I just read the latest story about the JO Club and their method of castration - ball popping.

Does this work and what are the risks? I would assume that this would produce extreme pain. What if an anesthetic was injected first?

I once tried hitting my balls with a rubber mallet (just a mild tap) and immediately fell to the floor and almost passed out from the pain. (Don't try this at home!)

Of course it works, but uncontrolable internal bleeding is almost assured. I guess you'd have about 30 minutes to get to the ER.

my father experienced this type of injury he was incapacitated for weeks after the doctor surgically removed the destroyed tissue. Don't do it the shock alone could kill you not to mention the massive bleeding. I saw it all first hand

Kangan (imported) wrote: Sun Dec 24, 2006 9:25 am I just read the latest story about the JO Club and their method of castration - ball popping.

Does this work and what are the risks? I would assume that this would produce extreme pain. What if an anesthetic was injected first?

I once tried hitting my balls with a rubber mallet (just a mild tap) and immediately fell to the floor and almost passed out from the pain. (Don't try this at home!)

Crushing was a method once used to castrate boys, but I think it was used mostly on young boys. He was placed in a hot bath; then his testicles were crushed between the thumb and forefinger of the person doing the castration. The drawback to this method was that it wasn't always reliable. Sometimes the testicles weren't throughly crushed and the boy might go through puberty. There are references in the Bible to men with crushed testicles. This (http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pd ... 97.00304.x) is a is a historical record of castration.

Of course it was just a story. Not intended to be anything more

Slammr (imported) wrote: Mon Dec 25, 2006 12:15 am Crushing was a method once used to castrate boys, but I think it was used mostly on young boys. He was placed in a hot bath; then his testicles were crushed between the thumb and forefinger of the person doing the castration. The drawback to this method was that it wasn't always reliable. Sometimes the testicles weren't throughly crushed and the boy might go through puberty. There are references in the Bible to men with crushed testicles. This (http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pd ... 97.00304.x) is a is a historical record of castration.

Yes and 90% of them died.

In the ancient world, eunuchs were produced both by cutting and by crushing of the testicles. An educated guess would be that the first systematic castration of humans for use as eunuchs in ancient Sumeria was by cutting. The same term is used both for what was done to small boys and what was done to large animals.

By the time of the Assyrian Empire, both methods were in use. Cutting was clearly the method of choice for judicial punishments. The words used for castration as a punishment (ana sa resen turru – diacritial marks removed for VBulletin use) were related to those used for punishments involving cutting off ears, nose, and tongue. The sa resen part is clearly related to the most common Assyrian term for eunuch, sa resi. Sa resi is also cognate with the Hebrew and Aramaic words for eunuch, saris which is found throughout the Bible (often translated as something else by prudish theologians).

For eunuch court officials, the more common term for the castration itself was marruru. The word meant both ‘to castrate’ and ‘to inspect to see whether someone had been properly castrated’, which was the duty of an examination board for new eunuchs accepted into the court. Marruru is clearly related to the words maraqu, ‘to crush’, and marasu, ‘to squash flat’. The court eunuchs were mostly castrated before puberty and were mostly “volunteers” – the younger and non-inheriting sons of nobility or foreign hostages – who sought to achieve social status through their castration. Or, more likely, whose parents wanted to ensure that they didn’t contest with the eldest son for inheritance rights. Some court officials were probably castrated by cutting, especially those older boys who arrived as tribute from the frontier conquests, such as the Old Testament prophet Daniel and his three companions (if they actually existed and were not later fictional creations).

(That Daniel and his companions were eunuchs was generally accepted in the Middle Ages, though modern Sunday School teachers might deny it. Here is a link to an illuminated manuscript depicting Nebuchadnezzar has Jewish youths castrated (http://collecties.meermanno.nl/handschr ... lu?id=1378).)

Somewhere in my 12 feet of shelves of books and articles relating to castration and eunuchs there is a reference to crushing being most effective before the age of three and only effective at all if done before the beginning of puberty. I don’t plan to spend the rest of the day searching for for the reference. Since small children are no longer castrated anywhere in the civilized world, we should consider references to castration by the crushing of testicles to be either historical or fantasy. Never anything else.

Thanks all of you for the comments and insight. I suspected that story was just that - a story. As for the results of ball popping, you have confirmed what I already suspected. It is not a viable method of castration in adults.

The neurogenic shock generated by rupturing the testicles can easily cause death, often, indeed, instantaneously. Stories in which the victim of such an injury is running, jumping, dancing, or fighting immediately afterward are totally unrealistic.

If he is very resistant to shock, he may merely curl up into a foetal posture and moan, though he is more likely to roll about screaming in agony before going into convulsions and sinking into a coma which, unless treated within about 20 minutes, usually ends in death.

Death from neurogenic shock is usually much quicker than death from internal hemorrhaging. Shock shuts down the functioning of the vital organs, especially respiration and heartbeat.