# 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:** 12
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2008, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/41 "2008-12-22T05:35:40Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#):
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> That’s impossible. You certainly are misunderstanding what we’re describing. This isn’t an itching to get off. It’s a **painful** , swollen feeling. Unless your vagina is stocking up its sperm count due to foreplay and is ready to unload, you don’t get blue clit. The condition we’re describing is an incredible pain caused by a pressure of millions of sperm all dressed up with nowhere to go. It has nothing to do with a signal to “fuck now”.
Wikipedia says it has nothing to do with sperm, but rather with blood flow to the genitals, which is something that both men and women experience.
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> Women can also experience discomfort due to unrelieved vasocongestion as their pelvic area also becomes engorged with blood during sexual arousal. They can experience pelvic heaviness (aka blue walls or blue labia) and aching if they do not reach orgasm. The general term pelvic congestion refers to such pain as it occurs in either sex.
Pelvic heaviness and aching–sounds a lot like what I described.
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### Author:  [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2008, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/42 "2008-12-22T06:03:03Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#):
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> It’s not really any different than being super horny, though.
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#):
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> Pelvic heaviness and aching–sounds a lot like what I described.
Care to resolve that, then? I’ll concede that women can get it too but I still maintain that it’s nothing like what you describe. There’s a “I haven’t had sex and I’m horny” feeling and then there’s a “Blue Balls-OWW!” feeling.
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### Author:  [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2008, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/43 "2008-12-22T06:24:32Z")
Yup, you don’t make sperm in response to arousal - you make seminal fluid, which is what nearly all of the ejaculatory volume is composed of. Sperm production just goes on regardless, 24/7.
In me it’s been rare but not unknown, and carries the added disadvantage that if too long goes by between getting worked up and having some private time, it’s then really difficult to get off.
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### Author:  [@Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamaika_a_jamaikaiake)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2008, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/44 "2008-12-22T07:15:55Z")
I get exactly the aching described if I don’t urinate promptly after ejaculation. Does anyone else get this?
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/45 "2008-12-22T15:13:41Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#):
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> Care to resolve that, then? I’ll concede that women can get it too but I still maintain that it’s nothing like what you describe. There’s a “I haven’t had sex and I’m horny” feeling and then there’s a “Blue Balls-OWW!” feeling.
Maybe it’s not as bad as all that. It’s definitely annoying, though.
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### Author:  [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/46 "2008-12-22T16:08:00Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#):
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> Why, I’ll just go to the doctor who wrote this article! Thanks!
Ooooh, the ole ad hominem! Good one! I didn’t see that coming :rolleyes:
Care to provide a site to back up your _doctor’s_ claim?
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### Author:  [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2009, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/47 "2009-02-12T14:22:41Z")
Sorry to revive an old thread, but in the spirit of fighting ignorance, I have to offer a plausible cause for my severely Blue Balls (see the OP): average male ejaculation volume of c. 5 ml has always seemed way less than mine. So, I took to task to measuring my average load and came up with 9 ml, or 1.8 times the reported average. It would seem logical that the bigger the ejaculation-to-be, the stronger the pressure build-up in the works - assuming it’s not the simple blood flow to the genitals that causes the pain as Wikipedia implies (I find that hard to believe).
Maybe guys with voluminous ejaculations are prone to painfully blue balls? Maybe guys typically cum less with aging, explaining the prevalence of the condition among youths in contrast to the rarity among older men?
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### Author:  [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/48 "2009-02-12T15:24:52Z")
Blue balls are the least of your worries. Best hope that your balls don’t simply explode, leaving an eviserated mess where your crown jewels used to be.
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/49 "2009-02-12T15:28:11Z")
Why do you find it hard to believe that it’s just blood flow causing the sensations?
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### Author:  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/50 "2009-02-12T23:31:46Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#):
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> I got so built up a few times that I hit all four walls of a small room, the ceiling, and the floor as well as my own face when the Hoover Damn finally got breached by nukes or so it seemed. It isn’t fun trying to examine everything in a 9 foot radius with your girlfriend as fast as possible to get it cleaned up before her roommate cums home.
…huh?
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### Author:  [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2009, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/51 "2009-02-12T23:58:46Z")
> [@Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](#):
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> I get exactly the aching described if I don’t urinate promptly after ejaculation. Does anyone else get this?
Sometimes, yes. But “real” blue balls (caused by lots of stimulation but no release) are usually much more painful for me.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-balls-tmi/478122/52 "2009-02-13T01:04:35Z")
> [@Toxylon](#):
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> Sorry to revive an old thread, but in the spirit of fighting ignorance, I have to offer a plausible cause for my severely Blue Balls (see the OP): average male ejaculation volume of c. 5 ml has always seemed way less than mine. So, I took to task to measuring my average load and came up with 9 ml, or 1.8 times the reported average. It would seem logical that the bigger the ejaculation-to-be, the stronger the pressure build-up in the works - assuming it’s not the simple blood flow to the genitals that causes the pain as Wikipedia implies (I find that hard to believe).
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> Maybe guys with voluminous ejaculations are prone to painfully blue balls? Maybe guys typically cum less with aging, explaining the prevalence of the condition among youths in contrast to the rarity among older men?
To add another data point - vasectomised males get it, and it’s relieved in the same fashion - so its not sperm backing up in the testes (they would just stay there and continue to cause discomfort for males who’ve had the snip) - probably fluids in the prostate instead.
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