‘Blue Balls’ Shouldn’t Be Used To Pressure Partners, There’s No Evidence They’re Harmful
‘Blue balls’: There’s no evidence they’re harmful, and they shouldn’t be used to pressure partners into sex.
What are blue balls? Most people — health-care providers included — are familiar with this term referring to scrotal discomfort experienced in response to prolonged sexual arousal without orgasm.
Although no one knows how the pain of blue balls develops, most implicate the slowed drainage of blood from the testicles in the absence of orgasm during sexual arousal.
One of the key physiological aspects of sexual arousal is increased blood flow to areas of the body, including the genitals. Genital-based signs of sexual arousal include engorgement of the genital structures leading to erection of the penis and external clitoris, and this engorgement usually resolves quickly after orgasm...