Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Do You Cross Your Legs

Or,....
With Balls
Or with no Balls....

At the ankles. I have muscles and balls.

what self respecting man sits like that?

you would think mclame would at least know better.

There ain't a testicle amongst those three piss-willies.

My Lt. Sat down and crossed his legs female style. A female officer said " For God's sakes Lieutenant, will you please sit like a man?
We al cracked up.

Ron

I cross 'em at the ankles if I do at all. My dad used to cross his legs every time he sat down other than the dinner table. My son does it just like Papa did even though he doesn't remember him all that well.

Outside left ankle sitting on top of right knee as I type this, physically impossible to sit like a girl.

Never cross

Think you meant "woman"... like US Grant I suppose:

All joking aside I'm not sure I could even get my legs crossed like Obama and McCain in the pic. Crossing them like Clint is possible but still not comfortable. I sometimes cross my ankles.

One down two to go.........

Grant had a lot of enemies. Always protect the jewels! Maybe he had a woody....

I posted a picture years ago of Bush2 with Pelosi. His legs weren't crossed, but his arm was casually resting on his thigh with his hand protecting his crotch.

I suppose some people can sit comfortably like that. I tried it to see if it's as uncomfortable as it looks. It is. I tend to put my left ankle on my right knee, but can't do it for long anymore due to an ACL injury.

I cross, or don't cross my leg as I jolly well please.

Bad knee. Can only cross my legs Indian style.

Interesting read.......

Men in our culture are taught to not cross their legs at the knee.
Instead, our social norms require that men are only supposed to sit is
with their legs open and feet flat on the floor, or with the ankle resting
on the opposite knee so as not to appear effeminate.

Crossing one’s legs is considered an effeminate habit. In his book "Gay
Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia", George E. Haggerty tells that
a comprehensive survey of effeminacy published in 1975 in The
Archives of Sexual Behavior presents 67 questions devised by four
behavioral scientists. One of them is, “When he sits, does he double-
cross his legs, that is, at both knees and ankles?” The gay men
surveyed “displayed a much greater tendency toward effeminacy than
their heterosexual counterparts,” Haggerty writes.

But new studies have found that there actually may be health reasons
why sitting this way is preferable for everyone regardless of gender.

Here are the top 9 health risks of crossing your legs at the knee, based
on medical research:

1) Crossing Your Legs Raises Your blood pressure - Did you know that
crossing your legs at the knees increases your blood pressure?
According to a 2007 study conducted by Radboud University in
Nijmegen, the Netherlands found that crossing your legs at the knee
caused spikes in your blood pressure. Crossing your legs at the ankles
did not cause an increase in blood pressure.

How much does crossing your legs raise blood pressure? The study
from the Netherlands examined 111 patients, 60 women and 51 men.
49 people in the group had high blood pressure and 28 were diabetics.
The study found that crossing the legs at the knee increased systolic
(top number) blood pressure by 6.7 points among those with high
blood pressure and increased diastolic (bottom number) blood
pressure by 2.3 points among those who had diabetes. Among those
with diabetes, crossing their legs at the knees raise systolic blood
pressure (top number) by 7.9 points and raised diastolic blood
pressure by 1.7 points.


A 1999 study by the University of Calgary’ Faculty of Medicine in
Alberta, Canada, determined that not only does blood pressure increase
when legs are crossed, but also that this increases many patients’
cardiovascular risk.

The researchers recommended that patients place their feet flat on the
floor when having their blood pressure measured so as to get an
accurate reading. This last finding was corroborated by a study done
by Turkey’s Ege University School of Nursing that published in the
Journal of Clinical Nursing in 2006. These researchers said that blood
pressure measurement must be taken in with patients in the sitting
position with their arms supported at the right a trial level to prevent
statistically important changes in systolic blood pressure.

More specifically, a 2009 study by Sheffield University in the U.K. on
hypertensive patients found that blood pressure rose significantly with
the crossed leg position: systolic and diastolic blood pressure escalated
approximately 10 and 8 mmHg, respectively.

2) Crossing Your Legs Can Increase scrotal temperature – A study
published in 2007 found that fertile men seated with their legs crossed,
whether naked or clothed, experienced a persistent effect on scrotal
temperature, which could have both patho-physiological and
epidemiological implications, according to the Human Fertility Research
Group, Université Toulouse III in France.

3) Sensory disturbance – It’s been found that a history of prolonged
sensory disturbance or weakness lasting hours or days will follow
relatively trivial pressure on an exposed nerve, which can be caused by
sitting with crossed legs for several hours, as this causes pressure on
the common peroneal nerve at the head of the fibula. The study,
“Assessment and diagnosis of sensory disturbance,” was published last
year in the Oxford Journal InnovAiT.

4) Varicose veins – Long periods of time spent sitting with one’s legs
crossed at the knee can cause the formation of varicose veins and can
also exacerbate an existing condition by inhibiting blood circulation,
informs John D. Kirschmann’s 2006 book Nutrition Almanac.

5) Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) - Sitting with crossed legs can injure
the endothelium of the veins in the legs, which can act as a precursor
to DVT, the formation of a blood clot in a deep vein and which can in
turn cause a pulmonary embolism, according to a study by K.R. Aryal
and H. Al-khaffaf published in the European Journal of Vascular and
Endovascular Surgery in 2006.

6) Crossing Your Legs Can Cause Back pain – “By crossing your legs,
you're overstretching one side of the body and not the other, which
will affect the pelvis and then the spine,” explains chiropractor Attracta
Farrell, a chiropractor based in Ireland.

7) Thigh pain via entrapment syndrome of the lateral femoral
cutaneous nerve - This common entrapment syndrome entails pain felt
over the upper anterolateral thigh area. It takes place at the anterior
superior iliac spine, as the nerve passes through the inguinal ligament.
The pain is caused by prolonged sitting with the legs crossed, among
other phenomena, according to Dr D Gotlieb, whose article appeared in
Rheumatology News (South Africa).

8) A deformed pelvic ring –Crossing one’s legs produces an inward
deformation of the pelvic ring, according to a 2006 study by the
Department of Biomedical Physics and Technology at the University
Medical Center Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Cross-legged sitting
produced a relative elongation of the piriformis muscle of 11.7% versus
normal sitting. “Application of piriformis muscle force resulted in
inward deformation of the pelvic ring and compression of the sacroiliac
joints and the dorsal side of the pubic symphysis,” the researchers
wrote.

9) Peroneal neuropathy – sitting for a prolonged period of time with
one’s legs crossed can spark peroneal neuropathy, according to
Neurology in clinical practice, Volume 1 by Walter George Bradley. This
is a nerve condition that entails functional disturbances and
pathological changes in the nerves, such that the victim can experience
loss of sensation or paralysis. The peroneal nerve starts at the sciatic
nerve and enables the transfer of nervous energy and stimulation to
the calf and foot.

Only when I fart.

Whatever is comfortable at the time

Ho, Hell No!

Hike one leg up, lean to one side, and letter rip!

Unless you are in church of course...