And I wasn’t going to make a new thread just for this.
But considering it falls in line with the general theme of wokeness I’ll just put it here.
I was oddly enough doing some “research” on the physiological mechanisms underpinning the condition colloqially known as “blue balls” and I came across this article from Mens Health that was saturated with wokeness.
Heres a link:
but I will share some of my favourite parts:
“The myth that blue balls is somehow dangerous or super painful is born out of the idea that men need to ‘release their ejaculate, which is a myth designed to pressure women into sex.’”
“A guy will pretend he’s in pain and appeal to a woman’s sympathy in order to get what they want,” she says. “It’s manipulative, wrong, and it’s definitely a form of coercive assault to use blue balls to pressure someone to perform a sexual act they don’t want to do.”
“Remember, you need enthusiastic consent—i.e., a “HELL YES!”—to proceed with any sexual interaction. Guilting someone into a hookup by telling them you have blue balls, as though it’s some kind of dangerous medical condition? Nope. Not gonna cut it.”
“Only having an orgasm can relieve this pressure, says urologist Darius Paduch, M.D. (Note that he does not say “partnered” orgasm—if you want to finish, and your partner isn’t on board for whatever reason, go be a man and find a bathroom stall and a wad of Kleenex and take care of it yourself. Your partner doesn’t owe you anything—period.)”
Ahh but once you google the author and find his eponymous website it all makes sense.
I never read mens health. But I would place a hefty wager that it didn’t start out with articles like that in it.
I used to frequent Men’s health because some of the articles used to be decent and they had pretty in depth workout heat reviews.
However, in recent visits I noticed that most of the posts were written by authors like this and women. Shouldn’t a website dedicated to men’s health (supposedly) have most of the articles written from a man’s perspective? It’s like going to Cosmopolitans website and seeing all the articles were written Jefferey Epstein.
As usual with wokeness articles, he has what is a valid point (don’t pressure women into sex) and wraps it a blanket of crap to try and prove some other unrelated point.
I want to see an article in a woman’s magazine telling women to stop pressuring men to pay for everything when they go out on a date. If the man pressuring the woman into sex is similar to a rapist, then the woman who expects the man to pay for a date is similar to a prostitute. Let’s see which writer gets cancelled first.
A good bit earlier in life, blue balls once landed me in the emergency room. Had heard the term but had no concept of the intensity and duration, so naturally assumed I was experiencing something unnatural and crippling. After the attending physician couldn’t discern anything wrong, I got an ultrasound from a MILF who insisted on chatting through the whole procedure. Had to get a ride home from the hospital from my mom, so had to come clean about the whole thing.
Edit: for the avoidance of doubt, there’s no message about privilege in here. Just a Ben Stiller-level cringe story told for your enjoyment.