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My boyfriend and his friends was drunk and had a bet about comparing dicks, which i got part of since i was there at the party and drunk, but still feel rather wild and unnormal, is this something guys do?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

is this something guys do?

This phrasing implies that you value what the majority does. That if something is normal, then it is good. This is a natural feeling and reinforced throughout society, because conformity increases cohesion within a group which is giving an advantage over other groups with less cohesion, thus resulting in increased survival chances.

However, it is also a source of incredible amounts of pain and suffering, since how many people do something is not actually a measurement of truth. Since other ways of doing things might actually simply be objectively better, but not done because of this.

In our current world, it's not as important anymore because at any time, you can live "by yourself" or change friend groups easily. In older times, your tribe was all you had and there was no way to change it without a high risk of dying. But this is why we still do all kinds of shit to "fit in" even if whatever you fit into might be absolute bullshit. Participating in bullshit obviously sucks, as you just figured out.

In this particular instance, you were part of a behavior designed to establish a social hierarchy through competition and a bond through shared risky behavior. It's not only about the length of the penises, but also about your confidence and daringness among other things, but I don't want to spend the time to completely take this apart.

Essentially, this event is an attempt to shake up the social hierarchy. (Most of social events are.) It's a power struggle to achieve more optimal sexual personal outcomes. The exact form is not really important, comparing penises may be unusual, but the base purpose of the event, yes, does happen everywhere and is certainly "something guys do". These kind of events are part of the constant struggle to establish social superiority.

By being uncomfortable with it when the rest of the group actually isn't, you're essentially losing social capital. But it could also be a chance for you to gain social capital, if most of the people were uncomfortable with it, you voice your concern and the rest of the group agrees with you, causing the one(s) who had the idea to lose social capital. This is simplified and there are more possibilities and dynamics.

But yeah, so in effect you have to decide how important social capital with this group is for you, how uncomfortable you are with what happened, how competitive you want to be, how much risk you want to take.

You can ignore it, address your feelings about the event with your boyfriend or even the group, reduce the interactions with this group, learn to embrace and like this struggle, and probably many more ways to handle it.

[–] janja 5 points 2 days ago

This is some top quality feedback. Excellent!

[–] anamethatisnt 8 points 2 days ago

Only in bad teen movies

[–] Maalus 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah it's a dick measuring contest. All the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Normally we substitute pickup trucks for dicks but it’s basically the same attitude. Guys showing off the most usually have the least reasons to show off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, I've never seen adults do it, not directly.

But kids will for sure. Drunk people are idiots, so them acting like kids is not unexpected.

However! A second hand story.

I have a friend that is one kinky bugger. Among all the things he enjoys is group sex and orgies.

He once told me about a party he attended where there were attendees wanting to be gang banged. One of those wanted the men willing to have at them to line up according to penis size, with the smallest going first.

After that lady got started, one of the other participants decided that he wanted the same thing, so the men willing to have at him lined up. But the guy noticed that length didn't always correlate to thickness, and had them line up according to that.

Apparently, among that particular group of party goers, that became the standard way to sort out who went first when running a train. The reason given was that, especially with anal, it caused less discomfort towards the end and the next day, since all the muscles and tissues had time to relax and get used to being pounded by cock before dealing with the really big ones. Conversely, as those muscles relax, a smaller guy going after a bigger guy might not have as much fun, but a bigger guy would always have plenty of friction and pressure, so the cock wielders enjoyed themselves more on average too

[–] Chip_Rat 2 points 19 hours ago

This is how science got invented.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I think it was more about exposing themselves in front of woman but that is just me. Like if the friend sent you a dick pick, uncool, but bro lets just compare dicks in front of your girlfriend.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

sooo... did he win?

[–] kikutwo -5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is incorrect and homophobic.

[–] kikutwo 0 points 22 hours ago

Yeah? You been pulling your cock out with your friends?