Does Pipe Smoking Make a Guy More Masculine?

http://www.youtube.com/user/Professs.../9/64PqGx6T2RY

This guy is a Brit of 22.

In my opinion, yes, it does. My grandfather, an Irishman from the old country, smoked a pipe from the time he was a kid to the day he died. I thought the little cancer sores on his lips gave him a definite masculine edge. I'm sure his wife found this edge attractive as well.

It didn't hurt MacArthur.

Maybe... but only for older guys. In the video the outfit combined with the awesome bic lighter makes him look just grand.

Originally Posted by Lafont

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http://www.youtube.com/user/Professs.../9/64PqGx6T2RY

Do you mean does it actually make you more masculine or make you just look more masculine? If you dump out the the tobacco and replace with Viagra, it will make you more masculine. If you dump out the tobacco and shove the pipe down your pants, it will make you look more masculine.

Thank you. I have been worried that my ultra masculinity was fading. Pipe smoking will take my overcompensation to the next level.

Originally Posted by Robert

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In my opinion, yes, it does. My grandfather, an Irishman from the old country, smoked a pipe from the time he was a kid to the day he died. I thought the little cancer sores on his lips gave him a definite masculine edge. I'm sure his wife found this edge attractive as well.

Originally Posted by Insensitive

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Pipe smoking? Isn't that a chick thing?

Check this out: http://pipesmagazine.com/pipe-smokin...es-pipe-babes/

It's a gallery of women smoking pipes.

Intrigued...

Certainly not - just smell VILE.

no

As long as it's not a crack pipe.

Manly when it doesn't seem like an affectation. If I tried it people who just say "what the hell are you doing?".

Originally Posted by Twotone

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As long as it's not a crack pipe.

You're more likely to croos one of them nowadays than the Sherlock Holmes type..

Watching a woman smoking a pipe has the same effect on me than watching one having a bikini wax...

Back when I was a young fellow in the '40s and '50s, pipe smoking had a very positive image. On the one hand, it was the mark of the thinker, the contemplative man, the intellectual. On the other hand, it was also the mark of the outdoorsman. Illustrations of the time in the outdoor mags often showed the male protagonists smoking a pipe, either out fishing or in a hunting lodge. Bruce Wayne (aka Batman) was depicted as a pipe smoker in his early years. I have a vague impression that Clark Kent was also a pipe smoker.

These days, I think it just seems sort of offbeat, a bit like wearing an ascot. (Of course, I do wear ascots frequently and smoke a friendly briar or meerschaum occasionally.) On several occasions when I was smoking a pipe in public, kids have asked me if I were a detective, so closely has pipe smoking become identified with the single character of Sherlock Holmes!

The idea of women smoking pipes just seems sort of not right to me, unless they are hillbilly grandmas puffing corncobs like Mammy Yokum.