# 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:** 18
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/21 "2004-02-08T06:56:04Z")
> [@Broomstick](#):
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> Yeah, I’m going to do the warning thing one more time:
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> **WARNING! Not Work Safe!**
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> I’d ask on the other board but they’re mostly teenager types going _Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!_ so that’s not very helpful.
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> Anyhow, [link broken by Czarcasm]
Do not _EVER_ post a link like this on the SDMB again. Consider this to be your first, last and only warning on this matter.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/22 "2004-02-08T19:58:56Z")
Changed my mind about closing this thread(I’m allowed to do that-I’m a male 😃 ).
While the _direct_ link, IMO, went far beyond what is allowed in IMHO, I’ll let the discussion on the practice shown to continue, as long as people realize that this is not the BBQ Pit and act accordingly.
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### Author:  [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/23 "2004-02-09T10:58:04Z")
Well, OK, assuming anyone else wants to continue the discussion…
Why do people do weird things to their genitals? Or to other people’s genitals? Isn’t that horribly painful? And for folks who do _permanent_ stuff - I mean, when they go to the doctor are they proud? Embarassed? Explain things as an “accident”?
I’m trying to get past “ewwwwwww!” and “that’s weird” to some sort of understanding of what’s going on here.
And I still can’t figure out what these guys do for trousers - or do they just stay inside until the swelling goes down? Is this connected in anyway with the “Men who want to wear skirts” thread?
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### Author:  [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/24 "2004-02-09T14:00:20Z")
Could someone be so kind (or brutal as the case may be) as to describe what we would have seen with a live link. My curiousity is killing me.
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### Author:  [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/25 "2004-02-09T14:14:57Z")
> [@fruitbat](#):
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> Could someone be so kind (or brutal as the case may be) as to describe what we would have seen with a live link. My curiousity is killing me.
Well, I didn’t see this link, but I’m assuming it’s the practice of injecting saline into your scrotum, swelling it to grapefruit size.
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### Author:  [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/26 "2004-02-09T14:57:13Z")
Apparently
[http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0208/savage.php](http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0208/savage.php) (last letter)
saline, which that probably was, only lasts a few hours.
And apparently “scrotal infusion” is the thing to google for more information.
The first link to come up for me (C M Hurt) gives a pretty good indication of the psychology behind it…even though it’s from the woman’s point of veiw.
Why do they do it? Because they can. What us humans won’t get up to!!
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/27 "2004-02-09T23:25:45Z")
> [@Amp](#):
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> You realize I am now in the fetal position holding my testicles while whimpering like a little girl.
No wonder she’s whimpering, she’s just discovered she has testicles.
Re the OP: Why does _anything_ offbeat have appeal to people? I used to know a guy who got off by pulling the curly wire out of his spiral notebook and threading it through the meat of his thumb. Who does he hurt besides himself? (And based on the copious blood, he really was hurting himself.) Why should I care? As long as he isn’t passing me the bloody wire with encouragement to “try some of this,” what’s the diff? Speaking for myself, I don’t care much for feet, or for dressing up in women’s clothing, or for sitting slowly onto a frozen tapioca dildo while midgets in Melissa Rivers masks waltz around me. And what I _do_ like is my own business.
Personally, I think stuff like this is great. Not because I find it arousing or appealing, but because it’s fascinating to see the wide variety of human sensuality, and the sexual creativity of the species. Stuff like this has always been around, as long as we’ve been human. Not this specifically, of course, because we didn’t have sterile needles and easily-available saline. But go check out a medieval religious fresco sometime for some truly warped “visions of Hell” style images of sexual congress, which you _know_ at least a few people offered as bad examples while secretly harboring fondness for them.
Now, with the spread of the internet, all the “freaks” get to assemble, and find out they’re not alone, and those of us with somewhat more, um, pedestrian tastes learn how vanilla we really are. Thirty years ago, we might have felt guilty because we imagined being bound over a desk while a nun smacked our bare bottom with a ruler. But now that you can see there’s a Yahoo group dedicated to the fetish of riding a unicycle in circles on an ice floe while naked parachuters pee on you from ten thousand feet, the whole nun thing just doesn’t seem that odd any more.
