Judge to Men: Don’t Scratch that Package
Italian Courts have came out officially as smoking something heavy. It is now illegal in the land of Pasta and Michaelangelo for men to “crotch-scratch, adjust or grab their genitals in public.”
According to the article:
The move came after judges in the Court of Cassation decided that shameless crotch-scratching and the Italian folklore of grasping one’s generative organs to ward off bad luck was contrary to public decency and socio-ethical behavioral rules.
Men’s hands far too often descended crotch-ward when a funeral procession passed by or during normal conversation about disease or disaster, the court ruled.
Oh. Well… Um…
I’m not sure if there’s any market research to verify this, but there’s a rumor that men sometimes do scratch their crotch area simply because it really itches. Not only that, but they sometimes “adjust” down there when things get a little tangled/sticky/out of whack. Also, I’ve heard that men are notorious for not feeling the need to do the adjusting somewhere more private. Now if things get hairy down in the nether regions, men can face fines up to $1,500 in the Boot-like Country.
A commenter on the post asked: “What next, no clevage or bra strap adjusting!!”
Well, really, if it came down to that, I think I’d just stop wearing the bra. Maybe men can start wearing cups filled with hamsters to keep their private parts comfortable?
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I would need to be handcuffed, unfortunately.
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