# Blue Balls (TMI)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 20, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122 "2008-12-20T23:29:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/1 "2008-12-20T23:29:17Z")
Do you get it? How bad is it?
I get it every time I get sufficiently aroused without a climax promptly following. It’s really uncomfortable, painful actually. Not unlike the '“afterglow” of getting hit in the nuts, but mostly originating from the back of the sack - I presume it’s the tubes writhing in anticipation of a launch. It’s nasty enough that I seriously reconsider an opportunity for coitus if there is a risk of interruption.
Am I weird? Is my pain threshold unusually low? Is there a remedy?
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/2 "2008-12-20T23:41:03Z")
Good news. There is a very simple remedy.
Unless you don’t have any hands, then I have some bad news for you…
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### Author:  [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2008, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/3 "2008-12-20T23:44:20Z")
> [@Toxylon](#):
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> Am I weird? Is my pain threshold unusually low? Is there a remedy?
Yes. Probably. Are you serious?
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/4 "2008-12-20T23:48:52Z")
I’ve never had this condition and I’ve always had the impression that it’s mostly a contrivance to get girls to put out. If the OP is serious, he’s out of the norm and may want to get his prostate checked out.
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### Author:  [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/5 "2008-12-20T23:50:46Z")
The thing is, stuff that cuts off the love-making (two-year-old waking up etc.) make it very hard to finish off by hand, either. Also, it seems getting off once blue balls emerge is stupenduously hard, and doesn’t really cut the pain. As in, I spank the monkey in the bathroom till my hand cramps, the ejaculation feels like reading a phone book, and my crotch still aches. I am serious, unfortunately.
ETA: my prostate is fine, judged by the handsome golden arches I produce on a daily basis. My diet is super-clean and my plumbing works fine, save for the blue balls. I’m getting worried here, if you guys don’t even think the condition is for real.
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/6 "2008-12-21T00:13:44Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> I’ve never had this condition and I’ve always had the impression that it’s mostly a contrivance to get girls to put out. If the OP is serious, he’s out of the norm and may want to get his prostate checked out.
No, girls get it, too. I’ve gotten it. Usually I only get it around the time of ovulation, and sometimes even when I masturbate, I still feel really aroused/want more, ah, vaginal stimulation. Just figured it was my body’s way of saying “FUCK NOW.”
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/7 "2008-12-21T00:17:12Z")
I’m probably weird. I like it, as long as it _eventually_ resolves. I like to fool around and get to within a hair’s breadth of orgasm then stop for a couple hours and do something else, then do it again, for several iterations. It gets sweeter each time.
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### Author:  [@The\_Batman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Batman)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/8 "2008-12-21T00:27:53Z")
It’s real? I always thought it was just some way of saying you’re horny or that you hadn’t gotten any in a while.
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### Author:  [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/9 "2008-12-21T00:30:51Z")
There is no medical condition called “blue-balls” my doctor so informs me. Nor is there a medical condition called DSB (Deadly Sperm Buildup). There is no reason that you can’t try either of these lines on a non-doctor. Non-doctors want to get laid and don’t care if you lie to do it.
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### Author:  [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/10 "2008-12-21T00:35:15Z")
OK, blue balls is probably not the real term. I don’t know what is. I do know the pain is real, and comes from heavy arousal not leading to ejaculation. Every time.
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### Author:  [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/11 "2008-12-21T00:37:22Z")
You wife is kicking you in the balls during your sleep. Mystery, end of.
Go buy her some flowers.
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/12 "2008-12-21T00:37:33Z")
They call it vasocongestion. Or prolonged vasocongestion without orgasm, I guess.
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### Author:  [@Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interconnected_Series_of_Tubes)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/13 "2008-12-21T01:04:00Z")
“Blue balls,” the phenomenon in which prolonged arousal without climax causes some pretty severe fuckin’ pain in the gonads, is [most definitely real.](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/463/why-do-ones-loins-ache-after-a-session-of-nonclimactic-arousal)
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### Author:  [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/14 "2008-12-21T01:33:12Z")
I’ve experienced it, but not since I was in high school.
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### Author:  [@MaceMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaceMan)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/15 "2008-12-21T01:34:13Z")
I would consult a urologist. I think a feeling of slight pressure is normal, but not actual pain.
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### Author:  [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2008, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/16 "2008-12-21T03:13:18Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> I’ve never had this condition and I’ve always had the impression that it’s mostly a contrivance to get girls to put out. If the OP is serious, he’s out of the norm and may want to get his prostate checked out.
I have to disagree with this. It is very real and it sucks. This mostly happened when I was a teenager trying to get in some girls pants for more than two hours and failing.
Now that I’m old and experienced I make sure that it is nearly going to be a sure thing. No more blue balls.
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### Author:  [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/17 "2008-12-21T04:00:36Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#):
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> No, girls get it, too. I’ve gotten it. Usually I only get it around the time of ovulation, and sometimes even when I masturbate, I still feel really aroused/want more, ah, vaginal stimulation. Just figured it was my body’s way of saying “FUCK NOW.”
You need my number? I can be right over.
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### Author:  [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2008, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/18 "2008-12-21T04:22:00Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever had it. I guess I’m lucky.
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2008, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/19 "2008-12-21T04:33:38Z")
> [@Mr Bus Guy](#):
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> You need my number? I can be right over.
:😊: Shucks.
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### Author:  [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2008, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/20 "2008-12-21T05:32:35Z")
> [@Toxylon](#):
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> As in, I spank the monkey in the bathroom till my hand cramps, the ejaculation feels like reading a phone book
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Grab your dick and double click
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[/AQ]
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