Perhaps, you need to hang out with a better class of guys!

Because women love it. They think it;s almost as sexy as clipping toe nails at the dinner table. On video it is their prefered porn.

Because spitting inside is considered rude.

I like to stop and piss on trees when I'm walking down a sidewalk.

Seriously though, I don't know.

I don't think men are compelled to spit on the ground. Maybe you are witnessing some kind of primitive territorial ritual.

Can't believe this is even a question. You don't always have a tissue or such handy, you don't want to swallow it, and you don't want to leave the loogie in your mouth. WTF is everyone going on about? What is TRULY GROSS is letting that stuff stay inside of you! Now just spitting for no reason, that would be different.

probably a throwback to the days when many men had chewing tobacco. Kind of kept up the tradition.

So I guess clamping one nostril and blowing the other is out of the question?

Because you really get pissed if we spit on the carpet.

Loogie hocking is as old as the species. Considering that spittoons were once common in nearly every public gathering space, and only recently has chewing tobacco been replaced by sunflower seeds in the mouths of baseball players, it seems that some progress has been made. There may come a time when the world will follow Singapore's lead, where spitting in public can land you a $1000 fine, but I doubt it. Personally, I find it gauche to expectorate in mixed company.

Why men spit in the street is less curious to me, perhaps because it is less noticeable here in Southern California than some other places. What inspires my curiosity is why men frequently spit, scratch their gonads and cross themselves on baseball fields..?

I spit alot, I had a massive stroke when I was 12 years old, and although I was able to regain the use of my left side, I have not been able to control my saliva glands since then, if I don't spit I am constantly drooling and in my opinion nothing looks worse than a 58 yo with drool running down their face.

I don't do this when I am with women. I want to say it's an animal reaction with me but I don't see animals doing it.

I'm getting nausea just reading this post........bwwaaaaaapft.....gotta go!

Could it be similar to marking their territory, such as peeing on a fire hydrant?

I think it's more social than biological.

Just less of a 'no no' for a man to spit than a woman - unfortunately. I can't stand public spitting either.

I remember (way back) when I was in Marine Corps boot camp, the drill instructors would break the spitters real fast when they were told "pick that up". I still find myself wanting to bark that out each time I see it.

Similar to peeing
Most men should live in a barn with the dogs and cats
Or as shreck says better out than in
Grew up in the mid west smoking just to keep the bugs away always a contest how far quite an art too

GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry, let me rephrase that, GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chewing tobacco-have to spit it out.

I think women would be more inclined to kiss after it has been spit out rather than with it still in there.

I find it disgusting as well. I guess I am in the minority of men on this subject.

Hahahaha! Is it a territorial thing? Now street-based snotrockets...that's REALLY sexy, right?

Maybe they are practicing to increase the distance they can spit a watermellon seed.

Iam a man, I don't spit.