Bent Cold Sidewalk

Male genitalia is lager on the outside and thus more vulnerable to abuse by some crazy fuck. As far as a person mutilating female anatomy, it has happened and its been in the news....it all over the middle east and Africa...they cut off the lips, sew the vagina almost shut, remove the clit....is that rational?

I'm so glad my ovaries are not hanging in my crotch in a sack, I can only imagine how sensitive balls are to abuse. *cringe*

meridianwest

yes, i know about female circumcision. and i agree with you. that is fucked up. any kind of mutilation (male circumcision included) on a person who is incapable of defending him- or herself on the issue is completely fucked up.

that's not what i was talking about. i was talking about adult people doing things to other adult people. that type of irrationality. and stories of mutilation of genitalia that spring up in the media are consistently about women doing stuff to man's sexual parts.

if anyone has a link to a story on an analogous thing done by a man to a woman please post it. and i will retract my position on only women manifesting this sort of irrationality.

Bent Cold Sidewalk

Thanks for clarifying, that's a good question...my thoughts are if the human mind is capable of thinking it, it has happened or will...and also because mens parts are easier to grab onto, the impulse to do so may more likely manifest as doing it. It could also be that there is this cultural thing and the media ignored part of it....think about how our culture ignored female sexuality in favor of male sexuality....things are changing. Look at comedies, they often have male crotch humor (to me its sick and redundant, not funny at all). Why is that? It makes me cringe.

One more thing, its often put int he news when a helpless little lady defended herself by hurting a mugger's balls. Its like a record being played to death....even though in that sense its not irrational to do so...it could be because of things like this that the irrational gets attention also. It seems to be considered a more horrible thing to injure a man's parts than a woman's by some.

BBAD 

probably went into shock from the pain

getting your balls crushed is the second worse pain most men could ever get...#1 being kidney stones....3,4,5,etc being gunshot,stabbbing etc...

 outthere2

A common occurence in certian parts of the world: Man throws acid on estranged wife

NoxiousGas

just a codpiece;



or the full suit;

meridianwest

not saying that's not evil irrational shit like this one, cause it is. but it's not exactly analogous. beating someone up, and/or otherwise inflicting harm on someone's body nonspecifically and zeroing in particularly on their genitalia are two different things.

meridianwest

that's true. it might also be the reason why guys are much less likely to harm someone's (whether male or female) genitalia under normal circumstances. we have this thing where the most horrible thing in the world that could happen to us is having our penis and balls physically harmed in any way. hurt a guy anywhere else on his body and we'll get through it. but do something to the penis so that it becomes nonfunctioning, and a guy might just blow his own brains out as a result. you just don't come back from that one. for that reason genitalia is off limits. no matter how angry a guy can get at someone, or how much he wants to do harm to them, he normally still wouldn't think of going after those parts.

 scratcho

I feel certain that about 1/30th of a second after someone locked onto my plums--they would lose their eardrums with one big 2 handed slap.

NoxiousGas

Not according to some of the fights I've witnessed.
I think if I was in a real "maim the other guy" type of altercation, his balls are definitely one of the top targets.

Sadly, such brutality against women at the hands of men doesn't make the headlines as much because society, ALL society, to one degree or another view women as second class and expendable. Regardless of all the strides and progress that has been made, there is still the underlying notion that "she deserved it" when dealing with crimes against women. From rape to domestic violence, it's there, whether verbalized or not "she must have done something to provoke it" lurks in the backs of a lot of people's minds. That is one of the main reasons rapes go unreported, because more often than not the women is victimized a second time in court and often a third time in the public eye.