# Could a person get fored for this **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 2, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643 "2002-09-02T05:03:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BZ00000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/47e85d/32.png) [@BZ00000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BZ00000)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643/1 "2002-09-02T05:03:28Z")
I read an article about about men who get saline injected into their scrotum, inflating it to the size of a basketball. Could a man who does this get fired when he comes into work with a basketball-sized scrotum in his pants? Would he have to explain what is in his pants? ---
**Author:** ![BZ00000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/47e85d/32.png) [@BZ00000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BZ00000)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643/2 "2002-09-02T05:04:39Z")
no further message ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643/3 "2002-09-02T05:12:47Z")
Where do you… I mean where does he work? ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643/4 "2002-09-02T05:35:36Z")
I suspect that a human being who would do that to his own body would have a hard time holding down a steady job anywhere. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643/5 "2002-09-02T05:39:00Z")
[Jim Rose]Give that main a raise…and a seat cushion[/JR] ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643/6 "2002-09-02T05:44:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BZ00000 \* > \*\*I read an article about about men who get saline injected into their scrotum, inflating it to the size of a basketball. Could a man who does this get fired when he comes into work with a basketball-sized scrotum in his pants? Would he have to explain what is in his pants? \*\* With all due respect I suppose anything is possible but this sounds like total and complete BS. Please provide a link or cite for this “article”. ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643/7 "2002-09-02T05:44:10Z")
I may be missing something, but **why** in the world would any man want to do that in the first place? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643/8 "2002-09-02T06:47:43Z")
> [@](#): > > _BZ00000 asks:_ > **Would he have to explain what is in his pants?** Tell’em you suffer from [elephantiasis](http://www.ehendrick.org/healthy/00046560.html). I’ll leave it to you to find the pictures. Doing it _deliberately_, however, is a new one on me. ---
**Author:** ![GopherGod72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f0a364/32.png) [@GopherGod72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GopherGod72)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643/9 "2002-09-02T07:05:39Z")
If you like… um… injected all this saline into mr johnnysack I imagine there would be lots of pressure and said little injection hole would become a squirt gun of sorts. Tell me BZ00000 does that happen when you do that? Not that I mean YOU… just you as in general… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643/10 "2002-09-02T10:27:04Z")
You know, if I read an article about someone doing that to himself, my first question wouldn’t be “I wonder if he’d get fired for going to work that way?” As a matter of fact, I’d probably come up with at least fifty other questions first… Eric ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643/11 "2002-09-02T11:12:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astro \* > \*\* > > With all due respect I suppose anything is possible but this sounds like total and complete BS. Please provide a link or cite for this “article”. \*\* Oh it is real all right; I’ve seen pictures(I was skeptical, just like you). The technique is called Saline infusion but a link would be quite inappropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643/12 "2002-09-02T11:56:22Z")
:cues in \*\*AC/DC’s \*\* I’ve got big balls: I’m with **LolaBaby** I want to know _why_? ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643/13 "2002-09-02T12:59:11Z")
Yes, why in the name of all that’s true and good? Or otherwise, even? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643/14 "2002-09-02T13:01:37Z")
Come on; people do all sorts of bizarre things; this is just one of them. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643/15 "2002-09-02T13:03:01Z")
I think this was mentioned in _Savage Love_ in the Onion’s AV Club site a week or two ago. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643/16 "2002-09-02T13:04:21Z")
Or straight from the horse’s mouth: > [@](#): > > Saline infusion. A big, full, bouncy, heavy ball sack of fluid. Why, you ask? Because I can, because I like altering human form, it is fun to play and I get off on the control. Men not only let me, they want to experience it for their own assorted, or is that sordid, reasons I can’t attribute that quote without posting an inappropriate link though. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643/17 "2002-09-02T13:08:25Z")
Okay, here’s a WAG on an answer: possibly. Companies already hire and discipline based on personal appearance. I can imagine that even an employment tribunal could be convinced that firing someone in a customer service role who had voluntarily undergone saline infusion is acceptable. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643/18 "2002-09-02T14:26:57Z")
Wow, I saw the pix. Some people are _nuts_ , I’m telling ya. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643/19 "2002-09-02T14:30:16Z")
Nah, on second thought I think it is just a hoax. Side note: It is interesting that a photo now carries much less weight for me than it did (say) five years ago. Knowing how easy it is to fake photos and having seen so many on the Net has made me very skeptical and a photo no longer is a guarantee of anything for me. I think those photos can easily be fake. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643/20 "2002-09-02T14:37:32Z")
\>\> I read an article about about men who get saline injected into their scrotum, inflating it to the size of a basketball The pix I saw are nowhere near the size of a basketball but maybe a bit bigger than a baseball but still. . . The whole site is crazy. They also do “Labial Saline Infusion” on women’s vulvas and some other things. If this is real there are some very sick people out there but I tend to think it is probably a joke. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-person-get-fored-for-this/126643.md?page=2)