Wednesday,
March 05, 2008
Crotch Grabbing - To Ward Off Evil - Outlawed in
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Aside
from the fact that Italians show little regards for "trivial" laws,
this appears to be:
A Restriction
on the Right to Religion
(Warding off Evil);
A Restriction
on the Free Speech
( I've often used it to tell people to F***k
themselves!!!!!! )
A Restriction
on the Right to Comfort ( Haven't Men often had to reach down and "adjust
" their "strangulating" underwear?)
A Restriction
on the Right to Scratch an
Itch (You don't get to decide where it itches)
Plus,
This is Discriminatory
!!! Do Women
get to touch themselves with impunity ??? :) :)
Like Caressing their Breasts in a Seductive manner, or their
Butt, Crotch, or Legs, or adjusting their Thongs or Bra Straps????
It's like any
gesture. Most of us have a repetitive gesture - or two or three of these. It
might be a nose scratch or a maybe just a hair twirl or an ear
pull. In other cases for men, a crotch adjustment , licking
one's lips, etc, etc, if they've been doing that for a long period of
time [it is hard to stop].We don't really normally know that we're even doing
these things."
Australians
have even more of a problem, with their stubby shorts, which can be very
uncomfortable so they're always adjusting them."....
This
deserves serious discussion :) LOL
Can't Touch This
It's the seat of fertility.
The crotch grab goes back at least to the pre-Christian Roman era and is
closely associated with another superstition called the "evil eye"the belief that a covetous person can harm
you, your children, or your possessions by gazing at you. Cultural
anthropologists conjecture that men would try to block such pernicious beams by shielding their genitals, thus protecting their
most valued asset: the future fruit of their loins. Over the centuries, the
practice shifted. Men covered their generative organs not only to defend
against direct malevolence but also in the presence of anything ominous, like a
funeral procession.
These days, an Italian man
might also grab his crotch in risky situations, like a high-stakes poker game.
In such cases, the grab isn't a defense mechanism against bad luck but rather a
way to generate good luck. Once again, this practice relates to the folk belief
that the phallus is auspicious because it's the source of masculinity and
reproduction.
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