# Men, is Sitting on Your Own Nuts a Thing? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 9, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672 "2020-08-09T22:21:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/21 "2020-08-10T01:55:39Z")
I’ve seen the following story several times over the past few years on various internet sources. I’m still not convinced it’s not an urban legend. > **[Unlucky Man Accidentally Gets His Testicle Stuck in Ikea Chair](https://rare.us/rare-humor/man-accidentally-gets-his-testicle-stuck-in-ikea-chair/)** > > There are people who definitely have bad luck. So much bad luck that it scares you to even touch them. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/22 "2020-08-10T01:56:33Z")
It can happen when a) the thing I wish to sit on is up higher than my butt is when I’m standing, so I have to hoist myself up backwards; and b) naked, no undies supporting scrotums and things; and c) upon landing up there, I scoot back from the edge. d) Yes, the bathroom sink vanity counter, of course, what else would it be? Because occasionally there is a need for Lotrimin or Tinactin. And washing the affected area first. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/23 "2020-08-10T02:23:03Z")
> [@PoppaSan](#): > > 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. You do a lot of bicycling, straddling patio rails, slipping on logs, hiking or hunting **naked**? 😏😏 in an effort to prevent grave discomfort as queried in OP? ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/24 "2020-08-10T02:28:32Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Well, just who else’s nuts do you think I’m going to sit on? Please amscray to The Pit before either of you answer that question. ---
**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/25 "2020-08-10T02:35:33Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > > [@PoppaSan](#): > > > > 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. > > You do a lot of bicycling, straddling patio rails, slipping on logs, hiking or hunting **naked**? 😏😏 in an effort to prevent grave discomfort as queried in OP? Not any more. Wife relates tales from the nursing home occasionally of old codgers getting their package caught between the toilet seat and bowl rim. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/26 "2020-08-10T02:44:00Z")
Oooohkay. While we’re on this subject: how about riding horseback? I mean, obviously men do; and for that matter rode horses long before modern underwear, though probably not before some sort of clothing. But how does it work? I’ve been curious ever since I ran into a story (have unfortunately forgotten both title and author) set in a world which I have also otherwise forgotten, except that the men rode sidesaddle while the women rode astride, because the anatomy was so much better suited that way around. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/27 "2020-08-10T02:52:52Z")
> [@PoppaSan](#): > > Wife relates tales from the nursing home occasionally of old codgers getting their package caught between the toilet seat and bowl rim. Confirm her reports. As a home care nurse I have taken care of at least two late 30’s men who were paralyzed so could not tell when they were not _well situated_ and caused scrotal pressure sores (bedsores to you civilians). You ain’t lived until you’ve had to do twice daily bandage changes on a torn and oozing scrotum. I am here to say there isn’t a surgical tape yet invented that sticks to …_ahemm_. ---
**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/28 "2020-08-10T03:13:55Z")
She doesn’t tell me much about work except office gossip. She takes client privacy very seriously. The only names of her residents I know are people I knew before they moved in. I do recall this happening about 3-4 months back as she was ranting about the person that was helping her and this was the example given. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/29 "2020-08-10T03:18:41Z")
That’s an ikea Shower Chair, right? Yep, getting caught in a badly-designed shower chair is a thing in nursing homes. I don’t know if I’m relieved or frightened to learn that it’s only going to be a problem when I get old. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/30 "2020-08-10T04:35:26Z")
Since this is largely anecdotal by now, let’s move this to IMHO. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/31 "2020-08-10T05:03:04Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > 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. Does it hurt as badly as when you manage to jab yourself in the back near a kidney? Because I tell myself that’s never going to happen again, but then there’s something in the backseat of the car I need to reach just a little farther for… ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/32 "2020-08-10T06:05:00Z")
The pants they make now adays that fit like they’re left over from your grade 8 graduation don’t help. If the pants have proper ball room it’s a lot easier to “adjust” while sitting down. If they’re too tight and “cinch” when you sit down it hurts like hell. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/33 "2020-08-10T09:27:38Z")
Yes, when you get older. Started happening to me in my 60s, but my husband started sitting on his when he was a teenager. Some people are just precocious that way. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/34 "2020-08-10T09:39:43Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > : how about riding horseback? I mean, obviously men do; and for that matter rode horses long before modern underwear, though probably not before some sort of clothing. But how does it work? If your legs are spread, as on a saddle, there is room between your legs for all your equipment to move up. It’s only when your legs are together that your nuts get caught _behind_ (and a saddle isn’t narrow enough to come up _between_). It would be more of a problem riding side saddle – either on a mans saddle with your legs together, or on a ladies saddle with the horn between the legs. I suppose, as described here, older men in particular might get their low-hanging fruit caught behind their butt: they should wear a jock-strap to keep everything in place. For the rest of us, it’s technically possible to land wrong on a saddle, but unlikely. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/35 "2020-08-10T13:43:50Z")
I ride horseback. I’m simultaneously amazed my legs can spread apart that far and my balls can tolerated a gallop. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/36 "2020-08-10T18:40:47Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever done that. Of course, my old nickname was “Tripod”. (It wasn’t.) ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/37 "2020-08-10T18:51:33Z")
[Elaine Benes said it best](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/d2e9887a-b8cb-435e-964f-212ddcab22a5) ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/38 "2020-08-10T19:08:04Z")
Didn’t have an issue sitting on myself until I hit my late 40’s when the boys began to droop. Used a lot of baby powder, Desenex and frequent adjustments to ease the discomfort. I finally purchased some scrotal slings off Amazon and they’ve made a world of difference. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/39 "2020-08-10T20:21:46Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](#): > > Nic describes accidentally sitting on his own testicles as being like “lightning shooting out of my ass.” He says this like its a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/40 "2020-08-11T00:46:19Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > He says this like its a bad thing. I guess it depends on which way you’re facing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672.md?page=3)