# Testicular Implants
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testicular-implants/47073
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [December 24, 2000, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testicular-implants/47073 "2000-12-24T08:50:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2000, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testicular-implants/47073/1 "2000-12-24T08:50:19Z")
This is an actual serious question, inspired by a question Omniscient asked in chat “if you had to have a testicle removed for some reason whould you have the doc install a fake one?”
So, after some more exchanges of chat, omni asked again “Do they have ball donor programs?”
And then I said I didnt know, but i asked: “Would you be making another guy’s sperm?”
Which lead me to this question: If a guy was given a testicular implant from another guy, would that testicle continue making sperm from its original donor? If not, then what?
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### Author:  [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2000, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testicular-implants/47073/2 "2000-12-24T09:45:47Z")
A quick search [found this.](http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/stn/q&a/001026-4.htm)
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> Question: …wanted to know, if you have a testical transplant would the children take after the donor or the father?
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> Karl: It’s not technical possible to do a testical transplant at this point. Theoretically speaking though - manufacturing sperm is about a 70 day process and it would have the DNA of the foreign person.
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### Author:  [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2000, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testicular-implants/47073/3 "2000-12-24T12:05:18Z")
Great way to kill my thread man _weep, weep, sob sob_.
Anyway, i do remember you saying something about genetics or something. Care to share what you were saying in chat with the rest of the class Mr. Eager Beaver? :D.
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### Author:  [@Jetassisted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jetassisted)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2000, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testicular-implants/47073/4 "2000-12-24T15:59:03Z")
They have fake nuts.
Made of plastic, they come in assorted sizes and weights and can be inserted into the scrotum to make things look normal. Aside from sperm, the testicles provide testosterone. Pills or injections can do this. A man without testicles can still have sex, for he will produce the seminal fluid used to store and carry sperm in. Without the testosterone, his urges will drop sharply. With the pills, he should behave somewhat normally.
The loss of one testicle will not do much to change a mans sexual urges and a fake ball inserted into the scrotum will make him look just fine.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testicular-implants/47073/5 "2000-12-24T16:04:54Z")
a company was on the news a while back for making prosthetic testicles for dogs who’d been neutered, calling them “neuticles”, and their selling point was that their dog would feel more secure getting sniffed by another dog if he still had something hanging.
Isn’t it wonderful the myriad ways people find to make a living?
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### Author:  [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2000, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testicular-implants/47073/6 "2000-12-24T16:46:58Z")
I know someone who lost both testicles to cancer, about 7 years apart. He was offered “replacements”, but figured the only people to see them would be his wife and his doctor, and they both knew the truth!
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### Author:  [@Jetassisted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jetassisted)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2000, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testicular-implants/47073/7 "2000-12-24T20:37:05Z")
Nuticals, according to one No-Kill Animal Rescue place I know of, is mainly for the men.
They have the biggest problems with guys not wanting to get their male dogs neutered, because not only is the thought enough to make them cringe, but the empty sack on their huge dog makes them almost cry.
So, they now neuter the pooch, pop in big balls so something is swinging between his legs, and Poppa is happy.
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### Author:  [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2000, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testicular-implants/47073/8 "2000-12-25T00:14:52Z")
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> \*Doobieous \*
> \*\*…I do remember you saying something about genetics or something. Care to share what you were saying in chat with the rest of the class Mr. Eager Beaver? :D. \*\*
Yeah, yeah. I do seriously recall being informed that the genetic material of the donor would eventually be replaced by that of the host. I mean it. [sub]Really. [/sub]