# Men! Cover your nutsack, for god's sake! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 28, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676 "2003-03-28T01:32:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676/101 "2003-03-29T02:17:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rubystreak \* > \*\*I dunno, mate, maybe, but then, what would it take you get you to get that spiked rod outta your ass? “Oppressive Puritan whining”? Hyperbolic much? I think you need to dig into your own scrotumy goodness with a butter knife and spread it all over yourself, inhale deeply, and relaaaaax. > \*\* Relax? _cough_ Am I the one who started a thread because I was terrified by a stray gonad? _No_. Spiked rod in my ass? Not only do I think you are an oppressive whiny Puritan, but I now think you are now an animated piece of fecal matter that has gained a level of pseudo-sentience. Spiked rod in my ass, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676/102 "2003-03-29T02:24:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Spiked rod in my ass, indeed. Well, not unless it’s Saturday night at the local leather bar 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676/103 "2003-03-29T02:30:27Z")
Plantars, of course! Peanuts or Cashews? Honey-Roasted or Salted? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676/104 "2003-03-29T02:39:26Z")
Hey ladies, if we ever see **Mockingbird** at a Dopefest, I suggest flash him a view of the goodies. :rolleyes: Excuse me if I don’t want to see some stranger’s genitalia. (However, if it were Goran Visnjic…hmmmmm) ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676/105 "2003-03-29T02:51:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mockingbird \* > Relax? > > _cough_ > > Am I the one who started a thread because I was terrified by a stray gonad? Terrified? No, no, no. Grossed out. How absurd of you to expect me to jump for joy at the sight of an old man’s nutsack! Really, now, you came into this thread with a hard-on (pun intended), so I think relaxing with your scrotumy goodness would be a good idea. > [@](#): > > Spiked rod in my ass? What, did you expect me to say, “Why yes, Mockingbird! You’re right! I am so eeeevil for not thrilling at the sight of random elderly scrotum. The wisdom you have given me has tranfigured me!” Duh. > [@](#): > > Not only do I think you are an oppressive whiny Puritan, Let’s examine this word PURITAN you’re throwing around. Am I trying to have scrotums tried as witches? Am I dunking scrotums in lakes to see if they float? Am I burning scrotums at the stake? No. I am merely pointing out that some men need to wear tighter underwear. You must have a hard time living in this world full of Puritans if you think a person who doesn’t long to gaze at strangers’ scrotums is way outta line. > [@](#): > > but I now think you are now an animated piece of fecal matter that has gained a level of pseudo-sentience. You’re so cute when you’re angry.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cortana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Cortana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cortana)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676/106 "2003-03-29T03:13:39Z")
No one’s asked the hard questions! Why were you looking at his crotch in the first place! Why can girls show cleavage, but we men can’t show off OUR proof of reproductive prowess?! ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676/107 "2003-03-29T03:15:47Z")
I wasn’t looking at his crotch. I walked towards his prone form on the mat. As such, I looked at him and one could hardly miss it. Same with the friend on the beach. He was sitting on the towel with his knee drawn up, tying his shoelace. I was just standing there. It was really unavoidable. Also, lemme point out, there is a MASSIVE difference between cleavage, with is just smooth, rounded skin, and the writhing human lava lamp that is The Scrotum. ---
**Author:** ![vasyachkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c5a1d2/32.png) [@vasyachkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vasyachkin)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676/108 "2003-03-29T08:00:00Z")
Rubystreak you have issues ( as you should have figured out by that time in the thread ). if you dont want to see it - dont look. i remember a few weeks ago i was doing shrugs at my gym and for my last set i took my shirt off to see the muscles working in the mirror. i heard an “oh my god!” from a girl standing about 5 feet behind me, apparently she was one of your kind and it was too much exposure for her to handle … … what is wrong with you people ? ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676/109 "2003-03-29T08:51:35Z")
Sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676/110 "2003-03-29T10:40:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vasyachkin \* > \*\*Rubystreak you have issues ( as you should have figured out by that time in the thread ). > > if you dont want to see it - dont look. i remember a few weeks ago i was doing shrugs at my gym and for my last set i took my shirt off to see the muscles working in the mirror. i heard an “oh my god!” from a girl standing about 5 feet behind me, apparently she was one of your kind and it was too much exposure for her to handle … … what is wrong with you people ? \*\* Maybe chiquita was overwhelmed by your muscle-y goodness, and the “Oh my God!” was a prelude to her swoon of desire. 😛 Freaking out because some guy’s taken out his shirt is a little excessive, I grant you. But being a little pissed by the fact that a stranger is leaving his genitals blowin’ free in a public place (while, I might add, there are laws against that kind of thing: it’s called indecent exposure or some such) is quite natural. There’s a reason we’re all expected to wear some clothes in the pelvis reason kiddies, and it’s so strangers don’t see your goodies. I’d gladly watch a scrotum in all its undulating glory, if it belonged to someone I was interested in showing equivalent parts of my body to. No one should have to see genitals they don’t want to see though. **Rubystreak’s** not overreacting in the slightest. An overreaction would have been to freak out at the owner of the scrotum in question. Coming to post about it here where she can have a good laugh about is probably the best way to deal with the whole situation. On the other hand, **vasyachkin** dear, _you_ sound like the conversation’s hit a sore spot. I don’t think **Ruby’s** the one with the issues here. