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[neilep]

Can't say I've noticed volts going through my family jewels when I'm high up and looking down, however, I can imagine how it could happen when the vertigo hits you it probably sends like a shiver down your spine which manifests in eletric balls !!....it's gotta be a nerve thing......lets hope a passing altitude testicle expert wil pass by and confirm.

Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!

[chris]

Has anyone experienced that rather strange sensation in the nether regions ellicited by driving rapidly over a humpback bridge ?

What's that all about ?!

Chris

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception"
 - Groucho Marx

[chris]

I was actually referring to the physical sensation experienced in the pelvis and groin area which coincides with the car going over the humpback bridge very fast. Nothing to do with the view, purely the motion of the vehicle !

Chris

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception"
 - Groucho Marx

[neilep]

quote:Originally posted by chris

I was actually referring to the physical sensation experienced in the pelvis and groin area which coincides with the car going over the humpback bridge very fast. Nothing to do with the view, purely the motion of the vehicle !

Chris

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception"
 - Groucho Marx

....Yep...I have Chris.....most disconcerting !!....sometimes I've even noticed it going up and down stairs coinciding with each step !!.....Could it be akin to acupressure ?.....

Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!

[gsmollin]

I think it is a part of the fear reaction. The genitals are pulled upwards into the body cavity. You may be feeling that.

[Corbeille]

AAAAARRRRRGH!

Please write in proper English, not as if you were sending a text to a friend!

It makes you look an illiterate idiot!




OK - rant over.





 Nah pop no style, a strictly roots!

[chimera]

Maybe they use those Mini Macs? []

http://www.apple.com/macmini/

[gsmollin]

Geez guys, chill, I thought we were all friends here.

Santi2c, I'm not an expert on this subject. Flight-or-fright reactions involve a number of physiological changes to the body. Blood pressure rises, heartbeat increases. Eye pupils constrict. Skin becomes flush, and sweaty. Breathing deepens. This is all so that the body is prepared to defend it's life. The family jewels need safe keeping at this time, so pulling them up into the body cavity seems like a good plan.

[OldMan]

Yeah could be a way to get them out of harms way. Then again the body might be saying, "mate, if we're going to be running for our life those things are just going to get in the way so how bout we tuck 'em up in preparation eh?"

Tim

[DrPhil]

Getting them out of harms way makes a lot of sense.

Another possible contributing factor could be that during the fight-or-flight stress reaction blood flow is diverted to the muscles and away from the genitalia. The decreased blood flow may cause the testicles to move up closer to the body in order to stay warm.

[memasa]

My brother's baby, age 1+, can actually reflexly pull 'em up!
However, I don't remember what the doctor called the reflex.
What a wise kid. It would also be interesting to know how
common this reflex is, or do everybody have it when they're
born.

Someone from Finland

[chris]

It's the cremasteric reflex :

http://www.gpnotebook.co.uk/cache/-731185075.htm

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception"
 - Groucho Marx

[Detour]

Over bridges and steep hills I get this sensation of my stomach dropping and then rising again fast.  When I was a child I used to beg my mom to drive fast over hills near our home so they would "get my belly", but it's also a sensation that extends further down to my groin.  It also triggers an intense and sudden thirst.  I've felt this sensation on looking down from great heights, riding or driving over bridges, hills, roller coasters, elevators, and once or twice while swimming.  I'm female.

[memasa]

chris said:

 

quote: "It's the cremasteric reflex..."

Now that I think of it I have feeling the doctor called it the
scrotal reflex, but the cremasteric reflex sounds just as rea-
sonable.

Someone from Finland

[memasa]

quote:"...The involuntary scrotal reflex is based on temperature: warmth causes relaxation of the dartos muscle, whereas cold causes contration."
Source: http://www.rashaduniversity.com/mrashad/answers1.html

Dartos

"A smooth muscle in the scrotum that causes the surface to wrinkle when it contracts."

Source: http://www.babeland.com/sexinfo/glossary/dartos

[drkev]

Why does my willy tingle when I drink alcohol? Also my balls ache as well.  Is this the alcohol or an underlying problem I need to get checked?

Live long and Love life

Kevin Fisher

[neilep]

quote:Originally posted by drkev

Why does my willy tingle when I drink alcohol? Also my balls ache as well.  Is this the alcohol or an underlying problem I need to get checked?

Live long and Love life

Kevin Fisher

....Are you dipping the end of your willy in sparkling water when consuming alcohol ?....perhaps as a mixer ?[]....

Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!

[ukmicky]

Why didnt i think of that. Maybe its because i've never tried it.

[Andrew K Fletcher]

I can't write for laughing Neil

"The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct."
K.I.S. "Keep it simple!"