasant.

For her maybe.

Certis wrote:

When my wife catches me, I just grin and say "I'm oogling you" and then she laughs. Or at least smiles. Or rolls her eyes.

In public, I've never been caught. I'm a ninja.*

[size=9]*I just checked out your wife's breasts.[/size]

When my wife catches me ogling, she doesn't get mad as long as I point out what I'm staring at so she can enjoy the view too.

I'm like the opposite of a ninja.

My serious answer would be to just stop staring and look away, acting like nothing happened.

What a disappointing thread.

Pics or it didn't happen.

Stele wrote:

What a disappointing thread.

Pics or it didn't happen. :D

Plenty of pics on page 2!

So I'm guessing that this is out of the question...
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Rubb Ed wrote:

2) Laugh and "Whoops, caught me."

That looks like a good reply. I also liked the one about appreciating the necklace

Then again, you could just do a nervous Beavis & Butthead laugh, "heh heh..heh heh heh....hey baby...heh heh." Always a winner.

Here's the answer to the question, from the Master himself.

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Marsman wrote:

After 25 years, my wife is still amazed that I'm infatuated with her boobs.

"Aren't you sick of them by now?"

"Umm, no." Bopitty-bopitty-bopitty! Wobble-wobble-wobble!

Fixed for hilarity and justice.

Marsman wrote:

Here's the answer to the question, from the Master himself.

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Ghostship wrote:

This may be an excuse, but I work in architecture where one of the principles of design is to use line and composition to draw people's attention to certain places on a drawing, or in a space. I'm also learning to draw, which is all about observing in detail and finding the profile of shapes.

I'm convinced that it's not just an excuse. I have spent many years drawing and painting, and it's extremely difficult to keep my gaze from wandering wherever it will in order to take in visual details. I've also taken classes where I was trained to take in the human form. There's hardly ever anything meaningful about where I happen to be looking, and there have been a few occasions where I've been startled when I realized exactly what I was looking at. An honest apology works wonders in those situations.

The obvious solution, from Space Avalanche
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