So I think it’s great, if a little odd in the specific act. The more we know just how perverted we all are, the more likely it is we’ll be able to get over the bizarre puritanicalism that makes the flop of a past-her-prime pop-star’s _pierce-nez_ front-page top-of-the-hour news.
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### Author:  [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/28 "2004-02-09T23:54:07Z")
now i’m a tad bit more concerned about cervaise’s rather rich and imaginative fantasies than saline engorged manparts…
really now, who on earth would waste perfectly good tapioca?
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### Author:  [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/29 "2004-02-10T01:03:50Z")
I was just wondering why the thread was shut down in the first place. Hardly the weirdest thing posted. must be the grahics.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/30 "2004-02-10T01:07:07Z")
> [@Magiver](#):
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> I was just wondering why the thread was shut down in the first place. Hardly the weirdest thing posted. must be the grahics.
[Rainman]Yeah, the graphics. Definitely the graphics.[/Rainman]
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### Author:  [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2004, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/31 "2004-02-10T01:42:44Z")
ummmm, rrrrrrhhh, now my thumb hurts… i should _never_ open this kind of thread!!
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/32 "2004-02-10T02:44:25Z")
I came in too late to see the link. Couldn’t have been any worse than the intentionally-split penis I saw in an issue of _REsearch: Modern Primitives_.
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### Author:  [@boofy\_bloke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boofy_bloke)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/33 "2004-02-10T03:52:03Z")
In Australia there are shops where you can go to get parts of your body chopped off (even though they tend to grow back), others where you can go and change the colour of your skin to just about anything you want, including pictures and words.
[TMI]I think that one purpose of the injection is to stretch the scrotal sac, making it extremely sensitive, thereby enhancing sexual pleasure. Gentlemen might like to try this at home (you can stretch it by making a ring with your hand above the testes and gently pulling downward until the sac (temporarily) stretches, then tickle it with the other hand) - results should be posted to this thread.[/TMI]
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### Author:  [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2004, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/34 "2004-02-10T08:06:01Z")
> [@boofy\_bloke](#):
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> (you can stretch it by making a ring with your hand above the testes and gently pulling downward until the sac (temporarily) stretches, then tickle it with the other hand) - results should be posted to this thread.[/TMI]
Heh. Been there, done that.
One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in my life was a chef at a nightclub in Chicago (a friend of mine), who held a 13" butcher knife in his left hand simulating wood, while tickling invisible balls with his right. We were sitting at the bar rolling and he “flashed us” with the image which will be forever tatooed on my brain.
There’s a spot underneath my balls where no hair grows, that is the smoothest skin I’ve ever felt, except maybe for my fiance’s taint. Tickling that spot is one of the great pleasures in this world. (for me)
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### Author:  [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2004, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/35 "2004-02-10T11:11:31Z")
Hey, ya know, I realize that there a multitude of kinks out there, and realize that, yes, on a certain level, folks do this because it turns them on. I just don’t get _why_ it turns them on. Like a picture I once saw, where my first thought was “Huh, I didn’t know you could _do_ that with three people, a bar stool, and some dog collars”, and my second was “_Why_ would you do that with three people, a bar stool, and some dog collars. It looks _uncomfortable_…”
Not being the owner of a scrotum, I’m not privy to their operations. More sensitive? In a good way as opposed to a “AAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! BLOATING BODY PARTS! AAAAAAAAGH!” way? “It feels good” certainly explains a number of foreign objects discovered in vaginas and rectums over the years, if scrotal infusion feels good that would explain the appeal, too.
I “get” what the “tops” and the “sadists” get out of this - control and the kicks they get from causing discomfort or pain. I don’t get what the bottoms get out of it. To me, it looks _diseased_, not attractive. Then again, there are probably folks who get their rocks off looking at pictures of lepers. I dunno… you get people in those communities rapsodizing over how “beautiful” these things are. And folks are correct, scrotal infusion is pretty temporary and (provided there is no infection) causes no harm.
