# Someone Please Explain the Appeal of This (WARNING! Not Work Safe!)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 7, 2004, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046 "2004-02-07T23:29:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2004, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/1 "2004-02-07T23:29:40Z")
Yeah, I’m going to do the warning thing one more time:
**WARNING! Not Work Safe!**
A couple days ago I clicked on a link on another message board and saw something like what’s in this link. Actually, there was a whole lot of other stuff, too, but this is what has been bothering me most. And I just want to know if anyone knows why people do this. I mean, what’s the attraction? I don’t understand. Does anyone have any opinions or theories?
Also, what do these guys do for the couple days it takes for the swelling to go down? Wear kilts? I mean, c’mon, you are NOT going to get that into your average pair of pants.
I’d ask on the other board but they’re mostly teenager types going _Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!_ so that’s not very helpful.
Anyhow, [link broken by Czarcasm]
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2004, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/2 "2004-02-07T23:32:39Z")
I am not going to click so… Is it the guy holding his ass open?
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2004, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/3 "2004-02-07T23:33:58Z")
I should read ops.
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### Author:  [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/4 "2004-02-08T00:01:48Z")
No, he’s not.
It’s “scrotal inflation”.
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### Author:  [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/5 "2004-02-08T00:06:34Z")
Egads, I clicked! Forget LASIK, I’m going to bleach my sight away.
I haven’t a clue why anyone would suddenly get a hankering for something like this, but it’s no different than most other fetishes, right? Makes no sense to the majority, thrills the minority into complete ecstasy.
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### Author:  [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/6 "2004-02-08T00:18:31Z")
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
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### Author:  [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/7 "2004-02-08T00:19:22Z")
Do a Google search for “elephantiasis.” Nasty disease, it is. Why anyone would voluntarily make themselves look like that, I have no idea.
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### Author:  [@Jessity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jessity)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/8 "2004-02-08T01:40:04Z")
Wow.
:o
😕
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### Author:  [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/9 "2004-02-08T02:36:35Z")
My first and only thought is that these people should do this to their rectal area so the public-at-large will now how big an asshole they really are.
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### Author:  [@Lando\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lando_Griffin)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/10 "2004-02-08T02:42:08Z")
😕
Why the hell would anyone do that voluntarily? Eeeeeeeewwww!
That looks more like a method of torture…
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### Author:  [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/11 "2004-02-08T02:44:41Z")
You realize I am now in the fetal position holding my testicles while whimpering like a little girl.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/12 "2004-02-08T02:45:15Z")
I was so stunned when I saw that, I bit through my tongue. There is now a centimeter-square hole in the center I can put my finger through. Thanks.
I need more ice.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/13 "2004-02-08T03:12:16Z")
Well, at least it’s just a temporary modification. I’ve seen far, far too many permanent genital modifications in my career. They make this thread’s topic just look…a bit odd.
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### Author:  [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/14 "2004-02-08T03:26:00Z")
Pretty strange…but I had to laugh at the last picture where the guy has underwear on–and the underwear have an old-looking worn out hole in them!
He couldn’t even wear a new pair of underwear to his scrotal enlargement appointment??!!
_That’s_ funny!!
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### Author:  [@Carl\_in\_NM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_in_NM)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/15 "2004-02-08T06:24:33Z")
Well, there is a link at the bottom of the picture page that invites people to contact them for more information. I dont understand it myself, but ours is not to question why I guess. And to state the really obvious in a effort to give credit where credit is due…the guy’s got balls for doing it… 😃
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### Author:  [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/16 "2004-02-08T06:27:55Z")
Haven’t had my mind boggled like that for quite some time.
Why…what the…uh…_huh?!_
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### Author:  [@FabioClone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FabioClone)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/17 "2004-02-08T06:33:49Z")
Remember the thread with all the jokes about people’s distaste for scotums?
“It’s just a scrotum” they scoffed. “It’s not going to attack you or anything”.
They were wrong. Giant swollen scrotums are dangerous. Consider this your only warning.
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### Author:  [@Nurobath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nurobath)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/18 "2004-02-08T06:34:03Z")
I’ll have to side with **Qadgop** on this one. It’s a bit disturbing sure, but it is temporary and there are MUCH worse things out there that people voluntarilly do to their genitals. If this makes you want to roll around on the floor clasping your testacles in a protective embrace then you really, really don’t want to see some of the permanent “treatments” people give to their genitals. Odd as it is to most people, this is pretty tame by comparison.
People please, the penis is not a pincushion.
Actually, I think they should try this with helium…much more fun. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/19 "2004-02-08T06:46:34Z")
If you poke (heh) around on that site there’s a lot more disturbing stuff than that. Maybe it’s because I’m female, but seeing this kind of stuff doesn’t much bother me.
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### Author:  [@MrTuffPaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrTuffPaws)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/20 "2004-02-08T06:54:36Z")
I don’t know why someone would do it other than it gives them kicks. Pure and simple. They get off on it.
Somethings that I think erotic might not float your boat at all. We all beat to a different drum.
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