What does “blue balls” genuinely feel like?

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  2. DjBorscht Avatar

    In my own personal experience it doesn’t exist. Some men say they feel a cramp but I would say many men use it as an excuse to pressure women into doing things they don’t want to.

  3. spacemonkeykakarot Avatar

    Its just a headache but in your balls. A ball ache.

  4. sambarpan Avatar

    I get it when i was expecting sex and all oozing through dinner and then get rejected, it feels like slightly kick in balls, like i dont want to walk since it gets sensitive, I feel it will go away if i jerk off but that itself gets painful in balls, i just want to lay and not move much because movement in balls feels painful. Goes away after 4hrs or so. Happened many times

  5. Kubrick_Fan Avatar

    Well, I had chronic testicular pain for 10 years due to getting mumps at age 20 for the second time in my life.

    Imagine something in your trousers that feels like someone is squeezing them really hard. That’s what blue balls are like.

    I had that, plus intense pain to the point that I was begging the doctor to remove them.

  6. lgodsey Avatar

    No matter what your high school boyfriend told you, he was not in any medical danger just because you said no.

    Forced consent is not consent.

  7. DieYuppieScum91 Avatar

    Has happened exactly once in my life, so I get why some people think it’s not real. It’s rare, in my experience. Just feels like pressure. Like if you’ve ever had a really bad sinus infection, but in your balls.

  8. realkinginthenorth Avatar

    I had it a few times, it feels like a light kick in the balls. It hurts, but nothing unbearable.

    Guys using it as an excuse to force you into having sex are just idiots though

  9. Exact-View-7279 Avatar

    I’m not a man, but I TOTALLY get an achy feeling in my pussy. Like it’s throbbing. blood is rushing to certain areas, and they become sensitive and aroused. and when that blood flow is quickly cut off it will create an ache.

    So yes it is real and it is also manipulation. But… women seldomly get turned down for sex. I definitely have been. And I know that feeling, in the heat of the moment. and I have complained about my pussy hurting and throbbing, and being wet. Which post arousal, can feel uncomfortable. This is sometimes how we feel after sex, if we don’t cum. or at least, how I feel.

  10. sadrice Avatar

    I’ve had it exactly twice, previously I had thought it was totally a myth. Both times I was getting really horny and repeatedly “edging” in a context where we really couldn’t go further. I felt a weird soreness and pressure. When I checked, the scrotum was kinda swollen and tender and actually bluish purple! Jacking off fixed it nearly instantly, within like 30 seconds the pain was gone.

    I had been so surprised, I had thought the “blue” thing was metaphorical, not literal.

  11. Sad_Evidence5318 Avatar

    No idea never experienced it

  12. THEMACGOD Avatar

    It literally feels like someone gently, increasingly squeezing your balls. It will often also radiate into your lower back so it’s like you’re sandwiched with pain.

    Jerking off will ultimately help, but the come down time, from the pain, will vary. Also, the pain will often make it hard to focus on finishing yourself off.

  13. Santa_Claus77 Avatar

    Bro I thought I was going to just die. I think I was like 13

  14. MonkeyCube Avatar

    It’s a migraine for the nuts.

  15. yellowcoconut25 Avatar

    This is crazy! I thought it was just metaphorical… I didn’t realise it actually hurt you guys

  16. Lobsterxx Avatar

    Blue balls isn’t real. It doesn’t hurt and it isn’t dangerous.

    To the girls reading this, never forget: Blue balls is a made up excuse used by horny guys to get a blowjob when you say you don’t want to have sex.

  17. foxabby Avatar

    Wouldn’t know. I finish what I start.

  18. hi_im_eros Avatar

    Not good lol i haven’t had since I was a teen getting frisky with girls but not finishing the deed because timing and location

  19. yepsayorte Avatar

    It’s only very mildly physically painful. If you’ve ever kicked an addiction or been really hungry or thirsty, you have some idea of what it feels like psychologically. It’s pretty psychologically painful and the worst part is that it just goes on forever. It keeps being painful until you can ejaculate. Even mild continuous pain can become unbearable, given enough time. It starts to make you feel like you’re going to go insane, if you can’t make it stop.

  20. WhiskeyDeltaBravo1 Avatar

    It hurts just enough to ruin your day.

  21. TimelyWatercress9774 Avatar

    yeah so blue balls is like this annoying dull ache in your balls, not sharp pain or anything, just this weird pressure that kinda builds up if you’re really turned on and then nothing happens. sometimes it even feels like it creeps up into your lower stomach. it’s not the end of the world or anything, just super uncomfortable for a bit. goes away eventually, either with time or, you know… taking care of it.

