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As we know, there are male
camel-toes and female camel-toes. Although there is
greater attention placed on the female camel-toe, it is
the male camel-toe that actually emerged
first.
The male toe (pantalones tightus
camelius) did not come into existence until sometime
between the 12th and 13th century AD as pants were not a
common feature among the male gender prior to
this.
And as pants became commonly
accepted in European countries, the skirt, sarong, and
thong went by the wayside. These latter articles of
clothes were thought to be more for the "natives" or the
"peasants". Pants on the other hand, were the clothing
of choice for aristocrats. In fact, from about 1273 to
1348, the tighter the pants the better. This fashion
statement came in and out over the next 750 years taking
its form in many varieties (short shorts, Sumo, the
Village People, tennis shorts and the unfortunately
ubiquitous coaches shorts). During this period of
"tightness" the male toe emerged as one of the most
talked about phenomena since the Ubangi Tribe started
piercing their lips.
Initially, the male toe was
simply referred to as the "Bulging Wrinkle" and then
later as the "Shar-pei" after the wrinkly little dog
from China. Several Shar-pei had been imported to the
European continent and so the name spread far and wide.
It quickly overtook the "Bulging Wrinkle" as the term of
the 13th and 14th Century.
But it was not too long after
that "camel-toe" came into the mainstream as the term of
choice. As the story goes, a trader from the Sahara had
managed his way across the Mediterranean, up through
Spain and into France and England. Along his travels he
noticed this strange custom of "pants wearing" by the
melanin-deprived northerners. He kept thinking to
himself that the Shar-pei or Bulging wrinkle looked more
like the hoof of his pet Camel -
Metmah.
As he traveled, he would always
say to people "Hey, that looks like the toe of my pet
camel Metmah." While not having pictures, he actually
did carry the hoof of Metmah's father around with him --
a sort of keepsake if you will. The trader would show
people his camel-toe -- albeit a real camel-toe -- and
people would look with amazement and astonishment at the
amazing similarity. The trader was invited to speak at
dinners hosted by some of Europe's most prominent Charpe
fashion houses. Soon, one of the fashion houses changed
its name to Camel-toe and the others followed suit
rather promptly.
As the name changed across
Europe and other places, there also seemed to be a rage
about how big one could make their camel-toe. People
tried all kinds of different ways from "The Jack" which
was essentially a frontal wedgie, to smacking your nuts
with a brick or other large hard object (sometimes a
good firm fist right before going out on the town did
the trick) to cause the genitalia to swell before
placing them gingerly inside the
pants.
Then quite recently, fashion
houses came out with modern day underwear -- or tighty
whities -- to help accentuate the toe and hold the boys
in place for a cleaner, more camel-toe like
effect.
However, people soon looked down
on the male toe - sometimes turning away from friends
and family members who continued the tradition of the
male toe.
And so today it is the female
toe that people think of when the term camel-toe is
brought up. But that was not always the
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