# Gruesome medical question (guys, you know what I'm talkin about)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [December 1, 2000, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517 "2000-12-01T04:01:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ElusiveMiser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElusiveMiser)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2000, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517/1 "2000-12-01T04:01:50Z")
I’ve heard that it only takes 5 pounds of concentrated pressure to crush a human testicle? Is this true?
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### Author:  [@bafaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bafaa)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2000, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517/2 "2000-12-01T04:05:01Z")
Thanks sooo much!
…crawls into fetal position…
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2000, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517/3 "2000-12-01T04:07:37Z")
Actually, I’m kind of relieved. I thought this was another circumcision thread.
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2000, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517/4 "2000-12-01T04:12:49Z")
Typically, perhaps. Although I could give you a link to a video of a woman in high heels stomping on a man’s testicles (some kind of weird fetish thing, I believe he enjoyed it), which didn’t appear to be destroyed by the stomping.
But, I bet the mods wouldn’t appreciate that.
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### Author:  [@peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peace)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2000, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517/5 "2000-12-01T04:17:13Z")
NO, it’s not true, “concentrated pressure” nonwithstanding. To cause pain, perhaps. The pain threshold is different in different people. What is meant by “crushing”?
Complete destruction? Loss of function? Minimal bleeding?
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### Author:  [@bafaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bafaa)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2000, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517/6 "2000-12-01T04:18:41Z")
I should just stop opening this thread…
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### Author:  [@Gaspode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaspode)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2000, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517/7 "2000-12-01T04:28:10Z")
The trouble with these sorts of statements is that they may be true, but have no bearing on the real world. Quite possibly if I could get a testicle, pin it down and place a 3 kilo weight on it for say an hour it may well ‘crush’ ,though from what I’ve seen of calf testicles I find it unlikely. In the real world of course they move, they slide on they are protected by bones, skin etc. so I don’t suppose it’s something to worry about. I know I’ve been kicked in the scrotum with a lot more than 3kg force (not for kinky reasons) and although it hurts like hell nothing is ‘crushed’
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### Author:  [@Major\_Feelgud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Major_Feelgud)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2000, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517/8 "2000-12-01T07:16:21Z")
The OP is poorly worded. I suppose you mean 5lbs per sq inch right?
The answer is no. Despite the fact that the testicles do not contain any cartilage or bone, it takes much more than 5lbs/in2.
It takes approximately 22lbs/sq in. instantaneous pressure to crush a human testicle.
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### Author:  [@Gaspode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaspode)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2000, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517/9 "2000-12-01T07:20:39Z")
Cool answer man,
but
HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW THAT?
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### Author:  [@Major\_Feelgud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Major_Feelgud)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2000, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517/10 "2000-12-01T07:34:37Z")
Trust me. You don’t wanna know.
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2000, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517/11 "2000-12-01T08:35:47Z")
So the name “Major Feelgud” is meant to be ironic, then?
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### Author:  [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2000, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517/12 "2000-12-01T08:39:26Z")
Dangit.
I’m cringing, and I don’t even have a pair of 'em. This just sounds way too painful.
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### Author:  [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2000, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517/13 "2000-12-01T14:53:43Z")
What I want to know is how does this qualify as a medical question?
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### Author:  [@1967GTO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1967GTO)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2000, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517/14 "2000-12-01T16:02:39Z")
Because after you test the theory, you’ll need a medic, and perhaps a sponge to sop up the remains.
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### Author:  [@peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peace)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2000, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517/15 "2000-12-01T16:09:10Z")
**Q; It takes approximately 22lbs/sq in. instantaneous pressure to crush a human testicle.**
Major, if pressure is applied to a building (a constant pressure over a period of time or as a single blow), it collapse/crushes. What do you mean when you say “to crush a human testicle”? To turn it into puree’? Do you know how much pressure is needed to “crush” other tissue, e.g., liver, spleen, brain, etc. For comparison purposes. Anyone can “crush” a lymph node.
In your arrogant response you sounded like you were born with this knowledge. If not, can you supply a reference? TIA.
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### Author:  [@TomH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TomH)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517/16 "2000-12-01T16:42:44Z")
This reminds me of a joke:
A man gets a job on a farm, and one of his first duties is to castrate one of the horses. He asks the farmer to show him how to do it, expecting to be given some piece of special apparatus, but the farmer picks up a couple of bricks.
“Creep up behind the horse, hold the bricks about four feet apart, on either side of his scrotum and then smackthem together sharply. That should do the trick.”
“But doesn’t that hurt like hell?”
“Not if you keep your thumbs out of the way.”
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### Author:  [@Major\_Feelgud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Major_Feelgud)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2000, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517/17 "2000-12-01T20:15:34Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by peace \*
> \*\*
> Major, if pressure is applied to a building (a constant pressure over a period of time or as a single blow), it collapse/crushes. What do you mean when you say “to crush a human testicle”? To turn it into puree’? Do you know how much pressure is needed to “crush” other tissue, e.g., liver, spleen, brain, etc. For comparison purposes. Anyone can “crush” a lymph node.
> In your arrogant response you sounded like you were born with this knowledge. If not, can you supply a reference? TIA.
>
> \*\*
For a person whose handle is peace, you’re not very peaceful. As a matter of fact, your father posted this information on the Internet. If you’d care to know why I can tell you in the Pit.
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### Author:  [@peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peace)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2000, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517/18 "2000-12-01T20:38:55Z")
Even I do not claim to not understand the difference between “peaceful” and “inquisitive”. Thie MB is voluntary. If you invented the info, say so, do not descend yourself to the level of my father or your mother. You know where it may lead. You can tell me anything you think has any value right here, I’m not going to follow you to the pit.
If I state the the Earth is spherical, most people trust my word. But if you cite any specific number, in an exotic area (unlike 55mph speed limit) and somebody _politely_ asks a ref, please oblidge. This MB ain’t a scientific peer review journal. You can still publish here whatever you want (mods permitting), but who will believe you?
BTW, numbers notwithstanding, what is to “crush” a testicle?
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### Author:  [@Damhna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damhna)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2000, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517/19 "2000-12-01T21:00:32Z")
Just an aside:
Its generally accepted that the Mpeg you refer to is actually a movie of a corpse getting trampled.
C’mon did you really watch the thing??
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### Author:  [@Major\_Feelgud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Major_Feelgud)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2000, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gruesome-medical-question-guys-you-know-what-im-talkin-about/43517/20 "2000-12-01T21:01:02Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by peace \*
> \*\*Even I do not claim to not understand the difference between “peaceful” and “inquisitive”. Thie MB is voluntary. If you invented the info, say so, do not descend yourself to the level of my father or your mother. You know where it may lead. You can tell me anything you think has any value right here, I’m not going to follow you to the pit.
>
> If I state the the Earth is spherical, most people trust my word. But if you cite any specific number, in an exotic area (unlike 55mph speed limit) and somebody _politely_ asks a ref, please oblidge. This MB ain’t a scientific peer review journal. You can still publish here whatever you want (mods permitting), but who will believe you?
>
> BTW, numbers notwithstanding, what is to “crush” a testicle? \*\*
The difference between peaceful and inquisitive? At least I know that it does not involve the words “your arrogant response” in either. I’ve come across your posts before, it would be difficult to think of a more unlikely handle for you. Better choose another such as harm, flamer, or i havent had my coffee this morning so look out
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