I experienced blue balls for the very first time =D

Honor · Post by **Honor** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 6:24 pm

qubixrube wrote:EXACTLY! so why do they teach kids in sex ed that it doesnt exist?

Short answer: Because it doesn't exist.

"blue balls" is a slang term, usually used to describe a fake medical conditon... Like many fake medical conditions, this one is very loosely based on a real medical condition, but the causes, effects, and consequences are grossly misstated.

While situations and circumstances that cause vasocongestive pressure and discomfort do (or can) exist, both in males and females, and males can also be subject to priapism, the condition sex-ed aged kids are referring to for the causes they cite when they say "blue balls" - i.e.: "Dude... If you want a girl, and you get a hard on, and you don't get off, you can die!" - doesn't exist.

happypeepeehead wrote:I thought that masturbation was the WRONG way to treat it.

Nope... Masturbation is fine... Probably the most ideal solution. A reasonable amount of cold is fine, if that works for you. Ignoring it works fine, too, unless it lasts for a day or more.

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 8:02 pm

Like how they warn you in the Viagra commercials?

Honor · Post by **Honor** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:11 pm

swordsman3003 wrote:Like how they warn you in the Viagra commercials?

Kinda sorta yeah... The condition they're talking about is called "priapism"... Kind of... Blue balls gone wild.

Toawa · Post by **Toawa** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:32 pm

Honor wrote:
swordsman3003 wrote:Like how they warn you in the Viagra commercials?
Kinda sorta yeah... The condition they're talking about is called "priapism"... Kind of... Blue balls gone wild.

Actually, they were Cialis commercials... Anyway, I thought that "blue balls" referred to vasocongestion in the testicles (hence, "balls")... Even so, I hear a lot of jokes about that part of the commercial. If they would follow it up with, "If you don't, you'll be lucky if all that happens is that your penis falls off," they might take it a little more seriously...

Honor · Post by **Honor** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:40 pm

That's as good a reference as any back to the earlier comment I made about the imprecise nature of the term. The whole thing applies to the whole area. In both males and females, a good deal of the physical aspect of sexual arousal is concerned with blood rushing to the genital region. Priapism is an acute form of vasocongestion of the penis. "Blue Balls" would be a case of vasocongestion concentrated more in the skin of the scrotum. They're both a matter of "the blood goes in, the blood's not coming out."

Error of Logic · Post by **Error of Logic** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:47 pm

LindaH wrote:
Error of Logic wrote:
MaryxTyphus wrote:Indeed

There should be like a Help program for things like that

Apparently there is, for those who feel they need it. -_- Go to the correct part of town and offer the requested amount of money to the 'specialists' standing by -- or sitting behind red-lit windows.
not in every country. in some like sweden that is illegal

And this has stopped people since when, exactly?