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People with dangling bits: does a hard kick to the b*lls stop you in your tracks (potentially NSFW)?

Asked by tinyfaery (44271points) 1 month ago from iPhone

I was watching a ridiculous action movie and the two men were fighting, each taking hits that would bring anyone down, and all of a sudden one of the men kicked the other in the balls. The kick actually brought the guy down. That almost never happens in movies.

I guess I was wondering if a swift kick to the balls would really stop a hardcore fight, or is it just another pain you have to fight through?

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gorillapaws's avatar

It’s excruciating. like an intense cramping in your lower abdomen that reflexively doubles you over like getting the wind knocked out of you. I’ve had bruises from hard hits, I’ve had “stingers” in my shoulders, I’ve had some painful burns, I’ve felt stubby pain when someone was drawing blood and fishing around for a vein for far too long as well as a liver biopsy needle once and I think I could fight through pain like all of those and keep going. The testes not really. I’ve never been in a fight for my life type of situation, so maybe you could just power through with adrenalin, but it’s so involuntary and incapacitating.

As far as incapacitating goes, I think it’s on the level of trying to put weight on a broken foot or getting the wind knocked out of you. Maybe there are badasses who can beast through it? Not me.

flutherother's avatar

I’m hoping to live my life without ever finding out.

jca2's avatar

I’m not a man but from what I have seen, just a tap to that area will get them in pain.

janbb's avatar

From a person with upper dangling bits, I have always perceived that to be a great way to ward off an attack, although I’ve never had to deploy it.

seawulf575's avatar

Yes, a kick there will stop most guys in their tracks. But it has to be a direct hit. A relatively simple hit just right will cause a guy to double over but if you miss (even with a kick) the effectiveness goes way down.

elbanditoroso's avatar

Just a tap, you can live with. A hard blow is a different story.

While I haven’t experienced being kicked specifically, I had a similar experience accidently being clobbered by a 2×4x8 ft piece of wood that not being carried safely by another person.

chyna's avatar

A friend of mine went to Vegas. She saw a guy on the street with a sign that said “kick me in the balls for 20.00”. People were paying him 20 bucks to kick him in the balls. She watched 2 guys do it and couldn’t watch any longer. He was bent over for several minutes after each kick.

Demosthenes's avatar

I’ve never been kicked hard there, but having been hit lightly there and felt that slow-building, nausea-inducing pain, I’d prefer never to experience it.

Zaku's avatar

It has to be quite accurate, but if it is, yeah, you could be out in one shot.

Unless, of course, you’re sporting an armored codpiece, or something.

filmfann's avatar

@elbanditoroso Hard blow. He he he

It’s definitely a crippler, mind and body.

tinyfaery's avatar

Wow. So if I ever have the need to incapacitate a person with a penis, I just need harm the jewels?! That gives me a little bit of confidence. ;)

I imagine a hard squeeze isn’t fun either.

gorillapaws's avatar

@tinyfaery “So if I ever have the need to incapacitate a person with a penis, I just need harm the jewels?”

Yes, but it really should be reserved for serious situations. My understanding is that it can sterilize the guy, so on the level of potentially destroying a woman’s ovaries. You see situations where women kick a man in the testes for saying something rude, and that’s just not acceptable.

In my case someone nut-punched me as a joke. It was not cool.

jca2's avatar

“I imagine a hard squeeze isn’t fun either.” I would move out of the way after that, because it might be countered by a punch in the face.

Forever_Free's avatar

Yes it does. Brings one to their knees with a feeling of wanting to curl up into a little ball. No pun intended.

MrGrimm888's avatar

Me? No…
It’s really shitty, but it just usually infuriates me.
I’ve gotten quite good at moving my thighs to block those shots, from years of bouncing.

Most women, will attempt to bite, and go after the crotch.
I would pull their own arm over their mouth, and carry them outside. Once I put them down, I already know it’s coming. Taking your natural fighting/defensive stance, eliminates most openings for the crotch.

I’ve actually never had a dude land a kick there.
As a general rule I’m a pretty tall guy with long reach, so if your foot is approaching my crotch, I can probably reach you first.
If you do go for my balls, or throw on me period, I will put you (and your friends,) on the ground. When we come up, you’ll be wearing cuffs, or ties…

I have researched and trained in a lot of different styles, and although I can be a devastating kicker, I have never attempted a kick above the hip. Right above the knee, will buckle ordinary men. Ground, cuff, next…

I actually wore a cup, when I worked REALLY tough spots.
It could be called overconfidence, but I got pretty good at stopping that shot, and eventually stopped wearing the cup. It was far more often, for people to attempt haymakers on me, or sucker punches to the head, than to go after my balls.

GP describes the pain well.
I have definitely been struck there before, mainly in sports.
I played football, since I was 8 years old, and my father is an ex special forces drill sergeant…

I SWEAR this is true.
When I was a boy, my father would call me to come to him.
Usually, when I was in my room and he was laying down in the living room.
Randomly, when I would approach him (not every time,) he would hit me in my crotch. Not very hard, but enough to as GP described, double over in pain and suffering.
As I would lay on the ground, he would laugh an evil laugh, and say “sooooorrrryy son…You left yourself ‘WIDE OPEN.”..
He taught me to box, and we often sparred, whether I liked it or not… And I learned early on, to always approach a person “bladed,” or in an a semi-fighting stance. Even in conversation with say a co-worker, I always have my left foot keeping inside of their’s. It can seem like we are circling, when someone tries to talk to me, if they won’t hold still.

For me, that left leg, can block, or stomp a foot of man, so I can grab him. The right, always there, to back up quickly whilst simultaneously preparing a counter strike.

It’s a REALLY bad pain, but I can ignore it, until a situation is resolved. So far….

