An Uncomfortable Subject. [WARNING TO THE WOMEN]

[Dreadbelly]

I realize this is uncomfortable to share with strangers. But this is a very good reason to burn your trousers and wear a kilt. Or any type of MUG.

How to start?

Men, pull up a comfy chair and prepare your selves for the horror. Reading this, you will want to comfort your boys.

I am a fairly average man. I am infact, downright average in my male anatomy. In one part. Nothing to brag about. I am however, gifted with a rather large set of walnuts. (Even my doctor says so) Now, wearing pants has always been, well, a trying experience. Chafing, rash, blisters, heat rash, and living in the South, it's no picnic. I began walking bow legged. Doing anything, just a short walk even, hurt. I started noticing blood down there.

I ignored it for a long time, trying to "be a man about it." I figured all men go through this, at least all men who wear trousers. I suffered in silence. My wife noticed my discomfort though. Around the house, I simply did not wear pants.

I have worn boxer shorts for years, on the advice of several doctors a long time ago, to give me the extra room I need down stairs. This however, as I look back, a stupid move. Boxers? While wearing pants? BAH! Illogical.

The pain became unbearable and so one day I went to the doctor had to go through the embarassing experience of having my dangly bits checked out by a whole crowd of people.

I found out I have something called a "Scrotal Fissure." You know that little spot in jeans where all four seams meet and forms that little knob of fabric? Well, it had rubbed my skin down so badly that it created an ulcer that has not healed. I have stopped wearing pants... And have been wearing sweat pants and very very loose fitting shorts lately. Which I dislike. Wearing said pieces of clothing just somehow strikes me as trashy. It's nice for the gym, which I never go to, and it's nice around the house, but looks awful out in public.

What is a scrotal fissure? It's a hole in your scrotum. Mine is located in my scruttocks. That little patch of skin between your bum and your bits. Right there in the back where it connects. Several times a day I have to pull a contortionist's act and apply iodine, peroxide, alcohol, etc, since it's a hot sweaty delicate area that can get infections easily. It might heal someday, given the right conditions. I have found out I am not alone in this condition, that many men suffer the same affliction, and in severe cases, can cause a man to lose his male bits due to severe infections and necrosis of the flesh.

Men, don't let this be you. Burn your trousers. Torch your Wranglers. Incinerate your Levis. Toss your Dockers in the woodchipper.

I apologize in advance for any embarassment or uncomfortable feelings. But I had to share my story and speak out. There is a crisis, a quiet unknown crisis among men in the hot humid Southern USA. Something most men are to embarassed to talk about or even visit their doctor. And most men are not manly enough it seems to abandon their trousers to fix this problem.

[Casey]

The search for comfortable pants has lead me to kilts.

Casey

[Vince]

Oh my!

Interesting story. I think that going over to kilts will definately solve your problem.

[GMan]

Shandy,

I have not had the situation that you had mentioned, but I have had the problem of sweating and causing a rash, that never seemed to go away. Many visits to many doctors had yielded nothing but more doctor bills, and plenty of lotions and antibiotics and a much thinner wallet.

On my own, I started wearing kilts and almost overnight the rash went away. A few months later I went to one doctor for a visit (kilted of course) when he saw the rash was gone, all he said was "the last medication must be working, continue with it" what he did not know is that I had not used it in a long time.

I continue wearing kilts and go to a different doctor, one that can understand that sometimes medication may not be the "perfect" situation.

Thank you for sharing, we all have things in our life that may cause a little discomfort, but sometimes must be.

[Freelander Sporrano]

I can see the future

Patient: Doctor this rash I've got it won't go away

Doctor:
Thoughtful (look on face)I know just the thing.Take this prescription to the local tailors and get yourself into a kilt.

Patient: Wow! a kilt on the NHS.

We'll all have rashes and Graham will be first in line

Sorry for taking this subject lightly.I have longdistance cycling as a hobby so I know all about a sore backside

[bubba]

That's a malady I never heard of, but it sure would be serious. The kilts should help alot. I wonder, if the doc says you have to wear kilts maybe you can get health insurance to help pay for em. Anyway, best of luck and I hope you heal soon.

[Dreadbelly]

Wearing pants is a no win situation.

