Okay, one more try…
I’ll de-bold everyone now…**
I like them. They’re like those Chinese balls you roll around in one hand. Nice to have something to do with my hand when we’re both relaxing.
As for looking at - eh, no. Most of a man below the belt isn’t that good-looking to me but it sure is useful
I shave my testicles with a Gillette Mach 3 razor (willing to endorse the product for this use should the company ask)* and shaving cream from time to time. You just have to be gentle, and there’s no problem. If you stretch them out, it makes for much easier shaving.
I really enjoy it as a matter of fact, I make an event out of it and it’s really fun. I give the whole pubic area a nice trim with scissors first. I don’t shave off my pubes with a razor blade, just my testicles and the area immediately surrounding my penis. It feels refreshing afterwards! I take great care in trimming my pubic hair to make it look nice and even, and also blend it in with the rest of my body hair so that it doesn’t look overly manicured. I first started doing this because I felt self-consious about how my testicles looked with random hairs sticking out all over the place. I much prefer the look and feel of having shaved testicles. Also, when you trim down much of your pubic hair, you’d be surprised at how much larger your penis looks afterward.
And, if you are wondering, I’m a straight male. A straight testicle-shaving male. And, I do continue to shave my face with the same razor blade, and I do use the kitchen scissors from trimming purposes.
*Hi, my name is Jake, and when I’m shaving my scrotum I prefer the flexible and versitile Gillette Mach 3 razor system . . .
Women seem to think that they are for more delicate than is true. There have been too many bad jokes about getting kicked in the crotch.
Wow, couldn’t disagree more.
Maybe you need a different flavor. I know you have experience with Chinese balls, but have you ever been with a black man? Perhaps your opinion will change.
Not me, champ. I once did it with my pocketknife.
Lady Chance says it changed her opinion of me forever.
Dr. Evil: “Have you ever seen a shaved scrotum? It’s breathtaking.”
I personally have to agree with Kryton of Red Dwarf: the whole apparatus looks like ‘the last chicken in the shop’. That testicles are a source of great pleasure for the man is, IMO, the only thing they have going for them. But I don’t find them visually appealing. I have occasionally found it interesting to see how the placement varies from man to man, when watching cheapo schmeapo porn flicks on local Public Access TV (Mike Hunt TV in Seattle - if he hasn’t been kicked off again!). But that’s less of a sexual appeal than a plain old “Oh, hey look at that, his are on the sides of his shaft for some reason, isn’t that bizarre?”
Factoid on the *dartos * muscle: It actually extends up the shaft and is present in every portion of the shaft skin to the base of the corona. If the penis is circumcised, there is more than ‘skin’ removed, there is also muscle removed. This is why restoration is a long process, taking anywhere from 1 to 7 years (depending on the man’s skin, the way he was cut, how tightly he was cut, his general health, and other factors like whether he is a ‘shower’ (does not grow in length during erection, but only in diameter) or a ‘grower’ (grows in length and diameter during erection). Just a factoid, for those who believe circumcision removes only skin. Skin is easy to stretch and grow. Doctors do it all the time for people who need to cover an injury, they put an inflatable bladder under the skin and blow it up gradually; in a few weeks, voila, lots of new skin! But muscle must be a real drag to grow, because that nifty creepy-crawly dartos muscle does grow slowly.
Aah, I’m not scared of 'em. Hope the feeling is mutual…
Now this is a dam interesting thread.
Women may seem to think that testicles are far more delicate than is true . . . but getting kicked in the crotch does elicit a pain/sickness like no other. I don’t know if there is a female equivalent.
As an old Calvin & Hobbes fan, I am deeply disturbed by your participation in this thread.
Sorry, did I just redefine “Calvinball” for you?
Being of the female persuasion, I have no frame of reference, but I can tell you getting banged (snerk) in the cervix is no picnic, either.
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Having talked to my wife at length about this, I’d have to agree. The big difference is in location – kinda hard to put pressure on a cervix (although it happens, according to my wife’s bike-riding history), but it’s way to easy to clip a testicle.
No, but now you have. Thanks. I suppose it shouldn’t bother me so much. She’d be in her 20s by now, after all.
When I was a teenager, I was running around the pool when I slipped. One leg went into the water, the other went off to the side, and my crotch landed with a BANG on the edge of the pool.*
It hurt. I think that’s the closest I will ever come to knowing what it’s liked to be kicked in the balls. Didn’t Stephen King have a description in one of his books about it? Something about it’s a pain that you know is going to hang around for awhile once you take a breath, so you hold your breath as long as you can.
*Have I managed to make all the male Dopers curl up in a fetal position in sympathy?
Actually it’s very easy to put pressure on the cervix. Certain sexual positions allow for very deep penetration. Sometimes, too deep. If the man is longer than average, or the woman shorter than average (inside), the couple may have to avoid those positions or have the man consciously go shallow. Cervix pain is the only physical pain I’ve ever experienced that can make me cry (although I’ve never broken a bone so I can’t judge that). Certain kinds of gynecological exams are excrutiating to the point of feeling like nothing short of sexual assault.
Not as difficult as you suggest. But I’ll concede, harder to accomplish than with men.
This thread is a classic. The phrase:" scrotumy goodness" was coined here.