On a side note, having balls that hurt THAT bad, is more proof that there was certainly no intelligent “design.”..

gorillapaws's avatar

@MrGrimm888 “On a side note, having balls that hurt THAT bad, is more proof that there was certainly no intelligent “design.”..”

…or that God is a woman (if she exists?)...

MrGrimm888's avatar

^IF I were trying to logically entertain the ridiculous notion of a deity, and use my observations to guess what “gender” (another mind blowingly ridiculous concept) a monotheistic deity is, it would logically dictate that “the designer” went to great lengths to “make” not only human males, but the vast majority of creatures on Earth display what we call “sexual size dimorphism.” (SSD.)
This is when there is a distinct difference in size (and therefore in many cases capabilities,) between the sexes of a species.

The sexual size dimorphism, on this planet, almost always “favors” the male. (In species that display SSD.)

Off the top of my head, I believe a Hagfish/or type of “angler,” and definitely all but the most exotic spiders, display SSD in reverse. Which means that the female is the larger/more capable sex of their species.
With spiders, the male can be exponentially smaller than the female. To attempt mating, the male spider has to convince the female that he is not only a worthy mate, but not food.
In some cases, she may eat him, after mating anyways…

In humans, the SSD has (over time,) resulted in males essentially oppressing and/or dominating the females.
Obviously, SSD does not seem to play a part in intelligence, OR “morality.” So one sex, is forever physically inferior (speaking VERY broadly here, no disrespect intended) and worse, the much smaller sex is the one that the larger sex has primitive instincts about.
In nature, there is no such thing as “rape.” As we do not deem most animals to have the ability to even understand what consent is. BUT. “Rape” occurs with great frequency in the animal kingdom.

Now. We could try and say, that the “designer” made the larger sex have a vulnerability that could somewhat equal the playing field for the smaller sex.
An “Achilles heal,” in case the larger sex is threatening the smaller one, or something.

However. As I said, it does NOT “function” that way, for me.
I can tell you that the fact someone even tries to go for my crotch, is little different from you pulling a weapon on me. You’re crossing a line. I typically am just trying to nullify, a person that I’m physically engaged with.
Even in a non-law enforcement confrontation, I usually will just hold a man down.
If you go for my stones, I will dial it up.
I worked with a LOT of LEOs, bouncers, (a lot of them were former military,) I’m FAR from the only man, who can sustain a direct hit and just cry about it later…So. Sorry, it’s not a female deity installed “stop” button.
It’s just a “dirty” move.
Women do not have testicles.
But. They have eyes. To me, there are similarities in the pain.

For me, it the small amount of impact or palpation that will hurt my balls, is about the same as my eyes. THAT has been the closest body part pain, I can compare it to for a female.
Otherwise, they try saying ridiculous things like “we have breasts, and those can hurt.”
That’s a VERY amusingly ignorant sentiment.
I certainly wouldn’t try to call child birth, the same as me “dropping Thanksgiving diner off at the pool.” (Big poo.)..

Now.
If you’re saying that “God” is a spider, then I would have to consider it to be a female…

I know that in the case of the Angler fish (I’ve heard them called “Hagfish,”) biologists had NEVER found a male, and this perplexed them. It turns out, that the male is a tiny little guy, that actually merges with the female. Thus giving her, a lifetime supply of fish spooge.

(I wanted to look this up, so I could be exact, so THIS is what the net says.)
In some cases, the female Anglerfish, is 60 times longer, AND half a million sizes smaller…
You be be thinking, well that sounds like another potential female deity.
No no no. The “designer” made it so the males are essentially having sex ALL the time, and do no work at all…
It was only fairly recently, they discovered the male Angler.
Previously, it was thought the male was larvae…
So. If “God’s” an Anglerfish deity, I believe it’s a male. Perhaps a teenage male…

MrGrimm888's avatar

I had a flashback, of working at a Sporting goods store, and I picked up a call about a question a woman had.
It was a mother of a girl who plays softball, and she was looking for female athletic cups.
Her daughter, was a catcher, she explained. So, she occasionally gets a softball in the crotch…
I pulled up the website, while she was on the phone and I had to tell her that we didn’t carry them.
The woman exploded on me, over the phone. She said she had been looking ALL DAY for female cups for softball and couldn’t find any. She then went on to blame me (and men,) for not designing female athletic cups, and she got really nasty and said “it hurts to get hit down there, for girls too.!”
I couldn’t take her seriously, as I started imagining some poor girl listening to her mother chew me out on the phone whilst her crotch was apparently badly “damaged by multiple softball hits.”..
She could easily detect, that I had lost interest in her problem. She very kindly called back, to speak with the manager in duty.

Well. It just so happened, that my little brother was the manager at this place.
When she started telling him the story of how I rudely didn’t help her. He apparently was even less empathetic, and we laughed about it for weeks.

I worked at a couple big box sporting goods stores part time, for ten years. I did work in “team sports” occasionally, and have used them, so I did have an understanding of cups. But I NEVER saw a female athletic cup, at either store…

I had mentioned to the irate mother, that I would just get the smallest male cup. That threw gas on it, big time. I was just trying to offer a realistic suggestion…

So. Female genitals, apparently can be painful too…

Call_Me_Jay's avatar

I took Krav Maga martial arts classes for a few years. When teaching us the “groin kick”, the instructor asked what we do after that. I suggested, “another groin kick?”. The instructor said, “Not groin kick. Never another need for groin kick.”

Also, I recall the pain when falling crotch-first onto the steel bar of a playground climbing set monkey bars as a youngster.

MrGrimm888's avatar

^How would one land two kicks to the groin? Is the other person tied spread eagle to a wall?

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