The Definitive Book of Body Language

The Definitive Book of Body Language

crowd to receive an award or give a speech. Also known as the

Broken Zipper Position it makes a man feel secure because he

can protect his 'crown jewels' and can avoid the consequences

of receiving a nasty frontal blow.

The Broken

Zipper Position

It's the same position men take in a line at a soup kitchen or to
receive social security benefits and reveals their dejected, vulner-
able feelings. It recreates the feeling of having someone else hold
your hand. Adolf Hitler used it regularly in public to mask the
sexual inadequacy he felt because of having only one testicle.
It's possible that evolution shortened men's arms to allow
them to take this protective
position because when our
closest primate cousins, the
chimpanzees, assume the
same position their hands
cross at their knees.

Humans make a point of hiding

the areas they think are their

weakest or most vulnerable