# Ask the man with one testicle. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 31, 2003, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844 "2003-01-31T12:30:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844/1 "2003-01-31T12:30:01Z")
That’s right. One Testicle. My hand to water. Been this way since I was 9 or so. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844/2 "2003-01-31T12:40:50Z")
Did it fall off by itself? ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844/3 "2003-01-31T12:54:34Z")
We have no idea. I was fiddling around one day trying to figure out the hole in the front of guys underwear, and noticed that one of my nuts was gone. I ran running to mom. X-ray and physical examination showed nothing wrong, just a missing testicle. The doctor said that happens sometimes, if the testicle “goes bad”. The body just re-absorbs it. ---
**Author:** ![Sunglasses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@Sunglasses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunglasses)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844/4 "2003-01-31T12:55:49Z")
How old are you, now? Have you fathered any children? (A young person that I love has only one testicle [due to an injury] and I’m hoping that he has a chance at children someday). ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844/5 "2003-01-31T13:00:23Z")
How’s it hanging? _sorry, I had too…_ ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844/6 "2003-01-31T13:01:56Z")
I’m 28. I have two children. The doctor said that since I’m healthy, and the other testicle seems to be fine, that I might have a _slightly_ lower count than normal, but still well within fertile parameters. Two lovely children prove this. Interesting thing… my testicle, according to women I’ve been with, is a little larger than it should be. The doctor I was seeing a few years ago said that was normal in these sorts of cases. ---
**Author:** ![Consuela\_Bobuela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Consuela\_Bobuela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Consuela_Bobuela)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844/7 "2003-01-31T13:26:37Z")
Can you sing half as well as Farinelli? ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844/8 "2003-01-31T13:35:55Z")
Nope. I can’t sight-read music, and when I’m in a choir, I have a tendency to follow the more dominant voices. I am, unless it’s changed in the last 10 years, a baritone. ---
**Author:** ![Consuela\_Bobuela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Consuela\_Bobuela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Consuela_Bobuela)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844/9 "2003-01-31T13:41:28Z")
Umm, okay Tristan. I hoped you would have appreciated the joke there, but I shall try again someday. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844/10 "2003-01-31T13:49:00Z")
Was this common knowledge among other children when you were young? If so, was it a source of teasing? I can imagine someone singing “Tristan, he only has one ball…” to the Col Bogey March. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844/11 "2003-01-31T13:56:50Z")
Awwww… Consuela, I got it. I was just trying to deadpan. **Ino** - No, it only became common knowledge amongst my friends when I was out of high school. I figured there would be no need to give my tormenters in school more ammo. I did have one girlfriend who knew, and when we broke up she tried to spread it around my gym class (co-ed). But by then, I was a lot more comfortable with myself, so when a girl tried to mock me I just told her she was jealous and she wanted to see it. ---
**Author:** ![Consuela\_Bobuela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Consuela\_Bobuela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Consuela_Bobuela)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844/12 "2003-01-31T14:02:31Z")
Tristan, you are now officially my favorite Doper. You’re a truly swell dude (no pun). ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844/13 "2003-01-31T15:03:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tristan \* > \*\* > I did have one girlfriend who knew, and when we broke up she tried to spread it around my gym class (co-ed). But by then, I was a lot more comfortable with myself, so when a girl tried to mock me I just told her she was jealous and she wanted to see it. \*\* See, this I don’t understand. Would it have been equally okay to mock her if she’d had a mastectomy? Bitch. At least you didn’t lose it as the result of an accident or cancer…it just kind of went away. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844/14 "2003-01-31T15:12:20Z")
…can you tie it in a knot…can you tie it in a bow.?. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844/15 "2003-01-31T15:20:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tristan \* > \*\*I’m 28. > > I have two children. > > The doctor said that since I’m healthy, and the other testicle seems to be fine, that I might have a _slightly_ lower count than normal, but still well within fertile parameters. Two lovely children prove this. > > Interesting thing… my testicle, according to women I’ve been with, is a little larger than it should be. The doctor I was seeing a few years ago said that was normal in these sorts of cases. \*\* So … one testicle ate the other one! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844/16 "2003-01-31T15:33:36Z")
To hell with all these questions, what we really want to know is if you have pictures and are willing to share them. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844/17 "2003-01-31T15:41:10Z")
I’d never given thought to the prospect of an “alpha testicle” before. Interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Royal\_Nonesuch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@Royal\_Nonesuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Royal_Nonesuch)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844/18 "2003-01-31T15:44:11Z")
Is your favorite pen a UniBall? ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844/19 "2003-01-31T15:48:00Z")
Have you ever heard the song “Half a Man”, by Steven Lynch? And if so, do you like it? > [@](#): > > But by then, I was a lot more comfortable with myself, so when a girl tried to mock me I just told her she was jealous and she wanted to see it. You were probably right! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844/20 "2003-01-31T15:54:32Z")
**Freak!** (says another man with only one testicle) I don’t know about you, but it’s a lot more comfortable crossing my legs than it used to be. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-man-with-one-testicle/151844.md?page=2)