  22. vinocm Avatar

    Pain that extends into the stomach, with a feeling of discomfort. Dizziness, unable to concentrate.
    Walking is torture. Every movement feels like a punch to the testicles.

    No more desire to have sex because nothing is going right anymore.
    Ejaculating is the solution, but it takes 2-3 hours to go away.
    And you really shouldn’t move for at least 15-20 minutes otherwise the pain will almost make you pass out.

    Not pleasant at all. I don’t recommend.

  23. Toushiru Avatar

    like this feeling before diarrhea but its in ur balls/lower stomach and not that intense + its pulling inside

  24. Vaultaire Avatar

    I’m a 38 year old man and I still can’t tell by reading all these comments if it’s a real thing.

    I thought it was some douchey thing horny teenagers say to pressure their girlfriends, or not even girlfriends into sex.

    Now with all this variety in answers I’m still not convinced.

  25. FirthTy_BiTth Avatar

    Seems like it’s not a forgone experience for all men. I swear on whatever you want me to, that it is real. It is painful. Like, debilitatingly painful.

    Hasn’t happened to me since I was mid teens, really. Kinda feels like being kicked in the nuts.

    Not the actual impact of a kick part, but the resulting aching pain that has you hunched over for several minutes to like an hour. Can’t really walk, don’t want to move at all.

    Abdomen is cramped up and aching. It’s likely the closest a man can feel to women going through period cramps. Atleast, it’s the only pain I’ve experienced that comes close to what’s been described, so I’m sympathetic.

    I once thought that “taking care of myself” in the washroom would help after an interuption of an intense dry humping, but it just made it worse.

    I have no idea how that works, but maybe it’s because there was already a swelling of blood in my testes that adding more, even if I drained them of sperm, just made my balls feel like they were literally (I mean literally, not figuratively) going to explode. Total rupture. Very scary stuff.

    It happened frequently when I was with this girl and all we could do is dry hump and inch closer and closer to sex, without having done it, or later when when we did, being interrupted midway through sex because of parents or something of the kind.

    Totally real though. I know it’s got a bad wrap as being a manipulation tactic for guys to guilt girls into going further than comfortable, but all I can say is; you’ll know he’s not lying if he can’t walk after his boner is already deflated.

    I think I’ve heard of women who can experience something similar if they get really aroused, but are abruptly interrupted.

  26. 226Drexel Avatar

    It’s absolutely real and feels like a dull ache. Ejaculation is the touted cure… and that makes sense. But it is no guarantee of (at least instant) relief.

  27. TheDevilsAdvokaat Avatar

    Beats me. I’ve never had them. Nobody I knew ever talked about having them.

    I always thought they were a myth…

  28. BoyWhoSoldTheWorld Avatar

    For me it feels like a cramp in the groin but if I have to be very transparent it’s not a huge pain and it doesn’t last forever.

    I’ve never had it from just not having an orgasm over days or week, but being turned on and edging close without ever releasing does make it happen for me.

  29. CaptainArsehole Avatar

    Like a slow throbbing cramp that creeps up on you. It’s painful and you sort of feel really weak at the same time. It only ever happened to me twice after I was close to orgasm but never had the release. First time I was wondering wtf was going on, by the second time I knew enough about it to crank one out before it got worse.

    It’s a real thing in my opinion but the way the term gets thrown about so often as hyperbole I’m convinced 95% of blokes who say they actually have blue balls are full of shit or have never experienced what it actually feels like.

  30. RevolutionaryHair91 Avatar

    It’s precisely like a migraine headache. It’s a diffuse ache, like pressure buildup or if you were compressed by something

  31. MiCockiner Avatar

    It’s feels like someone was kicking your balls in your sleep. Very painful and delicate

  32. breachgnome Avatar

    kinda like a charlie horse

  33. Primal_Expressions Avatar

    Poetically, it’s like the pressure of stepping on the tubing of a water hose, with no garden to hose.

  34. Late_Redditor_88 Avatar

    What actually causes blue balls ?

  35. Bag_of_Meat13 Avatar

    Splitting headache in your balls.

  36. UpstairsImplement500 Avatar

    Like having an itch inside your balls that you can’t scratch.

  37. UniversalIntellect Avatar

    Very painful. Can’t touch scrotum, painful to move, even painful to roll over. Throbbing pain.

  38. proudcatowner19 Avatar

    That shit fucking hurts.

  39. Steven_Dj Avatar

    It hurts like a motherf#$#er.

