Okay, I’m noticing a rising trend in the number of attacks that are made toward my groin (by roommates in friendly matches). I’ve asked them to stop, and they’re not all-out blood-in-your-pee nutcrackers, it’s just that a knee sometimes manages to slip through accidentally, or a stray backhand or whatever. It’s just barely hard enough to make it hurt enough.
I’m just getting kinda concerned. Am I gonna have kids when I grow up if I never get hit there again? Or does it take a reaaaally hard blow to actually cause soem damage?
So, umm…it really does hurt when a guy is hit there? I always wondered how much of that in the movies was real and how much just acting. Too shy to ask a real guy! How hard a hit hurts? Am just trying to figure out something analogous in my experience…
My apologies/sympathies to you, in any case! Don’t have an answer to your Q, though.
I can’t really answer the OP, except to guess that the boys must be pretty tough, hanging out like that all the time… I would think it would take a pretty serious blow (couldn’t resist!) to do any permanant damage…
But Nenya, yes it really DOES hurt when a male is hit there! Not the penis, though… we’re talking testicles here! A good knee to the testicles will put a man on the ground and keep him there for quite a while! OUCHIE!! How hard a hit does it take? A very light hit in the right location will hurt a LOT! What can you, yourself, compare it to? Not being female, I wouldn’t know… but as a male, I can’t think of anything else (barring extreme things such as loss of a limb, etc.) that hurts quite as much or in anything resembling the same way.
Use your new knowledge wisely! It is VERY easy to make enemies this way!
I can’t think of anything analogous as there is nothing that feels quite like getting hit in the nuts, but I can give you an idea about how sensitive the region is and how hard you have to hit it to get pain…
Flick the palm of your hand with your fingertip, not so hard that you get a bit of a sting, just like you are trying to flick something off your finger. If that was applied to a testicle it would hurt enough to make you wince and give you a funny feeling in the stomach afterwards.
Whereas, of course, sucking external genitalia really doesn’t.
I have no idea just how analogous the pain is, but I’m lead to believe that it hurts a lot when a woman gets hit in the boobies. That might give you some idea (or it might not. No common ground really, is there?)
What you may not realise if you’ve never talked about it is that being hit in the balls is accompanied by a rather nasty stomach ache that lasts quite a while.
I had a happy adolescence which involved repeated blows to the gonads delivered by my so-called mates. Despite being a resolutely non-sporty person, I also clocked up a couple of sports-related groin injuries… Round about the age of eighteen, I developed an epididymal cyst, which had to be removed surgically, and I think that may have been related to the trauma. However, apart from that, there have been, to my knowledge, no permanent effects. (Granted, I don’t have any kids, but that’s down to a continued lack of success with the fair sex).
If I may grade my experiences, roughly… getting punched, kneed or kicked in that area hurts A Lot. When someone kicks a football (soccer ball) into 'em, that hurts worse. When someone is serving in a tennis match, and serves really hard, and really long, and slams the ball straight into your nadgers… that one was undoubtedly the worst; it was ten minutes before I could even stand. The aftermath of the surgery was a low-level, deep-down ache; not nice, but bearable.
ISTR a thread a few months back where someone claimed the pain of passing a kidney stone was comparable with that of childbirth… I have passed a kidney stone, and (sorry, guys) I have to admit, that hurt worse than the tennis ball incident. I can’t claim to be scientific about this, but I am in a position to say - from experience - that I would rather be hit in the goolies by a tennis ball than pass a kidney stone. (Hmmm. I don’t have a sig… perhaps…? No, maybe not). On the other hand, the tennis ball thing was definitely worse than the broken elbow. Or the dislocated shoulder. Or… perhaps I’d better stop here. Any winsome maidens wishing to comfort me for my hard life (or verify that, in spite of it all, the equipment is still in working order), you know where to apply.
More good news. Almost all the medical sites I visited list injury to the testicles as a possible cause of infertility, though none go into any depth:wally
Right, but how much does it take? Does it take repeated field goal-style kicks, or are the genitalia actually as delicate as they feel? I mean, there’s got to be some sort of resistance to minor bumps here and there, right?
I think the answer is it depends. One crushing blow could damage the canals, and cause infertility. Lots of little blows (perhaps the wrong word in this context) may cause build up of scar tissue. The problem is of course that unles the injury is so severe (e.g castration) that it is hard to prove that the trauma caused the infertility.
Ladies, women and girls. Do not hit a male in the testicles unless your physical safety depends on it. It really does hurt as much or more than depicted in movies or on TV, and it doesn’t need to be a severe hit. Heck, you’ve seen men wince in pain just watching it, because even that almost hurts. It gets us very worried. So no playing around with groin hits. Please.:eek:
For the women who were wondering what it feels like, well, have someone kick your privates real hard and you’ll have a pretty good idea.
A woman in my dojo many years ago got quite a kick out of nut shots when training with the guys. Actually, it was good practice. although, let me tell you, taking a serious blow while wearing a cup still hurts. Anyhoo, one of the guys repeatedly warned her to be a “gentleman” about it, but she persisted. He warned her. Finally had enough and eventually kicked her hoo ha at about 10% strength, and she looked like a guy who had been kicked in the nuts.