If you wear your pants loose and baggy, you have pockets of trapped hot moist air. Bare skin rubs together. Ow. Wear them with the crotch around your knees like some folks, and you look stupid. So, you get tired of skin on skin rubbing together, and, to put the fire out in your loins, you hike your pants up. Next thing you know, that galldarn seam feels like a piece of barbwire feeling you up. You just grin and bear it, trying to use the crotch of your jeans like a sponge to sop up all that swampy moisture down in your dangly bits. You can't stand the cutting, so, you shimmy your pants down a bit lower on your hips, and the cycle continues.

Why do we do this to our selves? Why? I keep asking my self that as of late. I have no answer. None at all. I have no excuses. All I can do is hang my head in shame for what I have done to my self. I could have avoided much agony had I done something, anything, sooner.

Is it a cultural bias? I live in the South. Down here, men wearing any sort of skirted garmet is considered a homosexual. At least in my tiny pocket of the South. I already know I am bound to get my self in trouble. I am more then prepared. My fists are the size of Hostess Canned Hams. And I am a little short angry fellow. While I can't say I have won every fight I got my self into, I can say that I have always, with out fail, made the other guy look worse than I did. So I obviously have the huevos to have shrugged off the local culture and wear a kilt a long time ago. So why didn't I? I thought about it. I have always thought about it. I just never got around to doing it. It was always a flight of fancy or just an idea. Never seemed practical. Perhaps a part of me thought a 5 foot 5 Hispanic Native American would look goofy in a kilt?

Pants have always been a problem for me. I am a short stocky man. Not fat mind you, stocky. Finding a pair of pants with a size 28 leg and a 38 inch waist has always been a pain in the ****. I have to buy and hem them my self to make them shorter. Bloody pain the ****. Kilts have no such problem!! So why then, did I wear pants for so many years? I do not have an answer. So much trouble to try and find a pair of pants that fit well. I could go to a store, find three pairs of pants, all by the same manufacturer, all the same size measurements, and what do you know, all three would fit differently. But they were all the same. So why go through all this trouble? I thought men were all about saving time and getting to the point? Wearing a kilt, at least it seems to me, is more to the point.

I will be making an order next month. I am still debating what to get, I am still torn between an Amerikilt, a Bear Kilt, or a Utilikilt. I feel like a prisoner counting the days till he goes free or manages to escape. I can see freedom, and will be reaching for it soon.

I am glad I have found a gathering place of like minded souls that might share my pain.

[GMan]

Shandy,

Glad to hear that you will be free soon You seem to already know the joys of kilting, even without having experiencing the actual kilt wearing. I can feel your confidence. Way to go my friend.

[RockyR]

I have been away for a few days and I have to answer a question in the newbie thread, but you touched my heart so deep with your story I just could not help but respond. (man I am getting so sensitive to other peoples plights. I get all broke up reading things like that and touched so deep with by others grief I wonder if this is normal, or if I have flipped ..)

Well friend, Soon, if you are in the right place at the right time, you will see a Kilted 5' 4" tall very slender man in a kilt in Greenville, S.C. Yes that's right Greenville. And he is not a sodomite, he is a bible believing Christian who holds to the Sovereign Grace Baptist doctrine. He holds to many of the doctrines and positions but not all, of Bob Jones University. Yes you read that right, and now he also wears a Kilt.

He will be in Greenville Lord willing on the 25th for only a few hours.

If time permits, and you want to see an Amerikilt close up before you buy, you can respond here.

He would be glad to help you with your dillema and help you make your choice for your first kilt a little easier.

His name is JohnAllen
Lord Bless you DrDouglass

[David Woodington]

Short and stocky,it sounds to me you have the advantage in the fighting area.I live in southern MD so I have a slight idea about some of the types you have to deal with but if you are farther south I'm sure you have it worse than I do.I hope you can stay in your kilt and out of the fighting arena.These ignorant types of people you are dealing with are usually cowards and and have self image problems or they wouldnt have to pick on others to make themselves feel betterIf you have to protect yourself or a loved one then you got to do what you got to do,but if you can stay out of it and stay out of jail you will be better off(plus more money in your pocket for more kilts).I hope your physical problem gets cured soon.I know that I tell alot of the new guys this but find a Scottish game or anCeltic event, it gets you out in your kilt and with people who are of the same mind.Finally I think you should go with a tartan kilt for I think will enjoy it more.Especially if your out somewhere special.


Talk to you soon and I am looking forward to hearing about some good outings that you might have.


Dave