Body Language 2

Something that bothers me is the way most Indonesian guys occupying a seat on a bus or mikrolet sit with their legs apart. The seats are narrow enough, with legroom only suitable for primary school children, so having a guy's thigh nudging my heterosexual leg bothers me somewhat. I like my personal space, and it's very rarely a female leg that nudges mine, however matronly the thigh.

I'd love to ask these guys if they'd had a troublesome circumcision, but I figure that that could lead to the kind of trouble I don't want.

I emailed Mbak Rima in Belgium as I seemed to recall that either her blog, or that of one on her petticoterie of gal bloggers, may have, ahem, touched on this topic.

Hey J, she replied.

No, it wasn't me.. :)

I don't get disgusted easily, and the last time I was in a bus in Jakarta was probably 1996, I don't remember guys sitting that way at all.

If they are perverts, I guess they do that so that people might get a peek of how big their wieners are; if they are not perverts then as long as I can remember, Indonesian men regard sitting with legs wide apart - this is not a generalisation but i know some men like this - as masculine, and sitting with crossed legs or legs together as a bit feminine. Maybe that's it?

Yep, maybe that's it, but I'm still not sure if I should ask.
 

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