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I hope you all don't mind being pinged back here by a stranger. I hope you might humor me by answering a question. This is a test. (grin).

You are with a woman, either your wife or a date. You are at a social gathering, maybe a reception after a speech, or a party, but not a bar. It's a nice place and the people are wandering around from group to group and the conversation is interesting. Suddenly, a man whips out playboy and starts showing the pictures and making the type of comments playboy pictures usually evoke.

What do you do and why? Thanks for playing along!

I tell him to knock it off; that such behavior is outrageously inappropriate in mixed company.

Do I win?

Being the strong libertarian man that I am, I would respond to his initiatory force by removing the magazine from him and telling him that he 'lost' his magazine. Then I would ask him, "Care to lose something more?"

I would respond the same way the others say they would respond, except for scottiewottie. I would not take away his property, unless he refused to honor my reasonable request to put it away.

Why? Well, it's just not appropriate in mixed company. I know that's not the explanation you are looking for, but that's the way it is.

You are with a woman, either your wife or a date. You are at a social gathering, maybe a reception after a speech, or a party, but not a bar. It's a nice place and the people are wandering around from group to group and the conversation is interesting. Suddenly, a man whips out playboy and starts showing the pictures and making the type of comments playboy pictures usually evoke.

What do you do and why? Thanks for playing along!

Well, to start with, my wife appreciates the Female Form too, in a healthy way. We're both Christians, but we also think that God created bodies and sex, and appreciating both isn't a bad thing.

We'd probably look at a photo (if the guy was next to us - we wouldn't cross the room to look) and then maybe comment to each other about the woman's attributes. Then we'd go on doing whatever we were doing before the guy got the magazine out.

Depending upon the "class" of the social gathering, we might just ignore the guy and the magazine - depends on the event.

Thanks for the opportunity to participate in your quiz ;)

#78 Suddenly, a man whips out playboy and starts showing the pictures and making the type of comments playboy pictures usually evoke. What do you do and why? Thanks for playing along!

Watch what they do, not what they say they would do. This thead demonstrates how some men would really behave in your scenario: Teen testifies he was totally teacher's pet. Take notes. I did. Some of the responses changed my perceptions of those involved.

Real women want real men. Arrested development at the giggling locker room stage of euphemisms for female anatomy is so unattractive.

You are with a woman, either your wife or a date. You are at a social gathering, maybe a reception after a speech, or a party, but not a bar. It's a nice place and the people are wandering around from group to group and the conversation is interesting. Suddenly, a man whips out Playboy and starts showing the pictures and making the type of comments Playboy pictures usually evoke.

What do you do and why?

Fair enough.

I would approach him, (hopefully with some other men, but alone if necessary) smiling slightly, and ask him if he would please put the magazine away, as it's not appropriate here (in mixed company) and his showing it and making audible comments is making people uncomfortable, something that I would say I'm sure he doesn't want to do. If I needed to push the issue, I would ask him why he feels the need to be 'reading' Playboy, now. I might also mention that most men stop reading Playboy at about 15.

This approach assumes a reasonable level of decorum, no drunkenness on the man's part and a cordial atmosphere.

I would do this because magazines such as Playboy are an embarrassment to decent men that respect women. Playboy attempts to portray women as sexual objects and 'legitmize' pornography. This benefits neither sex. When a man starts waving around a copy of Playboy and makes lewd comments, he demeans himself and any women present and should be taken to task for his lack of respect as well as his crudeness. Personally, I would be annoyed at the utter lack of sense of someone that would do this, and keeping my temper would be an effort.