That largely depends on three factors: our social proximity to the girl, how attracted we are to her on a scale from one to Kunis, and how dirty the joke actually is. Of course, alcohol can often act as a bonus multiplier, but you also up your chances of the filthy joke leading to a vomiting scenario (known in joke-telling circles as "the ugliest laugh").
"Social proximity" is a douchey way of saying two things. One, I'm smarter than you because I quasi-coined a pseudo-phrase. Two, how likely we are to ever get to know that girl in a real way. My social proximity to the barista at the Starbucks down the street is much higher than, say, my social proximity to first lady of the stage Vivien Leigh. Also she's dead, which greatly affects her standing on the attractiveness scale (whether positively or negatively I shall not say).
The closer we are to a girl, the more we want them to keep it clean...up to a point. If you're all the way into BFF territory, tell all the filthy jokes you want. But then again, if you're a guy's BFF, you may have lost the capacity to turn him on already. By the same token, if you're a distant celebrity, you get a pass. Sarah Silverman can turn me on with a filthy joke, but it's a lot harder for a co-worker to do the same.
Ditto with attractiveness. The more we want to do romantic things on you, the less we want you to talk about them (except when we're actually doing them...then go nuts). It may have something to do with man's innate desire to defile innocence, but I won't say that because it makes us sound like monsters.
Then you've got the filthiness of the joke itself, which is itself a function of three sub-parameters I like to call the "fart metric," "fecal ratio" and "pope fisting a bear rubric."
Not all guys will shy away from a woman with a blue streak, but I'd say it's a good thing to ease into in a dating situation. For whatever reason (we're so very easily intimidated; it's really astounding), a lot of guys don't want their gal to be "one of the guys." As Aristophanes one wrote, they want a lady in the street and a freak in the bed.
Whether you're willing to alter your sense of humor just to please the men you date is another issue entirely.
Swaim, I think your answer got lost beneath all of the hilarity...
Assuming "dirty" means "sexual," I love it when girls know a few good ones. It's much better than when guys tell them and the girls shake their heads, roll their eyes, and act all "these guys are soooooo immature." It makes me more comfortable to be myself around them, cause my mind lives in the gutter.
Assuming "dirty" means "gross," yeah, I'd get turned off. Sure, some people get off on things like poo and vomit (2 girls 1 cup, anyone?) but I don't think they're likely to let on in public. Also, I'm sure you wouldn't want to get a date because of a fart joke you told.
Thanks for the comment!
For the record, in crafting my answer, I definitely assumed dirty meant "gross." Saucy sex talk is almost never going to turn a guy off, and if it makes him laugh too, all the better. I'm talking about the kind of filthy jokes guys tell when they're at a sausage fest, downing beers and trying to one-up each other until someone gags. Nowadays it usually ends with everyone watching some terrible internet video (2 girls 1 cup, anyone?) and not being able to look each other in the eyes again.
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yeah, i think i've heard ludacris say that aristophanes was one of his biggest influences for writing his lyrics and for his comedic career. or am i mixing up luda with someone else?
i'm glad we distinguished between dirty sexual jokes and dirty bodily function jokes, because i'm more than sure swaim told me dick jokes were ok (just not on the first date). so sexually dirty jokes are still ok? we all agree to that?
If guys aren't okay with girls cracking dirty jokes, how do you explain Sarah Silverman's career? Or Joan Rivers? Or any number of funny females who crack dick and bodily function jokes?
I'm calling "D.S." on this one-- double standard.
i'm going to side with you on this double standard opinion.
i say, the punchline should always be 'scat sex'. that way, all the bases are covered.
Well, I don't know. As far as sexually dirty--let's just call them naughty--jokes, that is one of my special skills, and I can't get a date to save my life. Instead, I have a bunch of guy friends. It could be some other third factor (you know, all that correlation vs causation mumbo jumbo they're throwin' around at my fine book-larnin' establishment), or possibly I hang out with a bunch of prudes. =/
Prude (around women) men are either virgins, have weird religious sensibilities, on the autism spectrum, or gay.
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