I’ve recently discovered Ticked Off Nic videos on YouTube. In one of them, Nic describes accidentally sitting on his own testicles as being like “lightning shooting out of my ass.”
Now, being of the distaff half of the world, I don’t have to worry about this particular hazard. But I can see how having sensitive body organs hanging so close to the posterior could make sitting dangerous. However, I have observed men sitting down for over fifty years now, and I have never actually seen such a thing happen. Nor have I noticed men taking particular care in sitting down so as to avoid riding the lightning, so to speak. No, most men plop themselves down just as easily as us women.
Vic describes the experience as something that happens to males as they get older. But is it? I’m not saying it never happens. Heck, how would a spinster like me know? But do men have to worry about crushing their nuts while sitting down?
In general, when sitting down, I don’t just plop down, I do slow down for a microsecond before actually sitting, to avoid squishing nuts. But the balls are more of an issue when one is on a moving vehicle, such as when one is riding a bicycle over a speed bump. That is why you’ll see some guys stand up briefly on their bicycle when going over a bump or pothole - the jarring force of the impact might transmit to places it is not desired.
The only time I can recall having issues while clothed was on bicycles or otherwise straddling something like a patio rail or slipping on a log while hiking/hunting.
It happens to me, now and then. Once a year, maybe. Doesn’t seem to have anything to do with age. Just something that happens, like stubbing your toe or bonking your head on a low overhead shelf. You always promise you’ll be more careful next time…but there’s always a next time.
It’s kind of a thing. You can get in a seating position in which your balls are crushed in an uncomfortable way. I wouldn’t describe it as “sitting on my own nuts,” though.
IME, it’s not so much ‘sitting on’ them, like you would sit on your wallet in your back pocket, as it is ‘my testicles and clothing were aligned poorly such that sitting with my thighs pressed together has ground the one testicle against the other, when normally they would be fore-and-aft, or top-and-bottom, or would have slid out of the way of each other.’
A gentleman can generally sit with the testes up, sort of riding in the valley between the thighs, or with the testes down, between the thighs or (gasp) in the small potential space between the backs of the thighs and the chair seat. It is in the latter two positions that they are most likely to get ground against each other. If you’re expecting a bumpy ride, make sure your nuts are sitting up high!
I don’t think I’ve ever really done it full force but, yes, it occasionally happens. I mean, very rarely, but, yes, I’ve definitely sat on one of my nuts before, and it’s not just one nut rubbing around the other, it’s sitting on one of them with my thigh if I sit down weirdly. As to how often? I dunno. Once a year at most?
Not a man, but I’ve got balls…and…yeah, it happens, occasionally. I can’t wear loose undies because of it. Snug panties or boxer briefs…anything else is asking for trouble.
First time I ever heard about this was on 30 Rock. Liz mentioned being present when Lutz “Belvedered.”
I had to look up what this referenced, and damned if it wasn’t rumored that Mr Belvedere sat on his own nuts. I, a 30-something man, giggled myself to sleep that night. Mostly from Liz’s reference to belvedering, but also from the image of Mr. Belvedere sitting on his nuts.
As I sit down, I tend to bring my knees in first, so I can feel that I’m settled in front before I sit down. Or you can do it the other way, where as you start to drop you have your feet slightly spread(“man-spreading”), and as you hit ground, you bring your knees in a bit so that you don’t look like you’re trying to be offensive.
You can resettle before sitting without actually reaching in and adjusting – you can just bridle a bit, move your legs a bit – it’s almost without thought, the way some women casually adjust a bra strap.
If you don’t get a chance to re-settle, before or during the action, that’s when you can get a bump. How hard a bump depends on what you are sitting on – if I’m pushed onto the couch while playing with the kid, I probably take most of my weight onto a leg first, the sofa is soft, it’s just a thing to notice, nothing remotely like breaking your wrist or your tailbone. If it’s a bicycle seat … it’s memorable.
I have never encountered that.
A woman I know mentioned her older Father’s testicles hanging outside his boxer shorts.
Perhaps testicles dangle more with age. Normally, they are held close to the body or away from it to be at the best temperature to manufacture sperm.
Yes, it’s a thing, I see it more commonly among my older male patients. As connective tissue/collagen gets more elastic with age, the reproductive structures hang lower, in both men in women. For women, this can result in uterine prolapse, necessitating the wearing of a pessary, or a surgical procedure to resuspend the uterus. In Men, the gonads just get lower and get in the way more often. While surgical resuspension could be done, it rarely is save for exceptional cases. This is due to it being much easier to wear better support garments, and pay more attention while sitting.
