Is wolf-whistling a sex crime?

There is an awful lot of misunderstanding about the role of sex and sexual differences in most people's minds in general, not just on here. No wonder they say that men are from Mars and women are from Venus.

I had to look up the post that Soontobe referred to a couple posts up, but I will reiterate it. OF COURSE men like to see pretty girls and OF COURSE women like to see handsome men. (and please don't reply that I am implying that either of them only choose goodlookers for partners. I am talking of the first sighting)

It is how they proceed after they have noticed them, and registered that this is someone they would like to know better, that separates them into sheep and goats. We have all met some goats, and we don't want them after our daughters (or our sons) but most of us also acknowledge that even the most faithful and principled of our partners still has the hormones that respond, can still "enjoy the scenery".

If you think about it, without those hormones they would not be responding to us!

If a man shouted, across the road, to a woman, "I like your tits", would that be a sex crime?

Apologies for getting back to the original subject.

Vile sexist behaviour, not sure it would constitute a crime. What about women shouting to a man "I like your arse?" Lets not forget a crowd of women after a few drinks, on say a hen night, don't always behave with decorum. Although I think it would be fair to say that men can walk to work without having to experience verbal hassle from the opposite sex.

I don't know about arse - my husband reckons that when many women see an attractive man their eyes go straight to his crotch.
He thinks for both sexes it's a primitive way of assessing who will make a healthy parent for their children.

Bad manners? Not a crime as harassment is a crime, but not the action of a civilised man. I have a feeling that if he repeated this day in, day out, it would be considered a crime.

Where do you draw the line? I remember walking along once when a man came past on a bicycle and said 'do you want to play with my balls?'.

Normal behaviour? Sexist behaviour? A sign he found me attractive?

I bet there aren't many women who cycle past a man saying, do you want to play with my ......?

I think lascivious behaviour is unpleasant in both men and women. Personally I have never wanted to go and see a male stripper, I can't think of anything worse than an evening gathered together with a load of cackling women calling, I find lewdness unpleasant in both men and women. I wouldn't be interested in that sort of an evening, I'd rather stay at home with a good book, perhaps that's just me. That's not to say I don't appreciate looking at a handsome man

Cackling women?

Do men cackle when they watch female strippers?

It's a bit witchy isn't it, cackling?

No men guffaw

Not that I have been around men watching strippers, possibly they go slack jawed or just drool.

Soontobe- The Bodyline test series was one where in order to win bowlers bowled effectively at the man not the wicket en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyline

I so agree about objectification and lascivious behaviour being unacceptable no matter which sex is doing it. I don't mind people looking, I don't mind people admiring phyical attributes. I do mind when comments are made which depersonalize and objectify the person they are looking at.
There are obviously a number of people on this thread who don't mind these things, and they are entitled to their views, just as I am entitled to mine.

My God petallus! I would have pedalled for England! scary!

Capers nimbly in a ladies chamber to the lascivious pleasing of a lute!
Story, off post but just thought of it

story sorry!

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A little known playwright called Shakespeare.
Richard 1. Opening speech

Richard II? Or Richard III ?
?

Lascivious lot, those Elizabethans
Even with a virgin Queen as a moral standard!

There is a fine line between slightly sleazy behaviour and open admiration and some men don't realise when they have crossed that line and I think some women are not sure where to draw the line anyway.

Richard III Act 1 Sc1 lines 12 and 13
And before you say it, I know I need to get a life out more!!

And weren't they Yorkists then, not Elizabethans?

(I, too, need to get out more...)

I was meaning Shakespeare's time, not Richard III's - sorry, didn't make that clear. He was writing about that time but I think from an Elizabethan perspective!

Virgin

Oh yes, I see, sorry!