# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/41 "2020-08-11T01:17:57Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Does it hurt as badly as when you manage to jab yourself in the back near a kidney? Kinda apples and oranges, but both are sharp, short, piercing, “internal” pains. Squished testes actually convey the pain upward and inward, and one feels it along the urinary tract. It isn’t just localized to the testis itself… You know the flaming pain you get when you swig a soda, burp, and get carbonation in the nose? I think that may be the closest comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/42 "2020-08-11T10:28:17Z")
> [@PoppaSan](#): > > Wife relates tales from the nursing home occasionally of old codgers getting their package caught between the toilet seat and bowl rim. How does this happen? Before I sit on a toilet, the seat is already down and parked on the porcelain bowl. If I wanted to trap my man-grapes under the seat, I’d have to fly in formation, with my butt following the seat as it descends to the bowl. ---
**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 11, 2020, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/43 "2020-08-11T12:20:57Z")
I asked that myself and she said it just did. I think they have the open front and it slid in sideways? He may have been getting ready for a shower and not using the stool. Like I said earlier, she doesn’t give much info where the residents are concerned. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/44 "2020-08-11T13:56:21Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Squished testes actually convey the pain upward and inward, and one feels it along the urinary tract. It isn’t just localized to the testis itself… Ah, okay. Fortunately it doesn’t happen to all women, but our periods can cause [stabbing pain in the rectum](https://www.thehealthsite.com/diseases-conditions/periods-can-be-a-real-pain-in-the-butt-literally-692236/) (I’m pretty sure there’s a typo in the third to last sentence: surely they mean “near”, not “in”), so I sort of get how pain originating in the genitals could spread through the lower abdomen in guys too. ---
**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 11, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/45 "2020-08-11T15:22:57Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > 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. Thanks for info; that helps. (I’ve certainly seen the equipment often enough – I used to hang around with casual nudists – but I wasn’t paying attention to how it moves when sitting down.) – I’m trying to remember whether I once sat on a sidesaddle, or saw somebody doing so. As I remember it, the horn doesn’t wind up in one’s crotch; it’s more like hooking a knee over it. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/46 "2020-08-16T04:32:12Z")
So, anyone ever get caught in the zipper? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/47 "2020-08-16T17:45:59Z")
Aye, but only once, thank Ghu. Owie. ETA: last 30 years, I wear button-fly trousies ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/48 "2020-08-16T20:46:13Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Kinda apples and oranges, but both are sharp, short, piercing, “internal” pains. Squished testes actually convey the pain upward and inward, and one feels it along the urinary tract. It isn’t just localized to the testis itself… > > You know the flaming pain you get when you swig a soda, burp, and get carbonation in the nose? I think that may be the closest comparison. Referred pain > [@elfkin477](#): > > Ah, okay. Fortunately it doesn’t happen to all women, but our periods can cause [stabbing pain in the rectum](https://www.thehealthsite.com/diseases-conditions/periods-can-be-a-real-pain-in-the-butt-literally-692236/) (I’m pretty sure there’s a typo in the third to last sentence: surely they mean “near”, not “in”), so I sort of get how pain originating in the genitals could spread through the lower abdomen in guys too. Again, referred pain. I liked to describe my period pain as someone reaching their arm into my ass up to their elbow and twisting as they dragged my intestines out. I can remember more than one abdominal inflation that left just enough neutral gas in my gut to make it feel like they were prying my shoulder blades off with a butter knife as the bubbles hit the underside of my diaphragm. Glad I have mesh after my hysterectomy, I do not want a prolapsed _anything_! ---
**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:** [September 3, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/49 "2020-09-03T21:40:46Z")
As a longtime emergency doctor, I have only seen two zipper injuries. But I’ve seen FAR worse. The saddest words in the English language aren’t Tinker to Evers to Chance. They are radish slicer. Vacuum cleaner. Metal ring. Expanding foam. ---
**Author:** ![mandala](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mandala/32/95_2.png) [@mandala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mandala)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/50 "2020-09-04T11:28:23Z")
There’s no way a reasonable set of balls is going to survive being sat upon. 🥶 Now, some men are rumored to have balls of steel. Then it might just be a polishing strategy for them. ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/51 "2020-09-05T13:26:20Z")
I have squished them from time to time. As described in thread the balls can, with the right combination of underwear and sitting technique, be squished uncomfortably when sitting down. For me it usually happens when jumping into the car to fast. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/52 "2020-09-05T13:39:21Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > As a longtime emergency doctor, I have only seen two zipper injuries. But I’ve seen FAR worse. The saddest words in the English language aren’t Tinker to Evers to Chance. They are radish slicer. Vacuum cleaner. Metal ring. Expanding foam. Can you elaborate? I’m not into gore but curious how bad shit happens. 🤕 🧠 🤔 😉 > [@mandala](#): > > There’s no way a reasonable set of balls is going to survive being sat upon. 🥶 > Now, some men are rumored to have balls of steel. Then it might just be a polishing strategy for them. 🤣🎱 ---
**Author:** ![brossa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brossa/32/3040_2.png) [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/53 "2020-09-05T13:52:42Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > They are radish slicer. Vacuum cleaner. Metal ring. Expanding foam. Steel bushing, too small/ Tried cutoff wheel to remove/ Fournier’s gangrene/ ---
**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:** [September 5, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/54 "2020-09-05T15:32:49Z")
> [@Mikkel](#): > > For me it usually happens when jumping into the car to fast. Whoa, you enter through the open window, right?! ---
**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:** [September 5, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/55 "2020-09-05T15:34:03Z")
> [@Mikkel](#): > > For me it usually happens when jumping into the car to fast. On second read, I see I misunderstood. You enter the car quickly in order to not eat?! ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/56 "2020-09-05T15:46:57Z")
At all times I have an abiding subconscious awareness of where my equipment is, and how to protect it. I refuse to believe anyone doesn’t, and I believe the “and I oop” thing was 100% comic stagery. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/57 "2020-09-05T16:52:17Z")
> [@chela](#): > > > [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > > > As a longtime emergency doctor, I have only seen two zipper injuries. But I’ve seen FAR worse. The saddest words in the English language aren’t Tinker to Evers to Chance. They are radish slicer. Vacuum cleaner. Metal ring. Expanding foam. > > Can you elaborate? I’m not into gore but curious how bad shit happens. 🤕 🧠 🤔 😉 Please don’t. If you can’t think it through, then Google it. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/58 "2020-09-05T20:39:54Z")
I’m more concerned about stepping on my own penis. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/59 "2020-09-05T23:35:47Z")
Throw it over your shoulder. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672/60 "2020-09-06T03:36:45Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > The saddest words in the English language aren’t Tinker to Evers to Chance. I can’t parse this for shit. Lil’ help? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-is-sitting-on-your-own-nuts-a-thing/917672.md?page=4)