Do you girls cover other girl´s mouths?

Question

This is a sight I have seen and think it is usual in schools, colleges, high schools and even universities. It usually happen´s when there are group of friends around but sometimes it can happen only between two girls in bar for example. Could you tell about your experiences of putting hand over some other girl´s mouth or your mouth being covered. by other girl? Does it anything to do with setting up hierarchies, like who is the leader/active and who is the submissive/ passive one. What do you think that this is quite a turn-on for a man?

Answer 1

Good on you, taris! Don't let the ignorance of others deter you from making honest observations of *anything*!

I've also observed this, and, as you suggest, it seems most prevalent in young post-pubescent females and disappears as the females enter their twenties. This strongly suggests it's a sexual phenomenon (which doesn't mean it's necessarily anything about sex per se). My theory is that it occurs when women have been conversing about matters that were intended to be kept secret but that one of the women, not being socially sophisticated enough to have realised this, makes to repeat the 'secret' openly; this causes the original speaker to try, by attempting to cover the speaker's mouth, to prevent the secret from being blurted out.
This would negate the possibility of any hierarchical process going on since the mouth covering would be a shocked response of desperation e.g. if any hierachical protocol had been breached, some obvious follow-up response, such as glaring from one and apologetic averting of eyes from the other, would occur - which I've never observed. In fact, the responses tend to be entirely restricted to the matter of what has been said e.g. exaggerated outrage and denial (from the woman whose 'secret' has been revealed) at a 'lie'. In this case, the woman *is* shocked but not because a lie *has* been spoken - her real emotion is shock mixed with shame and/or embarrassment, tinged with anger at her friend's betrayal. Sometimes the response is false laughter, again, made in an attempt to disguise anger and embarrassment (by playing off the 'secret' as a joke never intended to be taken seriously). Rarely do you see genuine agression from either party although the behaviour involved can be complex e.g. the one who is about to reveal the 'secret' often knows full-well that she isn't supposed to reveal it, but does so intentionally as a passive-aggressive attack against her 'friend'; this is a typical 'bitching' attack that females know all too well; the beauty of it is that the 'revealer' can easily pretend it was an accidental slip.

There is another version of this transaction: the women playfully tell one another various things that they DO want someone to hear e.g. a particular guy, but that they themselves are too inhibited, shy, unassertive, to reveal. By a complex process of subtle communication exchanges (that the women themselves are usually not aware of), they tip one another off, prior to the moment e.g. in the bathroom after having surveyed the 'talent' on the dance floor, with this playful 'banter' that is in fact much more serious; then, when one of their target guys comes over, the 'secret' is blurted out 'by accident' (amid much giggling - and a *pretend* attempt to cover the speaker's mouth). In *this* instance, a guy might find this process a turn-on because he knows instinctively that the women were talking about him as an object of sexual interest, so that even if he finds neither of the women involved attractive, he is likely to feel flattered.
More mature/sophisticated men, on the other hand, would be inclined to find this tactic juvenile and a turn-off; can you imagine James Bond responding favourably to comments from giggling women? This also explains why older women don't do this; they mature and learn how to attract the man they're interested in with subtle eye contact and body language. Also, as men mature, they themselves become better at reading the unconscious signals of women, so that the overt subterfuge used by less sophisticated women is no longer needed.

Answer 2

Yeah, it is to do with setting up hierarchies, like who is the leader/active and who is the submissive/ passive one.

Only joking.

I'll be surprised if anyone else knows what your going on about.

Answer 3

its telling u to shut up im doing the talking basicly if its ur mouth being covered ur a follower and the leader is the one doing the covering . plan and simple

Answer 4

i do no longer understand, i assume it is organic. each so often I do it, each so often i do no longer. If I easily have nutrition in my mouth or i understand I should not be guffawing i will cover my mouth, yet in any different case i do no longer think of I regularly do. i assume it is in basic terms a reaction.

Answer 5

I think it is sort of to protect each other. Just a fem. thing to do.
Sometimes I have a reflex and cover my own mouth when I have said something and then thought better about it.

Answer 6

Never heard of that.

Answer 7

Are you Japanese?