  40. Independent_Crazy_67 Avatar

    After 3 days of sexting without masturbating I can tell you its better to not know. I walk like a gorilla. It’s like being poked in the eyes constantly. Tonight will be a relieve

  41. psilocydonia Avatar

    It’s kinda like being kicked in the nuts, but instead of a sudden incredible shooting pain that goes away in ~20 minutes, it’s slower and it fucking lingers until you do something about it.

  42. Colorblend2 Avatar

    It’s just a term, it’s not about the balls but the wien. Thankfully age has liberated me of those painful boners but when I was younger and super horny it would indeed turn painful. I think it is simply about blood pressure, it just gets so high that it feels like your dick is about to burst, think horrible migraine but in your groin. You do the belt tuck and it hurts when you move, if you go soft the pain goes away completely but in the midst of it you just think of release.

    And the presence of women can be super agonizing in this state because without release it makes it hurt more. 🤣

  43. Pumpkin_Pie Avatar

    I think of it as a big disappointment. Like you really think you have a winning lottery ticket only to find out you read the date wrong.

  44. Short_Strategy_7307 Avatar

    Probably similar to a period, pain in the balls, lower abdomen and prostata. You get a stinging sensation which pulls trough. Even mastubating at this point hurts but as far as I know it’s the only cure.

  45. rawbface Avatar

    It’s not something that happens to most men. I’ve never had it, and I don’t know anyone who has.

    Men use it to manipulate women into sexual favors. 99.9% of the time it’s not real.

  46. Gordo_Majima Avatar

    I’ve never had it

  47. 386U0Kh24i1cx89qpFB1 Avatar

    First off. It’s 100% a real thing. I’ve had it a handful of times. Maybe 10ish. It varies in duration and intensity. It never lasted more than a day for me. At my worst it was like a 8/10 achey tender pain in the nuts. I recall one awkward sad wank because I had to go to work and didn’t want to be in my feet all day walking awkwardly. Ejaculation helps but isn’t an instant cure. It has happened from not finishing masterbating but it has also happened sporadically. As someone who enjoys edging and tease and denial, it rarely causes me actual blue balls. If a guy is using that as a serious way to pressure someone into having sex the proper response is to something like “Not my problem. No means no. Feel free to go jerk off in the other room if you are worried about it.” Then dump that jerk.

  48. ChitogeS Avatar

    Pain in the balls, Lower stomach and surprisingly in the ass. It stings. It’s like you got kicked in the balls with lower pain but it stays … until god knows when. I once had Blue balls while hiking, it was hard to walk.

    To solve it, gotta nut … but it hurts while doing so, so it just sucks hahahahaha

  49. wtfisnarwhallbacon Avatar

    Only had “blue balls” twice and they were both when I was a teenager and both times involved very heavy petting for the first time in my life without actually getting off. Would assume it’s something to do with blood flow and how long you’ve been erect for?

  50. kona1160 Avatar

    It’s like a strong ache

  51. Ok-Assistant-5565 Avatar

    Epididymal hypertension is unpleasant. Orgasming or ending arousal typically causes the unpleasant symptoms to subside. Like females, however, we enjoy orgasming.

  52. IlovSomeon3 Avatar

    Imagine a weight inside your balls thats light enough to not rip them off, but heavy enough to hurt you if there is even the slightest movement.

  53. DrummerAutomatic9523 Avatar

    Pain in the lower stomach and pubic area in addition to the balls. (Felt like it was a bad stomach ache until i make research on what i could be)

    Had to litteraly crab walk cause anything that touched the balls would be painful.

    The worst part is that you need to “release” to end to pain. But to “release” your balls have to move, hence, pain. So you have only half an erection, and it takes longer to orgasm. A fucking vicious circle of pain and i hated it.

  54. PhilosopherShot5434 Avatar

    I only had it once and by my own fault, because the girl actually wanted to have sex. It’s like a slightly sharper kick to the nuts.

    Up until that day I thought it was a myth

  55. sabatoa Avatar

    I’ve never had it. This thead is full of TIL

  56. sphi8915 Avatar

    Never had them, always assumed guys always just used it as a lame excuse to get a hesitant girl to get them off.

  57. KYRawDawg Avatar

    For me it’s a sensation of extreme sensitivity, nobody is allowed to make them move. It’s a heavier pain the only thing I can compare to is if you over eat dinner and you have a pain in your stomach, it would be down in my testicles. Your body is screaming that it needs to make that release but in the meantime the sensation of sensitivity and heavy weight down below drives you not to want to bother it but you know you need to do it in order to release it. And once it has been released, the sensation seems to clear up rather rapidly.

