Aug 18th 2010 By Jen Hamilton

Sex Lessons From History -- Why Coitus Interruptus Is a Bad Idea

Forget blue balls ... if you lived in the 18th century, you'd have bigger worries -- like accidentally impregnating yourself.

In 1700, the French Academy of Sciences reviewed the "facts" behind a reported case of male pregnancy. After a young man held himself back during sex, he felt that familiar soreness. But he didn't expect that, a few days later, one of his testicles started to swell. Flash forward six months, his testicle had grown to the size a "turkey's egg" -- which, if you're curious, is pretty darn big.

After months of pain and not being able to button-up his pants, he decided to let the doctors amputate. (OUCH!) Once dissected, the surgeons found a hard, white object floating in liquid.

Some folks thought it was a baby's deformed skull in amniotic fluid, others were pretty sure it was some kind of cancerous growth. But everyone agreed it was freakin' weird.

This is not just a one-off story about pregnant men. It turns out pregnant men are all over the place, if you just know where to look. The 16th-century surgeon Ambroise Paré offers up this image of a man who is "pregnant" with his twin -- a condition that happens when one twin dies really early during the mom's pregnancy and gets absorbed by the remaining brother or sister.

Phantom twins aside, fear of self-impregnation has got to be a better excuse than "But baby, it hurts."

Tags: history - male pregnancy - MalePregnancy - pregnancy - testicles

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Saturday 21 August

By Amlan

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Good One.

Friday 27 August

By Keith Richard Radford Jr

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I have it on authority that the process of castration dose not stop the process the body has of producing sperm. Now that sperm builds up and effects the rest of the body. Something that would excite anyone that is looking to harm someone and the medical reasons why people that would over time want to discredit someone for stealing their wife through sex laws, but take the common morphidite that gets to double their fun and plesure with the open mindeded enough to love the person, do they have to be carfull with where they shot that thing?

Friday 27 August

By Keith Richard Radford Jr

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Honistly I ask because when I was at LAHS years ago a lot of people that are in gov. now were there with the O crowd like a party at a hanging and one of the persons there told me that was why the now governor of Main Colin was so upset during the commencment and I could understand that at that time people were still in the dark ages about sex and I was told she sued her parents over the fact she was made to be a boy by her mom/dad and she just wanted it cut off? My comment was to keep um both and when you find the right person you got to know they love you.
Anyway do you think that was what she/he had too worrie about? Seems everyone that was there had to tell me something and the day seemed to drag after their dislocating my shouder among other things, but I know that day was not about me, and their own torment came from their own lack of understanding, but thank you for the ataboy.

Sunday 27 February

By Keith Richard Radford Jr

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I remember living behind a church were Brian Lamb, and a bunch of these
CNN guys used too have a wood shop. At that place of residence someone
thought I needed an exorcist, after playing in the mud the way very young
children will sometimes with my uncle who mixed a glass of this red clay
in water and told me it was chocolate milk. After doing so I broke out
with ring worm all over my body and my mom told me it was writing that
could not be understood so she had a priest come in from the church. I
had a fever of well over a hundred and I was a bloody mess with the
infection. The priest came in with outer guys and one had a camera. One
priest would throw me across the room well the other snapped a picture. I
would fall on furniture and the floor and they would tell me get on the
bed, don't get off the bed very loud and when I would crawl back on the
bed they would pick me up and throw me over and over again well the other
priest would snap another picture and this went on till one guy said we
have enough picture and they left me in the blood, mud, and bedding, then
my aunt came in with some save that was for ring worm. She spread the
save and kidded me about dying when the rings got to my heart. After
getting well I went back to the wood shop and the guys had made me a
special shield and gave me my sword which were both made of wood and I
had to fight one of the guys in my shorts because I did not want to
remove them and the other guy was naked. I was still not up too speed and
lost the battle. They then called me the bad guy and this group was
supposed to be my gate keeper or something like that appointed by the
priests. My Dad did not like them much also but that did not matter much
because someone at the church was going to be my new dad till he said no,
my mom cried allot, my dad was gone and I healed up, but I still have a
case.