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[edit] I have removed David Shankbone's scrotum

It was pornographic and unnecessary, my young daughter received quite an unpleasant surprise whilst doing research for her biology class. You could see the stalk of his willy, and it was obviously standing proud! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.236.12.146 (talk) 12:48, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

I understand that you are offended by that image; however, please keep in mind that Wikipedia is not censored for children or any other party. A photograph of testicles on the article about testicles is hardly pornographic or unnecessary, whether the model's penis was erect or flaccid when the image was taken. And anyway, the model could easily be lifting his penis to give a better view of the testicles. Ketsuekigata (talk) 04:00, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Incidentally, that isn't actually David Shankbone's scrotum. It's a photograph of a scrotum taken by David Shankbone. Ketsuekigata (talk) 23:10, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Which testicle hangs lower

Could we get a source on the claim that the right testicle "usually" hangs lower than the right one yes yes it does!

Show of hands I I II II -Dan 07:57, 18 May 2006 (UTC)


Suggests random(or doesn't address) [[1]] Suggests more often the left [[2]]. A lot of sites say different things, a lot of them say those who are right handed usually have a lower left testicle, but, as you might imagine, totally unsourced..... Oogles 06:27, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Another image thought

Well Image:MyTesticles.GIF is certainly... unusual, but the problem I see with this is the lack of context. I mean, I appreciate the effort the photographer took to get the correct angle, but there really needs to be more explanation and description than "Real Human Testicles" -- sannse (talk) 18:12, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Uses in Conversation

Why is there no mention of the common betting "scam" of portraying one's "left-nut" as a viable prize? This must be added with significant attention.

Removed subjective sadistic comments, post it again, and you'll get reported.

What sadistic comments were said? and why isnt there a section on how to treat groin hits?

[edit] Testis/Testes versus Testicle(s)

As far as I know, "testicle" is a vernacular construction not commonly used in standard medical nomenclature...the appropriate singular form is "testis," while the plural is "testes."

Which is kinda surprising; often medical terms have a diminutive element (such as -cul-) absent in the vernacular. —Tamfang 04:33, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

True to an extent- nobody says to a patient, "ah, well you obviously have had a reactivation of the herpes zoster virus" (shingles) - but in several cases, it's best to be accurate. In this case by calling the article "testis". Testicles is part of the common vernacular, but I for one was surprised not to see a more correct medical term. DoctorReiux 10:47, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

A PubMed search for "testicle" yields nearly as many hits as for "testis", and many of the linked articles use "testicle" in the title. It does not seem to me that the term is wholly unscientific. Wnt (talk) 06:29, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redirection

Why does 'Balls' redirect here? Darthbob100 23:47, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

What were you looking for when you searched for "balls"?

It didn't work. I still wound up here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.236.130.76 (talk) 17:12, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Testicular size in relation to body weight varies widely

"Testicular size in relation to body weight varies widely. In the mammalian kingdom, there is a tendency for testicular size to be larger when the species is more likely to be polygamous than monogamous. Production of testicular output is also larger in the polygamous animal, possibly a spermatogenic competition for survival. In normal adult human males, testicular size ranges from the lower end of around 14 cm³ to the upper end larger than 35 cm³"

I think it would be useful to state if in regards to testicle size humans are considered polygamous or monogamous, referencing primate societies.

--Atpeace 10:17, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

Oh, Christ. Perhaps a better picture, so we're not staring at an overweight, shaved, and pebbly basement-dweller? What, we couldn't find any free-use porn stars?

Done. I uploaded a picture of my own testicles, and I think they're quite an improvement over the last set we were subjected to (if I do say so myself).


—Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.139.233.217 (talk • contribs)

I so fully agree with you, who wants to see a pale fat man, it's off turning, come one! Shandristhe azylean 10:19, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Agreed. And it is not necessary to have a photo in which the penis is so prominent. I replaced with a photo from another Wikipedia article that is cited as public domain, which shows the isolated testicles. Someone added "small" to my caption, which I find unnecessary. Xandergr8 18:05, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
I vote a real picture of a real testicles belongs in an encyclopedia of Wikipedia's quality. At least somewhere even at the bottom. Maybe someone has sick testicles, and and want to see a healthy example. Regardless of tensions displaying such a picture here, it belongs here. I'm doubtful this vote will get much support though.Nastajus 22:49, 6 May 2007 (UTC)


If one is "lost' does the other one completely do the the job of two,i. e.,production of same amount of sperm and testosterone?


Yup, but it doesn't really need to "do the job of two". Its another useful redundancy, like having two kidneys.70.132.29.133 00:44, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

An article such as this, especially since it's human anatomy, really needs a picture, this is an encyclopedia. Other pictures added here had the penis prominent, and other irrelevant subjects such as that. I'm adding a picture with good picture quality, and with the testicles prominent so it is actually relevant to this article. Comment this message if you would like to response, thank you. Nikon307 07:19, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree that there should be a picture, if available, but most of the proposed pictures are actually not of testes. They are pictures of the scrotum and should be labeled as such. I've taken the liberty to correct the caption. The cat's testis picture at the bottom of the article is in fact much more informative and should perhaps be featured more prominently. Radonir 09:41, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] page full of computer references

is it my imagination, or has this page been defaced with computer language? It needs an overhaul I think. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.64.252.182 (talk) 18:37, 7 December 2006 (UTC).

Are you referring to the vandalism I reverted yesterday? AvB ÷ talk 19:17, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hits to the groin

What nerves are responsible for causing so much pain when getting a hit to the balls? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.132.29.133 (talk) 05:00, 12 December 2006 (UTC).

I think a section should be added to discuss the intense pain felt in the abdomen due to trauma to the testicles. (Kamelot75 14:25, 7 January 2007 (UTC))

I think it would be one of the nerves from the lumbar or sarcal plexes. Probably lumbar, due to the sympathetic response (increased heart rate etc).DoctorReiux 10:42, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

How do I treat hits to the testicles? Need to know how to speed up recovery.

Jump in the air and land directly on your heels, knees straight. It'll jar you pretty good but it helps. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.152.109.240 (talk) 18:27, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Are there animals with an amount of testicles other than two or zero? are there ways to make your testicles biggar?

1. I seriously doubt it, but I suppose it's possible.
2. None that doesn't involve neutering yourself.
--66.29.169.1 (talk) 21:18, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unnoticed vandalism

I just removed some lines that really didn't contribute to the article. The user probably wants to join BJAODN Akira Tomosuke 08:03, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Protection from abdominal cavity pressure changes?

In the evolution of the optimal temperature, how can "Protection from abdominal cavity pressure changes" play a role? It does for the fact that we evolved external testes, but that's not the subject of interest. Mikael Häggström 19:05, 19 July 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Apart from anatomy

A request for this article was (and still is) listed under the Politics and Law section of WP:RA1. Does anyone know the reason for this? Perhaps the word teste with a silent E has an entirely different use in a legal context, and so a different article with a disambig tag would be called for. But matters of law are not my specialty. Can this get cleared up please? Thanks. Mashford 18:40, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bad code?

Something wrong with the image under 1.2 . The code looks OK, but I can't work out what is wrong. Cowplopmorris 15:29, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Fixed - it was in MediaWiki:Bad image list. Graham87 12:16, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Racism

Why is the scrotum with the testes photographed in this article of a white person? -- 67.161.150.171 21:54, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Because it was a white person who took a picture of his testicles and uploaded it for Wikipedia, obviously. Asarelah 21:59, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
I highly doubt that having a white person's testicles on Wikipedia instead of a black person's testicles is racism. Captain panda 23:40, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Okay, that was a particularly stupid and pointless question. How could it EVER be racism unless it specifically made an attack on those of whom it concerns? I rule =D (talk) 17:55, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Inconsistency...maybe