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676/111 "2003-03-29T11:16:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by foxfiregrrl \* > \*\*I’m so glad that I’m a lesbian. \*\* Being a lesbian prevents you from seeing guys’ testicles? Like, you’re physically incapable of seeing scrotii? Well, then, thank god I’m straight! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676/112 "2003-03-29T12:33:28Z")
Only on the SDMB can one truthfully say he has not spent five minutes watching his scrotum writhe, and be considered the odd one. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676/113 "2003-03-29T17:24:27Z")
I’ve done the flashlight thing and it’s pretty cool seeing the blood vessles pulse in time with my heartbeat. It’s like a live X-ray. And the bit about boobs is valid since beauty is in the eye of the beholder even if there is a nutsack dangling in front of it. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676/114 "2003-03-29T19:22:45Z")
Hmm. There are any number of women in this thread who can feel free to inspect my scrotum any time they wish. But it’s any time _they_ wish, I don’t propose to display it freely at times and places of my choosing. And it’s not a puritan overreaction on anybody’s part if they don’t want to see it. Just MHO. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676/115 "2003-03-29T19:36:27Z")
Three pages into a scrotum thread and no sign of Scylla or Thinksnow. What is happening to this place? (“scrotumy goodness” - _larf_) ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676/116 "2003-03-30T04:44:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Steve Wright \* > \*\*Hmm. There are any number of women in this thread who can feel free to inspect my scrotum any time they wish. > > But it’s any time _they_ wish, I don’t propose to display it freely at times and places of my choosing. And it’s not a puritan overreaction on anybody’s part if they don’t want to see it. Just MHO. \*\* I assume MHO stands for My Hooterville Opinion. It is her bitching, whining, and behaving as if seeing someone’s genitals means a damn thing. Next time it happens, I will personally buy her the bleach to disinfect her poor tainted eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676/117 "2003-03-30T05:11:54Z")
Geez, **ex-Hastur** , give it a rest already. If she doesn’t want to see a scrotum, that’s her call. If you do, that’s your call. Let’s see…attacking a female OP’er, flaming everyone in sight who disagrees, blowing things _way_ out of proportion in an attempt to hijack a thread…[where have we seen this before?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=156121&highlight=Hastur+chill) :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676/118 "2003-03-30T05:47:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duke \* > \*\*Geez, **ex-Hastur** , give it a rest already. If she doesn’t want to see a scrotum, that’s her call. If you do, that’s your call. > > Let’s see…attacking a female OP’er, flaming everyone in sight who disagrees, blowing things _way_ out of proportion in an attempt to hijack a thread…[where have we seen this before?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=156121&highlight=Hastur+chill) :rolleyes: \*\* Mmm-hmmm. Thank you for submitting your opinion, bu it does not fit our current needs. We’d rather you not submit in the future as we have more than enough litter box liners. PS: The nick is Mockingbird now for a reason. While Lynn had every reason to tell me to chill, I just went a skosh too far. And I had ceased before Lynn chastised me. PPS: It was not a hijack and gender has NOTHING to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676/119 "2003-03-30T05:47:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duke \* > \*\*Geez, **ex-Hastur** , give it a rest already. If she doesn’t want to see a scrotum, that’s her call. If you do, that’s your call. > > Let’s see…attacking a female OP’er, flaming everyone in sight who disagrees, blowing things _way_ out of proportion in an attempt to hijack a thread…[where have we seen this before?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=156121&highlight=Hastur+chill) :rolleyes: \*\* Mmm-hmmm. Thank you for submitting your opinion, bu it does not fit our current needs. We’d rather you not submit in the future as we have more than enough litter box liners. PS: The nick is Mockingbird now for a reason. While Lynn had every reason to tell me to chill, I just went a skosh too far. And I had ceased before Lynn chastised me. PPS: It was not a hijack and gender has NOTHING to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676/120 "2003-03-30T06:02:39Z")
Gender may have “nothing to do with it” in your eyes, **Mockingbird** , but I find it interesting that you have taken it upon yourself to tell someone of another gender what they should and shouldn’t be offended by, and that any attempts by that person to disagree are met with claims of “stupid Puritan whining.” And, as for hijacking the thread, hey, you’re the one who tried to start a flame war here. The OP’er didn’t attack anyone on this board, but you saw fit to attack her. PS. I’m still going to need some convincing that you didn’t change your username as a result of, not just **Lynn** , but **Coldfire** , **Esprix** , and indeed half the Board singed your hide over actions you admit were wrong but never bothered to apologize for. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-cover-your-nutsack-for-gods-sake/164676.md?page=7)