Now, folks who look at a scarred, branded, pierced, and bifurcated penis and call it beautiful… I think we’re operating in such different universes I’m _never_ going to understand their way of thinking.
And I can’t help but think the scrotal infusers (band name?) are stuck in the house until the swelling goes down. I mean, geez, you just can’t fit that into a normal pair of trousers.
This whole scrotal infusion thing seems to be part of a “scene” involving modified scrotums - from ball stretching to infusion to injection of silicone for a permanent modification. What’s the deal? I thought guys wanted bigger _penises_. Bigger balls make the dicks look smaller. WTF?
So yeah, I understand people do it for kicks - I just don’t understand why this generates a kick in someone. Saying it’s a “kink” is a bit of a cop out. I mean, if I ask my husband why he likes tits he doesn’t say “it’s my fetish”, he goes on for _hours_ in minute detail about shape and texture and size and proportion and color and nipples and…well you get the idea. So… what’s the appeal here? Control of another person? Control of one’s own body? The “naughtiness” of using needles? Big balls are a turn on?
Hey, it’s the opinion forum - you don’t need cites, just opinions.
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### Author:  [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2004, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/36 "2004-02-10T11:46:24Z")
“Kinky” joke:
> [@](#):
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> A guy walks into a bar and sits down to have a drink. There is a good looking wench sitting nearby. She looks at him a gives him a wink. He scoots over and offers her a drink, which she gratefully accepts. After a few mild pleasantries of conversation, the young lady mentions she is going through a divorce.
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> “You too?” says the man. Why are you getting a divorce?" “My husband thinks I am too perverted.” was her reply. “What a coincidence - MY wife thinks I am too perverted!” he says to her. “She says I am too kinky when it comes to sex…” “Wow, my husband thinks the same of me, why don’t we explore this kinkyness together?”
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> He agrees, they finish their drinks and leave the bar. Knowing neither can go to one another’s house because of their pending divorces, they drive to a remote location where they can be alone. The woman becoming quite aroused, jumps into the back seat, and takes off her clothes in anticipation of what is to come… “Please hurry, I want to get kinky with you!” she moans from the back seat. She hears him fumble with his belt, and then hears his zip come down, then finally his pants coming down. Hardly able to control herself, she is somewhat surprised when she hears him pull his pants back up, then his zip, then his belt getting fastened.
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> “Hey, I thought we were going to explore our kinkyness here!?” she complained. “We did!” he says, “I just crapped in your handbag!”
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### Author:  [@UselessGit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UselessGit)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2004, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/37 "2004-02-10T12:37:26Z")
**Posted by Broomstick:**
> [@](#):
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> I mean, geez, you just can’t fit that into a normal pair of trousers.
If I had a penny for every time I’ve heard that…
But seriously, give those guys a collective break. AFter all, they are human beings - not animals.
Drinking too much coffee and finding elephantidis amusing is a dangerous mix.
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### Author:  [@boofy\_bloke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boofy_bloke)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2004, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-please-explain-the-appeal-of-this-warning-not-work-safe/228046/38 "2004-02-11T02:15:10Z")
> [@](#):
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> This whole scrotal infusion thing seems to be part of a “scene” involving modified scrotums - from ball stretching to infusion to injection of silicone for a permanent modification. What’s the deal? I thought guys wanted bigger penises. Bigger balls make the dicks look smaller. WTF?
Some people fetishise different body parts: the penis is the most common because it’s the biggest [sic] signifier of masculity. Just like your bloke who fetishises tits even though I’m sure he does occasional work in other locations. Yep, there are people who are turned on by bigger balls.
As for Slaves (Master/Slave, Dominator/Dominated, Sadist/Masochist), the fun is in being told what to do, in being completely at the mercy of another person (maybe it harks back to the joy of infanthood). Do you like the weight of your bloke on top of you as you have sex? Do you like it when he’s forceful and “manly”? Same thing in a different degree.
Life is like a box of chocolates. If you look at the index card you always know what you’re going to get.
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