"In normal adult human males, testicular size ranges from the lower end of around 14 cm³ to the upper end larger than 35 cm³." Is there a source for this range? If the standard urological measuring equipment for adult males only extends to an upper limit of 25ml , then a testicle 40% or more larger than the largest bead on such a measuring instrument would still qualify as "normal". Even if it is normal, would it be worth mentioning at what point testicle size becomes abnormal? I'm an amateur cross-referencer, not an endocrinologist, so I have no source material or statistics to hand. I could browse around, if nobody's up to it. I can also shut up, if I'm totally off-track :-) Extenebris 11:44, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Worlds largest tesicals

I was reading some thing about the worlds biggest testicals were measured today and confirmed by a Dr Lee of Newcastle, UK. They belonged to a Mr Royce. Has any one got a source for this as I have trawled the web however have found nothing. It was featured in the metro newspaper today. 00.53 15 December 2007 (GMT)

Yeah this is true I've seen him get them out at a bar once and they're fucking HUGE!! that nigz got basketballs down thur fo real —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.39.115.83 (talk) 19:10, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Testicular descent discussion

It seems to me that there is a simpler explanation for why testicles are herniated in mammals but not in birds: the evolutionary divisions are so deep that they predate the evolution of high body temperatures. In early publications it was often not understood that to find a common ancestor you must go back to a time long before the first dinosaur, even long before Dimetrodon. Each group had hundreds of millions of years, if it needed them, to make gradual increases in body temperature. So the evolution of the scrotum in some mammals with greatly increased body temperatures could have occurred simply because it was easily feasible to do so (i.e. with less of a selective penalty) though in some groups it later proved feasible to place testes internally when necessary. Admittedly I have not quickly found a source to back me up on this, but I thought I should mention it anyway, because I feel like the article gives several less compelling explanations. Wnt (talk) 06:24, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redirecting from “Balls”

I don’t consider myself prudish, but I am a regular editor and a recent experience with this article highlights a problem. I was trying to find a list of sports balls to find one that was just the right diameter to use in a size comparison. I was hoping to find a list, from which I could chose ping-pong, golf, tennis, baseball, etc. I searched on “Balls” and was met with an explicit photograph of David Shankbone’s scrotum.

As it currently stands, this article is schizophrenic: its use of a explicit photograph of male genitalia means the article purports to serve at a professional, medical-style level. Simultaneously, inputing “Balls” into Wikipedia’s search field—street slang—redirects to this article. Juxtaposing these two truths in this article is not appropriate. If an innocent search of “Balls” is to take the reader to an article on testicles, then its illustrations should be old-style, hard-to-decipher hand drawings of male genitalia. If the article is to instead feature a graphic, medical-style, high-quality color photograph of a hairy human male scrotum, there should be no redirects from street slang—especially “Balls”. It is simply wrong to try to have it both ways. Greg L (my talk) 05:46, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

I removed the redirect. Theresa Knott | The otter sank 06:25, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Thank you Theresa. And thanks Kusma, for redirecting “Balls” to Ball (although it now redirects to Ball (disambiguation), which is fine too). Now this article is clinical in its behavior as well as its content. Greg L (my talk) 23:17, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
  • There never has been, nor will there ever be, a photograph of any part of my naked body on any website. The scrotum is that of a professional model friend. Just FYI. --David Shankbone 18:20, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

David Shankbone has tiny balls in that picture. Just FYI. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.28.69.209 (talk) 07:39, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

FYI Greg L was not "met with an explicit photograph" of balls, he was redirected to an article named "testicles" and Greg actively scrolled down out of his own free will and intention to view that photograph. JayKeaton (talk) 18:59, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Testicles constantly on the move

Gentlemen, I have observed the testicles and discovered they are constantly on the move all day, i.e., like a waterbed with some kind of slow stirring motor embedded, or better yet like a ball of dough with some invisible hands constantly slowly slightly kneading it.

So please mention it in the article! Jidanni (talk) 19:36, 9 June 2008 (UTC)