  58. CurrentlyLucid Avatar

    As a guy, I always wondered wtf they were talking about.

  59. cHr1145 Avatar

    Never had it.

  60. BookLicker01 Avatar

    balls are tender and a dull ache in the lower stomach

  61. ragingdemon88 Avatar

    Just a dull ache, if anything, at all.

  62. lostnumber08 Avatar

    It isn’t real. Manipulative men (who are also pathetic) use it as a way to guilt you into sex.

  63. bobushkaboi Avatar

    Like a stomach ache in the balls 

  64. lpb1998 Avatar

    I think the pain it can cause is different for every men. For me, very painful feeling in this area.

  65. MuscaMurum Avatar

    Never in my balls, but prostate congestion is real. Dull ache.

  66. Little_Whippie Avatar

    Imagine you bruised your nuts really bad

  67. ProfessionalGangster Avatar

    They are real, but it’s in no way horrible or sufferable. It can be resolved just by ejaculating.

    To give it a sensation you’re able to recognize, imagine doing physical labor for a day where you’re constantly using your muscles. The next day you’re in pain. The following day (2nd day since labor) where your muscles are still a bit sore, but you’re able to move around more is what it feels like. It is like a dull ache. I would say stomach aches are more painful.

    Erections happen because of blood heading to the penis and blue balls occur because blood vessels open, allowing more blood to flow through, and close, limiting blood flow therefore making the penis softer.

    IMO anyone saying they don’t exist never felt it, but usually it needs to happen over the course of hours (3+ hours).

  68. PunchBeard Avatar

    In my experience it only happens when you’re with another person. Generally it’s getting extremely turned on by someone over an extended length of time but not having any release. Usually a guy can sort of calm himself down but once in a while it sort of gets away from him. As for what it feels like it’s hard to explain. It’s half physical discomfort and half psychological/ emotional discomfort.

    A good example would be a guy making out with his wife in bed and spending some serious time on foreplay when they hear the unmistakable sound a three year old’s feet running through the house towards their bedroom because they had a bad dream. Usually blue balls will ensue.

  69. hornwalker Avatar

    Physically , there is a dull ache that feels like the second half of getting kicked in the balls(without the initially excruciating pain).

  70. ScrotalWizard Avatar

    Punch yourself in the balls.  Now wait for the dull ache.  Voila. 

  71. DudeDudenson Avatar

    I got my first blowjob at 29 and I was just nervous and found the entire thing just kinda awkward and I just couldn’t cum. I had pre cum come out like 3 times during it but it just wasn’t enough for me to cum. I spent the next 2 days with pain in my scrotum and trying to cum wasn’t rally an option since it hurt quite a bit

  72. ThenAsk Avatar

    Kind of like a gut rot feeling

  73. TopDonutPlainsGopher Avatar

    39 years old and never experienced it. I’m convinced blue balls is as mythical as those Australian drop bears.

  74. MyLandIsMyLand89 Avatar

    The odd times me and my Fiancée have sex and I can’t cum (I take SSRIs) I can feel tightness down there because the body was getting into a position to cum but it didn’t happen which can be sore sometimes.

    It’s resolved after I finish myself off later.

  75. SnooMachines7717 Avatar

    I used to get it really bad when I was between 15 and 21. When I was really really sexually aroused for long periods of time without releasing the pain would come.

  76. sehajodido Avatar

    Imagine that you’re about to sneeze but someone reaches out and pinches your nostrils stopping you from doing it, giving you a headache for the rest of the day. Now imagine that happening in your balls.

  77. Genesis_x3 Avatar

    Discomfort, but it’s not painful or unbearable

  78. MisplacingCommas Avatar

    I only had blue balls once and it is quite painful. Your balls hurt. This happened when I was 18 and after a concert when I was dancing with a pretty lady for hours. The car ride back I was kinda freaking out debating on going to the doctor. This was like 16 years ago so I don’t totally remember the pain but I feel like it hurt at the tubes that connect to the body.

  79. blocky_jabberwocky Avatar

    Dull to moderate ache in the undercarriage area

  80. Living_Disk_9345 Avatar

    Quite painful, like you have cramps in your balls and peeing kind of helps but like it’s almost as if you exhausted both muscles in your nutsack

  81. thestridereststrider Avatar

    A tight pain. Almost like a cramp but duller. Most the time it doesn’t reach the level of pain for me just extremely uncomfortable?

  82. Its_0ver Avatar

    Kind of reminds me of brain freeze but from my balls to belly button